Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Gordon Chang, Major Fred Galvin (Ret.), Mike Gonzalez and Russ Dallen

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:”

• Are the Olympics a breakthrough for North Korea?
• Vice President Pence in Pyeongchang
• Consequences of Beijing-North Korea collaboration

MAJOR FRED GALVIN (Ret.) USMC, Executive Director of Heroes United:

• The MARSOC-7 story
• USMC officially exonerates MARSOC-7
• How to help affected individuals
• Visit heroesunited.net to help

MIKE GONZALEZ, Senior Fellow at the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation, Speechwriter for the State Department’s European Bureau during the Bush administration, Spent nearly 20 years as a journalist:

• Identity politics and the 2020 Census
• New Polish law prohibiting certain speech
• Freedom of speech in Europe

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”:

• Persecuted Christians in Venezuela and Cuba
• Refugee influx in Columbia and Brazil
• Secretary Tillerson calls for tougher action against Venezuela

With Stephen Blank and Admiral James 'Ace Lyons'

STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council, 26 years of experience as a Professor of National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of U.S. Army War College:

• The true story behind Russian election interference
• How Russia aims to undermine democracy
• The attempt to replace the dollar as reserve currency

(PART TWO):

• Russia’s strategic military capabilities
• Emphasis on strengthening forces in NPR
• How to acquire meaningful arms control reductions from Moscow

ADMIRAL JAMES ‘ACE’ LYONS, Former Commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Served as Senior U.S. Military Representative to the United Nationas, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations from 1983-1985:

• Pressure in the South China Sea
• Negative Implications of sequestration
• How to better deter China and other US adversaries

(PART TWO):

• How President Trump should recognize US military forces
• Why we cannot continue to extract resources from defense/deterrent budget
• The hypersonic weapons threat

With Maria Espinoza, Megan Barth, Fred Fleitz and David Goldman

MARIA ESPINOZA, National Director of the Remembrance Project, which honors and remembers Americans and legal residents who have been killed by illegal aliens:

• The death of Colts player Edward Jackson
• What hinders collection of crime statistics on illegal immigrants?
• Implications of sanctuary cities
• President Trump’s remarks on M-13 during the SOTU 

MEGAN BARTH, Founder and Proprietor of Reaganbabe.com, and a nationally recognized political commentator and women’s advocate:

• The unconstitutional DACA bill
• Long-term implications of amnesty 

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.:

• The Democratic rebuttal memo
• Where does the Russia investigation currently stand?
• What a FISA court application entails

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

• The stock market volatility
• The state of China’s economy
• US has lost high-tech manufacturing capacity

With Diana West, Kevin Freeman, Bruce Bechtol and Arthur Milikh

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

• Supposed coincidences in Russia narrative
• Implications of the Steele dossier

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 recent stock market volatility
• Significance of timing of this specific drop
• U.S. adversaries and the reserve currency

BRUCE BECHTOL, Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University, Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Korea Observer, Member of the Board of Directors of the Council on U.S.-Korea Security Studies, President of the International Council on Korean Studies:

• North Korea proliferation capabilities
• Can sanctions work against Pyongyang?
• Is China reconsidering its NK policy?

ARTHUR MILIKH, Associate Director of the Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics, Has written for Daily Signal, National Review and NationalAffairs.com, Worked as a clerk for the House Armed Services Committee:

• Civility vs. barbarism in political philosophy
• Implications of the bipartisan approach
• The current rebellion against establishment and the Trump revolution

With Rick Manning, Dan Gallington, Dr. Mark Schneider and Gordon Chang

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 House Intelligence Committee memo
• Implications of the Steele dossier
• Report of second Steele dossier? 

DAN GALLINGTON, 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:

• Then competition to frame the memo narrative
• Should FISA Court reopen petitions?

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

• NPR provides critical threat assessments in the nuclear arena
• China and Russia’s response to NPR
• Russia’s ‘New Start’ treaty

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:”

• Vice President Pence in South Korea
• Is Pyongyang hijacking the Olympics?
• Reaction of NK defector from SOTU
• Will Beijing use force against the U.S. at South China Sea?

With James O'Keefe

JAMES O’KEEFE, Founder of Project Veritas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to investigating corruption, dishonesty, waste, and fraud in public and private institutions, Author of American Pravda: My Fight for the Truth in the Era of Fake News (2017):

• The manipulation of Information technologies in U.S.
• Implications of filters being applied by Twitter
• Accountability of media giants 

(PART TWO):

• American Pravda exposes wrongdoings
• How our current environment emulates Soviet times
• Have we reached the end of truth?

(PART THREE):

• Where is the truth in modern journalism?
• History of Project Veritas
• Left-wing tactics to take down specific orgs/people

(PART FOUR):

• The synergy between Trump and Project Veritas
• The ‘fake news’ phenomenon

With Bill Marshall

BILL MARSHALL, Senior Investigator for Judicial Watch:

• Release of Nunes House Intelligence memo
• Conduct of FBI and DOJ in report
• The abuse of gov’t resources for partisan means 

(PART TWO):

• Distinction between general FBI population and implicated individuals
• How will Mueller special council investigation be impacted by memo?
• Deep-state vs counter-state 

(PART THREE):

• History of cultural Marxism in U.S.
• The ‘red-green axis’ 

(PART FOUR):

• Judicial Watch investigation on Clinton and Abedin
• Consequences of Hillary’s loose communications

With Benjamin Weingarten, Fred Fleitz, David Goldman and Evan Sayet

BENJAMIN WEINGARTEN, 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:

• President Trump’s successful SOTU
• Will the National Security Strategy be fully implemented?
• 3 core myths the NSS points to
• Advisability of releasing the Nunes memo

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.:

• What is really going on with the Nunes memo?
• Implications of the rift among members of House Intelligence Committee
• Democrat arguments against releasing the memo 

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

• An assessment of Janet Yellen’s record
• China’s goal to build its own reserve currency
• Is there a dollar crisis in the making in regard to U.S. gov’t policy? 

EVAN SAYET, Creator and star of “The Right to Laugh – A Night of Conservative Comedy,” Former writer for the Arsenio Hall Show and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher before turning to the right, Author of The Kindergarten of Eden: How the Modern Liberal Thinks and Why He’s Convinced That Ignorance is Bliss:

• Culture wars evident in SOTU response
• How ‘international socialists’ fall on the left

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