Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Hans Von Spakovsky, Dr. Stephen Blank, Bill Gertz and David Goldman

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, 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 Paul Manafort prosecution
• Consequences of the politicization of US intelligence agencies

DR. STEPHEN BLANK, Senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, Former Professor at the US Army War College:

• Congress reaches deal on Russia sanctions
• Russia’s chemical weapons involvement in UK
• Current state of US-Russia relations 

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):

• President Trump’s Space Force proposal
• Provisions in the Defense Authorization Bill 

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

• Update on Turkey’s economy
• China’s debt-trap diplomacy

With Dinesh D'Souza

DINESH D'SOUZA, #1 New York Times Bestselling author several times, Award-winning filmmaker, Latest film, Death of a Nation, in theatres now:

• New film Death of a Nation
• The Left’s war against President Trump

(PART TWO):

• The significance of ‘the big lie?’
• The true roots of the Left
• Where do fascism and Nazism fall on the political spectrum? 

(PART THREE):

• Historical significance of Nixon’s southern strategy
• The illiberalism of the Sharia doctrine 

(PART FOUR):

• 2018 midterm elections  
• Consequences of the rising ‘red-green’ axis
• The concept of nationalist-socialism in the US

With Diana West, Dr. Lawrence Sellin, Daniel Horowitz, Bill Marshall

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

• The rise of the ‘red-green’ wave
• Implications of recent election results
• Dangers of censorship in New Zealand

DR. LAWRENCE SELLIN, Author of Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution, Retired Colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve, Veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq:

• Updates on the China- Pakistan economic corridor
• The Chinese debt-trap strategy

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at The Conservative Review, Author of “The Conservative Consciousness with Daniel Horowitz,” Former Policy Director for the Madison Project:

• Long-term implications of DACA
• Why district courts should be kept out of immigration policy
• Why is Trump reluctant to veto legislation?

BILL MARSHALL, Senior Investigator for Judicial Watch:

• Special relationship between Orr and Steele
• Dangers of obstructionism by US intelligence agencies

With Russ Dallen, Kevin Freeman, Tony Badran and Rowan Scarborough

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”:

• Significance of assassination attempt on Maduro
• Consequences of rapidly increasing inflation in Venezuela
• Recent inauguration in Colombia 

KEVIN FREEMAN, Author of Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack (2013), Author of Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again (2012), Founder of Globaleconomicwarfare.com,Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Lessons to be learned from Iran and Venezuela
• Why socialism always fails
• President Trump imposes sanctions on Iran

TONY BADRAN, Research Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Columnist and Levant Analyst for Tablet Magazine:

• Iran’s two-front strategy against Israel
• What is Iran up to in the Golan Heights?
• The current state of the Assad regime 

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, National Security Reporter at The Washington Times, Author of “Rumsfeld’s War: The Untold Story of America’s Anti-Terrorist Commander,” Author of “Sabotage: America’s Enemies Within the CIA:

• New ‘revelations’ on Trump tower meeting?
• Implications of Adam Schiff’s leaks throughout the year

With Gordon Chang, Matt Brodsky, Dakota Wood and Dan Gallington

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com Columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, the Daily Beast Contributor, Author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “Nuclear Showdown; North Korea Takes on the World:”

• Secretary Pompeo visits Southeast Asia
• Growing unease regarding North Korea

MATT BRODSKY, Senior Editor at Wikistrat, Former Director of Policy for the Jewish Policy Center:

• President Trump re-imposes sanctions in Iran
• Implications of Syrian scientist assassination

DAKOTA WOOD, Senior Research Fellow, Defense Programs Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy, Served two decades in USMC, Co-Authored The 2018 Index of U.S. Military Strength:

• The aging of the US Military
• Why we must invest in space force

DAN GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor at the George C. Marshall Institute, Served in senior national security policy positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Justice and as bipartisan counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:

• What is going on with ‘Russia collusion’ narrative
• Historical precedent of election meddling
• Revelations regarding Sen. Feinstein’s driver

With Robert Spencer

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist for PJ Media and Front Page Magazine, Author of The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS (out August 7, 2018):

• The personal trajectory of the life of Muhammad
• New book The History of Jihad

(PART TWO):

• The history of Sharia supremacism
• Aggregation in Islamic ideology 

(PART THREE):

• Major threats to western civilization
• Consequences of mass migration in Europe

(PART FOUR):

• The state of Jihad in the United States
• Aims of the Muslim Brotherhood

With David Goldman, Kevin Freeman, Michael Maza and Paul Kengor

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

• Why Turkey is no longer a US ally
• The imprisonment of Pastor Andrew Brunson
• Israel’s Nation State law 

KEVIN FREEMAN, Author of Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack (2013), Author of Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again (2012), Founder of Globaleconomicwarfare.com,Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Economic warfare waged by China
• The new National Defense Authorization Act

MICHAEL MAZA, Visiting Fellow Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

• The historical and geo-strategic significance of Taiwan
• China’s pressure on Taiwanese government
• Trump’s emerging Indo-Pacific strategy

PAUL KENGOR, Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of The Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, New York Times Best Selling author, Author of A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20^th Century (May 2017):

• New movie, Death of a Nation
• The collusion between the Kremlin and progressive democrats

With Diana West, Dr. Harold Rhode, Robert Charles and Gordon Chang

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

• Various strains of leftist parties
• Defining democratic socialism
• Dangers posed by the red-green axis

DR. HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense:

• Growing threats against Israel
• The current status of the Hashemite Kingdom
• Significance of Trump’s Iran policies                                                                                     

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:

• Why a physical wall would improve border security
• Cameras on the border, a partial solution?    

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

• Consequences of China’s intellectual property theft
• Is NK on the path to denuclearize?

With Dan Goure

DAN GOURE, Vice President of the Lexington Institute, Member of the 2001 Department of Defense transition team, Spent two years in the U.S. government as the director of the Office of Strategic Competitiveness in the Office of the Secretary of Defense:

• Russian attacks on US infrastructure
• The vulnerability of US electric grid                                                                         

(PART TWO):

• What is electro-magnetic pulse?
• How to improve infrastructure capabilities
• The threat posed by Iran

(PART THREE):

• Trump’s willingness to sit down with Rouhani without preconditions
• The state of US missile defense

(PART FOUR):

• President Trump’s ‘space force’ proposal
• Why we must modernize our military

With Steven Mosher

STEVEN MOSHER, President of the Population Research Institute, Author of A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child Policy:

• What is ‘China’s Dream’?
• How China transitioned post revolution

(PART TWO):

• Implications of China’s One Child Policy
• How China’s social credit score system functions in society

(PART THREE):

• Long-term consequences of China’s population control policies
• China’s goal to supplant the US as world power

(PART FOUR):

• The purpose of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
• China’s militarization of the South China Sea