Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Diana West, Clare Lopez, Mark Krikorian and Kevin Freeman

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

• President Trump’s masterful SOTU
• Powerful personal anecdotes
• Partisan Democrats highlighted last night 

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

• North Korea defector in SOTU
• President Trump’s national defense posture strategy
• Why Turkey needs to be a top priority

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

• Implications of Trump’s immigration framework
• Long-term consequences of increased immigration rates
• The fantasy about Latin America and social conservatism

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:

• Why is money still exiting the U.S.?
• Consequences if foreign governments seize purchasing U.S. treasury bonds
• Why we should be hesitant to take China’s money

With John Guandolo

JOHN GUANDOLO, President and Founder of Understandingthethreat.com, Veteran of Desert Storm, Former commanding officer of an FBI SWAT team, Designated “Subject Matter Expert” by FBI Headquarters and created and implemented the FBI’s first Counterterrorism Training program focused on the Muslim Brotherhood and the global Islamic movement:

• The politicization of the FBI
• Lack of training in counter-intelligence dept. 

(PART TWO):

• The necessary deeper housecleaning of U.S. intelligence agencies
• The 2006 ‘purge’ of training programs

(PART THREE):

• CAIR is Hamas
• Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of American institutions
• How to fight a counter-insurgency 

(PART FOUR):

• CAIR’s efforts to dismantles training programs
• Call to action to combat infiltration

With Michael Cutler, George Rasley, Ingrid Carlqvist and Gordon Chang

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

• President Trump’s immigration plan
• Long-term consequences of amnesty
• Is the Wall enough to secure our borders? 

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor of Conservative HQ:

• How Trump’s DACA plan front-loads benefits to illegal immigrants
• The future voting population of the U.S.
• Importance of improving our border security

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

• 300% rise in violent crime rate in Sweden
• Are Sweden’s ‘No-go zones’ heavily armed?

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:”

• President Trump’s State of the Union address tomorrow night
• Does Beijing want confrontation on the South China Sea?
• The Transpacific Partnership must benefit the U.S.

With Rosemary Jenks, Luis Fleischman, Bill Gertz, Bill Marshall and Fred Fleitz

 ROSEMARY JENKS, Director of Government Relations at NumbersUSA.com, Former Senior Legislative Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies:

• President Trump’s new direction on immigration
• Consequences of amnesty
• The Goodlatte immigration Bill

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy, Author of “Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era: The Threat to U.S. Security,” Adjunct Professor at Florida Atlantic University:

• Corruption in Venezuela’s upcoming Presidential election
• S. must impose greater sanctions on Venezuela
• How the Obama administration impeded on Hezbollah investigations

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):

• Trump’s new defense strategy
• The Missile Defense Review
• Why we must improve our information operation capabilities 

BILL MARSHALL, Senior Investigator for Judicial Watch:

• Daily revelations on FBI corruption
• Huma Abedin investigation
• Conflicts of interest in DoJ 

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at CSP, Former CIA Analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Dept.:

• U.S. ability to affect change in North Korea
• How to increase enforcements of sanctions in China
• Iran-NK relationship

With Tristan Azbej

TRISTAN AZBEJ, Hungary’s Deputy State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians:

• Hungary and Telskuf, Iraq
• The persecution of Christians in the Middle East
• The ‘nun’ in Nazarene

(PART TWO):

• Kurdish & Iranian backed militias conflict in Telskuf  
• U.S. to steer clear of U.N. to allocate funds for persecuted Christians

(PART THREE):

• Sam Brownback appointed as Amb. for Int. Religious Freedom Sam
• Why governments are turning a blind eye to persecuted Christian community
• Hungary’s Prime Minister Orban 

(PART FOUR):

• Europe’s immigration crisis
• Is a return to ‘old Europe’ possible?

With Joe diGenova, Diana West, Peter Huessy and J. Michael Waller

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 deep plot against President Trump
• McCabe and Strzok’s role in this scandal
• Importance of the Nunes memo being released 

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

• Dangers of ‘the red thread’
• The Sharia supremacist-radical left partnership
• Linda Sarsour’s endorsement of Chelsea Manning

PETER HUESSY, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchel Institute for Aerospace Studies, Former Senior Defense Consultant at the National Defense University Foundation, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Leaked draft of the Nuclear Posture Review
• Russia threatens the use of nuclear weapons against the U.S.

 J. MICHAEL WALLER, MIKE WALLER, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs at the Center for Security Policy, and Senior Writer for the American Media Institute:

• How George Soros merged operations with the State Dept.
• Todd Robinson to run US embassy in Venezuela
• Questionable appointments to President’s Intelligence Advisory Board

With Rep. Rob Wittman, Brad Johnson, Michaela Dodge and Kevin Freeman

With Rep. Rob Wittman, Brad Johnson, Michaela Dodge and Kevin Freeman

REP. ROB WITTMAN (VA-1), Chairman of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee:

• Threat from North Korea
• How the lack of a Congressional budget affects the military
• What is required for modernization of the US Navy
• Freedom of Navigation in the South China Sea

BRAD JOHNSON, Former CIA Station Chief:

• 50^th anniversary of the capture of the USS Pueblo, a Navy intelligence ship, by North Korea
• Function of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board
• Possible appointments to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board 

MICHAELA DODGE, Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation:

• What to make of the leaked National Posture Review document
• Need for nuclear testing
• Why it the US should withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 

KEVIN FREEMAN, Author of Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again and Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses, Analysis of Twenty-First Century Risks in the Light of Recent Market Collapse:

• Comparisons between Winston Churchill and President Donald Trump
• Is China really surpassing the US in technological development?

With Harold Rhode, Uzay Bulut, Gen. (Ret.) William G. "Jerry" Boykin and Gordon Chang

HAROLD RHODE, Author of Modern Islamic Warfare: An Ancient Doctrine Marches On:

• Erdogan’s attacks on Kurds in Syria
• Latest on the protests in Iran
• Tehran’s attempts to snuff out protest demonstrations

UZAY BULUT, Journalist born and raised in Turkey, Associate Fellow at the Philos Institute, 

• Turkey’s invasion of Afrin
• How Erdogan differs from his predecessors
• Ankara’s support of the Muslim Brotherhood in America

GEN. (Ret.) WILLIAM G. “Jerry” BOYKIN, Family Research Council’s Executive Vice President:

• How the government shutdown is affecting the military
• Insufficient military readiness
• Transgender service in the military
• Chelsea Manning’s run for Senate in Maryland

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

• A North Korean delegation’s visit to South Korea to prepare for Olympics concert
• Possibility of defections during the Olympics
• Japanese missile drill
• American feebleness in the South China Sea

With Gordon Chang, Bill Gertz, Diana West and Frank Gaffney

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:”

• The middle option regarding North Korea
• Alleged violations of sanctions by China and Russia
• NK-SK to walk under one flag in Pyeongchang

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):

• Former CIA officer arrested in Hong Kong for ‘mole’ suspicions
• Nuclear Posture Review leak 

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

• Congressional investigations of Russian collusion with Trump campaign
• House Intelligence Committee classified memo on GPS

FRANK GAFFNEY, Founder, President & CEO of Center for Security Policy:

• 30^th anniversary of the Center for Security Policy
• Origins of CSP’s involvement with global Jihad issue

With Daniel Horowitz

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

• Why immigration is of utmost importance  
• Federal government must protect U.S. citizens first
• Public safety issues can be addressable

(PART TWO):

• Using immigration as a political force
• How subcultures can cultivate an extremist climate

(PART THREE):

• Does anyone have the right to enter the U.S.?
• DACA negotiations continue
• Details on The Goodlatte Bill 

(PART FOUR):

• Judges interfering with President Trump’s constitutional authority