Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Russ Dallen, Robert Charles, Avi Jorisch and Bill Gertz

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”:

• Pence to speak at Summit of the Americas in Peru
• Mass migration out of Venezuela
• The economic disaster in Caracas 

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

• Significance of upcoming elections in Mexico
• Rise of Narco-trafficking
• The obsessive ‘Russian-collusion’ narrative
• Comey’s new book 

AVI JORISCH, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Entrepreneurs’ Organization:

• Israel's role in the innovation space 
• How Israel is water independence 
• Hizbollah's ideology of hate and destruction

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):

• Chinese communist espionage on college campuses
• Jim Mattis testimony on increasing lethality of US forces
• Russia’s anti-satellite missile test

With Christian Whiton, David Goldman, Hans Vons Spakovsky and Bill Marshall

 CHRISTIAN WHITON, Principal, D.C. International Advisory, Former Special Advisor to the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, Author of Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War:

• Mike Pompeo confirmation hearing
• What is our strategy in Syria?
• The Sharia supremacist threat

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

• The current state of play in Syria
• Why Turkey is no longer a reliable ally for the U.S. 

HANS VONS SPAKOVSKY, 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:

• Yesterday’s Zuckerberg examination
• The power of companies in the information space
• Sanctuary states

BILL MARSHALL, Senior Policy and Program Advisor at the George C. Marshall Institute, Served in senior national security policy positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Justice and as bipartisan counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:

• The Open Society Foundation and the red-green axis
• George Soros’ operations in the United States
• Details on the ‘promise program’

WIth Diana West, Tom Fitton, Robert Spencer and Gordon Chang

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

• Implications of Facebook censoring intellectual content
• The fundamental transformation of society
• History of information operations 

TOM FITTON, President of Judicial Watch:

• What really happened in Benghazi
• Updates on the Mueller probe
• Clinton & Abedin’s misconduct regarding the handling of information
• Awan brothers’ IT scandal

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, Weekly Columnist for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine:

• NYT reporter’s critique of Pompeo
• The threat of civilization jihad
• Turkey’s role in the international community

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:”

• Speaker Paul Ryan to resign
• Consequences of intellectual theft by China
• The necessity of an industrial policy

With Dr. Peter Pry, Michaela Dodge, Jack David and Kevin Freeman

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

• The need for and the affordability of effective missile defenses
• Significance of the Brilliant Pebbles initiative
• A review of the Heritage Foundation’s EMP threat report 

MICHAELA DODGE, Senior Policy Analyst, Defense and Strategic Policy at the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation:

• The reality of the EMP threat
• Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review
• The necessity of space-based missile defense 

JACK DAVID, Senior Fellow and Member of the Board of Trustees at the Hudson Institute, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction and Negotiations Policy from September 2005 to September 2006:

• How the US should respond to Assad’s chemical weapons attack
• The Israeli attack on Iranian base in Syria
• John Bolton’s plan to get out of the JCPOA

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:

• China’s goal to remove dollar as world currency
• Is the US in a computing arms race with Beijing?
• The current state of Iran's economy

With Doug Feith

DOUG FEITH, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy:

• The Assad regime’s chemical attack
• The effectiveness of arms control & peace agreements

(PART TWO):

• John Bolton’s first day as Trump’s NSA
• The war effort against Saddam Hussein 

(PART THREE):

• The de-Ba’athification of Iraq
• How Iran has benefitted by power vacuum in Iraq 

(PART FOUR):

• Is Turkey still an ally to the US?
• Does the Chinese government view the US as an enemy?

With Ingrid Carlqvist, Dr. Lawrence Sellin, Dr. Mark Schneider and John Rossomando

INGRID CARLQVIST, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Journalist and Author based in Sweden, Editor in Chief of Dispatch International:

• Implications of the refugee influx in Sweden
• The dangers of grooming gangs in Europe
• Sharia blasphemy laws in Sweden

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:

• The changing strategic dynamics in South Asia
• China & Pakistan’s commercial arrangement
• Why we should be concerned about Iran-Pakistan nuclear exchange

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

• Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons
• Putin’s ‘escalate to deescalate’ policy
• The threat of hyper-sonic missiles 

JOHN ROSSOMANDO, Senior Counterterrorism Analyst at the Investigative Project on Terrorism:

• Our ally in Syria; the Kurds
• The Muslim Brotherhood’s alliance with Turkey

With Sarah Stern, Matthew Kroenig, Andrew Hyatt and David Goldman

SARAH STERN, Founder and President of the Endowment for Middle East Truth:

• Israel does not currently occupy Gaza
• Consequences of Obama’s JCPOA
• Should US troops remain in Syria?

MATTHEW KROENIG, Associate Professor in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Author of The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy(February 2018), Deputy Director for Strategy at the Snowcroft Center at the Atlantic Council”

• The appointment of Amb. Bolton
• Significance of the Iranian nuclear threat
• The case for new tactical nuclear weapons 

ANDREW HYATT, Writer and Director of “Paul, Apostle of Christ”:

• Paul, Apostle of Christ film
• The history of 1^st century Christians
• Persecuted Christians around the world

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

• Looming trade war with China
• Beijing’s goal to replace the dollar as reserve currency

With Katie Hopkins

KATIE HOPKINS, Creator of Hopkins World.com, partnered with Rebel Media:

• Suppression of free speech in the UK
• The fundamental transition of Europe
• The threat of terrorism in the UK

(PART TWO):

• Dangers of grooming gangs in the UK
• The Sharia supremacist agenda

(PART THREE):

• Recent events in South Africa
• The systematic cleansing of white farmers in South Africa
• Save the Persecuted Christians campaign

(PART FOUR)

• Protect our 1^st and 2nd amendments
• LA’s ‘skidrow’ disaster

With Jessica Vaughan, Dr. Joseph King, Claudia Rosett and Kevin Freeman

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:

• Incoming caravan of illegal aliens
• Dangers of our lax border enforcement
• Is Mexico a good partner regarding immigration issues?

DR. JOSEPH KING, Distinguished Professor, RASNS, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Professor, CUNY, Law and Political Science:

• Significance of US ports overlooked in national security sector
• Gulftainer company origins
• The threats of container trafficking 

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

• Amb. John Bolton to be Trump’s new NSA
• Bolton’s track record in diplomatic circles

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:

• Tariff crisis with China
• Beijing’s economic warfare agenda against the US
• Possibility of attack on telecommunication cables

With Diana West, Ken Timmerman, Bill Gertz and Gordon Chang

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

• The current Hamas led protests in Gaza
• The continued war on Israel’s legitimacy
• Hamas’ strategy to provoke Israel

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, Nationally recognized investigative reporter:

• The information warfare tactics used in Gaza
• Are the Turks preparing a future genocide of the Kurds?
• NATO’s lack of action regarding Turkey
• Turkish-Iranian relationship

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):

• Consequences of Chinese cyber-attacks & technology thefts
• Trump’s recognition of the threat from Beijing
• China’s militarization and exercises in South China sea
• US troops to pull out of Syria 

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:”

• Parallels between 1914 and present day
• Why the NK-China partnership is so significant
• Prospect of an incoming trade war with China