Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Matthew Vadum

MATTHEW VADUM, Senior Vice President of Capital Research Center, Author of Team Jihad: How Sharia-Supremacists Collaborate with Leftists to Destroy the United States:

• The flawed rationale of team Jihad
• How Supremacists manipulate temporary allies

(PART TWO):

• Keith Ellison and Andre Carson
• Origins of the term ‘Islamophobia’

(PART THREE):

• What is the SPLC?
• How the SPLC manipulates through identity politics  
• CAIR connections to Hamas 

(PART FOUR):

• Team Jihad at work
• The leftist- Sharia supremacism axis
• Ben Rhodes and the Iran Deal

With Bill Gertz, Reggie Littlejohn, Itamar Marcus and Jarrett Stepman

 

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring Columnist at the Washington Times:

• Challenges CIA Director Mike Pompeo faces  
• The need to boost the counter-intelligence department
• Redirected focus on Chinese threat
• Will Congress shut down specific intelligence capabilities? 

REGGIE LITTLEJOHN, Founder and President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers:

• The fight to free Liu Xia
• Rising nationalism in China under Xi-Jinping
• How the Chinese government treats their citizens  

ITAMAR MARCUS, Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch:

• Conflict over Temple Mount
• Netanyahu’s response to Palestinian protest
• Taylor Force Act 

JARRETT STEPMAN, Editor at the Daily Signal:

• President Trump’s unhappiness with Attorney General Jeff Sessions
• France: the new battleground for Western Civilization
• Did Donald Trump Jr. commit treason?

With Erik Prince, Diana West and Michael Cutler

With Erik Prince, Diana West and Michael Cutler

ERIK PRINCE, Former U.S. Navy Seal Officer, Founder of Blackwater USA, now known as Academi and served as CEO until 2009:

• Review of U.S. options in Afghanistan
• Changing realities on the ground

(PART TWO):

• The “third-way” in Afghanistan
• Criticism of using military contracts

DIANA WEST, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Blogger at Dianawest.net, Author of American Betrayal and Death of the Grown Up:

• Failure of DNC’s information systems
• Selective criticism of Russian collusion

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services:

• The Executive’s power to prohibit entrance of aliens
• Loopholes in Supreme Court’s ruling regarding family members
• How are we counteracting material support for Jihadists?

With Kevin Freeman, Russ Dallen, Janet Tavakoli and Matt Brodsky

 KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlazeTV:

• Was the NASDAQ ‘glitch’ economic warfare?
• Chinese monopoly on rare earth minerals
• Beijing funding of environmental groups in the U.S.

RUSS DALLEN, Publisher of the Latin American Herald Tribune:

• Aftermath of the plebiscite in Venezuela
• How Russia is going to prop up the Maduro regime

JANET TAVAKOLI, Consultant, Expert Witness, Author and Speaker:

• How the hijab is a symbol of female oppression
• Legislation in Maine to criminalize FGM

MATT BRODSKY, Senior Middle East analyst at Wikistrat:

• How Secretary Tillerson is undermining President Trump on the Iran deal and Qatar
• Obama holdovers sabotaging White House direction on JCPOA

With Rep. Paul Gosar, Gordon Chang, Andy McCarthy and John Fonte

With Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ-4), Gordon Chang, Andy McCarthy and John Fonte

 

REP. PAUL GOSAR (AZ-4), Member of House Committee of Natural Resources, Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government, Member of Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations:

• The Western Conservative Conference
• Freedom Caucus
• Rare Earth Minerals linked to National Security
• Why does Treasury (CIFUS) control mineral wealth?

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast contributor:

• Breakdown of talks between Xi Jinping and Trump
• Will the trade-war with Beijing expand?

ANDY MCCARTHY, Contributing Editor of National Review, Senior Fellow at National Review Institute, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York:

• Why Mueller’s investigation sees no boundaries
• Thorough timeline of events leading to creation of special counsel
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recusal

(PART TWO):

• Testimony from Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.
• Is a pardon necessary and forthcoming from the President?
• Voting fraud investigation

JOHN FONTE Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for American Common Culture at the Hudson Institute:

• The post-West and transnational progressivism
• Central Europe’s fight for independence
• The elitist enterprise that is the European Union

With Christine Douglass-Williams, Michaela Dodge, Bill Gertz, Ken Timmerman and John Malcolm

CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, Author of The Challenge of Modernizing Islam, Nine-Time International Award-Winning Journalist and Television Producer:

• Is supremacism at the core of Islam?
• Danger of the growing ‘stealth Jihad’
• Canada’s M103 policy and its implications

MICHAELA DODGE, Senior Policy Analyst, Defense and Strategic Policy at the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation:

• Why we need space missile defense
• President Trump’s nuclear posture review

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times:

• Moscow’s involvement in NotPetya malware attacks
• Dangers of Beijing-Moscow alliance

KEN TIMMERMAN, President and CEO of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran

Author of Deception: The Making of the YouTube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi:

• Why the Kurds are our natural ally in Middle East
• The KRG wants U.S. troops on the ground
• Fighting between Kurds and Iranian backed Shiia militias inevitable

JOHN MALCOLM, Vice President for the Institute for Constitutional Government:

• Democrats slow rolling Trump’s judicial appointments
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions
• Judicial overreach on the immigration pause
• President Trump’s voter fraud commission

With Katherine Zimmerman, Fred Fleitz, Dr. Ted Bromund and Ambassador Yoram Ettinger

KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN, Research Fellow at The American Enterprise Institute, Lead Al Qaeda Analyst for AEI’s Critical Threats Project:

• #SalafiJihadi
• How the Salafi-jihadi movement uses violence to obtain power
• Tracking Islamic history to understand future of extremist groups 

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at Center for Security Policy, former CIA analyst,

• Reaction to the renewal of the JCPOA
• Resistance to President Trump’s policies from within the administration
• Effect Obama “holdovers” are having on the Trump Administration
• Blocking Trump’s policies through the nomination process

TED BROMUND, Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher’s Center for Freedom, Columnist for Newday and Great Britain’s Yorkshire Post:

• Should Turkey be considered an ally?
• S.-German relations appear grim
• Former German Chancellor colluding with Russians 

AMBASSADOR YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators:

• Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to Europe
• The uneasy relationship between Israel and the EU
• Does renewal of the Iran deal signify appeasement?
• What Iran’s growth in power means for Israel and the Middle East

With Rep. Scott Perry, Diana West, Harold Rhode and Daniel Horowitz

REP. SCOTT PERRY (PA-4), Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Member of Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, Member of Committee on Homeland Security:

• Why Skolovo needs rigorous investigation
• Huma Abedin’s ties to Muslim Sisterhood
• Why is the DOD reviewing climate change?

DIANA WEST, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Blogger at Dianawest.net, author of American Betrayal and Death of the Grown Up:

• Is President Trump’s effort to improve relations with Russia a sign of weakness?
• The Skolkovo Foundation
• A bipartisan effort amongst political elites to hinder the Trump Administration

HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense, author of Modern Islamic Warfare:

• How Modern Islamic Warfareexplains the current crisis and terrorism
• Explanation of the divide between Sunni and Shiite Muslims
• The Temple Mount in Israel attack last week
• How weakness by Western nations is seen by Arab nations

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior editor at Conservative Review, Author of Stolen Sovereignty, Former Policy Director for the Madison Project:

• Lack of leadership and conviction from the Republican Party
• Congress’ inaction on the JCPOA
• Federal district and appeals court rewriting laws and SCOTUS decisions

With Rep. Paul Gosar, Enrique Altimari, Fred Fleitz, and Kevin Freeman:

REP. PAUL GOSAR (AZ-4), Member of House Committee of Natural Resources, Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government, Member of Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations:

• Border control improvements under President Trump
• Epidemics linked to illegal immigration
• Sanctuary cities must comply with Federal law

ENRIQUE ALTIMARI, Pro-Democracy Venezuelan Activist:

• 6 million Venezuelans engaged in plebiscite against the Maduro Regime
• How to put pressure on the Maduro Regime
• Actions the U.S. takes to help the freedom fighters in Venezuela

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at Center for Security Policy, former CIA Analyst:

• McMaster’s Clinton-like approach to recertification of the Iran deal
• Tehran’s violations of the JCPOA
• Moscow’s demands for US to return seized mansions

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of “Economic War Room” on The Blaze TV:

• Venezuela's economic free fall
• Peter Navarro and his role in the Trump Administration’s trade policy
• The new cyber branch of the military and its potential capabilities

With Adm. James "Ace" Lyons, Gordon Chang, Michael Rowan and Michael Pregent

ADM. JAMES “ACE” LYONS, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (Rt), Served as Senior U.S. Military Representative to the UN:

• Why strength is essential for diplomacy
• How to reconsider South Korean defense options
• Dangers of Iran’s interregional bridge
• Recognition of a Sovereign Kurdistan in Iraq 

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, and The Daily Beast Contributor:

• Developing hard-liner economic policies from the Trump Administration
• President Moon’s ‘sunshine’ policy towards the North Koreans
• Beijing’s’ overseas expansion into Africa
• Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo’s death

MICHAEL ROWAN, Columnist, Author of “Threat Closer to Home: Huge Chavez and the War Against America:

• Maduro’s elimination of the Venezuelan Parliament
• Caracas’ dangerous support and Hezbollah
• Why the U.S. must stop buying Maduro’s oil, gasoline, and bonds 

MICHAEL PREGENT, Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Senior Middle East analyst, Embedded with the Peshmerga in Mosul ’05- ‘06:

• Status of the sectarian divide after the fall of Mosul
• The U.S. military role in the conflict between Iraqi Sunni and Shiites
• Growth of the Iranian influence in the region