Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Matt Brodsky, Hans von Spakovsky, Elaine Donnelly and Gordon Chang

MATTHEW BRODSKY, Senior Fellow at the Security Studies Group:

• New developments in the Trump administration’s Syria policy
• Disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi 

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, Senior Legal Fellow, Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies:

• The Kavanaugh saga
• Former FBI counsel Jim Baker’s congressional testimony
• Rosenstein’s conflict of interest in the Russia investigation
• Voter integrity in the upcoming elections 

ELAINE DONNELLY, President and Founder of the Center for Military Readiness:

• How the Obama administration damaged the military’s mission readiness and combat lethality
• Sexual assault accusations in military
• Secretary Mattis’ Ground Combat Task Force
• Lawfare to protect Obama’s military policies 

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

• Why the disappearance and subsequent resignation of Interpol President Meng Hongwei indicates political stress in Beijing
• The problems with having a Chinese Communist party member running Interpol
• Beijing’s complicity in manufacturing of fentanyl
• Arrest of Chinese intelligence officer in Brussels conducting espionage against U.S. aviation companies

With Robert Charles, Michael Griffin, Kevin Freeman and Diana West

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:

• Justice Kavanuagh’s confirmation spectacle
• Prospects for our Republic
• Why violence should never be permissible in democracy 

MICHAEL D. GRIFFIN, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering:

• Russian and China’s joint military exercises
• Emerging hypersonic maneuvering vehicle threat
• Readiness and capacity of U.S. industrial base to support our defense needs 

KEVIN FREEMAN, Author of Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack (2013), Author of Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again (2012), Founder of Globaleconomicwarfare.com,Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Implications of China’s takeover of Piraeus Greece
• US officials debate allowing Iran access o Swift 

DIANA WEST, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Blogs at DianaWest.net, Author of “Death of the Grown Up” and “American Betrayal”:

• Dangers of the deep state at work
• The corruption of US intelligence agencies

With Dakota Wood

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:

• Executive Summary 2019 Index of Military Strength
• The state of America’s military capabilities

(PART TWO):

• Implications of Russia’s Vostak-18 exercise with China
• China’s long-term global aims

(PART THREE):

• The threat we face from rogue states
• Dangers of asymmetric warfare 

(PART FOUR):

• China’s power projections capabilities
• The state of US missile defense

With Dr. Peter Pry

PETER PRY, Executive Director of Congressional Taskforce on National and Homeland Security, Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum:

• Vostok 18
• Why Russians have historically concealed the strength and size of their conventional forces

(PART TWO):

• Nuclear dimensions of Vostok 18
• What does it say about the purpose of Vladimir Putin that he presided personally over this war game? 

(PART THREE):

• Implications of Vostok 18

(PART FOUR):

• How the Russians and Chinese interpret the U.S. ability to deter threats demonstrated in the most recent joint-military exercise

With Jack Cashill

JACK CASHILL, Author of TWA 800: The Crash, The Coverup and the Conspiracy:

• The explosion of TWA 800 on July 17, 1996 near Long Island, New York

(PART TWO):

• FBI and CIA illegal involvement in the investigation of the TWA 800 crash
• CIA zoom climb animation
• Was TWA 800 accidentally shot down by the U.S. Navy? 

(PART THREE):

• Sandy Berger’s destruction of classified documents from the National Archives

(PART FOUR):

• Oklahoma City bombing
• Lack of answers about the Las Vegas massacre

With Diana West, Lawrence Sellin, Kevin Freeman and Mark Krikorian

DIANA WEST, Author of American Betrayal and Death of the Grown Up:

• Parallels between Alger Hiss’s 1948 Congressional testimony and today
• Will Kavanaugh be confirmed to the Supreme Court?
• Lingering questions about the Las Vegas massacre

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: 

• Chinese warship nearly collided with an American warship in South China Sea
• Implications of Saudi Arabia’s investment in the China-Pakistan economic corridor
• Cleric known as Father of the Taliban requests Beijing involvement in peace negotiations in Afghanistan
• What the U.S. should do in

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

• Why the Chinese are devaluing the Yuan
• Foreign collusion against the U.S. dollar by former Secretary of State John Kerry
• Is Beijing reducing tariffs on American goods?
• Is the U.S. financing the Chinese build-up of military threats?

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, Author of The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal: 

• Republican Congress’ lack of action on immigration policy
• ‘Public Charge’ immigration rule
• Difference between asylum seekers and refugees, and how    
• Why it is inaccurate to claim the Trump Administration has reduced refugee admissions

With Sam Faddis, James O'Keefe, J. Christian Adams and Tom Popik

SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress, Senior Subject Matter Expert at Axon/Lockheed Martin, Author of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA (2009):

• Consequences of yesterday’s partisan hearing
• Recommendations for US involvement in Afghanistan

JAMES O’KEEFE, Founder and President of Project Veritas:

• Who are the Democratic Socialists of America?
• The active subversion of President Trump

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS, Election lawyer served in the Voting Rights Section at the U.S. Department of Justice, Author of New York Timesbestseller Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department, Columnist at PJ Media:

• Did Judge Kavanaugh ‘win’’ at yesterday’s hearing?
• Implications of election fraud

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

• The role of nuclear power today
• Vulnerability of the US electric grid

With Seth Frantzman, Diana West, Daniel Greenfield and David Goldman

SETH FRANTZMAN, Editor at Jerusalem Post, Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, Founder of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis:

• Fatalities in Iran’s military parade
• Recent deal in Idlib, Syria 

DIANA WEST,  Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Blogs at DianaWest.net, Author of “Death of the Grown Up” and “American Betrayal”:

• The brutal attacks against Judge Kavanaugh
• Consequences of political warfare

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

• Tracking sexual assault rates in Europe
• Domestic abuse allegations against Rep. Ellison
• Prospects of ‘peace-process’ in Israel 

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

• President Trump’s remarks at UN General Assembly
• What is the future of the automobile manufacturing sector in the globally?

With Suzanne Scholte, Chris Farrell, Kevin Freeman and Dr. Abraham Wagner

SUZANNE SCHOLTE, President of the Defense Forum Foundation, Chairman of the North Korea Freedom Coalition:

• Save the North Korean Refugees Day
• North Korea’s charm offensive

CHRIS FARRELL, Director of Investigations at Judicial Watch:

• Why is Guatemala so significant to the US?
• What is CICG and what are its corresponding consequences?

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

• The Chinese approach to the trade wars
• Implications of Russia’s improved wheat production 

DR. ABRAHAM WAGNER, Senior Fellow at Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism, Teaches in the areas of national security law and intelligence at the Columbia Law School and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Senior Research Fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies:

• The challenge we are facing in the cyber domain
• How the US can mitigate the Iranian threat

With Bernard Kerik, Robert Charles, Gordon Chang and Benedict Rogers

BERNARD KERIK,  40^th Police Commissioner of the City of New York (Ret.), Led Iraq’s provisional government effort’s to reconstitute the Iraqi Interior Ministry:

Served as National Security Adviser to King Abdullah II of Jordan and President Bharrat Jagedo of the Republic of Guyana:

• New book, The Grave Above the Grave
• The significance of enforcing US border security 

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

• Implications of the brutal attacks against Judge Kavanaugh
• Reality of the ‘deep state’

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

• What is in the Pyongyang Declaration?
• Prospects of reunification of Korean peninsula

BENEDICT ROGERS, Author of Five books, including Burma: A Nation at a Crossroads, Co-founder and deputy chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission:

• Pope announces new deal with Beijing
• The presence of the Church in China