Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Clare Lopez, Chuck Devore, Dan Gallington and Hans Von Spakovsky

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President for Research & Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, Former CIA clandestine officer:

• Why Turkey can no longer be considered an ally
• What is Erdogan up to in Syria?
• Dissecting Erdogan’s nuclear ambitions

CHUCK DEVORE, Vice President of National Initiatives at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs (Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon) from 1986 to 1988, Former California Assemblyman:

• The vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid
• What is causing the lack of grid resiliency in California?
• How some U.S. investors are underwriting China’s economy

DAN GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor, George C. Marshall Institute, Served in senior national security policy positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Justice, and as bipartisan general counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.:

• The nuclear threat we face from Putin’s Russia
• Is Russia planning a strategic nuclear attack on the U.S.
• The significance of Russian military exercises historically
• Did some DOJ officials abuse the FISA warrant process?

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, Former Member of the Federal Election Commission:

• Should felons be able to vote?
• NBA sides with Communist China over Hong Kong protests
• The reality of voter fraud in America
• Implications of Beijing’s speech censorship

With David Goldman, Zuhdi Jasser, Elaine Donnelly and Mark Krikorian

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author of How Civilizations Die, Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler:

• China’s weaponization of the global economy
• Why the U.S. should avoid engaging in commerce with Huawei
• Prospects for Secretary Pompeo’s visit to Turkey 

ZUHDI JASSER, Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Co-Founder, Muslim Reform Movement, Author of A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Patriot’s Fight to Save His Faith, Served 11 years in the U.S. Navy as a Medical Officer, Has a private practice in Phoenix specializing in internal medicine and nuclear cardiology, Co-Founder of Save Syria Now!Host, Blaze Radio Podcast: “REFORM THIS!”:

• What should U.S. policy toward Syria look like?
• Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops
• Why NATO needs to step up in Syria
• Dissecting the role of the ‘red-green’ axis in America today

ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President of the Center for Military Readiness, Appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces in 1992:

• Combat readiness of our military today
• The social transformation of U.S. armed forces
• Implications of the social engineering of our armed forces

MARK KRIOKORIAN, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, Contributor at National Review:

• Why the U.S. must secure its southern border
• Where does construction of the “Wall” stand today?
• Will a newly proposed “Comprehensive Immigration Bill” be impactful?

With Matt Brodsky, Gordon Chang, Anders Corr and Diana West

MATT BRODSKY, Senior Fellow, Security Studies Group, Senior Analyst in Wikistrat’s Analytic Community, Former Director of Policy for the Jewish Policy Center for Security Policy:

• Implications of Trump’s troop withdrawal decision
• Does the U.S. have any leverage in Syria left?
• Why Turkey should no longer be considered a U.S. ally

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019):

• What is in the recent U.S.-Beijing “skinny deal”?
• Dangers of President Moon Jae-In’s agenda
• Why we must oppose the “thrift-savings plan”

ANDERS CORR, Principal at Corr Analytics Inc., Publisher of the Journal of Political Risk:

• Dangers of Lebron James and other U.S. brands who seek to protect market shares in China
• Xi Jinping’s brutal widespread censorship crackdown
• Why China’s aggressive regional expansion must be contested

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy:

• The assault on freedom of speech in China
• How U.S. companies and individuals continue to underwrite the Chinese economy
• Recent developments in the anti-Trump conspiracy

With Kevin Freeman, Mark Schneider and Sam Faddis

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

§  The current state of the U.S.-Beijing trade deal

§  China’s unrestricted warfare waged against the U.S.

§  Consequences of Xi Jinping’s censorship overload

 (PART TWO):

§  How some U.S. companies are underwriting the Chinese economy

§  Implications of the “thrift-savings plan”

§  Can economic weaponry mitigate aggressive Turkish behavior?

MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy, Longtime career in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy:

§  Upcoming Russian nuclear military exercise

§  Dangers of Putin’s weapons systems enlargement

SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress, Senior Subject Matter Expert at Axon/Lockheed Martin, Author of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA (2009):

§  Dissecting the current state of Syria

§  Implications of Trump’s withdrawal of U.S. troops

§  Why the Kurds are a reliable U.S. ally

With Vladimir Bukovsky

With Vladimir Bukovsky

VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY, Dissident, Author and Activist, New Book, to be published in English soon, Judgement in Moscow, Member of the International Advisory Council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Neurophysiologist, Senior fellow of the CATO Institute, 2001 Recipient of the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom awarded by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation:

• Bukovsky’s personal experience in the Soviet Union
• An overview of Bukovsky’s difficult publishing process
• How Western academia helped to perpetuate the Soviet Union

(PART TWO):

• The secret documents of Soviet archives
• Defining “glasnost” in the context of the USSR agenda
• The continuation of the USSR’s security state apparatus in Putin’s regime

(PART THREE):

• Why Putin would have preferred Hillary Clinton as President
• The history of Clinton-Russia scandals

(PART FOUR):

• The danger we face today from China
• Dissecting the Russian-Chinese relationship
• The grave consequences totalitarian regimes pose to the world

With Dr. Harold Rhode, Tom Popik and Robert Spalding

HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense, Author of Modern Islamic Warfare: An Ancient Doctrine Marches On (2017):

• Erdogan launches attach on Kurdish forces
• What motivated Trump to withdraw troops from Syria?
• Why Turkey should no longer be considered a U.S. ally

(PART TWO):

• An overview of the Sunni/Shia divide
• Dissecting foreign influence in Syria
• How ominous developments in Syria will implicate Israel

TOM POPIK, Chairman, President, Director and co-founder of the Foundation for Resilient Societies:

• The vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid
• The horrific consequences a blackout would have for society
• Why all eyes should be on Northern California

ROBERT SPALDING, Former Special Assistant to the U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, Former Military Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, Former Chief China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, Former Senior Defense Official and Defense Attache to China in Beijing, China, Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council:

• Trump resumes Huawei’s purchases of some U.S. telecommunications equipment
• The moral cost of doing business with China
• Xi Jinping’s global economic ambitions

With Diana West, Joe Bosco, Michael Pregent and Michael Cutler

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy:

• The Left’s use of defection and projection in the House
• New developments in the anti-Trump conspiracy
• Prospects of the impeachment inquiry

JOE BOSCO, Former China Country Director, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Member of the U.S.-China task force at the Center for National Interest:

• Why the NBA should resist China’s censorship tactics
• The current state of Hong Kong
• Beijing celebrates 70^th anniversary of the PRC

MICHAEL PREGENT, Visiting fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, Executive Director of Veterans Against the Iran deal, Embedded with the Peshmurga in Mosul ’05-’06, Worked to malign Iranian influence in Iraq as an advisor to Iraq’s security and Intelligence apparatus”

• What do we know about Erdogan-Trump conversation regarding Syria
• Should Turkey continue to be considered a U.S. ally?
• Why we must not abandon the Kurds
• How an ISIS resurgence benefits Iran

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, Hosts the radio show “The Michael Cutler Hour” on Friday evenings on BlogTalk Radio:

• Why does the U.S. remain so vulnerable to terror attacks
• Implications of the ‘thrift-savings plan’
• The presence of Hezbollah cells in America

With Fred Fleitz, Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman and Robert Charles

FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO Center for Security Policy, Former CIA analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Dept., Author of The Coming North Korea Nuclear Nightmare: What Trump Must to Reverse Obama’s Strategic Patience (2018):

• Ongoing effort by House Intel Committee to uncover whistleblower identity
• Recent developments in the whistleblower narrative
• Should Rep. Schiff’s should be removed from intel committee?

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019):

• The current state of play in Hong Kong
• Beijing bans protesters from wearing face masks
• Why no American company has a future in a communist China

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• China bullies NBA into retracting support of HK protesters
• Dangers of Beijing’s censoring of communication in the U.S.
• An overview of Xi Jinping’s human rights abuses

ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author of Eagles and Evergreens:

• Prospects for the impeachment inquiry
• Trump’s decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria
• Why America should continue to follow a policy of deterrence

With Douglas Murray

DOUGLAS MURRAY, Best-selling author of five books, Latest book: The Madness of Crowds, Associate Editor at The Spectator:

• The fundamental transformation of Europe
• Implications of the political correctness agenda
• Who is waging the recent cultural battles?

(PART TWO):

• The weaponization of intersectional politics
• Dissecting the agendas of Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• An overview of the red-green axis

(PART THREE):

• The cumulative effects of the ‘March Through the Institutions’
• Defining intersectionality
• Dangers of Sharia blasphemy restrictions

(PART FOUR):

• The three aspects to consider regarding migration
• Consequences of the transformation of Europe
• The current state of Brexit

With David Goldman, Doug Feith, Michaela Dodge, and Nicholas Eftimiades

DAVID GOLDMAN, Spengler columnist for Asia Times and PJ Media:

• Display of new drones during China’s 70^th Anniversary military parade
• Xi Jinping’s speech this week
• Possible outcomes of Hong Kong protests

DOUG FEITH, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, former undersecretary of Defense for Policy during the Bush Administration:

• Context of the Iranian attack on Saudi oil facilities
• Potential negative effects of a substantive U.S. and Israel defense treaty
• Russia’s strategy for the Eastern Mediterranean

MICHAELA DODGE, Research Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy:

• U.S. nuclear deterrence under stress
• Implications of hypersonic missiles
• Need for space-based missile defense

NICHOLAS EFTIMIADES, 33-year intelligence career spanning several US government agencies, Lecturer at the School of Public Affairs at Penn State:

• China’s whole-of-society approach to intelligence operations
• Beijing’s American technology collection
• U.S. inadequacies dealing with foreign influence and counterintelligence