Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Diana West, Ken Timerman, Grant Newsham and Peter Huessy

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy:

• The role of Judge Emmet Sullivan in the Michael Flynn case
• What is the ultimate goal of the left's battle against General Flynn?
• Digging deeper into the anti-Trump conspiracy

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:

• The politicization of the Obama intelligence community
• The lockdown of citizens in France during the coronavirus pandemic
• The withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria

GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Research Fellow at Japan Forum for Strategic Studies:

• Why did it take so long to realize US military funds were being invested in Chinese companies?
• The challenge the Chinese military poses to the United States
• Is China using the pandemic to advance their military capability?

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

• The nuclear capabilities of the Russians and Chinese
• The advancement of missile technology around the world

With James Fanell

JAMES 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, Assignments included tours as the Assistant Chief of Staff for intelligence for the U.S. Seventh Fleet aboard the USS Blue Ridge, the Office of Naval Intelligence China Senior Intelligence Officer, etc., Former National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University:

• Chinese companies that make up the Thrift Savings Plan
• How is Wall Street handling the pushback against the Thrift Savings Plan's investments?
• The Chinese market share of the US stock market

(PART TWO):

• Do Americans know the true intentions of the PRC?
• Why do Chinese companies get a pass on the rules and regulations American companies have to abide by?

(PART THREE):

• China's increasing military activity in the South China Sea
• Comparing the US and Chinese naval forces

(PART FOUR):

• How many nuclear warheads do the Chinese have?
• The Belt and Road Initiative of the CCP

With Frank Calzon, Dan Gallington, Gordon Chang and Todd Bensman

FRANK CALZON, Executive Director at the Center for a Free Cuba in Washington, D.C., Former DC representative for Freedom House:

• Russia's nuclear submarine activity in Cuba
• A potential resistance forming to the communist regime in Cuba
• The impact of the internet and social media on Cuban politics

DAN GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor, 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 general counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:

• The dangers of Russia investing in massive nuclear technologies
• Why is Putin threatening to put missiles in Cuba?
• The need to enhance our deterrent across the board

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 urgent need for Chinese companies to be held to the same regulations and standards as US companies
• What is taking place at the World Health Assembly meeting?
• A decision by the US Commerce Department with respect to Huawei

TODD BENSMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Writing Fellow, Middle East Forum, Author, the Federalist:

• An overview of a new terrorist travel tactic
• The significance of securing the US border
• Dissecting the vulnerabilities of our immigration system

With Joe diGenova

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:

• What are the origins of the anti-Trump conspiracy?
• Abuse of the FISA process by the Obama administration

(PART TWO):

• What should be included in the FISA reform being discussed in Congress?
• Who was involved in the takedown of Michael Flynn?
• What was the purpose of the investigation into General Flynn?

(PART THREE):

• The connection between James Baker and David Ignatius
• The convoluted subpoena process in American politics

(PART FOUR):

• The role of Emmet Sullivan in the Michael Flynn case
• Robert Mueller's connection to the Michael Flynn investigation

With Robert Charles, Fred Fleitz, Sam Faddis and David Goldman

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:

• China's quest to dominate space
• A recent rocket launch that was not properly decommissioned by the Chinese Communist Party
• How American citizens may be funding the Chinese space program

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):

• The 'unmasking' that has taken place in the Michael Flynn case
• Richard Burr's decision to step down as Senate Intelligence Committee chairman

SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress, Senior Subject Matter Expert at Axon/Lockheed Martin, Author of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA (2009):

• Deliberate spying that was done on Michael Flynn
• The massive conspiracy that took place during the Obama presidency

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

• The Trump Administration's desire to bring computer chip manufacturing back to the United States
• How are the Chinese acting towards Hong Kong?
• The military balance in the South China Sea

With Soeren Kern

SOEREN KERN, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute , Senior Analyst for Transatlantic Relations at the Madrid based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos (Strategic Studies Group), Contributing Analyst for Jane’s Information Group on Basque and Islamic terrorism in Spain, Stationed in Germany in the last decade of the Cold War, serving in the US Air Force:

• The impact of coronavirus in Europe
• How coronavirus has virtually shut down Spain's tourism industry
• The severity of the lockdown in Spain

(PART TWO):

• The status of illegal immigration in Europe
• Why are the French police not enforcing the lockdown as harshly toward certain religious groups?
• Could these double standards lead to a second wave of coronavirus in Europe?

(PART THREE):

• How are Sharia supremacists perceiving their preferential treatment with respect to social gatherings?
• Could the coronavirus pandemic lead to a reassessment of the European Union?

(PART FOUR):

• What are China's ambitions for Europe?
• Europe's relationship with China for developing their 5G network

With Sasha Gong, Kevin Freeman, Diana West and Robert Spencer

SASHA GONG, Former VOA’s China Branch Chief, Author of “Born American: A Chinese Woman’s Dream of Liberty”:

• President Trump's decision to prevent US federal retirement funds going towards Chinese companies
• China's constant spying on the United States done by their own citizens

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

• The importance of ending the United States' investment in China
• How did China become a prominent economic player in the international world?
• How to help Americans invest "patriotically"

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy:

• The latest developments in "Obamagate"
• Why have these revelations taken so long to get proper attention?

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine:

• How is the French government treating their rapidly growing Muslim community?
• A professor's life that was threatened in Arizona

With Russ Dallen, Joseph Humire, Mark Schneider and Gordon Chang

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”:

• Threats to the United States due to Russia's relationship with Cuba
• Russian intelligence gatherings taking place in Cuba

JOSEPH HUMIRE, Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society, Former Director of Institute Relations at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Author of Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America (2014):

• The attempt to remove Nicolás Maduro from power last week
• Military connections between Venezuela and Iran
• Is the Trump Administration aware of the relationship between Iran and Venezuela?

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

• The current state of the United States' nuclear deterrent
• Vladimir Putin's obsession with upgrading Russia's nuclear arsenal

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):

• What is the "crime of the century?"
• How did China deal with Wuhan before the rest of the world knew the scale of coronavirus?
• Analyzing a speech made by Matthew Pottinger directed at the Chinese Communist Party

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):

• The DOJ dropping the case against Michael Flynn
• The weaponization of US intelligence agencies

(PART TWO):

• A history of the United States' preparedness for a viral disease outbreak
• What could the US have done to better prepare for the coronavirus outbreak?
• What have the Chinese taken away from the coronavirus pandemic?

(PART THREE):

• China's aspirations to dominate the international world
• What makes the Chinese system of government so threatening?
• China's dominance over the South China Sea
• How the Chinese rely on American capital markets to fund their military technology

(PART FOUR):

• Russia's nuclear doctrine compared to the United States'
• How North Korea has built up their biological weapons program

With Brian Kennedy, Hank Cooper, Robert Charles and David Goldman

BRIAN KENNEDY, Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China, President of the American Strategy Group, Senior Fellow and Board Member of the Claremont Institute:

• Analyzing the companies that make up the Thrift Savings Plan
• How much does the Trump administration know about the Chinese companies in the Thrift Savings Plan?
• The role of the Securities and Exchange Commission in protecting American investors from China

HANK COOPER, Director of the Strategic Defensive Initiative Organization (SDIO) during the Bush Administration, Chairman of Applied Research Associates, Senior Associate of the National Institute of Public Policy, Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Center:

• How President Trump's executive order on the electrical grid is a step in the right direction
• What was left out of the executive order?

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 the WHO enabled Beijing’s Covid-19 disinformation
• An overview of Iran’s latest missile launch

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

• How China has used the pandemic to further their surveillance-state capacities
• Dangers of Beijing’s control of 5G networks and data
• How New York politicians have mishandled the Covid-19 response