Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With John Guandolo, Bruce Bechtol and Bill Gertz

JOHN GUANDOLO, President and Founder of Understandingthethreat.com, Veteran of Desert Storm, Former commanding officer of an FBI SWAT team, Designated “Subject Matter Expert” by FBI Headquarters and created and implemented the FBI’s first Counterterrorism Training program focused on the Muslim Brotherhood and the global Islamic movement, Author of new book, Islam’s Deception: The Truth About Sharia:

• The reality of Sharia supremacism
• Dissecting the origins of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S.

(PART TWO):

• Implications of Omar Suleiman’s invitation to speak at House of Representatives
• CAIR’s association with Hamas
• Trump sets out to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization

BRUCE BECHTOL, Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University, Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Korea Observer, Member of the Board of Directors of the Council on U.S.-Korea Security Studies, President of the International Council on Korean Studies, Author of North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and instability (August 2018):

• Recent reinforcements of sanctions against North Korea
• Pyongyang’s resumption of weapons testing
• How China enables Kim Jong Un’s regime

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2016):

• Beijing’s ‘delaying tactic’ strategy
• Prospects of an effective China-U.S. trade deal
• XI’s unprecedented actions waged against the U.S.

With Rachelle Peterson, Jim Fanell, Dakota Wood and Diana West

RACHELLE PETERSON, Director of Research Projects at the National Association of Scholars, Policy Advisor for the Heartland Institute:

• The issue of ‘un-free speech’ in the U.S.
• President Trump’s major efforts to support first amendment rights across college campuses
• Dangerous implications of Confucius Institutes in America

JIM 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, Former National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University:

• Implications of a very capable Chinese navy
• The need to regard the Chinese as a formidable naval threat
• Defining ‘Han-Centrism’

DAKOTA WOOD, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs at the Heritage Foundation, Twenty-year career in the USMC, Former Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Recently served as a strategist for the United States Marine Corps Special Operations Command:

• How China’s Navy compares to U.S. naval forces
• Does U.S. still hold qualitative edge over adversarial forces?
• What is the Budget Control Act?

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:

• Asia Bibi is set free in Pakistan
• Dangers of Sharia blasphemy restrictions
• The significance of freedom of speech

With Fred Fleitz, Caroline Glick, Kevin Freeman and Mike Waller

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):

• Ominous developments in Iran
• One year anniversary of Trump’s withdrawal from Iran deal
• Dissecting the Kiron Skinner controversy

CAROLINE GLICK, Center for Security Policy’s Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs, Director of the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Israel Security Project, Senior Contributing Editor at The Jerusalem Post:

• The current Gaza/Israeli conflict
• Options for strategically changing current dynamic for Israel
• The benefits of designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Creator of Global Economic Warfare.com, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• Why the electromagnetic spectrum is a part of the battlespace domain
• The vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid

MIKE WALLER, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs at the Center for Security Policy:

• The evolution of Russia’s political warfare strategies
• The inadequacies of our counter-intelligence operations
• Implications of Chinese Confucius Institutes in the U.S.

With Robert Charles, Gordon Chang, Russ Dallen and Daniel Greenfield

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:

• The crisis at the U.S. southern border
• Dissecting the national security and public health implications of illegal immigration
• Who is enabling Hamas’ attacks against Israel?

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):

• Trump announces he will increase tariffs on Chinese imports
• The current state of U.S.-China trade talks
• Beijing wages unrestricted warfare against the U.S.

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 degree to which external powers are enabling Maduro’s regime
• The likelihood of the collapse of the Maduro government
• The current state of affairs in Venezuela

DANIEL GREENFIELD, Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center for Security Policy, Blogs at Sultan Knish, Contributing Fellow at Family Security Matters:

• Ominous developments in the Middle East
• The attacks from Hamas into Israel
• Erdogan’s pursuit of a caliphate

With Fred Fleitz, Bill Gertz, Todd Bensman and Claudia Rosett

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):

• One year anniversary of JCPOA withdrawal coming up
• Is war with Iran on the horizon?
• Why designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization is necessary

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2016):

• Trump’s recent Executive Order prioritizing U.S. electric grid vulnerabilities
• Implications of China’s influence operations in the U.S.
• How Obama’s DOJ abused FISA warrants to spy on Trump campaign

TODD BENSMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies:

• The dangers of traveling through Northern Mexico into the U.S.
• Why President Trump cut aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador
• Who is crossing our southern border today?

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

• The roles China and Russia have been playing in North Korea
• Pyongyang issues bill for Otto Warmbier’s medical care to the U.S.

 

With David Goldman, Michael Mabee, Kevin Freeman and David Goldman

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

• The reality and versatility of the Chinese threat
• Dangers of Beijing’s technological and military advancements
• Erdogan justifies the Armenian genocide

MICHAEL MABEE, Author of The Civil Defense Book: Emergency Preparedness for a Rural or Suburban Community:

• How EPRI functions as an electric industry lobbying group
• Implications of the state of the U.S. electric grid
• President Trump issues Executive Order addressing grid issue

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Creator of Global Economic Warfare.com, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• EPRI perpetuates misinformation campaign
• Consequences of China’s extensive intellectual property theft
• The risks of Britain allowing Huawei to enter their telecommunications systems

JOSE CARDENAS, Associate at VisiónAméricas, Blogs at Foreign Policy Magazine’s “Shadow Government,” Served in senior positions at the State Department, National Security Council, and USAID, Former Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin America at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the George W. Bush Administration:

• Dissecting the recent chaos in Venezuela
• How Cuba functions in Caracas
• Head of Venezuela’s secret police breaks with Maduro

With Sarah Stern, Diana West, Gordon Chang and Daniel Horowitz

SARAH STERN, Founder and President of the Endowment for Middle East Truth:

• The rise of anti-Semitism in the United States
• The intolerance of Jews embedded in Sharia supremacist ideology

DIANA WEST, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Blogs at DianaWest.net:

• What role did Michael Isikoff play in the Trump-Russia hoax
• Attorney General Barr to testify on Mueller report findings today
• U.S. courts confirm Fusion GPS paid journalists

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):

• China’s engagement in unrestricted warfare against the U.S.
• The current state of Xi Jinping’s One Belt One Road colonial enterprise
• Implications of China’s transferring of surveillance technology to adversarial governments

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review, Former Policy Director for the Madison Project, Has contributed to Red State.com, Breitbart, and The Blaze, Author of Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from:

• The current emergency at our southern border
• Consequences of U.S. “catch and release” asylum policy

With James Fanell, Bill Gertz, Joe diGenova and Mark Krikorian

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, Former National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University:

• Why China’s One Belt One Road Initiative serves as a colonial enterprise
• How Beijing is acquiring strategic locations using debt-trap diplomacy
• Is the U.S. financial sector enabling Xi’s BRI?

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2016):

• China’s militarization of the deep sea
• Russia unveils new ‘superweapon’ submarine
• Dangers of the U.S. moving towards a minimal deterrence posture

JOE diGENOVA, Founding Partner of the Washington, D.C. law firm of diGenova& Toensing, LLP, Former U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia, for four years, Former Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the Senate Rules Committee, Former Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary, Governmental Affairs and Select Intelligence Committees”

• Two major deceptions made by Robert Mueller in final report
• Implications of the Left’s disinformation campaign
• The Obama administration’s illegal unmasking

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, Contributor at National Review:

• The necessity of border enforcements
• Dissecting the core issues of U.S. border security
• Dangerous loopholes in U.S. immigration and asylum laws

With Bob Monroe and John Hopkins

BOB MONROE, As Rear Admiral he commanded the South Atlantic Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, directed Navy Systems Analysis and commanded the Navy’s Operational Test and Evaluation Force, Has served on numerous advisory boards for the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of State, NASA, etc.:

• A brief history of U.S. nuclear capability
• Dangers of our weakening nuclear arsenal
• Why is the U.S. not permitted to conduct any nuclear tests?

JOHN HOPKINS, Nuclear physicist, Former Associate Director of Los Alamos National Lab, where he oversaw LANL’s nuclear weapons program:

• Consequences of America’s long cessation of nuclear testing
• Recommendations for how to best proceed in the future

(PART TWO):

• How slight alterations of certain nuclear weapons could achieve profound differences
• Critical safety issues that should be considered in the nuclear conversation

(PART THREE):

• Consequences of complacency in the nuclear arena
• Evidence that Russia has engaged in some low-yield testing

With David Goldman, Scott Walter, Hayden Ludwig and Mike Waller

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

• Implications of Huawei’s influence in the U.S. and U.K.
• The race to dominate 5G technology
• Why America needs a national 5G system

SCOTT WALTER, President of Capital Research Center

• The radicalization of the Left
• Dissecting the new “Left 3.0” in the U.S.
• The demise of the Southern Poverty Law Center

HAYDEN LUDWIG, Investigative Researcher at Capital Research Center:

• Arabella Advisor’s “Dark Money” network
• The influence big donors have on the Left

J. MICHAEL WALLER, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs at the Center for Security Policy, Editorial Board Member of the NATO Defense Strategic Communications Journal, Senior Writer at the American Media Institute:

• The indictment of Gregory Craig -former member of the Obama White House
• Will Democrats be held accountable for collusive activities?