Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Dan Gallington, Claudia Rosett, Ace Lyons, and Fred Fleitz

With Dan Gallington, Claudia Rosett, Ace Lyons, and Fred Fleitz:

ADM. JAMES “ACE” LYONS (Ret.), Former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the largest single military command in the world:

• Seriousness of the North Korean threat
• Importance of reversing the Obama era demilitarization of U.S. forces
• Bolstering Japanese missile defense

 DAN GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor, George C. Marshall Institute

• Possible actions Donald Trump should take to deter North Korea
• Publicizing hard limits placed on Kim Jong-Un’s regime
• Disrupting Russia and China’s defense of Pyongyang

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA analyst, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• Is a conflict with North Korea inevitable?
• The Trump Administration’s efforts to curtail North Korea and China
• President Trump’s visit to Poland
• Unethical investigation practices by the Intelligence Community

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Affairs journalist at Forbes.com, Fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum:

• The rationale behind North Korea’s strategy
• What policy options are available for the United States?
• China’s role in dealing with Pyongyang

With Dr. Stephen Blank, Diana West, Kevin Freeman, Elaine Donnelly and Tom Popik

TOM POPIK, Chairman and President of the Foundation for Resilient Societies:

• Vulnerability of U.S. critical infrastructure
• Nuclear threat from North Korea
• Effects of a long term electric grid outage

DIANA WEST, Syndicated Columnist, Author of American Betrayal and Death of the Grown Up:

• The long-term strategy of totalitarian regimes
• How Putin compares to previous Russian regimes
• The 2017 Dutch general elections

STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council:

• What President Trump’s trip to Europe means for U.S. relations
• How Ukraine fits into U.S. European strategy
• How Trump should engage with Putin

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of “Economic War Room” on The Blaze:

• Will China be a partner in deterring the North Korean threat?
• Possibility of economic war with Beijing
• Chinese attempts to remove the dollar as the world reserve currency
• Qatar increasing natural gas production

ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President for the Center for Military Readiness:

• The Pentagon’s review of having transgender servicemen in the military
• Difficulties social engineering programs cause in the military
• Cost to the overburdened military healthcare system and readiness

With Matt Brodsky, Jim Simpson, Bill Gertz and Patrick Dunleavy

MATT BRODSKY, Senior Analyst in Wikistrat’s Analytic Community:

• Status report on the war against ISIS  
• Strategic considerations for the United States
• The future of Qatari relations and the Al Udeid Air Base

PATRICK DUNLEAVY, Author of The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism’s Prison Connections:

• Edwin Lorenzo Lemmons: a case study of prison radicalization
• Vetting prison religious volunteers and clergy for criminal background and social media activity 

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Pentagon security breaches by the Chinese and Russians
• Robert Mueller’s special investigation turns to China
• Chinese efforts to hinder U.S.-South Korean relations
• John Lenczowski’s efforts in fighting the ideology battle against terrorism

JIM SIMPSON, Freelance Investigative Journalist, Former Budget Examiner for the White House Office of Management and Budget:

• SPLC and its history with the socialist Frankfurt School
• The refugee crisis and why they should share American values

With Enrique Altimari, John Rossomando, Fred Fleitz, and Heather Sirocki:

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA analyst, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• Origins of the leaks from the Intelligence Community
• Former NSA Susan Rice’s national security legacy
• How former President Obama should address leaks by his former staff
• The Trump administration’s forthcoming Iran policy

JOHN ROSSOMANDO, Senior Counterterrorism Analyst at the Investigative Project on Terrorism:

• Parents in San Diego suing school district for the implementation of CAIR backed anti-Islamophobia program
• DHS denial of grant to MPAC
• Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood visits Democratic offices on Capitol Hill

ENRIQUE ALTIMARI, Pro-Democracy Venezuelan Activist:

• The current picture of Venezuelan unrest
• Helicopter grenade drop on Supreme Court in Caracas
• Why Americans should get involved in Venezuela

REP. HEATHER SIROCKI, State Representative of the 28^th District of Maine:

• Sirocki’s efforts to combat female genital mutilation
• Why it is important for states to pass laws banning FGM, even though it is already a federal law
• History and origins of FGM in Maine

With Andy McCarthy, Rowan Scarborough and Diana West:

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

• Response to the Trump investigations and Comey firing
• Comey’s influence on Robert Mueller and his investigation

(PART TWO):

• Attorney General Sessions’ recusal from the Russia investigation
• Difference between counterintelligence investigations and criminal investigations
• Supreme Court ruling on President Trump’s immigration pause

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, National Security writer at the Washington Times: 

• Social engineering in the military
• The future of these programs under Secretary Mattis
• Iranian and North Korean ballistic missile coordination
• John Brennan’s role in politicizing the Intelligence Community

DIANA WEST, Syndicated Columnist, Author of American Betrayal and Death of the Grown Up:

• Susan Rice’s role in the DNC hacking and her undisclosed documents
• Aryaan Hirsi Ali and Asra Nomani’s confrontation at a Senate Hearing

With Richard Pollock, Hans von Spakovsky, George Rasley and Kevin Freeman:

HONS VON SPAKOVSKY, Senior Legal Fellow at the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation:

• Supreme Court’s decision to allow partial enforcement of President Trump’s immigration pause
• The Gill vs. Whitford Case
• Possible Presidential run by Eric Holder

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of “Economic War Room” on The Blaze TV:

• Disconnect between President Trump and Secretary Tillerson on Qatar policy
• Qatar’s connection to economic crises in 2008
• Cyber-attack on British Parliament

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Formal Inquiry by State Department into whether or not Hillary Clinton should retain clearance
• Similarities between the Clinton Foundation and the McCain Institute

GEORGE RASLEY, Managing Editor of Conservative HQ:

• Was the Supreme Court’s ruling a win for Trump?
• Will the Trump Administration be deterred from ‘extreme vetting’?
• Terrorism funding through Obama administration grant programs

With Gordon Chang, Michael Cutler, Anders Atencio, and Ingrid Carlvist

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast Contributor:

• U.S. alliance with India 
• New Delhi's counter-terrorism efforts 
• The murder of Otto Warmbier

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services:

• Hezbollah’s cells in South America and the United States
• Known terrorist’s path to citizenship and “insider threats”
• How terrorists gain easy access into the U.S. through the Visa Waiver Program

ANDRES ATENCIO, Venezuelan Pro-Democracy Activist:

• Current state of affairs in Venezuela 
• Growing levels of opposition to the Venezuelan government
• How the U.S. should respond to the Maduro regime

INGRID CARLQVIST, Free-lance journalist in Sweden:

• The “civil war” in Sweden
• The lack of will to fight against the tide of “Sharia warriors”
• Inability of Stockholm’s “feminist government” to address the threat

With Ken Timmerman

KEN TIMMERMAN, President and CEO of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran:

• JCPOA: a ‘dangerous illusion’
• The likelihood of the Iranians actually complying with the nuclear agreement
• Tehran’s missile program

(PART TWO):

• Iranian naval aggression in the Persian Gulf
• Tehran’s regional ambitions
• Qasem Soleimani’s powerful political and military influence in Iraq

(PART THREE):

• Qatar's alignment with Iran
• Rumored presence Iranian military forces in Qatar
• Moscow's claim it killed ISIS leader al-Baghdadi
• Russia’s growing influence in the Middle East

(PART FOUR):

• Comey’s role in the Clinton email scandal
• Can Robert Mueller conduct his investigation in a impartial manner?
• Where does the Russia investigation go from here?

With Fred Fleitz, Dale Wilcox, Matthew Trymand, and John Ligato

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA analyst, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• Takeaways from Attorney General Session’s testimony
• Special Investigator Mueller’s conflict of interest
• Insight into North Korea’s release of Otto Warnbier

DALE WILCOX, Executive Director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute former state director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform:

• The Southern Poverty Law Center’s definition for a hate group
• History of the SPLC and what it focuses on for legal action

MATTHEW TRYMAND, Serves as Deputy Director of American Transparency/OpenTheBooks.com at the Atlas Network:

• Trymand’s lawsuit against members of the Polish media
• The defamatory comments made against Matthew
• Resistance by the media to the conservative government in Poland
• George Soros’ influence over the European media

JOHN LIGATO, USMC Veteran, Former FBI Agent, Author of Dirty Boys and the Near Enemy: A John Booker Thriller:

• How FBI agents within the Bureau felt about former director Comey’s leadership
• The relationship between FBI agents in the field and FBI headquarters
• How the FBI can redeem its reputation with the public

With Kevin Freeman

KEVIN FREEMAN, Host of “Economic War Room” on the Blaze TV, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Quantum computing: how it works and the short-term capabilities
• Potential dangers of this new technology

 (PART TWO):

• Saudi Arabia’s manipulation of the oil and stock markets
• Goldman Sachs and their influence over Riyadh’s decisions

 (PART THREE):

• Basis of the Gulf states’ actions against Qatar
• S. Al Udeid Air Base
• The growing relationship between Doha and Tehran
• Russia arming the Venezuelan military

 (PART FOUR):

• Attempted hacking of the Heritage Foundation
• Who are the likely suspects for the DNC and Heritage Foundation Hackings?
• New threats to the United States infrastructure and grid
• President Trump’s relationship with the Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen