Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Matthew Brodsky, Bill Gertz, Daniel Horowitz and David Goldman

MATTHEW BRODSKY, Senior Fellow, Security Studies Group, Senior Analyst in Wikistrat’s Analytic Community, Former Director of Policy for the Jewish Policy Center for Security Policy:

• Trump withdraws US from JCPOA
• What is next for Iran?
• Potential region conflict between Israel & Iran?

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):

• Major threats we face from Iran
• Advanced Chinese weapons program
• Concerns about Gina Haspel’s nomination

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at The Conservative Review, Author of “The Conservative Consciousness with Daniel Horowitz ,” Former Policy Director for the Madison Project:

• Implications of a decriminalization agenda
• Updates on the Honduras caravan
• How Venezuela poses a major security threat

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

• The state of Russian-US relations
• The significance of Putin halting weapons sales to Syria
• Turkey drowning in foreign currency debt

With Clare Lopez and Tom Trento

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President for Research & Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, Former CIA Clandestine Officer:

• Israel and Iran exchange fire
• Israeli response to US withdrawal from JCPOA
• Prospects of liberation of Iranian people 

CLARE LOPEZ & TOM TRENTO, Vice President for Research & Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, Former CIA Clandestine Officer, & Founder and Director of United West:

• Dangers of Hezbollah cells in the US
• Recent election in Lebanon
• North Korean-Iranian joint venture?

With Diana West, Ken Timmerman, Mark Langfan and Dr. Mark Scneider

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

• Trump fulfills campaign promise on Iran
• The bicentennial of Marx’s birth

KEN TIMMERMAN, President and CEO of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, Author of Deception: The Making of the YouTube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi, Author of Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi:

• Trump withdraws US from JCPOA
• The European’s role in Iran going forward
• Implications of recent election in Lebanon

MARK LANGFAN, Creator of a topographic raised-relief map system of Israel, Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI):

• What comes next for Iran?
• The significance of Kurds in Syria
• Prospects of Israeli-Iranian war

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

• The practice of arms control
• History of Russia violating arms control agreements

With Benjamin Weingarten, Rep. Chris Stewart, Robert Charles and Kevin Freeman

 BENJAMIN WEIGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC, His writing has appeared at TheFederalist.com City Journal and Conservative Review, 2015 Publius Fellow to the Claremont Institute:

• The politicization of the FBI
• The nomination of Gina Haspel
• Prospects of N.K.-S.K. unification

REP. CHRIS STEWART, Represents the 2^nd District of Utah, Member of the Appropriations Committee, Member of the House Permanent Select Committee:

• Will Trump pull out of JCPOA?
• The call to confirm Gina Haspel as CIA Director
• The condition of our human intelligence capabilities 

ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration:

• John Kerry’s shadow diplomacy
• US border security
• Dangers of Hezbollah’s activities in the US 

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:

• Putin sworn into 4^th term as President
• China wages economic warfare against the world
• The implications of China’s debt to their banking system

With Sean Bigley, Rick Manning, Daniel Greenfield and Gordon Chang

SEAN BIGLEY, Partner, Bigly Ranish, LLP – Federal Security Clearance Defense Firm:

• Security clearances and the Trump administration
• Is the government’s background investigation process working?

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government, Former Public Affairs Chief at the U.S. Department of Labor during the George W. Bush Administration, Nine years as a state lobbyist for the National Rifle Association:

• The techniques of the deep state
• How the left aims to defeat Trump’s policies

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

• John Kerry engaged in shadow diplomacy with Iran
• Sharia blasphemy restrictions in the United States

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com Columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, the Daily Beast Contributor, Author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “Nuclear Showdown; North Korea Takes on the World:”

• Chinese & Russian military collaboration
• Prospects of NK-US talks
• The joint North Korean-Iranian nuclear programs

With Michael Cutler, Bridgette Gabriel, Brad Johnson and David Goldman

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, Hosts the radio show “The Michael CutlerHour” on Friday evenings on BlogTalk Radio:

• Dangers of sleeper agents
• How our border is being overwhelmed
• The significance of the political asylum claim

BRIDGETTE GABRIEL, President of Act for America, Author of Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America:

• Sharia blasphemy restrictions
• The red-green axis
• How tech giants censor conservative speech

BRAD JOHNSON, Former CIA Clandestine Officer:

• Gina Haspel CIA Director nomination
• Implications of relying on liaison services regarding intelligence

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

• US economic advisors meeting with Beijing officials
• Implications of only building off of existing technologies
• Israel uncovers Iranian nuclear archives 

With Paul Kengor

PAUL KENGOR, Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of The Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, New York Times Best Selling author, Author of A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20^th Century(May 2017):

• The existential threats to our freedom
• Why do communists seem to get a pass?
• Cold War analogies applicable to today

(PART TWO):

• Consequences of sequestration of US military
• Trump championing Reagan-esque principles
• Likelihood of successful negotiations with Kim Jung Un

(PART THREE):

• The history of transition of power in Russia
• Dangers of Sharia supremacism

(PART FOUR):

• The radical left in America today
• How communist policies are destroying Venezuela

With Kenneth Carlson, Rep. Steve King, Dr. Lawrence Sellin and Diana West

KENNETH CARLSON, Director and Producer of The Heart of Nuba:

• The Heart of Nuba film
• Persecuted Christians in Sudan
• The oppressive regime of Omar al-Bashir

REP. STEVE KING, Represents the 4^th district of Iowa, Member of the House Judiciary Committee:

• What is going on with Rod Rosenstein?
• Trump’s diplomacy regarding North Korea
• Why the US should support the Kurds

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:

• China’s larger goals for North Korea
• Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative
• The worsening situation in Afghanistan 

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

• The ‘Russian collusion’ narrative
• House Freedom Caucus moves forward with impeachment agenda
• Implications of negotiating with communists

With Russ Dallen, Harold Rhode, Robert Epstein and Kevin Freeman

 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 hyper-inflation in Caracas
• The current state of Venezuela
• Colombia peace deal with FARC

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):

• Significance of Netanyahu’s press conference
• What does discovery of Iranian nuclear archives mean for the JCPOA?
• A brief history of culture in Iran

ROBERT EPSTEIN, Senior Research Psychologist, American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology:

• Tech Giants exploiting consumer privacy
• Surveillance, censorship and manipulation
• What is the ‘search suggestion’ effect?

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:

• Iranian economy in deep trouble
• Why Trump should walk away from the JCPOA
• Trump’s economic teams’ upcoming meeting in Beijing

With Gordon Chang, Anne Sorock, Bill Marshall and Charles Lipson

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com Columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, the Daily Beast Contributor, Author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “Nuclear Showdown; North Korea Takes on the World:”

• Significance of N.K.-S.K. summit
• Prospects of reunification
• Implications of China’s sanctions enforcement 

ANNE SOROCK, Executive Director of Ear to the Ground:

• Significance of latest McLaughlin poll
• What we mean by ‘drain the swamp’
• Faults of the current Congressional leadership 

BILL MARSHALL, Senior Investigator for Judicial Watch:

• Clinton email investigation
• The Clinton Foundation’s ‘pay to play’ corruption
• The Muslim Brotherhood & civilizational Jihad in America 

CHARLES LIPSON, Professor of International Politics at the University of Chicago, Columnist for Real Clear Politics, Author of the blog ZipDialog.com

• The politicization of US intelligence agencies
• What is the ‘bombshell’ in the IG report?