Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Kurt Schlichter, Dr. Leon Aron, Bronwyn Bruton, and Fred Fleitz

KURT SCHLICHTER, senior columnist at Town Hall:

• Obama’s role in the rise of ISIS
• How the media serves the interest of one party

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

• Putin using foreign incursions to garner his population’s ‘militarized patriotism”
• Russian propaganda shifting attention from Syria back to Ukraine
• Are Estonia and Latvia next for the Kremlin?

BRONWYN BRUTON, Deputy Director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council:

• The political protests in Ethiopia

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

• Discussion on the true purpose of the Iran nuclear deal
• Clinton emails’ role in an Iranian scientist’s death?

Bing West, Diana West, Justin Johnson, and Samuel Bendett

BING WEST, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, USMC Force Recon veteran in Vietnam:

• Discussion on Iraq’s future
• Obama’s alliance with Iran
• Redrawing the map of Mesopotamia

DIANA WEST, nationally syndicated columnist:

• The Khan political spectacle
• Trump’s plan for dealing with the refugee crisis
• Learning from Europe’s failed immigration policies

JUSTIN JOHNSON, Senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation:

• The military’s budget woes continue
• Dwindling combat capabilities of the US Armed Forces

SAMUEL BENDETT, defense and foreign policy analyst at the Center for Naval Analysis:

• Russian development of UAVs
• Increasing Russian presence in the Middle East
• Potential for Turkey and Russia partnership

Dean Cheng, Michael Pregent, Joseph Connor, and Michael Cutler

DEAN CHENG, Senior research fellow at the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation:

• Discussion on China’s aggressive expansion
• RIMPAC and China’s inclusion
• Obama’s continued capitulation to the Chinese

MICHAEL PREGENT, former US Army Intelligence Officer, Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute:

• Shia militias committing atrocities in Iraqi cities
• ISIS to adopt the al Qaeda model for Iraq
• Arming the Sunni tribes, recognizing the Kurds, and distancing from the Iranian-backed government in Baghdad

JOSEPH CONNOR, Co-author of “The New Founders,” and regular contributor to Breibart.com:

• Discussing the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay
• Iran hostage ransom and Hillary Clinton’s past with releasing terrorists
• Obama’s capitulation to the Castros 

MICHAEL CUTLER, Senior Fellow at Californians for Population Stabalization:

• The Trump/Khan feud
• Clinton’s plan to open the country to more Middle Eastern refugees
• Impact of giving citizenship to illegal aliens

Kyle Shideler, Dr. Luis Fleischman, Claudia Rosett, and Gordon Chang

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

• Israel’s arrest of the Gazan World Vision employee on charges of corruption and funding of Hamas
• Arrest of DC metro policeman for support of ISIS

Dr. LUIS FLEISCHMAN, author of “Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era: The Threats to US Security”:

• Madura’s new cabinet appointment
• Drug trafficking as state policy in Venezuela
• Policy of tolerance towards terrorism in Latin America

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign affairs columnist at Forbes.com and foreign policy fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum:

• Discussion about the $400 million ransom to Iran

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

• North Korea’s ballistic missile launch
• China’s imminent population crisis
• China’s currency and economy
• Territorial incursions and resource-grabs around the world

Richard Pollock, Shoshana Bryen, Dr. Daniel Gouré, and Jim Hanson

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior investigative reporter with the Daily Caller:

• The Clinton Foundation’s Sharia promoting backers

SHOSHANA BRYEN, Senior Director at the Jewish Policy Institute:

• Danger to the US airbase at Incirlik, Turkey
• Lack of a policy direction in Afghanistan
• Possible war between Israel and Hezbollah

Dr. DANIEL GOURÉ, Vice President of the Lexington Institute, former Director of Strategic Competitiveness in the Department of Defense:

• Nature of the Putin regime and prospects for peace
• Russia’s emboldening
• US’s need for a modernized deterrent
• The Third Offset

JIM HANSON, former operator in the US Army Special Forces, Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy:

• The Trump/Khan feud
• $400 million ransom to Iran
• Assessment on the Iran Deal one year later
• The spread of ISIS

Andy McCarthy, Steve Cook, Rep. Rob Bishop, Fred Fleitz, and Dr. Bruce Bechtol

ANDY MCCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• Discussion on the Clintons’ associations with Islamist entities
• Donald Trump’s feud with the Khans

STEVE COOK, President of the National Association of Assistant United States Attorneys:

• Criminal justice reform and non-violent offenders
• Correlation between drug trafficking and firearm’s charges
• Congressional legislation on the matter by Paul Ryan
• Recidivism rates and public safety

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Rep. ROB BISHOP (UT-1), Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee and member of the House Armed Services Committee:

• Discussion on the Sage Grouse and its protected status
• Navy’s banning of sonar due to alleged effects on marine mammals
• Obama’s no first use policy
• The F-35

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

• The $400 million ransom to Iran
• NPR’s role in the Iran Deal
• Deadly terrorist attack in London

Dr. BRUCE BECHTOL, professor at Angelo State University, former DIA official:

• North Korea’s recent missile launch aimed at inciting Japan
• 32 missile launches in the Kim Jong-un era
• Cooperation between Tehran and Pyongyang
• Obama’s legacy on the Hermit Kingdom
• Popular sentiment regarding a nuclear deterrent for South Korea

Dinesh D'Souza

DINESH D’SOUZA, creator of the new documentary, “Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party”:

• Discussion on history of the Democratic Party and corruption in its ranks

(PART TWO):

• Prior status of the Democratic Party being pro-slavery
• Abe Lincoln’s VP, Andrew Johnson, and his views on slavery
• Woodrow Wilson’s presidency

(PART THREE):

• A progressive and historical view of FDR
• Inner cities as modern-day plantations
• Profile of Lyndon B. Johnson

(PART FOUR):

• The “urban plantation” and how the Democrats use dependency
• The distinction between legal and illegal immigration
• Hillary Clinton’s relationship with Saul Alinsky

(PART FIVE):

• Hillary Clinton’s Alinsky roots
• The differences and similarities between Obama and Hillary Clinton
• Criminal Justice reform

Peter Huessy and Dr. Keith Payne

PETER HUESSY, President of Geostrategic Analysis:

• Status of Iran’s nuclear program a year after the Iran Deal’s signing
• Iran’s aiding of North Korea
• Collaboration among America’s antagonists

(PART TWO):

• Full Russian nuclear modernization by 2022
• New Chinese weapons of war
• Cost of no US deterrence
• Proliferation due to a lack of American strength?

Dr. KEITH PAYNE, professer at Missouri State University’s Defence and Strategic Studies Department and President of the National Institute for Public Policy:

• Discussion on Obama’s no first use policy
• Other countries’ policies on preemptive use of nuclear weapons
• The arms control agenda

(PART TWO):

• The aging US nuclear arsenal and shrinking force numbers

Rep. Robert Pittenger, Steve Bucci, and Gordon Chang

Rep. ROBERT PITTENGER (NC-9), serves on the House Committee on Financial Services and is the Vice Chairman of the Terrorism Proliferation Financing task force:

• Using finance tools to defeat ISIS
• Bill on anti-terror tools for the Treasury Department
• Sisi and his war on radical Islamic terrorists

STEVE BUCCI, visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former senior officer in the US Special Forces:

• Opinion on the alleged Russian involvement in the DNC email leaks
• Whether Putin can work with the West
• The Trump/Khan battle

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China”, blogs at World Affairs Journal:

• The Nine Dash Line
• China’s defiance of norms and international laws
• Speculation on a Trump presidency
• A nuclear armed South Korea

(PART TWO):

• Trump and Clinton’s approaches to Russia/Putin
• Concerns about Obama’s no first use policy

Rep. French Hill, Ken Timmerman, Garry Kasparov, Ilan Berman, and Mauricio Claver-Carone

Rep. FRENCH HILL, Representative of the second district of Arkansas and serves on the Financial Services Committee and former deputy assistant secretary at the Treasury Department:

• Talk about the global war on terror
• Iran’s terror financing
• Hillary’s Clinton’s speech

KEN TIMMERMAN, author of “Deception: The Making of the YouTube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi”:

• Policy failures in Libya and Syria
• Why Hillary and Obama blamed the YouTube video for the Benghazi attack
• Revelations from the redacted 28 pages of the 9/11 Commission 

GARRY KASPAROV, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, visiting fellow at the Oxford Martin School, author, speaker, and 13^th World Chess Champion:

• Discussion on Putin and the threat he poses to democratic processes in the West

ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council, Editor of The Journal of International Security Affairs, and author of the recently-released “Iran’s Deadly Ambition:The Islamic Republic’s Quest for Global Power”:

• Putin’s culpability in the DNC email hack
• His affinity for Donald Trump
• Turkey’s coup and the effect on Europe

MAURICIO CLAVER-CARONE, Executive Director of Cuba Democracy Advocates, Co-founder and Director of the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC:

• Obama’s propping up of the Cuban military
• Cuba’s involvement in Venezuela