Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Dr. Harold Rhode, Tom Popik and Robert Spalding

HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense, Author of Modern Islamic Warfare: An Ancient Doctrine Marches On (2017):

• Erdogan launches attach on Kurdish forces
• What motivated Trump to withdraw troops from Syria?
• Why Turkey should no longer be considered a U.S. ally

(PART TWO):

• An overview of the Sunni/Shia divide
• Dissecting foreign influence in Syria
• How ominous developments in Syria will implicate Israel

TOM POPIK, Chairman, President, Director and co-founder of the Foundation for Resilient Societies:

• The vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid
• The horrific consequences a blackout would have for society
• Why all eyes should be on Northern California

ROBERT SPALDING, Former Special Assistant to the U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, Former Military Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, Former Chief China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, Former Senior Defense Official and Defense Attache to China in Beijing, China, Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council:

• Trump resumes Huawei’s purchases of some U.S. telecommunications equipment
• The moral cost of doing business with China
• Xi Jinping’s global economic ambitions

With Diana West, Joe Bosco, Michael Pregent and Michael Cutler

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:

• The Left’s use of defection and projection in the House
• New developments in the anti-Trump conspiracy
• Prospects of the impeachment inquiry

JOE BOSCO, Former China Country Director, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Member of the U.S.-China task force at the Center for National Interest:

• Why the NBA should resist China’s censorship tactics
• The current state of Hong Kong
• Beijing celebrates 70^th anniversary of the PRC

MICHAEL PREGENT, Visiting fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, Executive Director of Veterans Against the Iran deal, Embedded with the Peshmurga in Mosul ’05-’06, Worked to malign Iranian influence in Iraq as an advisor to Iraq’s security and Intelligence apparatus”

• What do we know about Erdogan-Trump conversation regarding Syria
• Should Turkey continue to be considered a U.S. ally?
• Why we must not abandon the Kurds
• How an ISIS resurgence benefits Iran

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, Hosts the radio show “The Michael Cutler Hour” on Friday evenings on BlogTalk Radio:

• Why does the U.S. remain so vulnerable to terror attacks
• Implications of the ‘thrift-savings plan’
• The presence of Hezbollah cells in America

With Fred Fleitz, Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman and Robert Charles

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):

• Ongoing effort by House Intel Committee to uncover whistleblower identity
• Recent developments in the whistleblower narrative
• Should Rep. Schiff’s should be removed from intel committee?

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 current state of play in Hong Kong
• Beijing bans protesters from wearing face masks
• Why no American company has a future in a communist China

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 bullies NBA into retracting support of HK protesters
• Dangers of Beijing’s censoring of communication in the U.S.
• An overview of Xi Jinping’s human rights abuses

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:

• Prospects for the impeachment inquiry
• Trump’s decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria
• Why America should continue to follow a policy of deterrence

With Douglas Murray

DOUGLAS MURRAY, Best-selling author of five books, Latest book: The Madness of Crowds, Associate Editor at The Spectator:

• The fundamental transformation of Europe
• Implications of the political correctness agenda
• Who is waging the recent cultural battles?

(PART TWO):

• The weaponization of intersectional politics
• Dissecting the agendas of Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• An overview of the red-green axis

(PART THREE):

• The cumulative effects of the ‘March Through the Institutions’
• Defining intersectionality
• Dangers of Sharia blasphemy restrictions

(PART FOUR):

• The three aspects to consider regarding migration
• Consequences of the transformation of Europe
• The current state of Brexit

With David Goldman, Doug Feith, Michaela Dodge, and Nicholas Eftimiades

DAVID GOLDMAN, Spengler columnist for Asia Times and PJ Media:

• Display of new drones during China’s 70^th Anniversary military parade
• Xi Jinping’s speech this week
• Possible outcomes of Hong Kong protests

DOUG FEITH, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, former undersecretary of Defense for Policy during the Bush Administration:

• Context of the Iranian attack on Saudi oil facilities
• Potential negative effects of a substantive U.S. and Israel defense treaty
• Russia’s strategy for the Eastern Mediterranean

MICHAELA DODGE, Research Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy:

• U.S. nuclear deterrence under stress
• Implications of hypersonic missiles
• Need for space-based missile defense

NICHOLAS EFTIMIADES, 33-year intelligence career spanning several US government agencies, Lecturer at the School of Public Affairs at Penn State:

• China’s whole-of-society approach to intelligence operations
• Beijing’s American technology collection
• U.S. inadequacies dealing with foreign influence and counterintelligence

With John Rossomando, James Fanell, Dr. Stephen Blank and Todd Bensman

JOHN ROSSOMANDO, Senior Counterterrorism Analyst at the Investigative Project on Terrorism:

• Why Turkey should no longer be considered a U.S. ally
• Erdogan’s support for sharia supremacist operations
• The Muslim Brotherhood in America

JAMES 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:

• Aftermath of the 70^th anniversary of the PRC
• Why Beijing’s military parade should be a wake-up call for the U.S.
• The establishment of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for China

DR. STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council, 26 Years of Experience as a professor of National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of U.S. Army War College:

• Russia and China’s massive military exercise
• Dangers of the Sino-Russo strategic partnership
• What we know about the nuclear dimension of CENTER

TODD BENSMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Writing Fellow, Middle East Forum, Author, the Federalist, Political Columnist, Townhall:

• Terrorist threat in our southern border
• The significance of enforcing border security policies
• Why we can’t ignore our Northern border

With Fred Fleitz, Richard Pollock, Diana West and Mark Schneider

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):

• Why we must question the whistleblower’s motives
• Sign of a partisan bias in complaint?
• Validity behind the incessant claim that Trump threatened U.S. national security

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter at One America News Network:

• Dissecting the Hunter Biden Ukraine scandal
• Implications of the institutional coup-de-tat being mounted against the President
• An overview of the Clinton-Ukraine relationship

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:

• The latest continuum in the anti-Trump conspiracy
• The presence of the deep-state in the U.S. government
• Dangers of the bogus impeachment inquiries

MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy, Longtime career in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy:

• The magnitude of the threat we face from China in terms of nuclear weapons
• Yesterday’s PRC 70^th anniversary military parade in Beijing
• Russia’s aim to monopolize on intermediate range ballistic missiles
• Is Russia’s proposed moratorium on missile deployment credible?

With Brad Thayer, Claudia Rosett, Gordon Chang and Kevin Freeman

BRAD THAYER, Professor of International Security Studies a Tallinn University, Has worked for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Rand Corporation and served as a senior analyst for the National Institute for Public Policy:

• 70^th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China
• How the U.S. has successively propped up the Chinese Communist Party
• Why past policies of engagement have failed

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

• Live coverage on the current state of Hong Kong
• The basic demand of the HK protesters
• The threshold of violence has been breached in HK

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)

• Recent reports from Hong Kong indicate a war-zone
• Hong Kong police force uses escalating violence against protesters
• Takeaways from the PRC’s 70^th anniversary military parade

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 continues to wage unrestricted warfare against the U.S.
• How the U.S. underwrites Beijing’s economy
• 70th anniversary of China's Communist Party's misrule 

With Hans von Spakovsky, Rick Fisher, Peter Huessy and Joseph Humire

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:

• Alleged improper conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President
• Democrats announce formal impeachment inquiry of Trump
• How Joe Biden abused his power while in office

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow, Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, Former Consultant on PLA issues for the Congressionally chartered U.S. China Security and Economic Review Commission:

• Implications of China’s aim to gain global military superiority
• Why the One Belt One Road Initiative is a neo-colonial enterprise
• An overview of Beijing’s counter-space capabilities
• The upcoming 70^th anniversary of the PRC

PETER HUESSY, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Former Senior Defense Consultant at the National Defense University Foundation, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council:

• The current state of the U.S. nuclear deterrent
• Why sustaining the Strategic Modernization Program is critical
• Dangers of China and Russia’s advancing capabilities

JOSEPH HUMIRE, Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society, Former Director of Institute Relations at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Author of Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America (2014):

• Iran’s subversive presence in Latin America
• Why Hezbollah must be designated a terrorist organization by all Latin American nations
• We must pay attention to the Lebanese diaspora

With Russ Dallen, Diana West, Bill Marshall and David Goldman

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 demise of Venezuela at the hands of Maduro
• Consequences of Russia’s propping up of the Maduro regime
• The invoking of the Rio Treaty

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:

• The latest manifestations of the assault on President Trump
• Dissecting the recent whistleblower claims
• Implications of the media’s existing echo-chamber
• Cultural Marxist’s indoctrination of American youth

BILL MARSHALL, Has been an intelligence analyst and investigator in the government, the private sector, and the non-profit sector for 30 years, Senior Investigator for Judicial Watch:

• An overview of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s background
• Are congressional ethics committees impactful?
• What launched the anti-Trump counterintelligence investigation?

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

• The role Russia and Turkey played in Iran’s Saudi oil attack
• Dangers of Erdogan’s nuclear ambitions
• Why Turkey should no longer be considered a U.S. ally