Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman, Rick Fisher and Russ Dallen

With Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman, Rick Fisher and Russ Dallen

GORDON CHANG, Columnist for The Daily Beast:

• Deployment of third U.S. carrier strike group to the Korean Peninsula
• Pyongyang’s rumored upcoming sixth nuclear test
• China’s response to Moody’s downgrade

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

• Moody’s Downgrade of China’s debt
• Origins and function of Bitcoin
• Terrorist use of Bitcoin

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow of Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center:

• Chinese advancements in stealth detection
• S. and Chinese arms race for superior computer technology
• Escalation in the South China Sea between China and the Philippines

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

• Goldman Sachs’ purchase of Venezuela’s State Oil Company’s Bonds
• Russia’s attempts to acquire American and Venezuelan energy assets

The Fourth Circuit Invites Manchesters Here

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

How ironic that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals would choose the day after a man whose family immigrated from Libya conducted a murderous attack in Manchester, England to block President Trump’s effort to prevent such individuals from coming here. 

British investigators were dispatched to Libya, hoping to discover the extent to which the suicide bomber, Salman Abedie, had help and/or co-conspirators there. The absence of a functioning Libyan government makes such inquiries both dangerous and problematic. That’s one of the reasons President Trump instituted his pause on immigration from Libya and other failed states.

If the President is unable to exercise his constitutional and statutory authority to do that, there will be more Manchesters here. And there will be blood on the hands of jurists who arrogate to themselves decisions about national security they are neither equipped nor entitled to exercise.

This is Frank Gaffney.

With Rep. Brad Wenstrup (OH-2), George Rasley, Danielle Pletka and Bill Gertz

REP. BRAD WENSTRUP (OH-2), Member of the House Armed Services Committee:

• Former CIA Director Brennan’s testimony before Congress
• Russian cyber warfare capabilities and their influence on US institutions
• Possible effects of Trump’s defense budget
• Positive developments in Veteran Affairs 

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor at Conservative HQ:

• Trump’s budget proposal
• How Obama and Clinton policies led to the Manchester terror attack
• Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling on Trump’s travel ban

DANIELLE PLETKA, Senior Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute:

• The Trump Administration’s policy options for counterterrorism in the Middle East
• Risks of the growing terrorist nexus in the Western World
• Analysis of new sanctions imposed on Iran and what future relations will look like
• President Trump’s efforts toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement

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

• China prevents businessman from revealing spying on VOA
• Dangerous Chinese aerial encounters toward U.S. aircraft
• THADD missile defense in South Korea

With Herbert London, Matt Spalding, Dale Wilcox and Fred Fleitz

HERBERT LONDON, President of the London Center for Policy Research, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute:

• Reaction to President Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia
• Radical Islamic extremism in Saudi Arabia
• Turkey’s future relations with the US and NATO
• The Red-Green Alliance’s campaign against the Trump Administration

MATT SPALDING, Associate Vice President and Dean of education programs for Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C.:

• Leftist calls for Trump’s impeachment
• How ‘the swamp’ is crippling the President’s ability to govern

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

• Origins and background of the Southern Poverty Law Center History and beliefs of the SPLC’s founder—Morris Dees
• Methods for labeling organizations “hate groups”

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

• Reflections on President Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia
• US—Saudi relations in the future
• Recent developments in the Russia investigation
• Reaction to the testimony of former CIA direct John Brennan

With Diana West, Jessica Vaughan, Luke Rosiak and Dexter Van Zile

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

• Reflections on President Trump’s trip to Riyadh
• Saudi acquisition of US oil refineries and the possibility of oil dumping by Saudi Arabia
• Former CIA Director John Brennan’s recent testimony before Congress
• Developments in the unsolved murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich

JESSICA VAUGHAN, Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies:

• The SPLC’s continued campaign to silence free speech
• Trump’s track record on immigration

LUKE ROSIAK, Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Latest developments in the House IT security breach scandal
• Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s threat to the Capitol police chief 

DEXTER VAN ZILE, Christian Media Analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America:

• Pope Francis’ views on Islam
• Reconciliation vs. submission

With Robert Spencer, Claudia Rosett, Itamar Marcus and Kevin Freeman

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, Columnist for PJ Media and Front Page Magazine:

• Suicide bombing at Ariana Grande’s concert in Manchester
• President Trump’s speech in Riyadh
• Islamist definitions of justice, peace and terrorism
• Should the Muslim Brotherhood be a designated terrorist organization? 

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

• President Trump’s attempts to organize Sunni allies against Iran
• Growing nuclear threats around the world
• Possible link in Iranian and North Korean nuclear arm programs
• Origins of the ransomware attacks and UN response

ITAMAR MARCUS, Director of Palestinian Media Watch:

• Mahmoud Abbas’ so-called ‘culture of peace’
• The difficulties of negotiating with Palestinian leaders

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

• Concerns about new investments in US infrastructure by Saudi Arabia
• Possible Chinese cyber attacks against US economic assets
• North Korea cyber warfare capabilities

With Clare Lopez, Phil Haney, Michael Rubin, Morton Klein and Gordon Chang

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President for Research & Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, former CIA clandestine officer:

• The President’s Riyadh speech
• Trump’s plans for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

PHIL HANEY, Retired Homeland Security Officer, Author with Art Moore of See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad:

• What Trump’s Riyadh speech means for law enforcement policy
• Conflict between the Constitution and Sharia law

MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Outlook for U.S.-Saudi partnership
• Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan – largest state supporters of terrorism
• The Iranian threat to U.S. national security

MORTON KLEIN, President of the Zionist Organization of America:

• Why past Israeli-Palestinian peace processes have failed
• Abbas’ “culture of peace”
• The issues Israel can’t compromise on

GORDON CHANG, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World:

• North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test
• The most important thing that China provides North Korea
• South Korea’s behavior in light of increased North Korean aggression
• A China policy that works for America

With Ken Timmerman, Ambassador Yoram Ettinger, Bill Gertz and Fred Fleitz

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

• The Iranian elections –and how a winner is actually decided
• Iranian polling stations in the United States 

AMBASSADOR YORAM ETTINGER, Head of “Second Thought: a U.S.-Israel Initiative:”

• The current state of U.S.-Israel relations
• President Trump’s commitment to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
• Israel’s intelligence sharing with the U.S.

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Threat posed from North Korea at the moment
• CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s visit to South Korea
• Allegations that Trump ‘leaked’ intelligence to Russia

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

• The real scandal behind Trump’s ‘Russia leak’
• Former Senator Joe Liberman as a possible replacement for James Comey
• Is regime change possible in North Korea?

With Diana West, Dr. Stephen Blank, Harold Rhode, Daniel Horowitz, Dorius Liu

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

• Trump’s intelligence sharing with the Russians
• Militarization of the Arctic
• Is Russia at war with Europe?

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

• Leakology – the swamp’s weapon of choice
• Axios media newsletter
• Who is undermining the President within the Oval office? 

HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute:

• Meeting between Donald Trump and Turkey’s President Erdogan
• President Trump’s upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review, Author of Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America:

• Erdogan’s visit to the White House
• Disconnect between President Trump’s campaign promises and his current actions
• Evolving Trump position on Israel

DORIS LIU, Producer, Director and Writer of “In the Name of Confucius”:

• The influence of Confucius Institutes on Western society
• CSIS finding that Confucius Institutes are the main soft power tool used by Beijing

With Michael Daughtery, Ned May, Patrick Poole and Kevin Freeman

MICHAEL DAUGHTERY, Author of Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the Government’s Surveillance and Overreach Into Cyber-security, Medicine and Small Business:

• ‘Wannacry’ ransomware global attack
• Vulnerabilities exposed by the cyber attack
• Market incentives for cyber security 

NED MAY, Co-Proprietor of the Gates of Vienna blog:

• Expropriation of housing for refugees in Hamburg
• Private property laws in Germany
• Role of NGOS in the European migrant crisis 

PATRICK POOLE, National Security and Terrorism reporter at PJ Media:

• Former Egyptian Official Exposes the Muslim Brotherhood’s terror networks
• Former DHS Adviser Mohammed Elibiary’s comment about ISIS killing Christians 

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

• Was North Korea behind the ransomware attack?
• How Pyonyang could take down the U.S. economy