Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Andy Bostom

ANDY BOSTOM, Author of The Legacy of Jihad (2005), Author of The Legacy of Antisemitism (2008), Author of Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism (2012), Author of Iran’s Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi’ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran (2014)

• The true story behind Senator Joseph McCarthy

(PART TWO):

• How China remains a Marxist-Leninist state
• Implications of Xi’s global aspirations

(PART THREE):

• Impacts of President Trump’s China policies
• Lessons to be learned from McCarthy regarding Beijing

(PART FOUR):

• Dangers of the red-green axis in America
• Sharia supremacism and the practice of female genital mutilation in the US

With Diana West, Fred Fleitz, Dr. Harold Rhode and Kevin Freeman

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net:

• Germany endorses “spying on kindergarteners”
• Implications of the entrapment of General Flynn

FRED FLEITZ, Incoming President of 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):

• State of relations between President Trump and the intelligence community
• Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s targeting of Michael Flynn

DR. 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):

• Is Turkey threatening US troops in Syria?
• Senate votes to end aid for Yemen

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

• Is the Chinese economy slowing?
• US and Canadian officials issue travel warnings to China

With Fred Galvin, Joe diGenova, Larry Diamond and Magda Odendaal

FRED GALVIN, Commander of the MARSOC 7, Also working with Rep. Walter Jones to have the Commandant award the MARSOC 7 the newly approved raider insignia, Maj. Galvin (Ret.) has fought for eleven years to have the MARSOC 7 fully exonerated:

• Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s statement on congressional record
• Contact Secretary Mattis and urge him to make a public statement exonerating the MARSOC 7 (Address: Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis, 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1000)

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:

• Implications of the entrapment of General Flynn
• The illegal unmasking of American citizens under the Obama administration

LARRY DIAMOND, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institution

 Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development & the Rule of Law, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

• China’s aim to eclipse American leadership in the world
• Confucius Institutes and influence operations in the United States

MAGDA ODENDAAL, CEO She Net Global, Ambassador USA: Unashamedly Ethical:

• Rising numbers of Female Genital Mutilation cases in the US
• The psychological trauma associated with brutal FGM procedures

With Larry Leiser, Monica Crowley and David Goldman

LARRY LEISER, President of the National Association of Assistant United States Attorneys (NAAUSA):

• Details on Criminal Justice System Reform Bill
• Why does Trump support the First Step Act

(PART TWO):

• Will violent criminals be let out on early release under reform bill?
• Implications of the constant revisions of the First Step Act

MONICA CROWLEY, Senior Opinion Columnist at Washington Times (as of December 5, 2018), Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Served as Foreign Policy Assistant and Director of Communications for Former President Nixon, Author of What the (Bleep) Just Happened? The Happy Warrior’s Guide to the Great American Comeback (2012):

• Evidence we are witnessing the deep state in action
• What President Trump can do to defeat this coup d’etat

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

• Beijing’s ambitions to replace the dollar as global reserve currency
• Implications of President Trump’s China policy

With Rep. Ralph Norman, Diana West and Dr. Lawrence Sellin

REP. RALPH NORMAN, Represents South Carolina’s 5^th District, Member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Member of the House Freedom Caucus:

• The vulnerability of our electric grid
• Why enforcing US border security is so significant

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net:

• How to counter influence operations domestically
• Implications of the ‘Migrant Pact”

DR. LAWRENCE SELLIN, Author of Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution, Retired Colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve, Veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq:

• Does the US have a viable strategy regarding Afghanistan?
• Details of President Trump’s Pakistan policy
• Implications of the China-Pakistan economic compact

With Jose Ureta, Kevin Freeman, Daniel Horowitz and Ilan Berman

JOSE URETA, Founding member of Fundacion Roma, Author of Pope Francis’ Paradigm Shift, Continuity or Rupture in the Mission of the Church? – An Assessment of his Five-Year Pontificate:

• The geopolitical impact of Pope Francis’ theology
• Causes and consequences of Church sex abuse scandals
• The paradigm shift within the Church

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

• Canadian authorities arrest Hauwei’s CFO
• Google’s controversial China plans
• What will the failure if Brexit mean for the EU?

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review, Author of its “The Conservative Consciousness with Daniel Horowitz” 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 Transforming America:

• Current status of the Criminal Justice Reform Bill
• National security implications of prison reform legislation

ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council

Associated Faculty at Missouri State University’s Defense and Strategic Studies, Editor of The Journal of International Security Affairs, Author of “Iran’s Deadly Ambition: The Islamic Republic’s Quest for Global Power” (Aug. 2015):

• Escalation of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine
• Putin’s effort to strengthen its control over former Ukrainian territory

With Sam Faddis, Dr. Stephen Blank, Hans von Spakovsky and Gordon Chang

SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Operations Officer, Senior Editor at And Magazine:

• Why Huawei is a major threat to U.S. national security
• Iran’s threats to disrupt the world’s oil supply
• How Tehran is using Khashoggi’s murder to their benefit

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

• Russian collusion during the 2016 Presidential election
• The fundamental flaw with arms control treaties
• Russian standoff in Sea of Azov

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation:

• Vote harvesting and its impact on the 2018 election
• North Carolina election fraud allegations
• Florida referendum automatically restoring felons’ right to vote

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

• Why the arrest of a Huawei executive has enraged Beijing
• Should the Canadians grant Meng bail?
• American businessmen disillusioned with China
• Chinese military officer threatening to attack U.S. vessels

With Michel Gurfinkiel

MICHEL GURFINKIEL, Founder and President of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute, a conservative think-tank in France, Shillman/Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum, Editor in Chief of Valeurs Actuelles (Paris)- a French conservative newsweekly:

• Explaining the origin of the ‘yellow vest’ movement
• How rising gas prices ignited mass protest movement in France

(PART TWO):

• The decline of Macron’s popularity

(PART THREE):

• Will the Macron government be able to nullify the yellow jackets?
• How will the potential revolutionary situation in France continue to unfold? 

(PART FOUR):

• Prospects for upcoming European Parliamentary elections

With Brigadier General (Ret.) Robert Spalding

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:

• Dissecting the relatively new communist party of China

(PART TWO):

• The PRC’s motivation is to maintain control of the population
• Dangers of the manipulative use of Xi’s social credit score 

(PART THREE):

• How to counter Beijing’s aims to supplant the US as world’s dominant power

(PART FOUR):

• What steps should the US government prioritize regarding China?

With Robert Charles, Gordon Chang, Seth Cropsey and Kevin Freeman

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:

• Current details on Central American caravan implications
• The origin of the term ‘refugee status’

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

• Trump announces 90-day truce with China
• Why disengagement is the right path regarding Jinping
• Ominous developments on the Korean peninsula

SETH CROPSEY, Senior Fellow and Director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower, Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy in Reagan and Bush Administrations, Former principal deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, Author of Seablindness: How Political Neglect is Choking American Seapower and What to do About It (August 2017):

• Russia’s harassment of Ukrainian ships
• Why we should be concerned about Putin’s ambitions for the Black Sea

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

• Beijing’s declared economic warfare against the US
• Was the Trump-Jinping meeting successful?