Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Benjamin Weingarten, Dan Cadman, Leon Aron and Bill Gertz

BENJAMIN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of Change Up Media LLC:

• Is the administration preparing to oust Assad?
• The role of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

DAN CADMAN, Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies:

• Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ actions on sanctuary cities
• Will the President fulfill his campaign promise to build ‘the wall’?
• Terror threat from the border

LEON ARON, Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Tillerson’s visit with Vladimir Putin
• The importance of Radio Free Europe

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• MOAB bomb dropped on ISIS tunnels in Afghanistan
• Trump administration policy options for North Korea
• Would the U.S. act unilaterally against Pyongynag?

With Shoshana Bryen, Bruce Bechtol, Leo Hohmann and Fred Fleitz

SHOSHANA BRYEN, Senior Director of the Jewish Policy Center:

• Assad’s motivations for using chemical weapons
• Why Russia won’t be leaving Syria any time soon
• Separating punishment from regime change
• Upcoming Referendum in Turkey

BRUCE BECHTOL, Member of the Board of Directors of the Council on U.S.-Korea Security Studies, President of the International Council on Korean Studies:

• President Trump’s North Korea options
• Sanctions against Iranians aiding Pyongyang’s nuclear program
• China’s role in deterring Kim Jong Un 

LEO HOHMANN, Author of Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad:

• Twin Falls, Idaho refugee assault of a five year old girl
• Minneapolis Ward Six
• Abdel el-Sayed’s run for Michigan governor

FRED FLEITZ, Former CIA officer, Executive Vice President of Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• CIA’s longest serving operative Hugh Montgomery
• Shifting U.S.-Russian relations
• FISA surveillance on Carter Page

With Jim Hanson, Diana West, Peter Pry and Russ Dallen

 

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy:

• Russian knowledge of Assad’s use of chemical weapons
• What comes next in Syria if Assad goes?
• North Korea’s threat to take action against ‘reckless’ U.S. 

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

• Conservatives enthrallment with Vladimir Putin
• Rex Tillerson’s visit to Moscow
• Geert Wilders

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

• Texas Senate Bill 83 and protecting the Texas electric grid
• The dubious results of a study done by the Electric Power Research Institute
• Why electric utility companies seem indifferent about the threat to the electric grid is

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

• House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere subcommittee hearing about Rosneft’s purchase of CITGO assets
• Potential outcome of CFIUS review
• President Maduro attacked by angry mob and pelted with eggs
• Seven Wall Street firms purchasing PDVSA bonds

With Jim Hanson, Patrick Poole, Megan Oprea and Kevin Freeman

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy:

• Throwing out the old map 

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

• ‘Known wolf’ Khalid Masood
• How to deal with terrorism threat

MEGAN OPREA, Senior Contributor at The Federalist, Editor of INBOUND:

• Donald Trump’s strike in Syria
• How the U.S. should deal with Putin and Assad

KEVIN FREEMAN, Author of Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Took Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again:

• Why economic growth is essential for U.S. national security
• Russian and Chinese economic warfare

With Jim Hanson, Gordon Chang, Bill Gertz and Steve Bucci

JIM HANSON, Executive President of the Center for Security Policy:

• Peace through strength

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

• Relationship between China and North Korea
• Possible actions U.S. could take to end the nuclear threat from Pyongyang 

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor of the Washington Free Beacon:

• Russian information warfare
• Return of the Cold War?
• Danger of ‘strategic patience’

STEVE BUCCI, Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for National Security Policy at the Heritage Foundation:

• ISIS Palm Sunday church bombing in Egypt
• U.S. strike in Syria
• What happens after ISIS is destroyed?

With Soeren Kern

SOEREN KERN, Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute:

• Ramming attack in Stockholm
• Horrific European rape epidemic 

(PART TWO):

• Is it the fault of Western societies that Muslims are not assimilating?
• The failure of multiculturalism

(PART THREE):

• The doctrinal roots of large scale Muslim migration
• Demographic jihad

(PART FOUR):

• No go zones in Berlin
• Does the Muslim Brotherhood truly eschew violence?

(PART FIVE):

• Divisions in the Trump administration on radical Islam
• National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s ideology
• Likelihood of President Trump’s national security campaign promises being fulfilled

With Rep. Jeff Duncan (SC-3), Patrick Dunleavy, Richard Pollock, Fred Fleitz and Reggie Littlejohn

REP. JEFF DUNCAN (SC-3), Member of the House Homeland Security Committee:

• The meltdown in Venezuela
• Implications of Rosneft acquiring PDVSA’s CITGO holdings
• Muslim Brotherhood Designation Bill

PATRICK DUNLEAVY, Former Deputy Inspector General for the New York State Department of Corrections:

• CAIR’s latest attempt to silence free speech
• Westminster killer Khalid Masood
• British task force to determine roots of radicalization in prisons

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Devin Nunes’ recusal from the Russian investigation
• Susan Rice’s detailed intelligence spreadsheets
• Were other Republican Presidential candidates also monitored by the Obama administration? 

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

• Devin Nunes’ withdrawal from Russian investigation
• Susan Rice’s lie about the Nunes revelations
• Obama administration holdovers creating Trump policy

REGGIE LITTLEJOHN, Founder and President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers:

• Femicide in China
• Defunding UNSTA

With Rep. Chris Stewart (UT-2), Diana West, Roger Robinson and Jim Hanson

REP. CHRIS STEWART (UT-2), Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Were Susan Rice’s actions improper?
• Russian influence operations

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

• Susan Rice’s political warfare
• FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe
• Chinagate

ROGER ROBINSON, Founder and President of RWR Advisory:

• Foreign business interests that jeopardize national security
• Chinese acquisition of Moneygram
• How Russian oil firm Rosneft could buy U.S. energy sector
• Reforming CFIUS

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy:

• Chemical weapons attack in Syria
• Trump’s policy toward Assad
• U.S.- China summit

With Chris Farrell, Stephen Coughlin, Russ Dallen and Frank Calzon

 

CHRIS FARRELL, Director of Investigations at Judicial Watch:

• Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes and potentially John Brennan responsible for unmasking Trump transition officials
• How sources and methods have been revealed throughout the Russia investigation
• Hillary Clinton’s e-mails

STEPHEN COUGHLIN, author of Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad:

• President el-Sisi’s visit with Trump
• Why the Muslim Brotherhood should be designated a terrorist organization
• Importance of the Explanatory Memorandum

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

• Where things stand on the effort to disenfranchise the Venezuela parliament
• The effect of the OAS going forward

FRANK CALZON, Executive Director at the Center for a Free Cuba in Washington, D.C.:

• American intelligence sharing with Cuban spy agencies
• S.-Cuba policy changes from Obama to Trump
• Implications of opening a U.S. embassy in Havana

With Matt Brodsky, Michael Rowan, Gordon Chang and Dr. Jim Mitchell

With Matt Brodsky, Michael Rowan, Gordon Chang and Dr. Jim Mitchell

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

• President al-Sisi’s visit to the White House
• Saudi-Egyptian relations
• Possible war between Hezbollah and Israel

 JIM MITCHELL, Key architect of the CIA’s Enhanced Interrogation Program:

• The character of sharia supremacists
• Did Salafists hijack Islam?
• Should the President designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization?

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

• President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to Florida
• Beijing’s militarization of Africa
• China’s second evil child 

MICHAEL ROWAN, Columnist at El Universal and Veneeconomia:

• The latest from Venezuela
• Did Maduro actually back down?
• How the U.S. government is responsible for propping up the Maduro regime