Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Victoria Coates, Dr. Michael Rectenwald, Sam Faddis and Reggie Littlejohn

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 supports any outreach to our Japanese allies but feels that the Biden administration may be trading words for action to counter China's rise
• China's illicit sale of Iranian oil is up to one million barrels a day - a blind-eye is clearly being turned
• Coates talks about the future of the filibuster and the unintended consequences that may arise should Democrats eliminate it

1. MICHAEL RECTENWALD, Author, “Thought Criminal,” “Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom” and “Beyond Woke,” former New York University Professor, Liberal Studies, @TheAntiPCProf

• Dr. Michael Rectenwald delves into President Joe Biden's war on middle America
• Dr. Rectenwald argues that regardless of the verdict, violence will emerge following Derek Chauvin's trial
• "Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom" predicted today's "corporate state-run socialism" 

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: Social justice protests are, "not about people who want reforms around a marginal system – it’s a mass revolutionary uprising"
• Deb Haaland was selected by the Communist Party USA and is now in charge of the largest reserve of federal land

REGGIE LITTLEJOHN, Founder and President, Women's Rights Without Frontiers, @reggielittlejhn

• 8 million "extra births" are forcibly terminated in Xinjiang each year
• The Chinese Communist Party's move from the One Child Policy to the Two Child Policy has done little to reserve China's declining growth rate
• If the Biden administration admits that genocide is currently ongoing in Xinjiang, the US government will be forced to following international treaties and use countermeasure against China

With Bill Walton, Kyle Shideler and John Rossomando

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 argues that the Biden administration wants the Quad, whose member states include the US, India, Austria and Japan, to focus on climate change and a couple of small trade disputes
• Walton: China is ruled by engineers, the US is ruled by lawyers – engineers use long term thinking

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

Part 1: 

• Kyle Shideler: Antifa, and its associates, never stopped rioting following the election
• Why is the media not reporting on an uptick in violence in places like Portland?
• Mike Waller's eyewitness accounting: No, Sen. Ron Johnson Didn’t Promote A ‘Conspiracy Theory’ About The Capitol Riot

Part 2: 

• In the wake of Texas's ice storms, "mutual aid" groups, some of which were closely associated for prominent Marxist organization, popped up throughout the state 
• Shideler: Throughout the years, we have been actively disinformed about looming national security threats posed by groups like the Muslim Brotherhood

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: There is a wholesale effort within the military to purge its ranks of anyone who does not abide by the Biden administration’s social engineering agenda
• China now has the largest navy and continues to operate within Taiwanese airspace
• Rossomando: The military is, "not about satisfying a social agenda"

With Sam Sorbo, Mark Meckler, Kevin Freeman and Todd Bensman

SAM SORBO, Host, The Sam Sorbo Show, Actress/Producer, Hope Bridge, Just Let Go, Let There Be Light, Miracle in East Texas, Author, "They're YOUR Kids" and "Words For Warriors: Fight Back Against Crazy Socialists And The Toxic Liberal Left" @thesamsorbo

• Sam Sorbo: Currently, children in the US are being taught in “government schools” to praise the state and hate themselves
• Sorbo argues that children are not getting an education, they are getting a schooling
• Message to aspiring homeschoolers: Parenting issues are not the same as teaching issues 

MARK MECKLER, Interim CEO, Parler Inc., President, Convention of States Foundation & Convention of States Action (COSA), Co-Founder, Tea Party Patriots, @MarkMeckler

• Mark Meckler: Freedom of speech is under fundamental assault in America from the "tech oligarchies" 
• Meckler argues that the Left in America wants the state to be in charge of all aspects of society
• The Convention of States Foundation & Convention of States Action wants to give the power back to the people by invoking Article 5 of the US Constitution

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

• Kevin Freeman argues that the For the People Act federalizes all of the issues from the 2020 election
• Freeman: This is the path to a dictatorship - look at what happened in Venezuela 
• NSIC Institute is weaponizing your capital to protect the country we love

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

• 100,000 migrants were apprehended at the US Southern Border in February 2021, which as Todd Bensman argues, was further fomented by the Biden Administration's "amnesty for all" policy
• By eliminating the Trump era travel restrictions, the Biden Administration will forego the proper vetting procedures and precautions for those entering the US
• The volume of migrants coming across the US Southern Border is causing the system to collapse

 

With Kenny Vaughan, Mike Berry, Nick Ballasy and Jeff Nyquist

KENNY VAUGHAN, Founder and Owner, Shields of Strength, Author, "The Right Fight: How to Live a Loving Life"

MICHAEL BERRY, General Counsel, First Liberty Institute, former Attorney, US Marine Corps, former Adjunct Professor of Law, United States Naval Academy, Marine Corps Reserves

Part I: 

• Kenny Vaughan explains his life story and why he decided to found Shields of Strength
• Mike Berry: With Mikey Weinstein, no good deed goes unpunished
• Replica dog tags with scripture on one side and military logos on the other allegedly violate the separation clause in the US constitution - Kenny and Mike think otherwise

Part II: 

• Mikey Weinstein has a long history of trying to purge the US military of any and all religious symbols
• Vaughan talks about his recent book, "The Right Fight: How to Live a Loving Life"

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

• Nick Ballasy recaps the recently passed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 Rescue Bill, the 2nd largest rescue package in history
• Republicans complain that they were locked out of the decision-making process
• There are currently robust discussions taking place amongst Democrats about whether to remove the filibuster

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 Chinese used Sun Tzu's "Art of War" to influence the Soviets heavily in the late-1950s
• To this day, the Chinese Communist Party exercises the practice of "winning without fighting" by using deception
• Nyquist: We have a President that wants to kowtow to China

With Paul Boardman, Gen. Jerry Boykin, Amb. Pete Hoekstra and Col. John Mills

PAUL BOARDMAN, Chairman, Decouple China Political Action Committee: 

• In 2020 the US had a $310 billion trade deficit with China
• Paul Boardman does not buy the argument that the US is not capable of reenergizing its manufacturing sector, as seen by mass mobilization following COVID-19
• Mainstreet America gets it - China is committing genocide
• H.R. 8491 is the first step in recognizing the Chinese Communist Party as a transnational criminal organization

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

• Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin: Donald Trump did to the military what Ronald Reagan did after succeeding Jimmy Carter; creating War Fighters
• Individuals belonging to extremist groups have always been banned from the military – President Biden's purges are a completely different story 
• Lt. Gen. Boykin explains who is really in control in Iran

PETE HOEKSTRA, former Congressman (1993-2011), Michigan's 2nd Congressional District, former US Ambassador to the Netherlands (2017-2021), Fellow, Center for Security Policy:

• Elements within the Obama administration were tasked with monitoring the Trump campaign and transition team
• Pete Hoekstra argues that law enforcement crossed a line when they used information gathered by the US intelligence community to pursue American citizens
• Chairman of the US Intel Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, would agree with CIA Director John Brennan's assessment that the federal government needs a "laser-like" focus to deal with supposed domestic threats

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

• Col. John Mills: Will the real Biden China policy please stand up?
• What are China's military capabilities, and should the US be concerned about the People's Liberation Army's growing amphibious applications?
• China's "Operational Preparation for the Environment" - a dress rehearsal for conflict against the US

With Dr. Murray Bessette, Dr. David Wurmser and Joseph Bosco

MURRAY BESSETTE, Director of Academic Programs, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, former Associate Professor, Morehead State University, former President, Kentucky Political Science Association, Lincoln Fellow, Claremont Institute, Academic Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Co-Director, Bluegrass State Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence, @MSYBessette

Part 1: 

• Murray Bessette: The Communist Manifesto says clearly that in order to implement socialism, you must abolish private property, which in practice can only be done by a totalitarian government
• Karl Marx believed that there are no enduring characteristics within human nature - mankind is mostly malleable
• Socialism, Marxism and Communism are not voluntary ideologies

Part 2: 

• Bessette argues that Nazism and Communism both deny the individual in favor of some group identity
• Communist China's revamped vision of Lenin: The western capitalists will lend you the money to buy the rope for you to hang them with
• Deng Xiaoping: When we open up, it's not that we will have to listen to them [the West], it's that they will have to listen to us

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:

• David Wurmser delves into a supposed eco-terrorist attack off the coast of Israel orchestrated by the Iranians 
• The US assassination of Qasem Soleimani put the Iranians on edge
• Wursmer argues that the US should not break its decades-long commitments with Israel not to question their defense initiatives

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 in a zero-sum game with China
• China is willing to give a little ground in some area in exchange for the US to compromise on many non-negatable terms, like human rights
• Robert Gates: 'Strategic ambiguity' towards Taiwan has already served its purpose. It's time for the Biden administration to readdress the Taiwan question

With Sam Faddis, Bradley Thayer, Steven Kwast and Bill Walton

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 delves into the impending trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and its implications for public safety
• How did George Floyd die - Extreme force or a fentanyl overdose? 
• Faddis talks about Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's progressive roots 

BRADLEY THAYER, Professor of International Security Studies, Tallinn University, former Senior Analyst, National Institute for Public Policy, Author, How China Sees the World: 

• Bradley Thayer: The Biden administration wants to return to an era of accommodations - an era that ushered in China's rise
• When negotiating with the Communists, if you must, always be sure to enforce a strict time-limit
• Thayer contends that China has no desire to follow or enforce any singular international system and norms - they will do whatever suits their Marxist ambitions at that exact moment

STEVEN KWAST, Lieutenant General (Retired), US Air Force, Deployments include Desert Shield and Storm, Southern Watch, Allied Force and Operation Enduring Freedom: 

• San Antonio's grid infrastructure and partnership with the US military should serve as a model for the rest of Texas
• Steven Kwast: China wants to dominate space the same way the British Empire ruled the high seas
• China has ambitions to establish a base on the dark side of the moon

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: Republicans can't count on Sen. Joe Manchin to prevent Democrats from rewriting elections laws and taking away the filibuster
• What will come of the For the People Act?- Democrats have about 18 months until the 2022 midterms

With Col. John Mills and Trevor Loudon

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

Part 1:

• Xi Jinping has one goal: Retire the United States as the leader of the world
• The Chinese Communist Party played to politicization from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic
• As early as the mid-2000s, the Chinese government has viewed bioweapons as the "strategic commanding height" of the great showdown with the US

Part 2:

• Col. John Mills comments on China's willingness to use biological warfare in the future - "read your opponent's literature"
• The out-of-control nature of the federal government is contributing to the formation of a fourth branch of government, the Administrative State
• Col. Mills: Take the Chinese Communist Party at face value

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

Part 1:

• Deb Haaland has close ties to the Communist Party USA, forged during her time in the US House of Representatives and civic action campaigns, such as the XL Keystone Pipeline protests
• Communist Party USA was originally loyal to the Soviet Union and has now moved closer to the Chinese Communist Party
• Trevor Loudon: She will be working closely with the Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, another prominent proponent of the Communist Party USA

Part 2:

• Loudon argues that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is well connected to some of San Francisco's most notorious communist leaders
• Council for a Livable World, which was founded in-part by a Soviet agent, influenced Joe Biden while he was a young Senator, later endorsing him for President in 2020

With Jeff Nyquist, Gordon Chang and Sam Faddis

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

Part 1:

• Jeff Nyquist walks us through Russia's grand strategy in the 21st century
• Jeff Nyquist: Putin's Russia and Xi's China believe that nuclear war can be waged and won - The US government is fooling its own people into thinking nuclear war will never happen

Part 2: 

• Nyquist argues that the American public does not have civil defense anymore, whereas our adversaries, such as Russia and China, have drills and plans in place to counter a nuclear strike
• 3,000 miles of hardened underground tunnels in China and underground cities in the Ural mountains built around the 1970s in Russia
• US policymakers are not connecting tactics to philosophy and thus grossly misunderstand our enemies intentions

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

• President Trump's November 2020 executive order banning US citizens and companies from investing in People's Liberation Army-linked Chinese companies is currently being reviewed by the Biden administration 
• Gordon Chang delves into one of his recent articles on China's mysterious super solider program

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 delves into a new autonomous zone in Austin, Texas called "Orisha Land," founded by the "400+1" group 
• The group intends to make a "Pan-African" homeland, which is akin to the Black Panthers ideology in the 1960s
• Faddis: There is an armed component they are trying to dance around

With Dr. Jason Hill, Lawrence W. Reed and Robert Spencer

JASON HILL, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University, Author, "Cosmopolitan: What It Means to Be a Human Being in the New Millennium, "Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity: When We Should Not Get Along," and forthcoming "What Do White Americans Owe Black People," @JasonDHill6

Part 1

• Jason Hill: America is special because of its "self-reflexive clause" - It is a country that is always questioning and evaluating its past
• The American Left today wants to embrace "America Phobia" 
• Critical Race Theory goes further than viewing race as a social construct

Part 2

• Equity means equal results amongst all groups in society, regardless of abilities, virtues, background or work
• Dr. Hill argues that the Framers of the Constitution intended for all men to enjoy free and equal standing before the law
• Equity rests on the false assumption that we are all born equal, when in fact we are all born with different talents
• H.R.40 and reparations for Black Americans: Dr. Hill finds that reparations have already been paid through initiates like President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty  

LAWERENCE W. REED, President, Foundation for Economic Education, Author, "Was Jesus a Socialist?," former President, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Contributor, El American

• Lawrence Reed: No, Jesus was not a socialist - In reality, socialism is the concentration of power to forcibly redistribute wealth and property
• Communism is completely against all religions
• Four Ways Socialism is Anti-Social: "Even if a socialist’s own life is a mess, he still knows how to run everybody else’s. Even if he doesn’t believe there’s a God, he thinks the State can be one. "

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

• Robert Spencer: The Iranians understand that the Biden administration is focused on appeasing Iran
• The Biden administration has to balance multiple constituencies, such as the Muslim Brotherhood lobby in the US
• Qatar is amplifying its influence operations in the US to attack prominent conservative voices