Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With John Rossomando, Kevin Freeman, Sam Faddis and Jay Valentine

JOHN ROSSOMANDO, Senior Analyst, Defense Policy at the Center for Security Policy, former Senior Analyst, Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism, former Senior Managing Editor, The Bulletin, @JohnRossomando

• John Rossomando: The Biden Administration is more interested in settling political scores than improving our armed forces warfighting capabilities
• How is kicking Conservatives out of the military not going to undermine readiness? 
• Rossomando argues that the US needs to acquire the tools necessary to procure its own rare earth metals

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Author, “Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack" and “Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again,” Founder, Globaleconomiwarfare.com, @SecretWeaponUSA

• Kevin Freeman argues that the Chinese recognize America's dependence on rare earth metals and have been engaged in "resource wars" against the US for decades
• Freeman on the "For the People Act:" Democrats are having their political agenda get crammed through legislature without the will of the People
• Why are some corporations trying to guide legislation in Georgia? 

SAM FADDIS, former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, "Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA," @RealSamFaddis

• Sam Faddis's thoughts on the World Health Organization's findings about the origins of the Coronavirus: No motivation to get to the bottom of anything
• Ways in which the Biden administration is allegedly compromised by the Chinese Communist Party
• Faddis argues that the mainstream media has been ignoring the front groups responsible for large-scale violence last summer and fall

JAY VALENTINE, CEO, ContingencySales.com

• Constructing a "No Fly List" for election fraudsters - What would that entail? 
• Jay Valentine: Democrats have spent decades importing the infrastructure necessary to allow for election fraud to take place, i.e., voter rolls with fake addresses
• Valentine explains how cross-reference database searches should be used to remove inaccurate data from state voter rolls

With Rick Green, Rick Fisher, Bill Walton and Kyle Shideler

RICK GREEN, Constitution Coach, Patriot Academy, former Texas State Representative, President, Authentic American History Productions, LLC, @RickGreenTX

• Rick Green delves into numerous recounting efforts in states like Georgia and Arizona
• Green argues that mention of the Congress in Article 1, Section 4 of the US Constitution should be stricken 
• Green: We may not be able to catch the burglar, but we will tighten up our electoral security

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow of Asian Military Affairs, International Assessment and Strategy Center, Author, "China's Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach," former Asian Studies Director, The Heritage Foundation, former China Brief Editor, The Jamestown Foundation

• Why has China not struck Taiwan yet? - The regime needs to obtain some “certainty of success”
• Rick Fisher argues that after the Chinese Communist Party squashed its only existential threat following the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, the Party began focusing on terrestrial domination
• Fisher: Survival did not rest exclusively on internal reforms but changing the entire world

BILL WALTON, Managing Partner, Rappahannock Ventures, Chairman, Rush River Entertainment, former Leader, Donald Trump Transition Team, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute's Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• Bill Walton expands on the H&M controversy in China, the largest luxury consumer goods market
• Chinese platform companies are being propped up to surpass foreign firms
• Why is China's Central Bank hoovering up everyone's data?

KYLE SHIDELER, Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Center for Security Policy, Author, "Unmasking Antifa: Five Perspectives on a Growing Threat," @ShidelerK

• Kyle Shideler gives an update on the recent mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado
• A recently released ODNI assessment asserts that racial motivated violent extremists are motivated by bias against minority communities and grievances towards globalization
• Shideler explains President Biden's pick for Associate Attorney General, Vanita Gupta's, views on racism

With Robert Charles, Ed Timperlake, Dan Celia and Jeff Nyquist

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

• Robert Charles: When you have an absent President, his administration begins to freelance itself
• Judge Laurence Silberman argues that the Supreme Court ruling on libel needs to be overturned and readdressed

EDWARD TIMPERLAKE, former Director of Technology Assessment, International Technology Security, former Representative, National Counterintelligence Executive Committee, US Department of Defense, Captain (ret.), US Marine Corps (1969-1975), Author, Year of the Rat

• Ed Timperlake: We are in a period of “maximum danger” – President Joe Biden did not instill the confidence of a unified approach to deterrence at yesterday’s press conference
• For decades, China has been waging an “Information War” across the straits on Taiwan
• Timperlake argues that the US needs to help the Taiwanese dig-in

DAN CELIA, President and CEO, Financial Issues Stewardship Ministries, @financialissues 

• Recap on President Biden’s comments about China during his first White House press conference yesterday

• Dan Celia: It wasn’t just a softball game, it was a tee ball game

• Celia argues that foreign firms conducting business in China are doing so at their own risk

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” and "The Fool and His Enemy," JRNyquist.blog, @JRNyquist

• Jeff Nyquist: The United States has a long history of "cheap moralizing", as seen during the First and Second World War - which is not a strategy
• China's strategy: "hyper-instrumentalist" - Will do anything to become a global hegemon
• What the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact can tell us about US-China relations today

With David Wurmser, Sam Faddis and Lance Crayon

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 Lieutenant Commander:

Part 1: 

• Recap on Israel's recent elections
• Benjamin Netanyahu does not have the required 61 seats in parliment to form a govenrment of his own
• David Wurmser: Starting with the Clinton administration, the US has been meddling in Israel's elections using taxpayer money for years

Part 2: 

• The peace treaty between the UAE and Israel allows for greater economic development within Israel's arab community
• Wurmser argues that Joe Biden's State Department is trying to rebrand goods coming out of the "West Bank" 
• Wurmser on the Suez Canal incident: "An accident that gives ideas to people who shouldn't be given ideas"

SAM FADDIS, former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, "Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA," @RealSamFaddis

• Sam Faddis unearths a relatively underreported fact about King's grocery store in Boulder, Colorado
• Faddis argues that Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, has no practical intelliegence experience and is someone who politically attached herself to Joe Biden

LANCE CRAYON, former Senior News Editor, Global Times (US edition), former Video Journalist, China Radio International, former Senior Editor, People's Daily English News app:

• Lance Crayon delves into the role both money and propagansa play in transforming China's image abroad, ecpecially in regards to Confucius Institututes - rebranded as "Centers for Language Educaiton and Cooperation"
• There are currently over 100 Confucius Institututes operating within US universitites - Chinese nationals pay upwards of three times more than their American peers to study in the US at these select universities
• H&M's fallout in China - "Kill the chicken to scare the monkey"

With Michele Bachmann, Kevin Freeman and Col. John Mills

MICHELE BACHMANN, Dean, Robertson School of Government at Regent University, former US Representative, Minnesota's 6th Congressional District, former State Senator, Minnesota, Author, "Care of Conviction: My Story," @MicheleBachman 

Part 1:

• Recap on Regent University's recent electoral integrity webinar
• Michele Bachmann: The story about what really happened in the 2020 election has not been told until now

Part 2: 

• During the webinar, Peter Navarro went through the events that transpired in the six swing states and the different kinds of voter fraud found in each
• Dr. David Clements, a law professor at New Mexico State University, analyzed many of the election fraud lawsuits filed in said states

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Author, “Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack" and “Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again,” Founder, Globaleconomiwarfare.com, @SecretWeaponUSA

• The Biden administration's infrastructure plan would allegedly add another $3 trillion to the US's amounting national debt
• Is inflation really only below 2%? - Kevin Freeman is not convinced
• Freeman: Countries that go down this path usually never return

COL (RET) JOHN MILLS, Former Director, Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense:

• Col. John Mills’s fight for electoral integrity in Virginia - Need to hold county leaders responsible
• The Obama administration's "pivot" to Asia in 2014 was "strategically distracted" by the midterm elections and the Office of Management and Budget breach 
• Col. Mills: We need to have "precise redlines" in the South China Sea

With Jay Valentine, Caroline Glick, Victoria Coates and Susan Katz Keating

JAY VALENTINE, CEO, ContingencySales.com: 

• "Industrial Scale Fraud" includes thousands of participants, held together by a loose structure
• Sovereign Crimes are crimes committed by government officials
• Michele Bachmann leads one of the first serious academic discussion about fraud in the 2020 election at Regent University 

CAROLINE GLICK, Senior Columnist, Breitbart News, Senior Contributor, Jerusalem Post and Maariv, Author, "The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East," Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, @CarolineGlick

• Recap on Israel's election day
• Caroline Glick argues that Israel needs a government that will not immediately be disbanded after being formed
• Glick finds that Israel changed the definition of bribery to oust Benjamin Netanyahu from power 

VICTORIA COATES, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, President, USAGM's Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc., former Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy, former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle Eastern and North African Affairs, National Security Council, Author, "David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art," @VictoriaCoates

• Victoria Coates highlights Washington's proclivities towards appeasement with Iran and anti-Israeli sentiments. 
• Coates argues that the Biden administration's decision to remove the Houthis from the State Department’s foreign terror group list was an ill-conceived plan
• A Saudi Arabian ceasefire proposal in Yemen was recently rejected by the Iranians and Houthis

SUSAN KATZ KEATING, Chief National Security Correspondent, JustTheNews.com, Security and Terrorism Correspondent, American Media Institute, Military Correspondent, People Magazine, @SKatzKeating

• Susan Katz Keating reports on how and why the military slammed Tucker Carlson for expressing his opinion about the role women play in the US armed forces 
• Keating: The military is becoming a politicized beast
• President Joe Biden's recent remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin being a "killer"

With Lee Smith, Bill Walton and Trevor Loudon

LEE SMITH, Media Columnist, Tablet Magazine, Contributor, New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Real Clear Investigations and the Federalist, Author, "The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted The American President," @LeeSmithDC

Part 1: 

• The Plot Against the President: Some government agencies, whose main mission is to monitor foreign threats to the US, are now being tasked with targeting US citizens
• Lee Smith argues that the Washington foreign policy establishment, composed of key figures within the mainstream media and notable think tanks, is urging the Biden administration to go down a dangerous path

Part 2: 

• The War Like No Other: Following the Peloponnesian War, Sparta established a hostile, pro-Spartan government in Athens - how does this connect to our current political situation?
• Lee finds that the American Left is not applying the logic of a constitutional republic but instead the "logic of conflict" 

BILL WALTON, Managing Partner, Rappahannock Ventures, Chairman, Rush River Entertainment, former Leader, Donald Trump Transition Team, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute's Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• Bill Walton: Chinese officials turned the tables on Secretary Blinken and National Security Advisor Sullivan in Alaska last week
• The Biden administration’s allies on Capitol Hill are working to reform the Senate filibuster

TREVOR LOUDON, Creator/Author, The Enemies Within (Documentary and Book), @TrevorLoudon1

• The Chinese Communist narrative has consistently worked to promote a racist vision of America
• Trevor Loudon remarks how Stalin accused his enemies of the same crimes he was doing himself
• President Joe Biden's pick for Labor Secretary may be sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party

With Gordon Chang, Fred Fleitz and Jenny Beth Martin

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

Part 1: 

• From the start, Beijing's arrogance was on full display during the first day of talks between Secretary Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and their Chinese counterparts in Alaska
• Why was the Chinese side so arrogant?
• Gordon Chang argues that Secretary Blinken performed admirably when rebutting Chinese retorts
• Chang: The policies of the Biden administration will not be those of Sec. Blinken

Part 2: 

• Chang finds that the US needs to adopt a more Reagan-era mentality when confronting China - "we win, they lose"
• For the leadership in Beijing, the window of opportunity in China is closing fast
• Psychological trauma from dark episodes in the nation's modern history, such as Mao's Great Leap Forward, is still prevalent in China

FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO, Center for Security Policy, former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency, former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton, State Department, Author, "The Coming North Korean Nuclear Nightmare," @FredFleitz

• The US government’s 2017 assessment on electoral interference in the 2016 election flaunted numerous intelligence standards and procedures
• The 2020 report puts an undue heavy emphasis on Russian interference while glossing over Chinese-led influence operations
• Fred Fleitz: The House Intelligence Committee is a lost cause

JENNY BETH MARTIN, Co-Founder, Tea Party Patriots, Author, “Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution,” @jennybethm 

• The For the People Act would eliminate voter ID requirements country-wide and allow states to automatically register voters using federal databases
• Jenny Beth Martin: Voting is a sacred civil liberty
• Martin talks about the horrific shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, and why this crime should not be made a political issue

With Karen England, Todd Bensman, Robert Spencer and Jeff Nyquist

KAREN ENGLAND, Executive Director, Capitol Resource Institute, Founder and Director, Nevada Family Alliance: 

• Karen England argues that California's renamed "Sex Ed for Social Change" initiative may be stretching the bounds of K-12 of sexual education
• England: There is a massive attempt underway to undermine parental authority - we need to take our schools back

TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author,  "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd

• Todd Bensman gives an update on the unfolding crisis at the US Southern Border and Department of Homeland Security officials' recent comments about FBI watchlist suspects entering the US
• The Afrasiabi Affair: An alleged unregistered foreign agent was recently accused of acting on behalf of the Iranian government for the past decade while subverting the US mainstream media

ROBERT SPENCER, Director, Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist, PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, Author, "Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the U.S.?," @jihadwatchRS

• Eleven Iranian nationals were arrested trying to enter the US illegally at the Southern Border in February 2021
• Robert Spencer: The Council on Islamic American Relations has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood

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” and "The Fool and His Enemy," JRNyquist.blog, @JRNyquist

• Jeff Nyquist argues that the For the People Act will turn the US into a one party state
• Who wants to destroy electoral integrity? 
• Nyquist talks about the "East and West Convergence" theory 

With Dr. David Wurmser, Joseph Bosco, Grant Newsham and Suzanne Scholte

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 Lieutenant Commander:

• Multi-billions of dollars have been released to Iran as the Biden administration tries to "entice" the Mullahs to come back to the negotiating table
• David Wurmser: "Why would you be our friend if it comes at the cost of being overthrown?" 
• Dr. Wurmser reasons that should the US abandon an ally, like Saudi Arabia, with a questionable human rights record, who’s to say that a revolution would not take hold, turning said state into a fundamentally destabilized enemy 

JOSEPH BOSCO, former China Country Desk Officer, Office of the Secretary of Defense, former Director of Asia-Pacific Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Affairs, Fellow, Institute for Corea-American Studies (ICAS) and the Institute for Taiwan-American Studies: 

• Joseph Bosco: We are at a "pivotal inflection point" in US-China relations
• China's 2015 Anti-Secession law provides the legal framework for China to invade Taiwan

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

• Grant Newham: We don't want to go to war with a nuclear armed China - But will there be war at all?
• The US and Japan need to officially establish an office to coordinate the joint defense of Japan's disputed island chains
• Newsham: Moon Jae In's government sees America as the problem and is sympathetic towards the North Korean and Chinese governments

SUZANNE SCHOLTE, President, Defense Forum Foundation, Chairwoman, North Korea Freedom Coalition: 

• An End of War Declaration between North and South Korea would give rise to anti-American sentiments in South Korea
• Suzanne Scholte: The Moon government is more interested in appeasing the North Korean regime than standing up for the human rights of all Korean people