Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Fred Fleitz, Kevin Freeman, Diana West, and Claudia Rosett

FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO Center for Security Policy, Former CIA analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Dept., Author of The Coming North Korea Nuclear Nightmare: What Trump Must to Reverse Obama’s Strategic Patience (2018):

• President Trump's decision to release Michael Atkinson from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• The political bias within the US intelligence community
• How the coronavirus is impacting the government of Iran

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• China's continual lying regarding personal protection equipment purchased from China
• Does the US have time to change their dependency on China for medical supplies?
• How is China using their Social Credit System to monitor their citizens during the coronavirus pandemic?

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy:

• Has the coronavirus made Americans more aware of the dangers of communism?
• What is the difference between globalism and communism?

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

• The great difficulty in reforming the World Health Organization
• What was "Event 201"?
• Various international organizations China plays a prominent role in

With Sam Faddis, Gordon Chang, Doug Feith, and Chris Farrell

SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress:

• How tech giants are controlling media stories during the coronavirus pandemic
• What can be done to combat media "fact-checkers" when they have been proven wrong?

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019):

• A new wave of coronavirus that is about to impact China
• How Chinese workers going back to work has worsened the spread of coronavirus
• The unreliability of Chinese medical equipment which has become more evident in the coronavirus outbreak

DOUG FEITH, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2001-2005):

• How should the US handle their relationship with China once the coronavirus crisis has subsided?
• Various difficulties in doing business with China for other world leaders
• Why other countries conducting business with Iran should consider sanctions along the lines of ones the US currently has in place

CHRIS FARRELL, Director of Investigations at Judicial Watch:

• Recent developments in the Hillary Clinton email scandal
• What is the likely outcome of this new lawsuit against Clinton by Judaical Watch?
• The urgent need to secure the US border

With Caroline Glick

CAROLINE GLICK, Israeli-American Author and Columnist, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy:

• How coronavirus is impacting Israel
• Analyzing how other parts of the Middle East are handling the coronavirus pandemic

(PART TWO):

• The effect coronavirus is having on Holy Week celebrations in Israel
• The possibility of a coalition government in Israel in the near future
• An overview of the complexities of the political system in Israel

(PART THREE):

• Examining what Jeremy Corbyn stood for while running in the UK general election
• The rise of the new progressive wing in the American Democratic Party

(PART FOUR):

• How the outbreak of coronavirus in Iran may impact their relationship with Israel and the United States
• Can the Iranian regime survive the coronavirus pandemic?
• Inaccuracies in Iranian reporting of coronavirus infections

With Rosemary Jenks, Steven Mosher, J Michael Waller, and Hans Von Spakovsky

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

• The current state of the southern and northern US borders
• How to deal with the current unemployment situation in the United States
• The need to prioritize American medical workers

STEVEN MOSHER, President of the Population Research Institute, Author of A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child Policy:

• The political agenda of the Chinese Communist Party
• Evidence of a Chinese biological weapons program
• The CCP's apathy with respect to the coronavirus situation in their own country

J MICHAEL WALLER, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs at the Center for Security Policy, Editorial Board Member of the NATO Defense Strategic Communications Journal, Senior Writer at the American Media Institute:

• How Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has taken a stand agains the Chinese Communist Party
• A look at how the World Health Organization is currently operating during the coronavirus pandemic
• Comparing Chinese propaganda with the propaganda of the Soviet Union

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, Former Member of the Federal Election Commission:

• The impact of coronavirus on the 2020 presidential election
• Various problems associated with vote harvesting

With Fred Fleitz, Curtis Ellis, Robert Charles, and David Goldman

FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO Center for Security Policy, Former CIA analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Dept., Author of The Coming North Korea Nuclear Nightmare: What Trump Must to Reverse Obama’s Strategic Patience (2018):

• Assessing how President Trump has handled the coronavirus crisis in the United States
• The need to analyze how the world's governments dealt with the pandemic after it has concluded
• Why the US doesn't need another committee similar to the 9/11 Commission to deal with worldwide pandemics in the future

CURTIS ELLIS, Senior Policy Advisory with America First Policies, Senior Policy Advisor with the Donald Trump Campaign:

• How President Trump has mobilized American public spirit and the American public sector during the coronavirus pandemic
• A Chinese plan to take advantage of the United States in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak
• The need to end US dependence on China for various supply chains

ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author of Eagles and Evergreens:

• Reasons for optimism during the coronavirus outbreak
• Why President Trump is the right leader for America in the coronavirus crisis

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author of How Civilizations Die, Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler:

• The state of coronavirus in New York City
• How coronavirus has impacted crime rates in NYC
• The connection between Europe and China with respect to pharmaceutical technology

With Russ Dallen, Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman and Diana West

RUSS DALLEN, President & Editor in Chief at The Latin American Herald Tribune, Head of the international investment bank, Caracas Capital Markets, Served as President of Venezuela’s “The Daily Journal”:

• The recent crimes Nicolás Maduro has been charged with
• The mishandling of natural resources by the Maduro regime
• The connection between Russia and Venezuela with respect to oil reserves

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019):

• The comments of Deborah Birx about the nature of the Chinese regime
• Analyzing the numbers of new infections Beijing has been reporting lately
• Problems associated with Chinese workers returning to their jobs

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• The impact a biological weapon could have on the US economy
• Looking at the utility of a potential biological weapon in the hands of the Chinese
• The various agendas Larry Fink of BlackRock has promoted with respect to ESG (environmental, social, and governance) regulations

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy:

• How the coronavirus pandemic has shed light on the nature of the Chinese Communist Party as a whole
• How coronavirus has impacted other governments around the world
• The totalitarian crackdown on US citizens as a result of the coronavirus outbreak

With David Wurmser

DAVID WURMSER, Director of CSP’s new program on fighting global anti-Semitism and defending the US-Israel relationship, Served as Middle East Adviser to Dick Cheney, as Special Assistant to John Bolton and as a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Served in the US Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer at the rank of Lieutenant Commander:

• The strategic importance of Israel to the United States
• The financial relationship between Israel and the US

(PART TWO):

• Comparing and contrasting the Israeli system of government with the United States
• Various complications with the parliamentary system in Israel
• How Netanyahu's upcoming trial compares to President Trump's impeachment trial

(PART THREE):

• The importance of combatting anti-Semitism
• What is the driving force behind anti-Semitism throughout the world?

(PART FOUR):

• Is a transformation of the Iranian regime in the near future plausible?
• What is the state of Iran's nuclear program?
• What are "no go zones" in Europe?

With Dr. Sean Lin and Daniel Greenfield

DR. SEAN LIN, Executive director, Global Alliance Against Communist Propaganda and Disinformation, Served as a director of a laboratory at Walter Reid Army hospital specializing in viral diseases:

• The medical difficulties in diagnosing coronavirus
• How the complexity of coronavirus makes assessing the magnitude of the pandemic more difficult

(PART TWO):

• Congressman Michael McCaul's comments regarding coronavirus
• Why Chinese coronavirus death toll numbers should be questioned
• Analyzing the possibility that coronavirus is a Chinese biological weapon

DANIEL GREENFIELD, Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center for Security Policy, Blogs at Sultan Knish:

• Political impacts of the coronavirus
• The swiftness with which coronavirus bills have been passed recently
• Narratives the media have been pushing with respect to coronavirus

(PART TWO):

• Claims that the coronavirus rates in China have significantly slowed down
• The reality of what is happening in China
• Chinese attempts to shift blame for coronavirus to foreign countries

With Captain Jim Fanell

JIM FANELL, Retired from US Navy in 2015 concluding 30 year career as a naval intelligence officer specializing in Indo-Asia Pacific security affairs with an emphasis on the Chinese Navy, Assignments included tours as the Assistant Chief of Staff for intelligence for the U.S. Seventh Fleet aboard the USS Blue Ridge, the Office of Naval Intelligence China Senior Intelligence Officer, etc., Former National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University:

• How reliable is the information coming from China on coronavirus?
• Different narratives China has tried to push regarding the origin of the virus

(PART TWO):

• The possibility of a Chinese biological weapons program being responsible for the coronavirus outbreak
• Could the Chinese retaliate against Taiwan in the near future?

(PART THREE):

• What are the current ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party?
• What is the "China Dream"?
• The possibility of China surpassing the US in terms of military strength

(PART FOUR):

• The various aspects of 5G that the US needs to prepare for
• How accurate are the Chinese coronavirus tests?
• The urgent need to end US reliance on China for national security equipment

With Sasha Gong, Gordon Chang, Chuck Devore and David Goldman

SASHA GONG, Former VOA’s China Branch Chief, Author of “Born American: A Chinese Woman’s Dream of Liberty”:

• China's continual attempt to pin blame for coronavirus on the US military
• Examining the Chinese record of pushing propaganda against the United States
• Steps China has taken against American reporters within their borders

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019):

• How is the coronavirus impacting the Communist Party of China?
• An increase of Chinese military presence in the waters surrounding Japan
• President Trump's remarks on disengaging from China

CHUCK DEVORE, Vice President of National Initiatives at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs (Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon) from 1986 to 1988, Former California Assemblyman:

• Signs that China may be ramping up their military force to prepare for a conflict with the United States
• What is the Thousand Talents Program?
• China's impact on the California Public Employees' Retirement System

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author of How Civilizations Die, Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler:

• Analyzing the financial climate of the US in response to coronavirus
• Potential for the US dollar to become the reserve currency of the world
• The impact of coronavirus on Saudi and Russian oil prices