Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Representative Chris Stewart (UT-02) and Diana West

REP. CHRIS STEWART, member of the House Appropriations Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Why there is reason to be skeptical of the effect of Russian hacking attempts
• The current status in Qatar and what it means for U.S. assets
• How the recent terror attacks in Britain may have affected the British election
• Possible Chinese cooperation in dealing with North Korea

DIANA WEST, syndicated columnist, author of American Betrayal and Death of the Grown Up:

• An analysis behind the lack of investigation by the FBI into DNC servers
• History of the investigation into the DNC hacking
• Background on Crowdstrike, who supplied information to the FBI

(PART TWO):

• Is the FBI handling other counterintelligence investigations in a similar way?
• Unsolved murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich
• The takeaway from neither political party fully investigating the DNC leaks

(PART THREE):

• The partisan effort to discredit President Trump during the Russia investigation
• Conflicts of interest Special Investigator Robert Mueller may have
• The British elections and future policies against terrorism

With Dr. James Mitchell and Brigitte Gabrielle

JAMES MITCHELL, author of Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying to Destroy America:

• Nature of the terrorist attacks in Britain
• Terrorism and its connection to Islamic ideology
• Attempts by Jihadists to implement Sharia Law in the West

(PART TWO):

• The effect political correctness has on the mindset of Jihadists
• How jihadists exploit Western values
• 23,000 suspected jihadists under surveillance by British authorities 

(PART THREE):

• Political will in the United States to combat Islamic terrorists
• Saudi Arabia’s role in the rise of terrorism
• Solutions to the crisis the Western world faces

BRIGITTE GABRIELLE, founder and chairman of ACT for America:

• Why the United States must engage Sharia supremacists
• How Sharia law is manifesting itself in the United States
• The movement against Islamism  
• Recommendations for the Trump Administration

With Pete Hoekstra, Daniel Horowitz, Kyle Shideler and Bill Gertz

PETE HOEKSTRA, Shillman Senior Fellow at the Investigative Project on Terrorism:

• James Comey’s admits to leaking classified information to the press
• Robert Muller’s close relationship with Comey
• What Comey’s testimony means for Trump 

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review:

• President Trump’s amnesty for 125,000 illegals in 3 months
• Importing ‘Middle East Values’
• Next debt ceiling battle 

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at The Washington Times:

• Takeaways from James Comey’s testimony
• Chinese build-up of military facilities in Subic Bay
• Connections between Beijing spy agency and cyber security firm
• Russian test of hypersonic cruise missile

KYLE SHIDELER, Director of the Threat Information Office at the Center for Security Policy:

• Update on the Qatar-Gulf crisis
• Qatar’s defense agreements with Turkey and Iran
• Two American citizens arrested for being Hezbollah operatives

With Giulio Meotti, John Ligato, Hans von Spakovsky and Fred Fleitz

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

• Developments and key takeaways from the Comey Testimony
• What should be done after the wave of attacks in Britain
• The terror attacks in Tehran and what it means for Iranian policy

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

• Former FBI Director Comey’s testimony before Congress
• FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray                                  
• DOJ pressing forward with cutting off discretionary federal grants to sanctuary cities 

GIULIO MEOTTI, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, author of A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel’s Victims of Terrorism:

• 70,000 radicalized Muslims being watched by European countries
• Upheaval of Europe’s demographics and culture
• The response, or lack thereof, by leaders of the free world

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

• Arguments against the ‘lone wolf’ theory
• The role mosques play in radicalization
• Comey’s FBI leadership and effects on the reputation of the bureau 
• Insight into President Trump’s pick for FBI—Christopher Wray

With Paul Weston, Diana West, Yoram Ettinger, and Russ Dallen

PAUL WESTON, Cofounder of the Liberty GB Party:

• The rise of organized terrorism in Britain
• Prime Minister Theresa May’s lack of leadership during this crisis
• The changing demographics of Great Britain
• The survival of “traditional British values”

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

• The strategic argument for and against the D-Day Landings
• History of communist infiltration into U.S. national security circles
• The cyber firm responsible for the “Russian hacking”

YORAM ETTINGER, Consultant on US-Israel relations, Chairman of Special Projects at the Ariel Center for Policy Research:

• The Six Day War’s impact on Israel’s status as a nation
• Why modern Americans do not understand the war’s importance
• The status of US-Israeli relations under President Trump

RUSS DALLEN, President and Editor-in-Chief of the Latin American Herald Tribune:

• Venezuela’s ever-growing instability
• Maduro’s attempts at overthrowing the democratic system
• The Trump Administration’s efforts in dealing with the crisis

With Baroness Caroline Cox, Dr. Luis Fleischman, Kevin Freeman, William Langfan, and Mark Langfan

BARONESS CAROLINE COX, Member of the House of Lords:

• Rise of Islamic insurgency in the United Kingdom
• The principle of abrogation and how it affects Islam in practice
• Theresa May’s leadership in handling the growth of terrorism
• Great Britain’s changing demographic

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Project at the Center for Security Policy:

• Current status of the unrest in Venezuela
• Policies the U.S. should pursue in order to reestablish stability
• Russian interference in the energy and infrastructure in Venezuela 

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

• Russian hacking and transactions into U.S. energy assets
• Qatar’s struggle with regional Arab states and future U.S. relations
• The role Qatar played in the 2008 financial crisis
• Electronic currency and their effects on the U.S. dollar

WILLIAM LANGFAN, World War II veteran and MARK LANGFAN, Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel:

• History and reflection on Hitler’s rise to power and the Munich Agreement
• Retelling the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp
• The political atmosphere of Israel before the Six Day War
• Conditions for Israel’s stunning victory in the war

(PART TWO):

• Israel’s topography and why it plays a key role in Israel’s security
• “Land for Peace”
• Why Israel’s survival is crucial to the survival of the Western World 

With Lord Malcolm Pearson, Michaela Dodge, and Gordon Chang

LORD MALCOLM PEARSON, Member of the House of Lords, former leader of the UK Independence Party:

• What the London terrorist attack means for Great Britain
• Prime Minister May’s leadership in combating terrorism

(PART TWO):

• London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s response to the latest terror attack
• How terrorism may affect elections in the U.K.

MICHAELA DODGE, Policy analyst for strategic policy at The Heritage Foundation, National security fellow at the Claremont Institute:

• Nuclear ballistic missile threats to the U.S.
• Rethinking America’s posture on nuclear weapons
• Developing approaches for an effective missile defense system

GORDON CHANG, Columnist for The Daily Beast:

• Harmful obligations of the Paris Accords
• Possible incentives to renegotiate a climate agreement
• China’s attempt to alienate Taiwan from the international community
• Buildup of U.S. naval forces around the Korean Peninsula 

With Luke Rosiak, Dan Perkins, Dr. Mark Schneider and Bill Gertz

With Luke Rosiak, Dan Perkins, Dr. Mark Schneider and Bill Gertz 

LUKE ROSIAK, Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Update on the House IT scandal
• Debbie Wasserman Schultz admits violating information security policy 

DAN PERKINS, Founder of the Songs and Stories for Soldiers Foundation, author of Brotherhood of the Red Nile:

• Analysis of President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Accord
• The current and future standing of OPEC
• Songs and Stories for Soldiers

MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Public Policy:

• The next Nuclear Posture Review
• Necessary changes the Trump Administration should make to the U.S. nuclear program
• Violations of treaty obligations by the Russians and the New START Treaty 

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Chinese naval participation in the 2018 RIMPAC exercises
• The USS Dewey sailing near China’s manmade islands
• ZTE: its history, how it functions, and its role in American security
• Consequences of contracting ZTE due to being a Chinese state-owned company 

With Myron Ebell, Jose Cardenas, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Fred Fleitz and Dr. Ilan Berman

MYRON EBELL, Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute:

• President Trump’s roll back of Paris Climate deal
• How the Paris treaty undermines our sovereignty
• Why renewable energy jobs are not sustainable without taxpayer dollars
• The way ahead for coal

JOSE CARDENAS, Associate at VisionAmericas:

• Venezuela’s latest spiral of violence and anarchy
• OAS’ failure to take action on Venezuela
• Trump’s review of Obama’s Cuba policy

PETER VINCENT PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both Congressional Advisory Boards:

• Why North Korea launching another satellite is a national security threat
• Debunking Jeffrey Lewis’ comments about the EMP threat from Pyongyang

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

• The House intelligence Committee’s recent subpoenas
• Intelligence leaks from the Trump administration

 ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Why Trump should get rid of the JCPOA
• How the U.S. can reapply economic pressure to Iran
• The President’s plans for Israeli-Palestinian peace

With Rep. Rob Wittman (VA-01), Diana West, Matthew Brodsky and David North

With Rep. Rob Wittman (VA-01), Diana West, Matthew Brodsky and David North

REP. ROB WITTMAN (VA-01), Member of the House Armed Services Committee, Chairman of the Sea power and Power Projection Subcommittee:

• Successful U.S. missile intercept test
• The need for a more robust missile defense
• Deployment of a third carrier strike group to Korea and readiness of U.S. forces
• Status of the next defense budget

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

• Developments in the Russia investigation
• Pattern of Russian collusion with influential U.S. politicians
• The need for greater nuclear missile protection

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

• Political impact of last week’s visit to Israel by President Trump
• The Trump Administration’s relationship with the Palestinian Authority
• Arab world’s reaction to Trump’s speech and policies

DAVID NORTH, Fellow at Center for Immigration Studies:

• The overall status and initial effects of President Trump’s immigration policies
• The abuse of visas in US immigration policy
• Potential “entry-exit” tracking system and the “visa mill” phenomena