Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Rep. Randy Weber and Dr. Peter Navarro

With Rep. Randy Weber and Dr.Peter Navarro

 

REP.RANDY WEBER, Represents the 14^th district of Texas and Chairmanof the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s Energy Subcommittee,member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee:

 

·      Terrorist attack inOrlando and the threat of Sharia norms.

·      The JCPOA nuclear dealand the threat of Iran’s regional hegemony in the Middle East

·      Vulnerability of the USgrid to an Iranian EMP attack?

 

Dr.PETER NAVARRO, Professor at the Merage School of Business at the Unviersity ofCalifornia-Irvine, co-author of “Warning Order: China Prepares for Conflict andWhy We Must Do the Same”:

 

·      US-China recentdiscussions on lowering hostilities

·      China’s islandbuilding

·      Upcoming internationaldecision on Chinese claims to the East China Sea 

 

(PARTTWO):

 

·      Military industrialcomplex of the Beijing government fueling instability in the Western Pacific

·      Economic relationshipbetween the US and China not enough to prevent full-scale war

·      Cyber theft of Americanintellectual property

·      Defining ‘asymmetric’ and‘unrestricted’ warfare

 

(PARTTHREE):

 

·      The strength of theChinese Navy and their use of stolen US technology

·      Dangers of a shrinking USnaval presence around the world

·      How China will underminethe intended purpose of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Rowan Scarborough, Richard Manning, Frank Calzon, Gordon Chang

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, author of "Rumsfeld’s War" and “Sabotage”, national security columnist at the Washington Times:

• Talk about the Orlando terror attack and the jihad in America
• ISIS’s media infrastructure and the importance of destroying the group’s headquarters in Raqqa
• The mistake of closing Guantanamo Bay and releasing detainees

(PART TWO):

• Security risks to Egypt and Israel from an increased Islamic State foothold in the Sinai Peninsula
• Navy Secretary Ray Mabus' legacy
• How social engineering harms military readiness
• Women to be eligible for selective service?

RICHARD MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

• The Orlando Attacks
• Net Neutrality and internet censorship
• The TPP Deal

FRANK CALZON, executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba:

• Conversation about the Obama Administration’s Cuba policy
• Human rights violations by the Castro regime

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

• Assessment of China’s economic performance in 2016 so far
• China’s stock market darlings, Alibaba and Lenovo’s recent struggles
• China’s support of the North Korean nuclear program
• North Korea and China’s assessments of Donald Trump

Andy McCarthy, Phil Haney, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, Ken Timmerman

ANDY McCARTHY, former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and columnist for National Review Online:

• Discussion of the Orlando terror attack
• The nature of Sharia and its treatment of homosexuals
• The Blind Sheik’s influence
• The failure to combat domestic, fundamental Islam

PHILIP HANEY, former DHS official:

• Massacre in Orlando
• Orlando shooter’s ties to the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce in Florida
• Who is CAIR?

Rep. MARIO DIAZ-BALART (FL-25), Member of the House Appropriations Committee:

• Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Bill
• Practical effects of Obama supporting the MB
• Implosion of Venezuela

KEN TIMMERMAN, author of “Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi”:

• “Political correctness” kills
• Worldwide spread of Jihad
• Iran as the true “Islamic State”
• Will justice ever be dealt in regards to the Benghazi attacks?

(PART TWO):

• Obama/Clinton smear campaign about the YouTube video that was purported to have caused the attacks on the US Consulate in Benghazi
• Revisiting the EgyptAir disaster
• Renewed debate on Saddam Hussein and WMDs
• ISIS use of chemical weapons in Syria and Iraq

Kevin Freeman

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, author of “Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again”:

• Saudi price war to break the US fracking industry
• Competing currencies other than the petrodollar
• Pro-Saudi lobbying efforts in Washington with the support of Wall Street?

(PART TWO):

• George Soros’ meddling with Europe’s economy and causing further destabilization by advocating for open borders
• Was the 2008 financial crisis the result of economic terrorism?
• Brexit effect on the U.S. economy 

(PART THREE):

• Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a good idea?
• Likelihood China will be brought in to the TPP

(PART FOUR):

• North Korean hacking of SWIFT transfer system
• Dangers of American companies doing business with China
• Vulnerability of the Fed to cyber terrorism
• “Deterrence by denial”

(PART FIVE):

• ICANN Agreement resulting in US losing cyber deterrence
• Phenomenon of negative interest rates in Europe and Japan
• Moscow and Beijing government efforts to exploit US foreign debt
• Global marketplace as a ‘global battle space’ 

Sen. David Vitter, Fred Fleitz, Dr. J. Michael Waller and Dr. Derek Scissors

Sen. DAVID VITTER (R-LA), Chairman of the Congressional Border Security Caucus, Senate Deputy Whip:

• Will criminal justice reform be a jail break for jihadists?
• Pro-Palestinian sentiment continues in the United Nations
• "Standing as Member States Act"
• US buying material used in the Iranian nuclear program
• Terrorist activity south of the border

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

• Ploughshares fund promotion of the nuclear deal with Iran
• NPR blocking Congressman Mike Pompeo
• Lies sold by the administration to pass the JCPOA
• Former Gitmo detainees returning to terrorism

Dr. J. MICHAEL WALLER, Editorial Board Member of the NATO Defense Strategic Communications Journal, Senior Writer at the American Media Institute:

• Chinese and Russian influence on Hollywood
• “Russia Today” propaganda
• Is the Ben Rhodes’ echo chamber legal?
• How Congress can address foreign propaganda

Dr. DEREK SCISSSORS, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, author of “China Global Investment Tracker”:

• China acquiring numerous German tech companies
• Beijing’s Foreign Exchange Reserve dwindling
• Obama administration negotiating bilateral trade deal with China 

Patrick Poole, Diana West, Daniel Horowitz and Daniel Gallington

PATRICK POOLE, investigative reporter at PJ Media:

• Discussion on the “Lone Wolf” fallacy regarding domestic jihadist terrorism
• Instances of jihadist recruiting out of U.S. mosques
• The Obama Administration's "CVE" strategies hampering law enforcement's fight against radicalism 

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, author of “Death of the Grown Up”:

• Parallels between 1950s Communist subversion and the current immigration debate 

DANIEL HOROWITZ, senior editor at Conservative Review:

• Alarming census data on illegal immigration
• Learning from European mistakes in tackling the Syrian refugee crisis
• Reorienting US foreign policy towards Iran
• Reforming the US Presidential Primaries

DANIEL GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor at the George C. Marshall Institute:

• Comparing the qualifications of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump 
• Trump’s departure from foreign policy orthodoxy
• Danger China poses to the US

Dr. Stephen Blank

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

• Outcome of the “Russian Reset”
• Moscow’s ambition to reconstitute a neo-imperialist state
• Putin’s exploitation of existing cracks within Europe 

(PART TWO):

• Russian modernization of air, ground, sea and ballistic missile capabilities
• Militarization of the Arctic Sea
• Violation of treaties
• Putin’s “leap forward”

(PART THREE):

• Vice Admiral Foggo’s warnings of increased Russian submarine activity
• Lack of a U.S. response to aggression from the Kremlin
• “Escalate to Deescalate” doctrine
• Has Russia been testing low-yield nuclear weapons?
• Hypersonic delivery systems for ICBMs

(PART FOUR):

• Use of energy in economic warfare
• Russian use of information technology to manipulate the mass media

Rick Fisher

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

• Beijing’s reinterpretation of the Law of the Sea Treaty
• Chinese Naval access in Djibouti, Gwadar, Sri Lanka and Iran

(PART TWO):

• Danger of downsizing U.S. Air Base on the Azores islands
• China’s access to the Panama Canal

(PART THREE):

• The Underwater Great Wall of China and the threat it poses to U.S. submarines

(PART FOUR):

• Beijing’s cyber theft of American military technology
• Air Defense systems and ground force modernization of the People’s Liberation Army

(PART FIVE):

• Vulnerability of Taiwan to China’s increased military capabilities
• Beijing’s goals for the moon
• The complete reorganization of the PLA

Bing West, Michael Bastasch, Dr. Ted Bromund and Bill Gertz

BING WEST, Served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan administration:

• Faith in the rightness of our cause
• The fight against ISIS
• Hillary’s self-evaluation of her tenure as Secretary of State

MICHAEL BASTASCH, Investigative reporter at the Daily Caller:

• California lawmakers may ban global warming deniers
• John Kerry’s financial holdings in fossil fuels
• Supreme Court ruling on the Clean Water Act

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

• Likelihood the Brexit will occur
• Why British citizens are fed up with the EU
• The Arms Trade Treaty

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at The Washington Free Beacon:

• Obama hosting Cuban border guards at Coast Guard facilities
• Chinese participation in RIMPAC
• The President’s lack of a deterrent strategy for cyber-attacks

Dr. Ilan Berman, Michael Cutler, Kevin Freeman and Fred Fleitz

Dr. ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Potential for conflict between Russia and NATO
• JCPOA nearly one year later
• Is Iran helping prop up the Venezuelan regime?

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services:

• Latest surge at the border
• The lawlessness of sanctuary cities
• DACA

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Author of “Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack”:

• Cyber attacks on SWIFT
• Russian and Chinese alternatives to U.S. based international financial systems

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

• Clinton’s disastrous foreign policy legacy
• Who maintained Hillary’s server?
• Eric Holder’s praise for Edward Snowden