Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Jessica Vaughan, Gordon Chang, James Fanell and Ben Weingarten

JESSICA VAUGHAN, Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, Former Foreign Service Officer with the State Department where she served in Belgium and Trinidad & Tobago:

• The downstream effects of providing illegal aliens driver's licenses
• What role does "Real ID" play in this situation?

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 the Thousand Talents Initiative?
• Why something needs to be done to end Americans investing in harmful Chinese companies
• The current state of coronavirus

JAMES FANELL, Retired from US Navy in 2015 concluding 30 year career as a naval intelligence officer specializing in Indo-Asia Pacific security affairs with an emphasis on the Chinese Navy, Assignments included tours as the Assistant Chief of Staff for intelligence for the U.S. Seventh Fleet aboard the USS Blue Ridge, the Office of Naval Intelligence China Senior Intelligence Officer, etc., Former National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University:

• The "Decade of Concern" that is about to present itself in the coming years
• China's increasing naval capabilities
• What should the US do to enhance their presence in Taiwan?

BEN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC, Senior Contributor at The Federalist, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research:

• Ilhan Omar's impact on the Democratic Party
• The significance of the death of Soleimani
• The ongoing manipulation of the press by political figures

With Robert Muise, Mort Klein, Doug Feith, and David Goldman

ROBERT MUISE, Co-founder of the American Freedom Law Center, Co-author of Offensive and Defensive Lawfare: Fighting Civilizational Jihad in America’s Courts as part of CSP’s Civilizational Jihad Reader Series:

• The American Freedom Law Center's lawsuit against the Michigan Attorney General and Michigan Department of Civil Rights
• The Michigan Department of Civil Rights' reliance on the Southern Poverty Law Center

MORT KLEIN, National President of the Zionist Organization of America:

• Analyzing the merits of President Trump's "Plan for Peace"
• What would make the Palestinians agree to a peace plan with Israel?
• How will Benjamin Netanyahu respond to this proposal?

DOUGLAS FEITH, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2001-2005):

• Why the peace plan is "widely misunderstood"
• How the peace plan re-focuses the US strategy with the Middle East

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

• Analyzing the coronavirus from a political point of view
• How is the Chinese government controlling the spread of information about coronavirus?
• An update on Huawei's plan for 5G 

With LTG Steven Kwast

LTG STEVEN KWAST, Commander, Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas:

• What is the largest threat to the US from China?
• Characterizing the values of the Chinese

(PART TWO):

• What are China's intentions with respect to the information and energy domain?
• Differences in 4G and 5G
• The dangers of 5G in the hands of the Chinese

(PART THREE):

• China's rise in satellite and space technology
• The importance of space to the US's national security
• Analyzing the US Space Force

(PART FOUR):

• Drawbacks to the US Space Force
• Vulnerabilities of the civilian electrical grid
• Economic opportunities in space for the US

Post-Impeachment - Affirm America

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The acquittal of Donald Trump yesterday represents an opportunity for a fresh beginning – a chance to put partisanship aside in the wake of the crushing repudiation of a politically driven impeachment and in the interest of a nation much in need of unity.

Don’t hold your breath. For one thing, this is, of course, an election year. With the campaign for the White House and down ballot offices on the line, the country will be preoccupied with politics non-stop from now until November – and probably beyond.

Worse, those who have repeatedly tried to thwart Mr. Trump are not just deeply hostile to him personally. They seem determined to achieve a “fundamental transformation” of America and see him as their principal impediment. 

All we can hope for is that the impending election will mandate a course that keeps America sovereign and free.

This is Frank Gaffney.

With Dan Pollak, Diana West, Mark Helprin, and Dr. Peter Pry

DAN POLLAK, Co-Director of Government Relations at Zionist Organization of America:

• Analyzing President Trump's peace proposal for Israel and the Palestinians
• Is peace between the Israelis and Palestinians plausible?

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:

• Evidence of the anti-Trump conspiracy in the State of the Union Address
• The differences between socialism and communism

MARK HELPRIN, Novelist, journalist and conservative commentator, Former Senior fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Latest book Paris in the Present Tense (2017):

• Should China be considered a nuclear powerhouse?
• Dangers of Beijing's "Underground great wall"
• Why we must understand Russia's nuclear strategy

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

• NATO's response to Russia's recent weapons exercises
• How has the US been upgrading their nuclear deterrent?
• Comparing the US and Russian nuclear capabilities

With Robert Charles, Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman, and Sam Faddis

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:

• Should US forces withdraw from Iraq?
• Why Soleimani was the “epitome of evil”

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 CCP's mishandling of the coronavirus
• What contributed to the spread of this disease?
• How has the coronavirus impacted Xi's regime?

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 financial effects of the coronavirus on the Chinese economy
• Larry Fink's comments at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

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:

• Do the Chinese have a biological weapons program?
• Can we trust the information the Chinese are divulging about coronavirus?
• How should the US be handling the outbreak of the coronavirus?

With John McLaughlin and Claudia Rosett

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, CEO and Partner, McLaughlin and Associates:

• An overview of "The China Poll" conducted by John McLaughlin and Associates
• Analyzing the methodology of online polling
• How accurate are results from online polls?

(PART TWO):

• How concerned with China are American citizens?
• What role will China play in deciding who Americans vote for in the 2020 Presidential election?
• China's manufacturing of generic prescription drugs used in the United States

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Affairs columnist at Forbes.com, Blogs at “The Rosett Report” at PJ Media:

• Another "sickness" China has in addition to the coronavirus
• How Hong Kong is a city with a "culture of freedom"
• China's potential biological weapons program

(PART TWO):

• Where did the coronavirus originate?
• How the Chinese Communist Party is handling the outbreak of coronavirus

With Dakota Wood and Robert Charles

DAKOTA WOOD, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs at the Heritage Foundation, Twenty-year career in the USMC, Former Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Recently served as a strategist for the United States Marine Corps Special Operations Command:

• An overview of the Index of US Military Power
• How well-equipped is the US military to win a war?
• Is US military equipment out of date?

(PART TWO):

• What is the condition of the US Navy?
• China's expanding navy
• How plausible is retro-fitting the US Air Force?

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:

• The current state of the impeachment process
• Dissecting the witness vote in the Senate

(PART TWO):

• The attitude of the Iranian people in the wake of the death of Soleimani
• Why the US can't let the Iranians get nuclear weapons
• Why Trump's peace plan "acknowledges reality"

With Robert Spencer

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine:

• Assessing President Trump's peace plan proposal for Israel and the Palestinians
• What is the PLO Charter?

(PART TWO):

• Why the Palestinian Authority rejected President Trump's peace proposal
• How the Islamic State has gotten involved in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute
• The brainwashing done by the Palestinian Authority

(PART THREE):

• Shariah supremacism's impact on Muslims around the world
• The Muslim Brotherhood's desire to control the entire Muslim community
• What is the universal vision of Shariah supremacists?

(PART FOUR):

• How the persecution of Christians is a global phenomenon
• What is the Abrahamic Faiths Initiative?  

With Dr. Sean Lin and Bradley Thayer

DR. SEAN LIN,Executive director, Global Alliance Against Communist Propaganda and Disinformation, Served as a director of a laboratory at Walter Reid Army hospital specializing in viral diseases: 

• What is coronavirus?
• How potent is this strand of coronavirus?
• What makes this version of the disease so deadly?

(PART TWO):

• What do we know about China's biological weapons program?
• How the Chinese Communist Party abuses its own people

DR. BRADLEY THAYER, Professor of International Security Studies a Tallinn University, Has worked for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Rand Corporation and served as a senior analyst for the National Institute for Public Policy:

• Parallels between China's coronavirus and Chernobyl
• How truthful is the Chinese government being about the origin of the coronavirus?
• How the misrule of the CCP allowed the disease to spread faster

(PART TWO):

• China's continual repression of its own people
• What is 'suppression by algorithm'?
• Could the coronavirus bring down the Xi dynasty?