Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Luke Rosiak, David Satter, Patrick Dunleavy, Ambassador Dr. Mark Lagon and Gordon Chang

LUKE ROSIAK, Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Pakistani-American IT staffers fired from Capitol Hill
• Could the rogue IT staffers have accessed sensitive government information?
• Were background checks run on the staffers?

DAVID SATTER, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, author of The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin:

• Vladimir Putin's ascendancy
• History of FSB bombings designed to elevated Putin
• The poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza
• President Trump's rhetoric towards Russia

PATRICK DUNLEAVY, Former Deputy Inspector General for the New York State Department of Corrections, Author of The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism’s Prison Connection:

• Islamic radicalization in the U.S. prison system
• A registration system for radicals released from prison
• The "criminal justice reform" movement

AMBASSADOR DR. MARK LAGON, Centennial Fellow and Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service:

• The US-Saudi Relationship 
• Riyadh's "double game"
• Is Mohammed Bin Salman, Saudi Deputy Crown Prince, a reformer?

GORDON CHANG, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World:

• Did Trump capitulate on the “One China” policy 
• Beijing’s continued sense of American weakness
• President Trump’s upcoming visit with Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe

 

With Andy McCarthy, Trevor Loudon, Rep. Lee Zeldin, Fred Fleitz and Rowan Scarborough

ANDY MCCARTHY, Former federal prosecutor, Contributing editor to National Review Online:

• President Trump's temporary travel ban
• Did Judge Robart overreach in his ruling against Trump's executive order?
• Does the President have the power to prevent Sharia Supremacists' immigration to the U.S.?

TREVOR LOUDON, Creator of the documentary The Enemies Within, Author of The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress:

• Developing story about 5 IT staffers who were fired from Capitol Hill
• The 'enemies within' the Democratic caucus
• Keith Ellison's radical connections

REP. LEE ZELDIN (NY-1), Member of the House Committees on Financial Services and Foreign Affairs:

• Five IT staffers fired from Capitol Hill
• Cutting funding to the Palestinian Authority
• Designating the IRGC and Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations
• Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem

 FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• The mainstream media's obfuscation of Islamic terrorist attacks
• Shredding the JCPOA 
• Regime change in Iran

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, National Security Reporter at The Washington Times:

• Obama's legacy of social transformation of the U.S. military
• The state of morale and readiness in our armed forces
• Doctored intelligence reports under Obama regarding the campaign against ISIS

With Jim Hanson, Daniel Horowitz, J. Christian Adams and Diana West

 JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy:

• The Muslim Brotherhood's strategy in America
• Developing story about five IT staffers recently fired from Capitol Hill
• Congressman Andre Carson's connections to Muslim Brotherhood front groups

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review, Author of Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America:

• Judge Robart’s ruling on Trump’s Executive Order on immigration
• What Congress can do to limit the transformation of America by unelected judges
•  Should Judge Robart be impeached?

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS, Former Attorney at the Department of Justice, President of The Election Law Center, Author of Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department:

• The judicial blocking of the President’s Executive Order
• Sally Yates and other holdover partisan bureaucrats
• Investigating voter fraud in the United States

DIANA WEST, Syndicated Columnist, Author of Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

• A Constitutional crisis surrounding President Trump’s Executive Order
• The Left is importing a failed state
• Trump should change the conversation from “terrorism” to “islamization,” a la Europe

 

With Rosemary Jenks, Peter Huessy, Patrick Poole and Ken Timmerman

ROSEMARY JENKS, Director of Government Relations at NumbersUSA.com, former Senior Legislative Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies:

• What President Trump's Executive Orders on immigration actually consist of
• How does the refugee vetting and resettlement process currently work?
• The President's Constitutional and statutory authority for his Executive Order

PETER HUESSY, Instructor at the Naval Academy, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies:

• The state of U.S. nuclear armaments
• What needs to be done to modernize our nuclear forces?
• The obsolescing American nuclear infrastructure 

PATRICK POOLE, National Security and Terrorism reporter at PJ Media, Principal at Unconstrained Analytics:

• The "Countering Violence Extremism" program and disinformation narrative
• Trump's Executive Order limiting immigration from 7 foreign countries
• Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization

KEN TIMMERMAN, President and CEO of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, Author of Deception: The Making of the YouTube Video Obama Blamed for Benghazi and Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi:

• What did National Security Advisor Flynn mean by putting Iran “on notice”?
• Is there an opposition in Iran that the U.S. can work with?
• The Democrats’ war on President Trump
• Tom Perez and Keith Ellison: two candidates for DNC chair

With Claudia Rosett, Gordon Chang and Richard Pollock

FRANK GAFFNEY, President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy:

•  The New York Times wrongly smears Frank Gaffney

CLAUDIA ROSETT, blogger for PJ Media, Contributing Editor of The New York Sun:

• Ambassador Haley's harsh words for Putin’s Russia
• Did President Trump draw a moral equivalence between the U.S. and Russia?
• U.S. Foreign Policy towards Iran

GORDON CHANG, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World:

• Secretary of Defense Mattis' trip to Asia
• China's nuclear arsenal
• The need to sanction Chinese banks for indirect support to Iran and North Korea

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter for The Daily Caller:

• Liberal hypocrisy on refugee resettlement
• A developing story about five recently-fired IT staffers from Capitol Hill

 

With Dr. Leon Aron, Bill Gertz, Dr. Ted Bromund and Kyle Shideler

LEON ARON, Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

• What Donald Trump needs to know about Putin
• Will the new administration usher in improved relations with Moscow?
• The demographic jihad inside Russia

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age:

• U.S. loosening sanctions on the FSB
• China’s long-range missile with 10 warheads  
• The return of Al-Qaeda

TED BROMUND, Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher’s Center for Freedom:

• The restoration of the special relationship between the U.S. and the U.K.
• What will the EU do in response to Brexit-style movements?
• U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

KYLE SHIDELER, Director of the Threat Information Office at the Center for Security Policy:

• Foreign-Born terrorist attacks the media ignores
• Why "Lone Wolf" is often a misnomer
• CAIR is Hamas

With Dr. James Mitchell

DR. JAMES MITCHELL, Key Architect of the CIA’s Enhanced Interrogation Program, Author of Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds of the Islamic Terrorists Trying to Destroy America

• How Ali Mohamed obtained information to write the Al-Qaeda training manual
• The moral obligation for jihadists to resist interrogation

(PART TWO):

• Why enhanced interrogation techniques were used
• How interrogators got Abu Zubaydah to reveal useful information

(PART THREE):

• How Dr. Mitchell became involved in developing enhanced interrogation techniques
• The extensive legal and medical processes required for use of EITs
• What difference did the intelligence elicited from Abu Zubaydah make?

(PART FOUR):

• Terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
• The Islamic Supremacist view of jihad against America

With Diana West, Daniel Akbari, Rep. Randy Weber and Ambassador Hank Cooper

DIANA WEST, Author of Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

• The Left's outrage about Trump's Executive Order
• Making Sharia Supremacism a bar to immigration

  DANIEL AKBARI, Author of An Introduction to Islamic Jurisprudence:

• President Trump’s Executive Orders on refugees and immigration
• How to differentiate between Sharia Supremacists and those who are not
• Designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization

REP. RANDY WEBER (TX-14), Member of the House Committees on Science, Space and Technology, and Transportation and Infrastructure: 

• Supreme Court nominee Judge Gorsuch
• The urgent need to protect the grid
• Ending sanctuary cities

AMBASSADOR HANK COOPER, Director of the Strategic Defensive Initiative Organization (SDIO) during the Bush Administration, Chairman of the Board of High Frontier:

• Fixing FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• How to protect the U.S. from EMP threats 
• What role should Space play in Trump's proposed missile defense system?

With Jim Hanson, Fred Fleitz, Robert Spencer and Shireen Qudosi

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy:

• Trump is leading from the front

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• What Trump should do with the Iran deal
• Tehran’s response to the President’s Executive Orders on immigration
• European companies’ investment in Iran

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of JihadWatch, author of The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades:

•  How Trump's so-called "Muslim ban" is a legal defense of American values
• Why Saudi Arabia is not on the list of “banned” states
• The need for the U.S. to reconfigure international alliances 

SHIREEN QUDOSI, Senior Contributor at Counterjihad.com, Author of The Qudosi Chronicles at MuslimReformers.com:

• Linda Sarsour, Islamist community organizer behind the Women's March on D.C.
• Battling Islamists via information campaign
• Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization