Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Adam Kredo, Richard Pollock, Fred Fleitz and Bruce Bechtol

ADAM KREDO, Senior Writer for the Washington Free Beacon:

• The role of Obama loyalists in the takedown of Michael Flynn
• Iran warns the Trump administration in order to prevent disclosure of secret side deals
• Admiral Bob Harward's potential appointment as National Security Advisor

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter for The Daily Caller:

• Spymasters have turned their statecraft against the White House
• Michael Flynn's post-resignation defiance
• Will President Trump drain the swamp in the intelligence community?

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

• What is the "deep state"?
• The abuse of classified information
• Protecting sources and methods
• Wall Street Journal Report that intelligence agencies are withholding information from Trump

BRUCE BECHTOL, Professor at Angelo State University, President of the International Council on Korean Studies:

• The assassination of Kim Jong Un's half-brother
• Pyongyang’s state sponsorship of terror
• North Korea's advancement in missile technology

 

 

 

With Diana West, Bing West, Jim Hanson and Okan Altiparmak

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

• New York Times story about widespread contacts between the Trump team and the Kremlin
• A historical analogue to Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn's calls with the Russian Ambassador
• Leakers in the Executive branch

BING WEST, author of One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs:

• Leaks from the intelligence community
• How to deter subversion
• The COIN strategy

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

• Nation-building vs. the COIN strategy
• Torrent of leaks designed to damage the Trump administration
• Media blackout on the developing story about Pakistani-American IT staffers fired from Capitol Hill
• Georgetown Professor Jonathan Brown’s defense of slavery under Islam

OKAN ALTIPARMAK, Istanbul based journalist at MuslimWorldToday.org:

• Turkey's descent into monarchy
• The upcoming Turkish referendum
• Fethullah Gulen and last year's coup attempt
• Erdogan and the Muslim Brotherhood

With Andy McCarthy, Paul Sperry, Jessica Vaughan, Rick Manning

ANDY MCCARTHY, Former federal prosecutor, Contributing editor to National Review Online:

• National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's resignation
• The aftermath of federal court rulings against Trump's executive order
• Incorporating Islamic reformers into counter-jihad efforts

PAUL SPERRY, Editor-in-Chief of CounterJihad.com, New York Post columnist, Author of Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington and Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America:

• Georgetown Professor Jonathan Brown’s defense of slavery under Islam
• How Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn planned to combat Islamic supremacism in the U.S.
• Developing story about five Pakistani-American IT staffers who were fired from Capitol Hill
• The Muslim Brotherhood's plan to infiltrate the U.S. government

JESSICA VAUGHAN, Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, Former Foreign Service Officer with the State Department:

• 72 terrorists came from countries covered by Trump’s vetting order
• Did the executive order list all necessary countries?
• Recent ICE enforcement activity

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government, Former Public Affairs Chief at the U.S. Department of Labor during the George W. Bush Administration:

• The campaign against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn
• The case for Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin for National Security Advisor
• TPP and Trump's meeting with Japan's Shinzo Abe
• ICANN and the potential for an antitrust lawsuit

With Jim Hanson, Reverend Gavin Ashenden, Michael Cutler and Gordon Chang

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

• Judicial activism run rampant

REVEREND GAVIN ASHENDEN, Honorary Chaplain to the Queen (2008-2017), contributor to the London Times:

• Political censorship in the U.K. on the subject of Islam
• Quran reading in Glasgow cathedral

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, Senior Fellow at Californians for Population Stabilization:

• Outrage over Trump's executive order on immigration affecting 7 countries
• Three new executive orders on immigration

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

• North Korea's most recent missile test
• Cooperation between Pyongyang and Tehran
• President Trump's meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

 

 

With Luke Rosiak, David Satter, Patrick Dunleavy, Ambassador Dr. Mark Lagon and Gordon Chang

LUKE ROSIAK, Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Pakistani-American IT staffers fired from Capitol Hill
• Could the rogue IT staffers have accessed sensitive government information?
• Were background checks run on the staffers?

DAVID SATTER, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, author of The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin:

• Vladimir Putin's ascendancy
• History of FSB bombings designed to elevated Putin
• The poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza
• President Trump's rhetoric towards Russia

PATRICK DUNLEAVY, Former Deputy Inspector General for the New York State Department of Corrections, Author of The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism’s Prison Connection:

• Islamic radicalization in the U.S. prison system
• A registration system for radicals released from prison
• The "criminal justice reform" movement

AMBASSADOR DR. MARK LAGON, Centennial Fellow and Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service:

• The US-Saudi Relationship 
• Riyadh's "double game"
• Is Mohammed Bin Salman, Saudi Deputy Crown Prince, a reformer?

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

• Did Trump capitulate on the “One China” policy 
• Beijing’s continued sense of American weakness
• President Trump’s upcoming visit with Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe

 

With Andy McCarthy, Trevor Loudon, Rep. Lee Zeldin, Fred Fleitz and Rowan Scarborough

ANDY MCCARTHY, Former federal prosecutor, Contributing editor to National Review Online:

• President Trump's temporary travel ban
• Did Judge Robart overreach in his ruling against Trump's executive order?
• Does the President have the power to prevent Sharia Supremacists' immigration to the U.S.?

TREVOR LOUDON, Creator of the documentary The Enemies Within, Author of The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress:

• Developing story about 5 IT staffers who were fired from Capitol Hill
• The 'enemies within' the Democratic caucus
• Keith Ellison's radical connections

REP. LEE ZELDIN (NY-1), Member of the House Committees on Financial Services and Foreign Affairs:

• Five IT staffers fired from Capitol Hill
• Cutting funding to the Palestinian Authority
• Designating the IRGC and Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations
• Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem

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

• The mainstream media's obfuscation of Islamic terrorist attacks
• Shredding the JCPOA 
• Regime change in Iran

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, National Security Reporter at The Washington Times:

• Obama's legacy of social transformation of the U.S. military
• The state of morale and readiness in our armed forces
• Doctored intelligence reports under Obama regarding the campaign against ISIS

With Jim Hanson, Daniel Horowitz, J. Christian Adams and Diana West

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

• The Muslim Brotherhood's strategy in America
• Developing story about five IT staffers recently fired from Capitol Hill
• Congressman Andre Carson's connections to Muslim Brotherhood front groups

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

• Judge Robart’s ruling on Trump’s Executive Order on immigration
• What Congress can do to limit the transformation of America by unelected judges
•  Should Judge Robart be impeached?

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS, Former Attorney at the Department of Justice, President of The Election Law Center, Author of Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department:

• The judicial blocking of the President’s Executive Order
• Sally Yates and other holdover partisan bureaucrats
• Investigating voter fraud in the United States

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

• A Constitutional crisis surrounding President Trump’s Executive Order
• The Left is importing a failed state
• Trump should change the conversation from “terrorism” to “islamization,” a la Europe

 

With Rosemary Jenks, Peter Huessy, Patrick Poole and Ken Timmerman

ROSEMARY JENKS, Director of Government Relations at NumbersUSA.com, former Senior Legislative Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies:

• What President Trump's Executive Orders on immigration actually consist of
• How does the refugee vetting and resettlement process currently work?
• The President's Constitutional and statutory authority for his Executive Order

PETER HUESSY, Instructor at the Naval Academy, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies:

• The state of U.S. nuclear armaments
• What needs to be done to modernize our nuclear forces?
• The obsolescing American nuclear infrastructure 

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

• The "Countering Violence Extremism" program and disinformation narrative
• Trump's Executive Order limiting immigration from 7 foreign countries
• Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization

KEN TIMMERMAN, President and CEO of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, Author of Deception: The Making of the YouTube Video Obama Blamed for Benghazi and Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi:

• What did National Security Advisor Flynn mean by putting Iran “on notice”?
• Is there an opposition in Iran that the U.S. can work with?
• The Democrats’ war on President Trump
• Tom Perez and Keith Ellison: two candidates for DNC chair

With Claudia Rosett, Gordon Chang and Richard Pollock

FRANK GAFFNEY, President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy:

•  The New York Times wrongly smears Frank Gaffney

CLAUDIA ROSETT, blogger for PJ Media, Contributing Editor of The New York Sun:

• Ambassador Haley's harsh words for Putin’s Russia
• Did President Trump draw a moral equivalence between the U.S. and Russia?
• U.S. Foreign Policy towards Iran

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

• Secretary of Defense Mattis' trip to Asia
• China's nuclear arsenal
• The need to sanction Chinese banks for indirect support to Iran and North Korea

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter for The Daily Caller:

• Liberal hypocrisy on refugee resettlement
• A developing story about five recently-fired IT staffers from Capitol Hill

 

With Dr. Leon Aron, Bill Gertz, Dr. Ted Bromund and Kyle Shideler

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

• What Donald Trump needs to know about Putin
• Will the new administration usher in improved relations with Moscow?
• The demographic jihad inside Russia

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age:

• U.S. loosening sanctions on the FSB
• China’s long-range missile with 10 warheads  
• The return of Al-Qaeda

TED BROMUND, Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher’s Center for Freedom:

• The restoration of the special relationship between the U.S. and the U.K.
• What will the EU do in response to Brexit-style movements?
• U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

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

• Foreign-Born terrorist attacks the media ignores
• Why "Lone Wolf" is often a misnomer
• CAIR is Hamas