Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Gordon Chang, Matt Brodsky, Stella Morabito and Paul Marshall

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:”

• Why Kim’s visit to Beijing should concern us
• Prospect of Chinese attacks on US markets

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

• Implications of Turkey’s election yesterday
• Erdogan’s long-term aims for regional expansion
• The Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace plan’ 

STELLA MORABITO, Senior Contributor at The Federalist, Creator of blog StellaMorabito.net:

• Why we should not appease to mob mentality
• Can the SPLC be considered a reliable source? 

PAUL MARSHALL, Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, Author and Editor of more than twenty books on religion and politics including Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians (2013 with Lela Gilbert and Nina Shea):

• The state of religious liberty around the world
• How blasphemy restriction codes hinder free speech

With Michael Cutler, Shoshana Bryen, John Guandolo and Bill Gertz

 MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, Hosts the radio show, “The Michael Cutler  Hour” on Friday evenings on BlogTalk Radio:

• Implications of amnesty bills
• Why interior enforcement is critical to border security

SHOSHANA BRYEN, Senior Director of the Jewish Policy Center, Former Senior Director for Security Policy at JINSA:

• Faults of the JCPOA
• How the North Korea deal differs from Iran deal
• Significance of current rebellion in Iran 

JOHN GUANDOLO, President and Founder of Understandingthethreat.com, Veteran of Desert Storm, Former Commanding Officer of an FBI Swat Team:

• Erdogan’s aims in Europe and the US
• SPLC announces settlement- a reliable source?

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 unveils new ‘space force’ in military
• IG report on HRC email investigation

With Amb. Hank Cooper, Dr. Mark Schneider, Russ Dallen and David Goldman

AMB. HANK COOPER, Director of the Strategic Defensive Initiative Organization (SDIO) during the Bush Administration, Associate of the National Institute of Public Policy:

• President Trump’s unveiling of ‘Space Force’ in US military
• Why space assets are essential to our economy and national security

DR. MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy, Longtime career in the Office of the Secretary of Defense:

• Is Russia preparing for war?
• The state of US tactical nuclear weapons inventory 

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”:

• Maduro’s charm offensive with foreign investors
• Colombia’s recent election

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

• Chinese official threatens financial warfare against the US
• Significance of cutting off Chinese acquisition of US technologies

With Diana West, Kevin Freeman, Dr. Peter Pry and Hans Von Spakovsky

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

• Importance of enforcing US border laws
• The SPLC settlement 

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,” Founder of Globaleconomiwarfare.com:

• Ongoing trade war with China
• Beijing attempts to re-write rules of the internet
• Senate rejects Trump’s ZTE deal

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

• Unveiling of space force in the US military
• The reality of the EMP threat 

HANS VONS 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:

• New IG report by the Justice Department
• The politicization of the FBI
• House to vote on 2 immigration bills

With Daniel Horowitz, Joe diGenova, Gordon Chang and Greg Scarlatiou

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

• House to vote on 2 immigration bills this week
• Why amnesty is the problem

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:

• New report by the IG of the Justice Department
• The politicization of the FBI

GORDAN 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:”

• The role the Chinese are playing in NK denuclearization effort
• Why US must maintain pressure on North Korea
• Why the relaxation of sanctions on China should be revoked

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

• The structure of the Kim regime
• Extensive human rights abuses in NK
• Persecuted Christians in North Korea

With Rosemary Jenks

ROSEMARY JENKS, Director of Government Relations at NumbersUSA.com, Former Senior Legislative Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies:

• What is the House of Representatives debating this week?
• Trump’s campaign promises regarding immigration
• The Ryan Bill vs. Goodlatte Bill

(PART TWO):

• Trump’s four immigration pillars
• Implications of chain migration
• Will President Trump support Ryan amnesty plan?

(PART THREE):

• Significance of a physical wall for national security
• Why e-verify system is controversial 

(PART FOUR):

• How sanctuary cities violate federal law
• Influx of MS-13 members with DACA

With Dr. Stephen Blank

DR. STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council, 26 years of experience as a Professor of National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of U.S. Army War College:

• Soviet nuclear strategy in the Cold War
• The formation of “Team B”

(PART TWO):

• Significance of Ukraine in Russia’s history
• Putin’s investment in Russia’s nuclear weapon arsenal

(PART THREE):

• Putin’s goal to control escalation
• Russia’s involvement in Syria and greater aims for the Middle East

(PART FOUR):

• The current state of Russia-China strategic partnership
• Are Austria and Hungary pro-Russian states?

With Kevin Freeman, Admiral James 'Ace' Lyons, Paul Prentice and Dr. Harold Rhode

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:

• Trump and Kim Jong Un meet in Singapore
• US to suspend military exercises i South Korea?
• Chinese hacks sensitive information from naval ship 

ADMIRAL JAMES ‘ACE’ LYONS:  Former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the largest single military command in the world, Served as Senior U.S. Military Representative to the United Nations:

• Will North Korea ever denuclearize fully?
• Details on the Singapore summit
• Why China is not a natural ally in containing NK threat 

PAUL PRENTICE, Fellow in Economics, Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University, Former Chief Macroeconomist at the US Department of Agriculture under Reagan:

• How US has strengthened China’s economy
• Why we should support Trump’s tariffs

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

• Why Turkey is no longer a US ally
• Erdogan’s direct threats to Israel
• Manifesto against new anti-Semitism in France

With Secretary John Lehman

JOHN LEHMAN, Author of Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea (2018), Served as Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration, Serves on the National Security Advisory Council for CSP:

• Reagan’s wartime strategy to defeat the Soviet Union
• Why US maritime power was essential in fighting Cold War
• How geography is determining in military balances 

(PART TWO):

• Why Reagan emphasized deterrence
• Significance of the buildup of US military forces during Cold War

(PART THREE):

• Admiral James ‘Ace’ Lyons significant contributions to Cold War win
• Russia’s strategic modernization programs 

(PART FOUR):

• Dangers of emerging Chinese threat
• The militarization of space
• A call to restore US naval power

 

With Bill Gertz, Rachel Ehrenfeld, Kevin Freeman and David Goldman

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):

• Three pending Chinese spy recruitment cases
• Possible consequences of Chinese hacks OPM data
• Implications of Beijing’s telecommunications equipment 

RACHEL EHRENFELD, Founder, President and Director of the American Center for Democracy:

• The Obama administration’s appeasement of Iran
• The threat of political Islam domestically
• The collaboration of the red-green axis

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:

• The plan to de-dollarize the global economy
• How China prioritizes the long-game of economic warfare

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

• National security implications of certain transactions with China
• ZTE takes an enormous hit in fines