Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Liz Yore, Diana West, Gordon Chang and David Goldman

LIZ YORE, Attorney and International Child Rights Advocate, Head of End FGM Today:

• FGM is no longer criminalized under federal law
• Long-term physical and emotional impacts of FGM procedure
• Significance of the ‘The Safe Act’ HR3317 

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

• How demographic changes have brought FGM to the United States
• When did the fundamental transformation of America began?
• White House asserts new standards for press corps 

GORDON CHANG, Author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “Nuclear Showdown; North Korea Takes on the World:”

• What to expect from upcoming G20 meeting between Trump and Jinping
• Implications of Beijing’s predatory trade practices
• Chinese Confucius Institutes on American campuses

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

• Why Saudi Arabia is currently a strategic US ally
• Consequences of Hezbollah’s missile campaign against Israel

With Rosemary Gibson

ROSEMARY GIBSON, Author of China Rx: Exposing the Risk of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine and Senior Advisor for the Hastings Center:

• The degree to which American citizens depend on medication

(PART TWO):

• Loss of production capabilities in the U.S. for penicillin, aspirin and Vitamin C
• How the investment of billions of dollars in research and development in China assures future supply chain dominance
• American companies’ willing wholesale transfer of intellectual property to Beijing
• What is mechanism for FDA to assess and approve drugs manufactured outside the country?

(PART THREE):

• How the “practice of deception” led to blood pressure medication infected with carcinogens
• U.S. Military reliance on China for medical supplies
• How China is trying to legitimize cartels through the U.S. court system
• Disturbing pattern evident in several industries of state-sponsored and supported criminal cartels disrupting, dominating and displacing the most important American industrial sectors

(PART FOUR):

• What the average American can do to protect themselves
• Steps the government can take to avoid drug shortages, protect the U.S. military and civilians, and diversify the drug supplier base

With Nina Shea, Kevin Freeman, Robert Charles and Fred Fleitz

With Nina Shea, Kevin Freeman, Robert Charles and Fred Fleitz 

NINA SHEA, Director of the Center for Religious Freedom and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute:

• The story of Asia Bibi – the first Pakistani woman to be sentenced to death for ‘insulting the Prophet Muhammad’
• Extreme protests and violence due to Bibi’s acquittal
• Pakistan’s blasphemy laws 

KEVIN FREEMAN, Host of Economic War Room on CRTV, author of Game Plan and Secret Weapon:

• What we can learn from the miracle at Dunkirk?
• How Americans can protect themselves from vulnerability created by Chinese manufactured medication
• U.S.-China confrontation at APEC summit
• ZTE’s export of social control to Venezuela

ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush administration:

• Latest on the migrant caravans headed for the U.S. border
• How acting Attorney General Whitaker should handle the Russia investigation
• The implications of the Clinton campaign’s involvement with Christopher Steele
• Macron’s call for a European army

FRED FLEITZ, Incoming President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy:

• New report confirms previous reports that Iran was 2-3 months away from a nuclear weapon
• Untrue article in WSJ
• How President Trump is likely to proceed with the Saudis, Turks and Iranians after Khashoggi

 

With David Goldman, Daniel Horowitz, Arthur Herman and Diana West

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

• Chaos in the British parliament
• Why a hard Brexit would be destructive
• Consequences of plummeting oil prices 

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review, Author of its “The Conservative Consciousness with Daniel Horowitz,” Former Policy Director for the Madison Project, Has contributed to Red State.com, Breitbart, and The Blaze, Author of Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America:

• Republican party votes for House leadership
• Trump signs off on early release/sentence reduction for drug traffickers and gun felons

ARTHUR HERMAN, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Author of 1917: Lenin, Wilson and the Birth of the New World Disorder(2017):

• Implications of the current 5G revolution
• China’s digital Belt and Road Initiative

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

• The destruction of decorum exemplified by Jim Acosta situation
• Implications of Michelle Obama’s new book

With Rick Fisher

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow, Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, Former Consultant on PLA issues for the Congressionally chartered U.S. China Security and Economic Review Commission:

• Insights from Project 2409 Institute
• The acceleration of China’s preparations to invade Taiwan

(PART TWO):

• Beijing’s attempt to exclude the US from military exercises on South China Sea
• John Bolton’s objection to new aggressive and exclusionary guidelines put forth by China
• Takeaways from The Diplomatic and Security Dialogue

(PART THREE):

• Implications of Beijing’s Impressive intermediate range missile arsenal
• Phantom underwater drone warfare capabilities

(PART FOUR):

• Strategic implications of China’s potential base in Antarctica
• The United Kingdom’s consequential technological relationship with Beijing

With Caroline Glick

CAROLINE GLICK, Center for Security Policy’s Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs, Senior Contributing Editor at The Jerusalem Post, Contributor at Breitbart News:

• Implications of the aftermath of the Khashoggi Affair
• Origins of Saudi’s fight against Sunni Jihad

(PART TWO):

• The strategic reason why the US should not take action against the Saudis
• Trump’s Middle East policy
• Why the US must designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization

(PART THREE):

• President Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran
• How Turkey and Iran are operating with each other to defeat a common enemy

(PART FOUR):

• The weaknesses of King Abdullah’s regime
• Why anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism

With Angelo Codevilla

ANGELO CODEVILLA, Professor of international relations at Boston University, Fellow at the Claremont Institute, Senior Editor of the American Spectator, Former Foreign Service Officer, Served on the Staff of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee between 1977 and 1985, Principle author of the 1980 presidential transition report on intelligence, Author of The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family and Civility:

• The current revolution taking place in the US
• Disconnection between the political elite and the public

(PART TWO):

• Consequences of midterm election results
• The improvement of the Trump administration’s national security agenda

(PART THREE):

• The collaborative efforts of the red-green axis
• Glaring shortcomings in US national security apparatuses

(PART FOUR):

• Vladimir Putin’s long-term political aims
• The Trump administration’s coherent China policy

With Russ Dallen, Diana West, Dakota Wood and Greg Scarlatoiu

RUSS DALLEN, President & Editor in Chief at The Latin American Herald Tribune, Head of the international investment bank, Caracas Capital Markets, Served as President of Venezuela’s “The Daily Journal”:

• Consequences of presidential election in Brazil
• Current state of US- Latin American affairs
• The Venezuela-Russia relationship 

DIANA WEST, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Blogs at DianaWest.net, Author of “Death of the Grown Up” and “American Betrayal”:

• No ‘blue wave’ in midterm elections
• The impact the Kavanaugh assault had on voters

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:

• A detailed look at the Fiscal Year 2020 budget
• Why allocating funds to military forces is an investment to our national security

GREG SCARLATOIU, Executive Director, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea:

• Implications of Trump’s Pyongyang strategy
• Prospects of unification of Korean peninsula

With Fred Fleitz, Kevin Freeman, Joe diGenova and Mark Krikorian

FRED FLEITZ, CEO and President of Center for Security Policy:

• Significance of Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran
• Prospects of North Korean denuclearization

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”:

• Is applying more pressure on Iran the right approach?
• Beijing’s digital Belt and Road Initiative
• Implications of US dependencies on Chinese pharmaceuticals

JOE diGENOVA, Founding Partner of the Washington, D.C. Law Firm of diGenova & Toensing, LLP, Former U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia, 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 illegal targeting of Trump through the Mueller investigation 
• Significance of current Midterm elections 

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, Contributor at National Review:

• The role immigration has played in the Midterm elections
• Does the incoming caravan pose as a security threat?
• Is birthright citizenship a Constitutional right?

With Hans von Spakovsky, Robert Charles, Gordon Chang and Elaine Donnelly

 HANS VON SPAKOVSY, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, Former Member of the Federal Election Commission:

• The birthright citizenship controversy
• Consequences of voter fraud during Midterm elections

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:

• Implications of incoming Central American caravan
• Why Trump is right to enforce US border security

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

• President Trump’s new posture towards China
• Significance of supply chains moving out of Beijing
• Are the Chinese cutting back on their imports of Iranian oil?

ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President of the Center for Military Readiness, Appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces in 1992:

• Federal judges intervening in immigration policy
• Implications of transgender personnel in the military