Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Elaine Donnelly, Sen. Ted Cruz, Stephen Soukup and David Wurmser

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

• Elaine Donnelly: What message is the Pentagon sending to our adversaries, like China and Russia, who do not care the slightest about "woke ideology?" 
• Medical costs surged by 300% for members of the US Armed Forces experiencing gender dysphoria
• The Biden Administration asserts that diversity is an "operational imperative" for the US military

SEN. TED CRUZ, US Senator, Texas (R), former Solicitor General, Texas, Author, "One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History," @SenTedCruz

• Sen. Ted Cruz talks about his recent trip to the US southern border
• Sen. Cruz delves into the Biden administration's top three border policy blunders 
• Sen Cruz: There is nothing compassionate about setting up a system where hundreds of children are abused
• The number one priority for Sen. Schumer and Rep. Pelosi was not COVID relief or tackling unemployment, but passing the For the People Act

STEPHEN SOUKUP, Author, "The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business," Vice President and Publisher, The Political Forum, Fellow, Culture of Life Foundation, @ThePolForum

• "Woke Capital" seeks to change the way business is done in the US and the overall relationship between citizens and the state
• Stephen Soukup argues that throughout the post-World War I period, Marxists subdued many mainstream institutions within the US and abroad
• Stakeholder Capitalism was introduced in the 1960s as a practical way for businesses to be successful - What changed? 

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 talks about the numerous national security risks posed by putting the US at odds with its most strategic ally in the Middle East
• Is there any difference between the various political factions in Iran today? 

With Todd Bensman, Dan Celia, Victoria Coates and Grant Newsham

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 estimates that around 30,000 migrants are beneficiaries of the Biden administration's "Catch-and-Bus" policy, in which immigrants at the southern border are put on buses bound for the US interior 
• Why is the Biden administration pursuing their apparently flawed policies at the border? 
• Illegal Immigrants Shopping Border Sectors Amid Unpredictable American Border Policy

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

• Dan Celia: Tell corporate America to stay neutral and do what they are paid to do – Making the most cost-efficient product on the market
• Celia finds that many of the same people calling for "unity" in academia are themselves advocating for separate graduation ceremonies

VICTORIA COATES, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, President, USAGM's Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc., 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: It's clear that China doesn't seem to care about our sanctions anymore
• The State Department recently updated its estimates for the amount of people killed during the 2019 protests in Iran from around 1,000 to 300
• Coates argues that the Iranian regime was watching the recent Suez incidentclosely 

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

• Grant Newsham: Chinese officials utterly berated the US-side in Alaska
• Newsham asserts that China is no longer afraid of the US
• Impending attack against Taiwan in the offing?