Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Diana West

DIANA WEST, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Blogs at DianaWest.net:

• Dissecting the Anti-Trump conspiracy
• The impact of Mueller’s investigation conclusions

(PART TWO):

• What were Nellie Or’s motivations?
• Implications of James Comey and John Brennan’s ideological groundings
• How socialism is manifesting itself in the Democratic party

(PART THREE):

• The reality of Clinton-Russia collusion
• How senior officials in the Obama administration abused FISA warrant procedures

(PART FOUR):

• Dangers of the politicization of U.S. intelligence and security agencies
• Why Mueller protects the Deep State

With Fred Fleitz, Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman and Dr. George Baker

With Fred Fleitz, Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman and Dr. George Baker

FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO Center for Security Policy, Former CIA analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Dept., Author of The Coming North Korea Nuclear Nightmare: What Trump Must to Reverse Obama’s Strategic Patience (2018):

• Nancy Pelosi’s encouraging speech supporting Israel at AIPAC
• The demise of the Southern Poverty Law Center

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 flaws within Beijing’s One Belt One Road Initiative
• Why China was never a superpower

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Creator of Global Economic Warfare.com, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• Why Beijing’s intellectual property theft must be addressed in trade deal talks
• Dangerous implications of China’s social credit score system
• What is the National Security Investment Consultants Institute?

DR. GEORGE BAKER, Director of the Foundation for Resilient Societies, Professor Emeritus at James Madison University, Previously led the Defense Nuclear Agency’s EMP program, Member of Congressional EMP Commission Staff:

• President Trump signs Executive Order to counter EMP threat
• The vulnerability of U.S. electric grid

With David Goldman, Joe diGenova, Dr. Peter Pry and Mike Waller

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

• Xi’s ambitions include global supremacy
• Trump recognizes Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights
• Dangers of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

JOE diGENOVA, Founding Partner of the Washington, D.C. law firm of diGenova & Toensing, LLP, Former U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia, for four years, Former Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the Senate Rules Committee, Former Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary, Governmental Affairs and Select Intelligence Committees:

• The abuse of unmasking by senior officials in the Obama administration
• Dissecting the Trump-Russia collusion hoax

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:

• President Trump’s Executive Order addressing EMP
• The vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid

MIKE WALLER, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs at the Center for Security Policy, Author of Apocalypse Unknown: The Struggle To Protect America From An Electromagnetic Pulse Catastrophe and Electric Armageddon:

• Adam Schiff’s role in the Trump-collusion narrative
• The demise of the Southern Poverty Law Center
• Implications of Sharia blasphemy restrictions

With Elaine Donnelly, Diana West, Robert Charles and Bill Gertz

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

• Why the social engineering of U.S. defense forces is dangerous
• Implications on the morale and readiness of the U.S. military

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net:

• The Mueller investigation’s conclusion
• Implications of the anti-Trump conspiracy

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:

• How China is implicated in the US Fentanyl abuse crisis
• Why some republicans don’t consider our border crisis a security issue?
• Trump’s declaration regarding free speech on campus

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2016):

• Pentagon conducts successful missile defense test
• Dangers of China’s land-attack missile disguised in shipping container
• The launch of the Committee on the Present Danger: China

With Bill Koenig

BILL KOENIG, President of Kroenig – World Watch Daily, Publishes weekly “Koenig’s Eye View From the White House,” Author of Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel (2004), and Revealed: Obama’s Legacy (2016):

• The biblical significance of Israel
• The Judeo-Christian roots of the United States

(PART TWO):

• Shared interests and values between the US and Israel
• The strategic significance of the US-Israel relationship
• Dangers of the Iranian threat

(PART THREE):

• The impact of Obama’s legacy in the Middle East
• Why Trump’s decision to move US embassy to Jerusalem is so critical
• The failure of the JCPOA

(PART FOUR):

• Prospects of Jared Kushner’s Middle East plan
• Consequences of dividing the land of Israel
• Why the Golan Heights and the West Bank are strategically essential to Israel

With Cathy Zhang, Kevin Freeman, Fred Fleitz and Bradley Martin

With Cathy Zhang, Kevin Freeman, Fred Fleitz and Bradley Martin

CATHY ZHANG, Vice President, Sound of Hope Media Group:

• The persecution of Falun Gong in China
• Widespread religious incarceration and persecution in China

KEVIN FREEMAN, Host of Economic War Room, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• Characterizing the reality of the Chinese threat
• Prospects of China engaging in structural reform measures
• Putin’s ambitions to undermine US energy security

FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO Center for Security Policy, Former CIA analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Dept., Author of The Coming North Korea Nuclear Nightmare: What Trump Must to Reverse Obama’s Strategic Patience (2018):

• President Trump recognizes Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights region
• Implications of the UN’s bias against Israel
• The hypocrisy of the Southern Poverty Law Center

BRADLEY MARTIN, Senior Fellow of the Haym Salomon Center News and Public Policy Group, Deputy Editor at the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research:

• The strategic importance of the Golan region
• Why the SPLC should be considered discredited by all

With Captain James Fanell, Gordon Chang, Rachelle Peterson and Bill Marshall

With Captain James Fanell, Gordon Chang, Rachelle Peterson and Bill Marshall

CAPTAIN JAMES (JIM) 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, Former National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University:

• The launching of the Committee on the Present Danger: China
• Defining the character of the Chinese threat and how to best counter it

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World:

• Is the China trade deal coming to a close?
• The multifaceted character of the Chinese threat

RACHELLE PETERSON, Director of Research Projects at the National Association of Scholars, Policy Advisor for the Heartland Institute:

• The negative consequences of Confucius Institutes in the US
• China’s attempts to influence US colleges to recruit spies

BILL MARSHALL, Has been an intelligence analyst and investigator in the government, the private sector, and the non-profit sector for 30 years, Senior Investigator for Judicial Watch:

• Attorney General Barr delivers Mueller report summary
• Why Hilary Clinton-Russia collusion should be investigated

With David Goldman

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

• China’s plan for global supremacy
• Dangers of Beijing’s monopoly on telecommunications manufacturing

(PART TWO):

• Industrial policy in the United States
• Why America must embrace national security oriented education
• The impacts Confucius Institutes have in the U.S.

(PART THREE):

• Implications of China’s social credit score system
• How the Communist China party uses big data to identify dissenters

(PART FOUR):

• Why China is the ultimate administrative state
• The importance of leap-frogging Beijing in technological advancement

With Jose Cardenas, Dakota Wood, Bill Gertz and Diana West

JOSE CARDENAS, Associate at VisiónAméricas, Blogs at Foreign Policy Magazine’s “Shadow Government,” Served in senior positions at the State Department, National Security Council, and USAID, Former Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin America at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the George W. Bush Administration:

• Significance of the US-Brazil alliance
• Implications of Venezuela’s blackout

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:

• Why the US needs a more robust defense industry
• The current state of US military power

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2016):

• China’s aggressive aims for taking over Taiwan
• The controversy of Bill Evanina’s nomination

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at DianaWest.Net:

• Takeaways from the New Zealand shooting
• Consequences of Jeanine Pirro’s firing

With Mark Helprin

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):

• Is the ‘peaceful rise of China’ plausible?
• Implications of Xi’s long-term aspirations  

(PART TWO):

• The strategic impetus behind what China is up to
• Dangers of Beijing’s advancing capabilities
• Prospects of China controlling the Pacific

(PART THREE):

• Why we must increase our military spending
• Significance of restoring US manufacturing capabilities to support defense industry

(PART FOUR):

• Putin’s investment in nuclear weapons
• Why the US must improve deterrent capabilities