Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Doug Feith, Diana West, Jim Hanson and Luis Fleischman

DOUG FEITH, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute:

• President Obama and Secretary Kerry’s flawed understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Did U.S. policy toward Israel change as a result of the passage of the anti-Israel U.N. resolution?
• The legality of Israeli settlements
• Possibility that John Kerry will recognize Palestine as a state at a Paris Peace conference

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

• The origins of the United Nations
• Alger Hiss
• The advisability of a Trump “reset” with Russia

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

• S. Special forces dispatched to the Baltics means
• Is Keith Ellison the future of the Democratic Party?
• German intelligence failures 

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

• Russia’s dealings in the Western hemisphere
• Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations in Latin America

With Harold Rhode, Tom Popik, Gordon Chang and Chris Farrell

HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense:

• New Years attack in Turkey
• Latest Syrian cease-fire
• U.N.’s Israel resolution 

TOM POPIK, President and Co-founder of the Foundation of Resilient Societies:

• Russian hacking into Vermont utility computer
• Widespread malware in utility companies across the country and what can be done about it
• U.S. Electric gird prime target for sabotage

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast contributor:

• Trump’s response to Kim Jong Un’s ICBM threat
• Did Donald Trump start a new nuclear arms race with a tweet?
• Peter Navarro’s Chinese trade policy 

CHRIS FARRELL, Director of Investigations at Judicial Watch:

• Update on Hillary Clinton’s emails
• Huma Abedin’s handling of classified information
• Evidence of jihadists on the border
• House GOP dismantling of Ethics office

With Garry Kasparov, Mark Krikorian, Abigail Esman and Jim Hanson

GARRY KASPAROV, 13^th World Chess Champion, Author of Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped:

• What happened after the USSR collapsed?
• Vladimir Putin’s use of terror to seize and maintain power
• The strength of Putin’s regime 

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director at the Center for Immigration Studies:

• Status of immigration after 8 years of Obama
• Why building a border wall should not be Trump’s first priority
• Effectiveness of e-verify
• How to prevent visa overstays

ABIGAIL ESMAN, Award-winning essayist, journalist, columnist and author:

• What we should learn about the terrorist attacks in Germany
• Banning sharia courts in the U.K.
• What a parallel judiciary means for English common law
• “No go” zones

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

• Berlin attack
• How to vet immigrants that want to come to the U.S.
• Donald Trump’s recent comments on how he will shape nuclear policy

With Michel Gurfinkiel, Robert Knight, Rep. Lamar Smith and Fred Fleitz

MICHEL GURFINKIEL, Founder and President of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute:

• The rapid deterioration of German national security in 2016
• Jihadist threat in France
• Cultural dissonance in Europe

ROBERT KNIGHT, Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union, Columnist for The Washington Times:

• Fake News hysteria
• Micro-propaganda
• Who are the arbiters of what is and is not “fake news”?
  Obama’s Presidential pardons

REP. LAMAR SMITH, Chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, Member of the House Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees:

• Border security and interior enforcement in the law under the Trump administration
• Obama administration fired scientist to further climate change agenda
• Is the science ‘settled’ on climate change?
• Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy, former CIA officer:

• Latest on Berlin Christmas market attack
• 5 things Americans need to know about the intelligence debate
• Peter Navarro heads Trump’s trade council

With Harold Rhode, Dr. Stephen Blank and Diana West

 HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense:

• Assassination of Russian ambassador in Ankara by an off duty Turkish police officer
• Sectarian cleansing at the hands of Syrian government, Iranians and Russians
• Why Moscow can’t compromise with Sunnis

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

• Russian attitude towards the Turks
• The Kremlin’s nuclear build up
• “Kanyon”drone
• Rex Tillerson’s connections to Putin 

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

• Somersaulting in synchronization
• Narrow focus of Left’s concern about Russia

 

With John Guandolo, Clare Lopez, Jessica Vaughan and Russ Dallen

JOHN GUANDOLO, President and Founder of Understanding the Threat:

• Assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey
• Jihadist attack at a Berlin Christmas market
• Are mosques churches?

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

• Shiite crescent
• Why the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey is not about the Islamic State

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

• The false argument in favor of sanctuary cities
• The nullification of federal law
• How the Trump administration can deal with sanctuaries 

RUSS DALLEN, Latin American Herald Tribune Editor-in-Chief:

• Venezuela’s cash crisis
• How the Maduro regime is surviving the unrest
• Rex Tillerson’s history with the government of Venezuela as ExxonMobil chief executive

With Rep. Louie Gohmert, Rep. Doug Lamborn, Father Benedict Kiely and Gordon Chang

REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (TX-1), Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations:

• Tracking bill
• Obama’s “War on Radicalization”

(PART TWO):

• The Obama administration’s aide to the Muslim Brotherhood at home and abroad
• The importance of the Muslim Brotherhood being designated as a terrorist organization
• Will Donald Trump actually build a physical barrier along the border?
• Rick Perry’s appointment

REP. DOUG LAMBORN (CO-5), Member of the House Armed Services committee, Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces:

• Will Obama succeed in emptying Guantanamo in the last days of his administration?
• Obama’s potential action against Israel at the U.N.
• Mike Mulvaney as Trump’s budget director

FATHER BENEDICT KIELY, Founder of Nasarean.org:

• First hand account of Christian persecution in Iraq
• N. refugee camps infiltrated by ISIS
• What Christian refugees are expecting from Donald Trump

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast contributor:

• What motivated Beijing to seize U.S. drone?
• How the Fed raising interest rates affected the Chinese bond market
• Militarization of South China Sea

With Rep. Chris Stewart and Phil Haney

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

• Disagreement between Intelligence agencies on the Russia hacking
• Moscow’s real motivation for e-mail hacks
• Disproving the theory that Putin wanted Trump to beat Clinton

(PART TWO):

• Rex Tillerson’s friendship with Vladimir Putin
• Recent Iranian sanctions
• Boeing deal with Tehran

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:

• A DHS Whistleblower’s story
• How “Lone Wolf” terrorists are really more similar to ants

(PART TWO):

• Muslim Brotherhood’s impact on our ability to understand the threat
• Countering Violent Extremism
• Janet Napolitano’s declaration of all UC schools as sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants

With Fred Fleitz, Rick Fisher and Benjamin Weingarten

(PART ONE):

• The Left-Wing Media’s attempts to delegitimize Trump

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at CSP, Former CIA Analyst:

• CIA assessment on Russia hacking
• Extensive evidence of the politicization of the CIA
• Making American intelligence great again

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

• Major policy shift in U.S. relations with China under the Trump administration
• How to take on China’s currency manipulation without pushing Beijing into active military measures

BENJMAIN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC:

• Loretta Lynch’s safe space for jihadists
• SPLC’s false claim that hate crimes have increased since Donald Trump was elected

With Ambassador Yoram Ettinger

AMBASSADOR YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in Washington, D.C.:

• Challenges Israel faces on the front lines of the war for the free world

(PART TWO):

• How Jihadists are required to respond to appeasement
• The ISIS threat to Israel

(PART THREE):

• The various forms of jihad
• How Israel successfully takes on threats from radical Islam

(PART FOUR):

• Obama’s potential U.N. action against Israel
• The effect (or lack thereof) of the BDS movement on the Israeli economy

 (PART FIVE):

• The outlook for U.S.-Israeli relations under a Trump administration