Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Cathy Zhang, Kevin Freeman, Fred Fleitz and Bradley Martin

With Cathy Zhang, Kevin Freeman, Fred Fleitz and Bradley Martin

CATHY ZHANG, Vice President, Sound of Hope Media Group:

• The persecution of Falun Gong in China
• Widespread religious incarceration and persecution in China

KEVIN FREEMAN, Host of Economic War Room, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• Characterizing the reality of the Chinese threat
• Prospects of China engaging in structural reform measures
• Putin’s ambitions to undermine US energy security

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):

• President Trump recognizes Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights region
• Implications of the UN’s bias against Israel
• The hypocrisy of the Southern Poverty Law Center

BRADLEY MARTIN, Senior Fellow of the Haym Salomon Center News and Public Policy Group, Deputy Editor at the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research:

• The strategic importance of the Golan region
• Why the SPLC should be considered discredited by all

With Captain James Fanell, Gordon Chang, Rachelle Peterson and Bill Marshall

With Captain James Fanell, Gordon Chang, Rachelle Peterson and Bill Marshall

CAPTAIN JAMES (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:

• The launching of the Committee on the Present Danger: China
• Defining the character of the Chinese threat and how to best counter it

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

• Is the China trade deal coming to a close?
• The multifaceted character of the Chinese threat

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

• The negative consequences of Confucius Institutes in the US
• China’s attempts to influence US colleges to recruit spies

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:

• Attorney General Barr delivers Mueller report summary
• Why Hilary Clinton-Russia collusion should be investigated

With David Goldman

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

• China’s plan for global supremacy
• Dangers of Beijing’s monopoly on telecommunications manufacturing

(PART TWO):

• Industrial policy in the United States
• Why America must embrace national security oriented education
• The impacts Confucius Institutes have in the U.S.

(PART THREE):

• Implications of China’s social credit score system
• How the Communist China party uses big data to identify dissenters

(PART FOUR):

• Why China is the ultimate administrative state
• The importance of leap-frogging Beijing in technological advancement

With Jose Cardenas, Dakota Wood, Bill Gertz and Diana West

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:

• Significance of the US-Brazil alliance
• Implications of Venezuela’s blackout

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:

• Why the US needs a more robust defense industry
• The current state of US military power

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 aggressive aims for taking over Taiwan
• The controversy of Bill Evanina’s nomination

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at DianaWest.Net:

• Takeaways from the New Zealand shooting
• Consequences of Jeanine Pirro’s firing

With Mark Helprin

MARK HELPRIN, Novelist, journalist and conservative commentator, Former Senior fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Latest book Paris in the Present Tense (2017):

• Is the ‘peaceful rise of China’ plausible?
• Implications of Xi’s long-term aspirations  

(PART TWO):

• The strategic impetus behind what China is up to
• Dangers of Beijing’s advancing capabilities
• Prospects of China controlling the Pacific

(PART THREE):

• Why we must increase our military spending
• Significance of restoring US manufacturing capabilities to support defense industry

(PART FOUR):

• Putin’s investment in nuclear weapons
• Why the US must improve deterrent capabilities

With Stephen Enada, Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman and Fred Fleitz

STEPHEN ENADA, President of the International Committee on Nigeria, Served as CEO of Veritas Development Collaborative Limited:

• The increasing violence against Christians in Nigeria
• Why the US should send a Special Envoy to Nigeria

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

• Why the US should stand with the Philippines and Vietnam to counter China
• How to deter North Korea
• Xi’s aggressive actions in the South China Sea

KEVIN FREEMAN, Host of Economic War Room, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• How Google is indirectly benefitting China
• Germany auctioning off spectrum for 5G companies backed by Huawei

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):

• The Democrats are tolerating anti-Semitism within their party
• House Democrats water-down proposed anti-Semitism bill

With Katie Hopkins, Victor Davis Hanson and Brian Kennedy

KATIE HOPKINS, Creator of HopkinsWorld.com blog

• Implications of the growing divisions within nations globally

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, Author of The Case for Trump (2019), Senior Fellow in Military History at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Professor Emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno:

• Making the case for Trump
• Why Congress won’t accept the US border poses a national security threat?
• Theories on the Anti-Trump conspiracy

BRIAN KENNEDY, President of the American Strategy Group, Senior Fellow and Board Member of the Claremont Institute:

• China’s long-term economic ambitions
• Is the US no longer national security oriented?

(PART TWO):

• President Trump’s China policy
• Why the U.S. must take space seriously
• Consequences of the collapse of Venezuela’s electric grid

With Mark Schneider and Robert Spencer

With Mark Schneider and Robert Spencer

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

• China’s growing aggression and expansionary goals in the South China Sea
• Implications of Beijing’s nuclear buildup

(PART TWO):

• Putin’s massive nuclear development program underway
• The obsolescence of US existing weapons

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist for PJ Media and Front-Page Magazine:

• The mainstreaming of anti-Semitism
• The Democrats’ response to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic remarks

(PART FOUR):

• The nature of civilization Jihad
• Dangers of Sharia blasphemy restrictions

With Bill Hawkins, Diana West, Tom Popik and Peter Pry

With Bill Hawkins, Diana West, Tom Popik and Peter Pry

BILL HAWKINS, Author, with Erin Anderson, of The Open Borders Lobby and the Nation’s Security After 9/11, Former Board Member of Asia America Initiative:

• Defense production act of 1950
• Implications of the Chinese presence in US defense supply chains

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy (2019):

• The hacking of the Democratic National Committee Servers
• Implications of the Anti-Trump conspiracy

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

• Did a cyber-attack cause the Venezuela blackout?
• The current state of the Venezuelan grid
• Blackout shuts down Venezuela’s oil exports

DR. PETER PRY,  Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both Congressional Advisory Boards, Served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA:

• The fatal consequences of a national blackout
• Dangers of an EMP threat to our national grid
• America's competency in nuclear deterrence

With Stephen Young

With Stephen Young

STEPHEN YOUNG, Global Executive Director of Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism, Author of Moral Capitalism and The Road to Moral Capitalism and The Theory and Practice of Associative Power: CORDS in the Villages of Vietnam 1967 – 1972, Served as Assistant Dean at the Harvard law School:

• What does ‘Associate Power’ entail?
• Defining soft power and hard power

(PART TWO):

• How CORDS facilitated successful partnerships with the South Vietnamese
• The positive consequences of utilization local sources in Vietnam

(PART THREE):

• Elements in the CORDS program instrumental in making it successful
• Why did we lose in Vietnam?

(PART FOUR)

• Why the US should have employed CORDS in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Strategic lessons which can be applied to Russia and China