Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Diana West, Clare Lopez, Hans Von Spakovsky and Russ Dallen

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

• The smears against NSC Chief-of-Staff Fred Fleitz
• Implications of Clinton’s Russia ties

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President for Research & Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, Former CIA Clandestine Officer:

• The Obama administration’s appeasement of Iran
• Dangers of Iran’s enrichment capabilities
• Turkey: US ally no more?

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 anniversary of the Battle of Belleau Wood
• Alabama lawsuit against the Census Bureau
• Political ramifications of voter fraud 

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”:

• Venezuela’s continuous deterioration
• VP Pence hosts The Organization of American States conference

With Roger Kimball, Dr. Daniel Pipes, Bill Marshall and Tom Popik

ROGER KIMBALL, Editor and Publisher of the New Criterion, President and Publisher of Encounter Books:

• 50^th anniversary of the cultural revolution
• The Reagan legacy in US society
• Significance of the ‘peace through strength’ mantra

DR. DANIEL PIPES, Founder and President of the Middle East Forum, Affiliate Professor at the University of Haifa:

• Implications of huge migrant influx to western countries
• The rise of the red-green axis
• Why Turkey should no longer be considered a US ally

BILL MARSHALL, Senior Investigator for Judicial Watch:

• Corruption in the Clinton State Department
• Implications of Huma Abedin’s email scandals
• Background investigations on gov. employees under the Obama administration

TOM POPIK, Chairman, President, Director and Co-founder of the Foundation for Resilient Societies:

• The Dept. of Energy’s efforts to secure our electric grid
• North American Electric Reliability Corporation
• How US adversaries could exploit grid vulnerabilities

 

With Gordon Chang, Claudia Rosett, Matthew Continetti and Luke Rosiak

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:”

• Former North Korea Spy Chief visits Trump in White House
• Will North Korea summit proceed before NK fulfills commitment?

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

• Why US officials must consider NK human rights abuses
• How China props up brutal North Korea regime
• Why we must counteract the threat posed by China

MATTHEW CONTINETTI, Editor in Chief of the Washington Free Beacon, Contributing Editor to the Weekly Standard, Author of “The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine,” Author of “The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star”:

• What is the ‘China problem?’
• China's adversarial relationship to the US
• Ben Rhodes and the Obama echo-chamber

LUKE ROSIAK, Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Significance of the House IT scandal
• Why isn’t law enforcement taking this scandal seriously?

With Bill Gertz, Diana West, Michael Cutler and Robert Ramano

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):

• Fred Fleitz appointed NSC chief-of-staff and executive secretary
• China’s artificial intelligence warfare capabilities
• Why the US should launch counterintelligence program against theft

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

• Shortfalls of the Russian ‘collusion’ narrative
• Clinton’s ties to Russian characters

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:

• Democrats response to Trump’s MS-13 ‘animals’ comment
• Canada’s stronger border security policies

ROBERT RAMANO, Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for Limited Government:

• China’s attack on US intellectual property and assets
• Why ports are essential to US national security

With Adm. Ace Lyons, Dan Blumenthal, David Goldman and Robert Ramano

ADM. JAMES ‘ACE’ LYONS, Former Commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Served as Senior U.S. Military Representative to the United Nations, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations from 1983-1985:

• Will NK ever fully denuclearize?
• Could Russia play a peaceful role on the Korean peninsula?
• Drugs & political warfare

DAN BLUMENTHAL, Director of Asian Studies and Resident Fellow at AEI:

• Prospects of North Korean summit
• China’s influence on the Pyongyang issue
• Dangers of the China-Russia relationship

DAVID GOLDMAN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC, His writing has appeared at TheFederalist.com City Journal and Conservative Review, 2015 Publius Fellow to the Claremont Institute:

• Consequences of current governing crisis in Italy
• Germany & Italy: An unlikely coalition
• The immigration issue in Europe 

ROBERT RAMANO, Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for Limited Government:

• China’s attack on US intellectual property and assets
• Why ports are essential to US national security

With Steven Mosher, Dr. Lawrence Sellin, Kevin Freeman and Gordon Chang

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

• China’s history of tyranny
• Implications of legalized corruption in China 

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:

• China's actions in central and South Asia
• Consequences of Beijing’s ‘debt trap’
• China’s naval activities in Pakistan

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:

• China’s plan to replace the dollar as reserve currency
• Recent House Intelligence Committee hearing on China

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:”

• Trump to impose tariffs on certain Chinese products
• Current status of US-Beijing trade war
• Why we must cooperate with our European partners on China

With Peter Huessy, Bill Gertz, Ken Timmerman and Bill Marshall

 PETER HUESSY, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchel Institute for Aerospace Studies, Former Senior Defense Consultant at the National Defense University Foundation, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Will NK ever denuclearize?
• The threat we face from hypersonic maneuvering weapons

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):

• Trump cancels North Korea summit
• Are the Chinese to blame for possible collapse of Singapore summit?
• Consequences of Moscow’s growing missile arsenal

KEN TIMMERMAN, President and CEO of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, Author of Deception: The Making of the YouTube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi, Author of Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi, Nationally recognized investigative reporter:

• Iranian-Americans thank President Trump
• Europeans & Russians try to maintain life support to Iran
• Clapper acknowledges that FBI was spying on Trump campaign

BILL MARSHALL, Senior Investigator for Judicial Watch:

• The politicization of US intelligence agencies
• Debunking the Russia collusion narrative

With Michaela Dodge, Dan Gallington and Mark Krikorian

MICHAELA DODGE, Senior Policy Analyst, Defense and Strategic Policy at the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation:

• Will Kim Jong Un ever denuclearize NK?
• How China enables North Korea’s nuclear capabilities

(PART TWO):

• Russia and China’s extensive nuclear complex
• Why the US must improve deterrence capabilities 

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:

• Will North Korea ever denuclearize?
• Prospects of Trump-Jong Un summit
• Did Obama administration weaponize the intelligence process?

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

• Will the Republican House pass an Amnesty?
• Merits of the Goodlatte Bill

With Diana West, Joe diGenova, Russ Dallen and Jose Cardenas

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

• The intelligence community and the ‘collusion narrative’
• The role of Brennan in Russia narrative
• Implications of Brennan’s twitter rant 

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:

• Susan Rice and the illegal unmasking of citizens
• Consequences of Brennan’s recent conduct

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”:

• Implications of Venezuela’s scam elections
• Is an intervention in Venezuela necessary? 

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:

• How effective are sanctions on Maduro’s regime?
• Upcoming elections in Colombia
• What can we learn from Nicaragua?

With Dr. Peter Vincent Pry and Trevor Loudon

DR. PETER VINCENT 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:

• The reliability of our electric grid
• Reality of EMP threat
• Significance of high voltage transformers

(PART TWO):

• Why haven’t we rectified vulnerability of US electric grid?
• The utilities industry & public safety
• EMP commission recommendations 

TREVOR LOUDON, Creator of the new documentary, “The Enemies Within”, Author of “Barack Obama and the Enemies Within (2011)” and “The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress”:

• The LRS ‘rainbow coalition’
• Radical leftists in the democratic party
• No background checks in Congress or the Senate

(PART TWO):

• Implications of lack of background checks for some government officials
• The importance of re-evaluating curriculum in public schools