Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Joseph Humire, Gordon Chang, David Wurmser and Robert Charles

JOSEPH HUMIRE, Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society, former Director of Institute Relations, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, US Marine Corps (retired), Twitter: @jmhumire

• Lessons learned about Venezuela during the Trump years: Shifting Venezuelan military and oil companies away from Maduro will not solve the problem
• The Venezuelan military is reliant on support from Russia, Iran and Cuba

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Daily Beast, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World” and “Losing South Korea," Twitter: @Gordongchang

• The Genocide Convention of 1948 requires all signatories to act on their designations - What does this mean for China's genocide against the Uyghur Muslims?
• Gordon Chang: Chairman Xi Jinping must have been "ecstatic" after hearing President Joe Biden's recent comments
• China has sent about 20 different air-force assets into Taiwan's air identification zone since President Biden's inauguration

Dr. DAVID WURMSER, Director, Center for Security Policy’s Program on Global Anti-Semitism, former Middle East Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, retired, US Navy Reserves (Ret.) Lieutenant Commander:

• David Wurmser reminds us about how the European Union countries have suspended a good portion of their democratic processes
• The "wedding" of wealth and communist bureaucracy is a sign that the "Davos Crowd" is succeeding in their mission to circumvent individualism
• The recent Gamp Stop saga is another prime example of what happens when outsiders interfere with the business of the elites

ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary, State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author, "Eagles and Evergreens," Twitter: @RCharles4USA

• Why does the Biden administration seem to only be focused on hunting down the perpetrators of the Jan. 6th Capitol riot and not Antifa?
• Swiftly passing a large number of executive orders in a small timeframe breaks with precedent, which can have negative effects on peoples' livelihoods
• Robert Charles reaffirms that executive orders are proclamations, not laws

With Nick Ballasy, Jeff Nyquist and Lt.Gen. (ret) Jerry Boykin

NICK BALLASY, Senior Correspondent, Just The News, Twitter: @NicholasBallasy

• Bill Gates's recent comments about creating a COVID vaccination passport during a Washington Post event - a majority of Big Tech companies are becoming more involved in vaccination task forces
• Speaker Nancy Pelosi's H.R. 1, a revived piece of legislation from the 116th Congress, is a Democrat's wish list for election reform
• During the 2020 election, President Biden raised nearly $70 million from Wall Street, overshadowing the $18 million garnered by the Trump campaign

JEFF NYQUIST, Writer, Newsmax, WorldNetDaily, SierraTimes, Financial Sense and Epoch Times, Author, “Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War,” JRNyquist.blog, and Twitter: @JRNyquist

• Who are the "Ultra-Right" as defined by the Communist Party of America's manifesto? 
• Jeff Nyquist lays out how the Communist Party plans to take control of the US government
• The Communist Party USA claims to be aligned with the "Anti-Imperialist" nations of the world, including China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba...

LT. GEN. (RET.) WILLIAM G. BOYKIN, Executive Vice President, Family Research Council, original Member, U.S. Army's Delta Force, Twitter: @GenBoykin

• Gen. Jerry Boykin: The Framers of the Constitution feared the day the powers of the federal government would be used against the American people
• Many senior military officials during the Obama-Biden era were promoted not because of their leadership but due to their support of the administration's radical policies
• The John Brennan theory: the show of force at the US Capitol both in the days leading up to and after the inauguration are all part of a larger psychological war 

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Host, Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author, “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon," Twitter: @SecretWeaponUSA

• Naked short selling, short selling and short squeezing: The GameStop and Wall Street saga explained
• Why do people lend their stocks to others full well knowing that they are going to receive less in return?
• When President Biden says that he will raise taxes, increase regulations and tank America's prospects for energy independence, steady economic recovery will not occur
• Kevin Freeman: As interest rates begin to increase on US debt, foreign actors will try to dethrone the US dollar as the reserve currency of the world 

With Dr. Mordechai Kedar and Dr. Peter Pry

DR. MORDECHAI KEDAR, retired Lieutenant Colonel, Israel Defense Force, Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University's Department of Arabic and Middle East Studies, Director, Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam at Bar-Ilan University, Twitter: @kedar_mordechai

Part I: 

• The Muslim Brotherhood’s founding principals: Rid the Islamic world of western occupation and culture, and implement Sharia Law. Has anything changed?
• Dr. Kedar: The Muslim Brotherhood seeks to alter the regime and culture of their “new homeland” to meet the expectations of living in an Islamic environment 
• President Biden's Senior Director of Intelligence Programs within the National Security Council, Maher Bitar, was previously associated with the Palestine Solidarity Movement at Georgetown University

Part II: 

• A Palestinian state already exists in Israel, Gaza, and it's run by Hamas
• Dr. Kedar: Does Israel really want another terrorist state operating along their borders?
• Pro-Palestine activists fail to see beyond their movement. All involved actors needs to create eight different Palestinian emirates 

DR. PETER PRY, Executive Director, Task Force on National and Homeland Security, Director, U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, previous Member, Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA:

Part I:

• The threats posed by an Electromagnetic Pulse attack were only recognized recently
• For decades, our adversaries have been developing different ways to wage "no contact wars" against the US
• Dr. Peter Pry briefed then candidate Donald Trump in 2015 on these pressing issues, who was in turn taken away by just how ill-prepared the nation was to countering an EMP attack
• Why was President Trump's March 26, 2019, executive order, "Resilience Against Electromagnetic Pulses," was met with backlash from Obama-era bureaucrats? 

Part II: 

• The coronavirus crisis woke Americans up to our dependence on foreign countries for critical supplies 
• President Trump and his administration didn't want to have our electric grid dependent on Chinese technology
• Dr. Pry explains why he believes the Biden administration was quick to suspend President Trump's May 1st Bulk-Power System executive order
• New START treaty between the US and Russia will be a challenge for the Biden administration to oversee considering that Russia has a long history of disregarding all other arms agreements

With Elaine Donnelly and Dr. Carol Swain

ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President, Center for Military Readiness: 

Part I: 

• Elaine Donnelly's reaction to recent controversies surrounding the US military: 200 plus national guard members infected with COVID after being sent to protect the US capitol, who were also confined to a parking garage and had their loyalty questioned by the media and some politicians
• During the Obama-Biden era, officials within the armed forces were ordered not to report any issues about the administration's transgender policy 
• Less than 1,000 transgender soldiers required over 30,000 mental health visits, further dampening prospects of efficient deployability

Part II: 

• President Biden's recent Executive Orders about the military are retroactive: Those who were forced to leave the military during the Trump years now have cause for legal action
• The US military runs one of the largest educational systems in the country. What effects will Biden's reinstatement of critical race theory courses have on unit morale?
• Donnelly: The civilians running these programs have very little idea about how their policies will affect troop readiness

DR. CAROL SWAIN, Host, "Conversations with Dr. Carol Swain" and Be The People Podcast on the America Out Loud Podcast Network, Owner and Founder, Unity Training Solutions, President, Be The People Project, Twitter: @carolmswain

Part I: 

• Dr. Carol Swain: I saw systematic racism collapse after the passage of 3 major civil rights acts
• Academia originally accepted and awarded Dr. Swain's intellect and ideas, however, things gradually changed once she left the Democratic Party
• The Biden administration's slogan, "Diversity, equity and inclusion," only divides the world into the "oppressors" and the "oppressed" 
• Dr. Swain: Critical race theory violates the equal protection clause within the 14th Amendment

Part II: 

• The 1776 Commission was designed to address many of the claims made by the New York Times' 1619 Project by encouraging Americans to go back to America's true founding
• Dr. Swain: Wasn't under the impression the Biden administration would be so hasty to disband the 1776 commission and burry their report
• Response to critics within academia who felt that the 1776 report was factually inaccurate

With Tommy Waller, Steve Mosher and Pastor Brian Gibson

TOMMY WALLER, Director of Infrastructure Security, Center for Security Policy, Lieutenant Colonel, US Marine Corps, Secure the Grid Coalition, Twitter: @Secure_the_Grid

• President Joe Biden suspended President Trump's May 1st Executive Order, "Securing the United States Bulk-Power System," during his first week in office - Why? 
• Tommy Waller: The federal government and the utility industry have conspired NOT to protect the grid from attack but to shield the electrical grid industry from federal oversight
• Over 200 large power transformers currently in use are from China

STEVEN MOSHER, President, Population Research Institute, first American social scientist to visit mainland China, Author, "A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy" and "Bully of Asia: Why China's Dream is the New Threat to World Order," Twitter: @StevenWMosher

Part I: 

• Steven Mosher: Since its founding in the 1920s, the Chinese Communist Party has been in a race to catch up to and defeat the United States of America
• Great Britain's electrical grid has been slowly subdued by the People's Republic of China
• According to Mosher, Wall Street's integration with the Chinese Communists is a problem: People in China normally exaggerate about 50%, sometimes 70%, of their total revenue 
• China was on a gliding path to overtake the US economically by 2020. President Trump put a stop to this trend

Part II: 

• Traditionally, Chinese Communist dictators prefer not to lose face when provoking an attack against Taiwan
• Mosher expands on Colin Kahl's compromising ties to the People's Republic of China
• Stanford University caved to China's demands in the 1970s, who's to say they are not doing the same today

PASTOR BRIAN GIBSON, Lead Pastor, HIS Church, Spokesperson, Peaceably Gather, Twitter: @leadpastor

• Pastor Brian Gibson provides his insight on what happened in our nation's capitol on Jan. 6th
• Why are some political pundits/commentators referring to the Capitol Riot as a "Christian Insurrection"
• According to Open Doors USA, 340 million Christians are persecuted around the world

With Kalbinur Gheni, Sen Hoon Kim and Zach Vorhies

KALBINUR GHENI, Committee on the Present Danger: China Captive Nations’ Representative for East Turkestan, Twitter: @Qelbinur10 & SE HOON KIM, Director, Committee on Present Danger: China Captive Nations Coalition, Twitter: @Se_HoonKim

Part I: 

• Kalbinur Gheni: My sister is currently subjected to forced labor within a concentration camp in Xinjiang
• Reactions to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's closing remarks on the Genocide in Xinjiang

Part II:

• Forced sterilization, state-sponsored rape, assigning ethnic Han Chinese officials to live in Uyghur communities to monitor them 24/7
• Designating the Chinese Communist Party a transnational criminal organization would reaffirm the claims made by those fighting for human rights in China

ZACH VORHIES, former Senior Software Engineer, YouTube and Google, Twitter: @Perpetualmaniac and Zachvorhies.com: 

Part I:

• On Oct. 15, 2020, nearly two weeks before the election, YouTube purged 30 Pro-Trump commentators, forcing them to create and turn to alternative platforms, i.e. Rumble and Parler 
• Zach Vorhies: Helped organize a case against Google to reinstate those accounts which was later blocked by an Obama era appointed judge
• Google requires court cases to be brought up in California 
• Vorhies: Prior to the election, Google sent out "register to vote" pop-ups to more liberals than conservatives - New York Post was going to run a story before the tech giant caught wind and "fixed" the problem

Part II: 

• Vorhies: The purging of conservatives from various social media platforms will continue well into 2021
• According to Section 230, Amazon is not liable for the content posted on their sites - so why ban Parler? 
• Godaddy.com was taken over by Google: A dangerous move
• Vorhies: we need to start migrating to alternative platforms

With Gordon Chang, Todd Bensman, Ilan Berman and Kevin Freeman

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Daily Beast, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World” and “Losing South Korea," Twitter: @Gordongchang

• China's military and society are being reorganized - potentially to mobilize for mass war
• The Biden administration may continue President Trump's practice of increasing official relations with Taiwan
• Antony Blinken agreed with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo when he labeled China's treatment of the Uyghurs a genocide

TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Twitter: @BensmanTodd

• President Biden reversed Donald Trump's travel ban, or so-called "Muslim Ban, " on day one in office
• Todd Bensman: Upwards of 20 million illegal aliens may be given amnesty under Joe Biden's recent directive
• Biden's message to the world: If you can get to the US, either illegally or legally, you will eventually be granted amnesty
• With Trump gone, can we no longer rely on Latin American countries to prevent migrant caravans from going to the US southern border?

ILAN BERMAN, Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council, Associated Faculty, Missouri State University's Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Twitter: @ilanberman

• Ilan Berman's thoughts on President Biden possibly seeking to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action: The writing has been on the wall for some time
• President Trump's legacy policies: The Trump administration spent four years building up America's ability to counter Iran. Will the Biden Administration leverage some of these capabilities when they eventually go back to the negotiating table? 
• Taking stock of the Trump Admin's accomplishments: Rolling détente between Israel and much of the Middle East

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Host, Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author, “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon," Twitter: @SecretWeaponUSA:

• Kevin Freeman: The US is about to go from a deficit of $20 trillion to $30 trillion in the blink of an eye 
• Inflation is much higher 1%, could be upwards of 6%
• Freeman argues that the only reason the US Dollar has remained relatively untouched by mounting US Debt is because it is still recognized as the reserve currency of the world - will China change things?

With Trevor Loudon

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TREVOR LOUDON, Creator/Author, "The Enemies Within" (Documentary and Film), Twitter: @TrevorLoudon1: 

Part I: 

• The Chinese Communist Party has more resources and influence now than the Communist Party within the Soviet Union ever had in its history
• Trevor Loudon: Too many people believe that if a socialist country adopts a few capitalist policies, like China, they have abandoned communism

Part II:

• John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence, announced recently that China had infiltrated America's body politic
• Both current and former US politicians, such as Garry Locke, find themselves at the heads of organizations with sympathetic views towards, and sometimes ties to, the Chinese Communist Party 
• Loudon: For most of her life, Vice President Kamala Harris has been surrounded by radical Marxists

Part III: 

• Left-leaning organizations, such as the Chinese Progressive Association and Liberation Road have lengthy relationships with the Chinese Communist Party
• High ranking members within the Black Lives Matter movement also have ties to these organizations: Asians for Black Lives is a product of the Chinese Progressive Association
• Loudon: Kamala Harris deliberately promoted prominent Maoists, such as Lateefah Simon, throughout the Bay Area 

Part IV: 

• Canadian intel observed in 2010 that the Chinese Communist Party was using its resources to influence some of Canada's richest provinces
• Loudon: Seed the Vote, which is closely associated with Liberation Road, set up voter registration drives in key swing states during the 2020 election using GIS maps from a professor at Wuhan University in China 
• False narrative constantly perpetuated by the Chinese Communist Party: America is the most racist country

With Dakota Wood

DAKOTA WOOD, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs, The Heritage Foundation, Editor, annual "Index of U.S. Military Strength," retired Lieutenant Colonel, US Marine Corps: 

Part I: 

• Do all US allies live up to their expectations when threatened with conflict? 
• Why are operating conditions more favorable in Europe than other parts of the world? 

Part II: 

• Why is China characterized as an "aggressive" but not a "hostile" threat? 
• Over the past year, the People's Liberation Army, Air Force and Navy have been upgrading and enlarging their power projection techniques
• Dakota Wood: The index's recommendation that the US Army consist of 50 brigades is seriously lacking

Part III: 

• Average age of a US fighter jet is 30 years old
• Under the Trump Administration, the Department of Defense increased flight hours in order to ramp up force readiness
• Overtime, the number of US Marine brigades have shrunk as the branch embraces a "one war force" mentality

Part IV: 

• The index categorizes most of the US nuclear force as strong. Why?
• Wood: Many of the same politicians who are staunch opponents of the 2nd Amendment and advocate for increased public safety are now questioning the loyalty of National Guard troops 

With Mark Schneider, Grant Newsham and Robert Charles

MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst, National Institute for Public Policy, former Director within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, former Senior Foreign Service Officer, US Department of State:

Part I:

• Russia currently has around 20 active/announced nuclear modernization programs
• Mark Schneider: About 81% of Russia's ICBMs are modernized, while around 86% of their entire nuclear triad is modernized (will reach 88% by the end of 2021)
• Russia's new hypersonic missiles' main mission: A preemptive nuclear strike

Part II:

• In recent years, Chinese involvement in Russian military exercises have increased
• Schneider: Nearly all of Russia's military exercises ended in a nuclear strike
• Will a Biden administration shrink the size of the US nuclear arsenal?

GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Senior Research Fellow at Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, Contributor, Asia Times, Twitter: @NewshamGrant

• China has consistently always tried to weaken US-South Korean relations by arguing that the US is solely responsible for the Korean War
• Loose Taiwan and the "wall to the castle" will be breached
• Grant Newsham: If the US had not adopted the Trump Administration's "Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific," we would have lost 

ROBERT CHARLES, former Assistant Secretary of State, US State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Spokesperson, Association of Mature American Citizens, Author, "Eagles and Evergreens," Twitter: @RCharles4USA

• The rest of the world is looking at us now to see if we are weak
• Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969): How a liberal US Supreme Court upheld free speech
• Robert Charles: Democrats have no idea what kind of damage their impeachment escapade will do to them in the near future