Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman, Col. Joe Martin and Dan Perkins

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”:

• How China has been conducting a trade war against the U.S.
• The viable military options the U.S. can use against North Korea
• How does the WTO fit into the larger Trump agenda?

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:

• The global rise of crypto-currency
• Implications of our adversaries’ embrace of Bitcoin  
• Dangers of Russia creating an alternative internet

COL. JOE MARTIN, Author of “Get Selected for Special Forces: How to Successfully Compete Assessment and Selection,” U.S. Army Special Forces Officer (Retired):

• Letter of allegations regarding standard reductions in U.S. Army

DAN PERKINS, Author of “The Brotherhood of the Red Nile,” Writings can be found on Constitution.com, The Hill, Daily Caller and Daily Surge:

• What did FBI know about the Uranium one deal?
• Eric Holder and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) 

With Mark Schneider, Gordon Chang, John Solomon and Bill Gertz

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

• Vladimir Putin and the threat from hostile nuclear power
• Was Russia’s recent nuclear exercise a preemptive strike by the Kremlin?
• Implications of Moscow’s violations to the Intermediate Nuclear Force Agreement Treaty
• Necessity of a positive outcome from the Nuclear Posture Review   

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 the Trump administration should enforce economic sanctions against North Korea
• Should coercive techniques be applied to China?
• Why the Kim regime should be removed

JOHN SOLOMON, Vice President, digital video for The Hill, Former Executive and Editor-in-Chief at the Washington Times:

• How the Obama administration enabled Russia to meddle in U.S. nuclear technology
• The numerous scandals involving the Clinton Foundation

BILL GERTZ, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, 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”:

• Beijing’s ICMB test during Trump’s visit
• The latest Chinese cyber-hacking and acts of hostility
• How China represents the biggest long-term threat to the U.S.

With Fred Fleitz, Matthew Continetti, Dr. Herb London and Nonie Darwish

 

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at CSP, Former CIA Analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Department:

• Dangers of North Korea’s missile capabilities
• How Russia and China are assisting Pyongyang’s weapons programs
• Who will replace Secretary Tillerson? 

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”:

• President Trump’s successful first year
• The healthcare victory embedded in current tax bill
• Internal challenges Trump faces regarding his foreign policy agenda

DR. HERB LONDON, President of the London Center for Policy and Research, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Former President of the Hudson Institute, Author of “Leading from Behind: The Obama Doctrine and the U.S. Retreat from International Affairs”:

• What is the Saudi Arabia dilemma?
• Will war break out between Iran and Saudi Arabia?
• Russia’s role in Middle East conflict

NONIE DARWISH, Founders of Arabs for Israel, Director of Former Muslims United, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Blatant misogyny and encouragement of sexual harassment in Sharia supremacist doctrine
• Rise of female genital mutilation operations in America
• Importance of President’s tweets regarding Sharia supremacism

With Hillel Frisch, Michael Cutler, Printus Leblanc and Diana West

With Hillel Frisch, Michael Cutler, Printus Leblanc and Diana West

HILLEL FRISCH, Israeli political scientist and professor of Political Science and Middle East History at Bar Ilan University, Senior Researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Contributor to the Jerusalem Post:

• New crowned prince of Saudi Arabia confronts Iranian threat
• Is the U.S. committed to Gulf security as it was in the past?
• How Saudi Arabia’s Sunni proxies have failed them

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

• How sanctuary cities betray our constitution
• Why would a drug trafficking organization establish a major hub in NYC?

PRINTUS LEBLANC, Researcher and Editor at Americans for Limited Government:

• Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. and the Uranium One scandal
• The significance of Port Canaveral and Gulftainer company

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

• How organizations like the SPLC fit the totalitarian mold
• The tactic of demonizing free speakers in the leftist community
• How to decipher honest actors in Russia investigations?

 

With Andy McCarthy, Kevin Freeman and Russ Dallen

ANDY MCCARTHY, Contributing Editor of National Review, Senior Fellow at National Review Institute, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York:

• Charges against NYC attack terrorist
• An overview of racketeering laws regarding enterprise 

(PART TWO):

• Effectiveness of President Trump’s travel moratorium
• Can lower courts obstruct the travel ban?
• Dangers of claiming Sharia Supremacism is a strain of Islam
• Why we should only use a Special Council when it is absolutely necessary 

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

• China’s strategic hacking of American companies
• The latest takeaway that we are in a global cyber-economic war
• UAE based sovereign wealth fund- Mubadala

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”:

• Problematic agreement between Maduro and ‘Cystrallex’
• Venezuela remains on the brink of bankruptcy
• Will Honduras incumbent be defeated?

With Dakota Wood

DAKOTA WOOD, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs in the Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense, Editor of the 2018 Index of U.S. Military Strength, Former Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments:

• The condition of U.S. military strength at the moment
• How the end of the Cold War marked the beginning of U.S. Military decline
• What happens when the peace dividend goes away? 

(PART TWO):

• How to measure capabilities of U.S. Military’s ground forces
• What the American public needs to know about the 2018 Index of U.S. Military Strength  

(PART THREE):

• The size and modernity of U.S. Naval forces

(PART FOUR):

• Current status of the U.S. Air Force
• Drastic reduction in Air Force resources in the past decade
• State of U.S. nuclear forces, space and cyber-warfare capabilities 

(PART FIVE):

• Is the U.S. industrial base effective and efficient?
• How perceived weakness emboldens opportunism 

With Seth Cropsey

SETH CROPSEY, Senior Fellow and Director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower, Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy in Reagan and Bush Administrations, Former principal deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, Author of “Seablindness: How Political Neglect is Choking American Seapower and What to do About It (August 2017)”:

• Why U.S. Naval power and superiority is essential to our national security
• Beijing’s true motives regarding South China Sea

(PART TWO):

• Implications of Chinese coastal navy expansion
• The current state of strategic competition between U.S. and Beijing
• Implications of our adversaries building up their naval fleets

(PART THREE):

• Why we must double naval budget to sustain our fleets
• When can defense industrial base turn out a capable fleet?
• How our ship-building industrial base has contracted over the past 20 years 

(PART FOUR):

• Why the submarine is the ultimate stealth weapon
• The importance of having missile defenses at sea

With Joshua Meservey, Robert Spencer, Gordon Chang and Kevin Freeman

JOSHUA MESERVEY, Senior Policy Analyst, Africa and the Middle East at the Heritage Foundation:

• Why Zimbabwe President Mugabe’s time is up
• Will the ruling party maintain its grip on the country?
• Kenya’s history of election disputes   

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

• Dangers of the red-green axis
• Efforts to prevent conservative speakers from expressing views
• Twitter’s announcement to start monitoring behavior of users  
• H.R. McMaster still refuses to name the enemy 

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 growing access of financial weapons
• How China is leveraging its economic power to improve its defense capabilities
• Major security consequences of internet hackings   

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:

• Implications of constant flow of materials to North Korea from Beijing  
• Why President Trump must put more pressure on China regarding Pyongyang relationship
• Steve Bannon’s alleged ‘fixation’ on Chinese aggression
• Is the Philippines heading in the right direction? 

With Bill Gertz, Luis Fleischman, Harold Rhode, Morton Klein and Liz Yore

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)

• The growing threat from China’s military
• Chinese dissidents and disinformation campaigns
• Violations of the INF Treaty 

DR. LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy, Author of “Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era: The Threat to U.S. Security,” Adjunct Professor at Florida Atlantic University:

• The fundamental transformation of Luis Almagro
• Why Latin American countries are unable to isolate Venezuela
• How Venezuela is a threat to the United States

DR. HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense, Author of Modern Islamic Warfare: An Ancient Doctrine Marches On (2017):

• Consequences of the vacuum of former- Syria
• America’s two enemies: ISIS and Iran
• Why Erdogan of Turkey is one of the most dangerous political figures today

MORTON KLEIN, President of the Zionist Organization of America:

• Brett Stevens New York Times piece slams ZOA
• Steve Bannon is a friend of Israel
• How American tax dollars fund the families of Palestinian terrorists

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

• The End FGM Campaign
• The brutal consequences of FGM procedures
• Upcoming federal court case regarding Detroit FGM ring

With Diana West, Fred Fleitz, Michael Daugherty and Adam Kredo

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

• 2017 Keeper of the Flame Dinner
• Senator Ted Cruz on truth-telling
• The willful blindness in the U.S. government regarding domestic threats 

FRED FLEIIZ, Senior VP for Policy & Programs at CSP, Former CIA Analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Department:

• The Keeper of the Flame Dinner 2017
• The current status of the North Korean threat
• Will sanctions against China ever be effective?

MICHAEL DAUGHETY, Senior Writer for Cyber Defense Magazine, Author of “the Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the U.S. Government’s Surveillance and Overreach Into Cyber-Security, Medicine and Small Business:

• The unmasking of American citizens under the Obama administration
• What to do about section 702
• Consequences of the latest hacking of the NSA 

ADAM KREDO, Senior Writer for the Washington Free Beacon:

• Iranian colonization of the Middle East
• Why a global conflict in the MENA region is imminent
• Why a bi-partisan plan to combat Iran’s influence in Syria is essential