Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Mark Helprin

 

MARK HELPRIN, Novelist, journalist and conservative commentator, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations:

• Putin: partner, adversary or something in between?
• Did Russia want to bring Donald Trump to power?
• The danger from the modernized Russian nuclear program 

(PART TWO):

• How a weakening NATO has emboldened Putin
• Potential for miscalculation and conventional conflict tin Europe
• The success of China establishing hegemony in Asia
• Is Beijing preparing for conflict?

(PART THREE):

• What the Chinese demographic crisis means for potential conflict
• Implications of call between President-elect Trump and Taiwan
• Might Japan and South Korea decide to arm themselves with nuclear weapons?
• Threat from nuclear North Korea

(PART FOUR):

• Pyongyang’s ballistic missile program
• What President Trump should do with the Iran deal
• Should President Trump designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization?

(PART FIVE):

• A return to peace through strength
• Social engineering in the military

 

With Clare Lopez, Dr. Harold Rhode, Andy McCarthy and Gordon Chang

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy:

• Is the intelligence community politicized?
• President-elect Trump not taking daily intelligence briefings
• Boeing sells 80 passenger planes to Iran
• Suicide bombings in Istanbul

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

• What should happen to the Iran deal
• How U.S. should respond to aggression from Tehran
• Erdogan’s party submits a bill to expand Presidential powers
• Is Turkey still a reliable NATO ally?

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

• President-elect Trump’s response to the CIA assessment on Russia hacking the Presidential election
• Was Putin truly trying to get Trump elected?
• Rex Tillerson’s possible appointment to Secretary of State
• How President Trump should handle the Iran deal

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

• Explanation of the “One China Policy” and how the media--including the New York Times-- continually get it wrong
• Consequences if U.S. recognized an independent Taiwan
• Whether countries in the WTO will give China ‘Market Economy Status’

With Bill Gertz, Elaine Donnelly, Steve Bucci, and Faith McDonnell

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Russia’s new nuclear-capable drone submarine
• China’s anti-satellite missile tests
• Chinese force projection doctrine

ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President of the Center for Military Readiness:

• How General Mattis can end social engineering in the military and refocus on effectiveness
• John McCain’s provisions for Selective Service in the NDAA

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

• Refuting the claim that ex-generals in Trump’s cabinets will threaten a civilian-run military
• Robust missile defense
• Reducing the size of the National Security Council
• Russian moving new missiles to Eastern Europe

FAITH MCDONNELL, Director of Religious Liberty Programs at the Institute on Religion and Democracy:

• Latest news from South Sudan
• Role U.S. should be playing in the South Sudan conflict
• Genocide in the Middle East

With Rowan Scarborough, Claudia Rosett, and Fred Fleitz

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, National Security Reporter at The Washington Times:

• Marine Corps General Kelly appointed to lead DHS
• General Kelly’s experience commanding SOCOM
• How General Mattis can educate Trump about Putin 

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

• Why John Bolton is the best choice for Secretary of State
• How Rand Paul is misinformed about Bolton’s role in the Iraq war
• Agendas of the permanent bureaucracy in Washington
• “Burrowing in” 

(PART TWO):

• Russia’s nuclear-capable drone submarine
• What Trump can do with the Iran deal

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Affairs columnist at Forbes.com:

• What Nikki Haley should do at the United Nations
• Obama’s U.N. action on Israel

With Craig Shirley

CRAIG SHIRLEY, Author of several best-selling books including December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World:

• How much did FDR know and when did he know it before the attack on Pearl Harbor?
• December 4^th Office of Naval Intelligence Memo

(PART TWO):

• Disproving the theory that FDR did nothing about the Pearl Harbor attack because he wanted to get involved in the War

 (PART THREE):

• Similarities between today and the 1940s
• What shaped Reagan into the kind of leader he was?

(PART FOUR):

• The Reagan national security legacy and what we can learn from it today
• National Security Decision Directive 75 

(PART FIVE):

• Advice for future President Trump
• Trump’s call to Taiwan
• Why Admiral Husband Kimmel and General Walter Short should be pardoned

 

With Michael Cutler, Admiral Ace Lyons, Kyle Shideler, Diana West

MICHAEL CUTLER, Senior Fellow at the Californians for Population Stabilization:

• Australia immigration deal
• Federal government refuses divulge records of abuse of unaccompanied minors in their care
• Value of E-verify

ADMIRAL JAMES “ACE” LYONS (Ret.), Former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the largest single military command in the world:

• What did FDR know in the run up to Pearl Harbor?
• Why Adm. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Short should have their honor and ranks restored

(PART TWO):

• Pax Americana
• Defending freedom of navigation against Chinese encroachment
• Important strategic move behind President-elect Trump’s phone call to Taiwan

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

• The origin of CAIR – Philadelphia 1993
• Nihad Awad
• Why CAIR is Hamas

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

• Lost history of the Soviets role in Pearl Harbor
• The greatest Communist achievement during the Cold War
• Why collectivists align with Islamists

With Rep. Trent Franks, Ambassador Hank Cooper, Gordon Chang and Richard Pollock

REP. TRENT FRANKS (AZ-8), Member of the House Armed Services Committee, Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities:

• Critical Infrastructure Protection Act – profound breakthrough for addressing the EMP threat
• Robust missile defense system
• UN Anti-Israel resolutions

AMBASSADOR HANK COOPER, Director of the Strategic Defensive Initiative Organization (SDIO) during the Bush Administration, Chairman of the Board of High Frontier:

• Brilliant Pebbles space-based missile defense system
• What Donald Trump can learn from Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars

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

• The shot across the bow heard round the world
• How Donald Trump’s call to Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen changed everything

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Foreign governments no longer interested in donating to the Clinton Foundation now that Hillary is out of power
• Prospect of investigating the foundation for violation of federal laws
• The media’s mistreatment of Steve Bannon

With Bill Gertz, Michaela Dodge, Benjamin Weingarten, Deroy Murdock

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring Columnist at the Washington Times:

• How Mattis can bypass federal law requiring defense secretaries to be out of the military for at least 7 years
• The State Department’s “Global Coalition to Counter ISIL”
• Suspected foreign agent posing as Navy officer
• The danger we face from hypersonic missiles

MICHAELA DODGE, Senior Policy Analyst at the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation:

• The first steps for the Trump Administration’s nuclear weapons policy
• Rejection of UN resolution to ban nuclear weapons testing

BENJMAIN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangUp Media LLC:

• Mattis’ controversial comments about Israel
• Why Senator Corker is not a good choice for Secretary of State

DEROY MURDOCK, National Review Contributing Editor, Fox News Contributor:

• The case for Rudy Giuliani as Secretary of State
• Why Mrs. Clinton must be prosecuted
• Likelihood of an Obama pardon for Hillary

With Dan Gallington, Luis Fleischman, Peter Pry, Fred Fleitz and Adam Kredo

With Dan Gallington, Luis Fleischman, Peter Pry, Fred Fleitz and Adam Kredo

DAN GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor, George C. Marshall Institute:

• The Trump cabinet choices thus far
• Who will Obama pardon before he leaves the White House?

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

• Trump’s policy towards Cuba
• Revising Obama’s deal with Havana
• Peace deal between the Colombian government and FARC

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

• Current state of the electric grid
• Building resilient infrastructures
• Cost of hardening the grid 

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs, former Chief of Staff for Ambassador John Bolton:

• Contrast between responses from Obama and Trump after Fidel Castro’s death
• Ben Rhodes’ representing U.S. to funeral of Fidel Castro
• John Bolton as the next potential Secretary of State

ADAM KREDO, Senior Writer for the Washington Free Beacon:

• Unaccompanied minors on the border
• Green card processing meltdown
• Twitter verifies Muslim Brotherhood mouthpiece 

 

With Diana West, Trevor Loudon, Jim Hanson, and Ken Timmerman

DIANA WEST, author of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character:

• History of “witch hunting” in America
• Post World War II Communist penetration of the U.S. government 

TREVOR LOUDON, Creator of the new documentary The Enemies Within:

• Enemies within our government
• Keith Ellison’s questionable connections
• The Southern Poverty Law Center’s claim that hate crimes are on the rise after Trump’s election

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

• Trump’s victory over jihad strategy
• Will Donald Trump’s campaign promises be diminished after media smear campaigns? 

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:

• Trump’s cabinet picks
• The unruly bureaucracy of the U.S. State Department