Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Russ Dallen, Diana West, Dakota Wood and Greg Scarlatoiu

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”:

• Consequences of presidential election in Brazil
• Current state of US- Latin American affairs
• The Venezuela-Russia relationship 

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

• No ‘blue wave’ in midterm elections
• The impact the Kavanaugh assault had on voters

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:

• A detailed look at the Fiscal Year 2020 budget
• Why allocating funds to military forces is an investment to our national security

GREG SCARLATOIU, Executive Director, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea:

• Implications of Trump’s Pyongyang strategy
• Prospects of unification of Korean peninsula

With Fred Fleitz, Kevin Freeman, Joe diGenova and Mark Krikorian

FRED FLEITZ, CEO and President of Center for Security Policy:

• Significance of Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran
• Prospects of North Korean denuclearization

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

• Is applying more pressure on Iran the right approach?
• Beijing’s digital Belt and Road Initiative
• Implications of US dependencies on Chinese pharmaceuticals

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

• The illegal targeting of Trump through the Mueller investigation 
• Significance of current Midterm elections 

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

• The role immigration has played in the Midterm elections
• Does the incoming caravan pose as a security threat?
• Is birthright citizenship a Constitutional right?

With Hans von Spakovsky, Robert Charles, Gordon Chang and Elaine Donnelly

 HANS VON SPAKOVSY, 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:

• The birthright citizenship controversy
• Consequences of voter fraud during Midterm elections

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 incoming Central American caravan
• Why Trump is right to enforce US border security

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

• President Trump’s new posture towards China
• Significance of supply chains moving out of Beijing
• Are the Chinese cutting back on their imports of Iranian oil?

ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President of the Center for Military Readiness, Appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces in 1992:

• Federal judges intervening in immigration policy
• Implications of transgender personnel in the military

With Lawrence Peck

LAWRENCE PECK, Advisor at the North Korean Freedom Coalition:

• The political orientation of Moon Jae-In’s government
• Consequences of the growing rift between South Korea and US

(PART TWO):

• How the Kim government is undermining President Trump
• South Korea’s easing of sanctions on the North
• Recent Military agreement between NK and SK

(PART THREE):

• Pyongyang’s horrific violations of human rights
• Prospects of unification of Korean Peninsula

(PART FOUR):

• How China enables North Korea’s nuclear proliferation
• Dangers of Pyongyang’s cyber warfare capabilities

With Raymond Ibrahim

RAYMOND IBRAHIM, Author of Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (2018) Author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians, Born and raised in the U.S. by Coptic-Egyptian parents born and raised in the Middle East

• The origins of the war against the West
• Defining the complexities of the word ‘Jihad’ 

(PART TWO):

• Differentiating offensive jihad vs. defensive Jihad
• How Sharia supremacism has been operationalized over the centuries

(PART THREE):

• 14^th century battles between Islam and the West
• Why Sharia has been the most persistent enemy to the US

(PART FOUR):

• The persecution of Christians in the Middle East
• Dangers of Sharia blasphemy restrictions

With Declan Ganley

DECLAN GANLEY, Chairman and CEO of Rivada Networks:

• Defining 5G technology
• National security implications of 5G technology 

(PART TWO):

• How 5G will transform the global economy
• The possible dangers of 5G being utilized by US adversaries 

(PART THREE):

• Consequences of China’s potential dominance of 5G power
• The current state of the US in the cyber battle-space

(PART FOUR):

• What is the Priority Spectrum used by the Defense Department?
• Are there health implications for increased 5G usage?

With Kevin Freeman, Gordon Chang, Claudia Rosett and George Rasley

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

• The significance of the upcoming election
• China’s unrestricted warfare against the US 

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

• Takeaways from General Hodges
• Is Xi Jinping preparing for war against the US?
• How Trump’s withdraw of INF treaty reduces chances of war

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

• How do we adequately punish the Saudis post Khashoggi affair
• Why we must designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization 

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor of Conservative HQ:

• Political manipulation of recent pipe bomb mailings
• Members of the Left’s incitement of violence

With Danielle Pletka, Sam Faddis, Katie Hopkins and George Rasley

DANIELLE PLETKA, Senior Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, Former senior professional staff member for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations:

• The Turkish government’s suppression of freedoms
• Details on the Khashoggi affair

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)

• Implications of incoming caravan from Central America
• Significance of securing US border

KATIE HOPKINS, Creator of HopkinsWorld.com blog

• Sharia blasphemy restrictions in Europe
• What can the US learn from the UK regarding freedom of speech?

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor of Conservative HQ:

• Suspicious packages reported to target leftist individuals/organizations
• The red-green axis at work

With David Goldman, Shoshana Bryen, Jessica Vaughan and Kevin Freeman

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

• How to effectively sanction the government of Iran
• Implications of 5G technology 

SHOSHANA BRYEN, Senior Director of the Jewish Policy Center, Former Senior Director for Security Policy at JINSA:

• Details on the Khashoggi Affair
• France’s ‘peace plan’ for the Middle East

JESSICA VAUGHAN, Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, Former Foreign Service Officer with the State Department serving in Belgium, Trinidad and Tobago:

• The status of the illegal caravan traveling from Central America
• Why a physical border wall is essential in protecting our border

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:

• The state of our stock market
• Consequences of reports of Chinese ‘spy chips’

With Diana West, J. Michael Waller, Dr. Harold Rhode and Rich Higgins

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

• President Trump announces his nationalist stance
• What does it mean to be an America vs. a citizen of the world
• The political DNA of National Socialism

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:

• Details on incoming caravan from Central America
• Significance of enforcing border security

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):

• Details on the Khashoggi Affair
• Growing tension between Saudi Arabia and Turkey 

RICH HIGGINS, Served on Trump’s National Security Council:

• Reviewing the facts of the Las Vegas shooting
• Who is Brian Hodge and what is his connection to this mass shooting?