Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Diana West, Luis Fleischman, Dr. Herb London and Ann Corcoran

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

• Was the Mandalay Bay Shooting an act of terrorism?
• Sharia blasphemy restrictions rising in the U.S.
• Joint effort by Steve Bannon and Henry Kissinger to warn about PRC

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”:

• Communism in Chavez’s Venezuela
• How the security of Caracas is in the hands of Maduro
• Where do things stand with the Cuban government post-expulsion?

DR. HERB LONDON, President of the London Center for Policy and Research, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Former President of the Hudson Institute, Author of “Leading from Behind: The Obama Doctrine and the U.S. Retreat from International Affairs”:

• The unlikely ‘red-green alliance’
• Stealth civilization Jihad and the use of law-fare
• Catalonia’s recent referendum for independence

ANN CORCORAN, Editor of Refugee Resettlement Watch:

• Australian-U.S. refugee resettlement continues under President Trump
• Volunteer refugee agencies and the chain migration of illegal aliens
• Consequences of religious institution’s “migration funds”

With Clare Lopez, Sean Davis, Bruce Klinger and Kevin Freeman

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

• Details on the Las Vegas shooting
• Has Turkey returned to its original status as a Jihad state?
• The rise of Turkish-Muslim Brotherhood influence in the United States

SEAN DAVIS, Co-Founder of The Federalist, Former Economic Policy Advisor to Governor Rick Perry, Former CFO of Daily Caller, Former Chief Investigator for Sen. Tom Coburn:

• Aftermath of Mandalay Bay shooting
• The gun control debate  
• Can you effectively legislate firearm enforcement?
• How President Trump is facing a ‘cultural revolution’ 

BRUCE KLINGER, Senior Research Fellow, Northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center, Author of Creating a Comprehensive Policy Response to North Korean Threat Provocations, CIA’s Deputy Division Chief for Korea from 1996-2001:

• Why the North Korean threat has increased this year
• Are the conflicting signals from the State Department and White House part of a greater strategy?
• Are sanctions and financial measures to pressure Pyongyang simply rhetorical?

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Founder of Globaleconomicwarfare.com, Author of Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack (2013):

• The active conspiracy to replace the dollar
• Consequences of an alternative credible debt market
• What are the North Koreans up to with Bitcoin?  

With Gordon Chang, Daniel Horowitz, Amb. Hank Cooper and Daniel Greenfield

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:

• North Korea’s striking statement to abrogate armistice
• Why interfering with trade to Pyongyang is essential
• The movement of strategic assets off the Korean peninsula

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at The Conservative Review, Author of The Conservative Consciousness with Daniel Horowitz,” Former Policy Director for the Madison Project, Author of Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America:

• Three way war being waged against the Kurdish people
• How the rise of the Iran is the ultimate strategic challenge
• Why the Kurds are our best ally in defeating ISIS

AMB. HANK COOPER, Director of the Strategic Defensive Initiative Organization (SDIO) during the Bush Administration, Chairman of Applied Research Associates, Senior Associate of the National Institute of Public Policy, Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Center:

• The reality of our nuclear defense capability
• What are steps the Trump administration can do to alleviate North Korean threat?
• Where does resistance to deterrence improvement stem from?

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

• The political hysteria and media hype regarding Russian election interference
• Russian exploitation of U.S. political system 

With Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Peter Huessy, Bill Gertz and Daniel Gallington

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, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission and the CIA:

• Why the collapse of our electric grid would be catastrophic
• Potential threat from two North Korean satellites currently in orbit
• EMP Commission’s findings on Pyongyang-Moscow partnership
• Why the EMP Commission should become a Presidential Commission

PETER HUESSY, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Former Senior Defense Consultant at the National Defense University Foundation:

• Why regime change in North Korea is necessary
• Are economic sanctions enough to push China in the right direction?

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”:

• What role is China playing in enabling the threat from North Korea?
• Xi Jinping’s ‘Magic Weapons’ operation
• How our adversaries subverting our government from within
• U.S. Naval power in the South China Sea 

DANIEL 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:

• The status of the U.S. nuclear deterrence capabilities
• Why a serious injection of resources must be allocated to our nuclear infrastructure
• Russian collusion in the 2016 Presidential election?

With Frank Gaffney, Matthew Brodsky, Robert Spencer and Fred Fleitz

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

• The Congressional EMP threat commission  
• Why the Military and general population depend on the civilian grid
• Recommendations to secure our gridswitch 

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:

• The recent referendum for Kurdish independence
• Consequences of supported an Iraqi central government
• Why we need to gain leverage with the Kurdish people

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

• Dangers of Sharia blasphemy restrictions
• The nature and magnitude of the Jihad threat
• How free speech serves as the frontline for counter-jihad action 

FRED FLEITZ, VP for Policy and Programs at Center for Security Policy, Former CIA Analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Department:

• What is a ‘clean decertification’ of the Iran Deal
• Why President Trump should abide by Amb. John Bolton’s plan to withdraw from the JCPOA
• Why the U.S. should sanction European companies who aid Iran 

With Tom Popik, Suzanne Scholte, Michael Cutler and Diana West

THOMAS POPIK, Chairman, President, Director and Co-Founder of the Foundation for Resilient Societies:

• Reality of North Korean Electro-Magnetic Pulse threat
• The importance of making the U.S. electric grid resilient
• Consequences of Pyongyang’s hydrogen bomb detonation claim

SUZANNE SCHOLTE, President of the Defense Forum Foundation, Chairman of the North Korea Freedom Coalition:

• Why we must be worried about technology proliferation in North Korea
• Can Kim Jong Un be deterred?
• How defectors can help initiate regime change in Pyongyang

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

• Recent updates to President Trump’s travel moratorium
• Why a much more vigorous vetting system is necessary
• How California is aiding and encouraging illegal immigration 

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

• Details on Judge Roy Moore
• What is the ‘Trump Agenda’ and how is it being subverted from within?
• Significance of President Trump’s immigration moratorium
• The rise of the ADF party in Germany

With Seth Cropsey, Faith McDonnell, Gordon Chang and Kevin Freeman

SETH CROPSEY, Senior Fellow and Director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower, Former Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy in Reagan and Bush Administrations, Author of Seablindness: How Political Neglect is Choking American Seapower and What to do About It (August 2017):

• Update on the U.S. Navy’s 7^thFleet
• What does certification of fleets entail?
• How sequestration cuts have stretched Navy resources
• Recommendations for Military resource allocation

FAITH MCDONNELL, Director of Religious Liberty Programs at the Institute on Religion and Democracy, Director of the Church Alliance for a New Sudan:

• Devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria
• Why does President Trump’s revised travel ban exclude Sudan?
• Sudan’s ‘Charm Offenses’
• Dangers of cooperating with the Khartoum government

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast contributor:

• North Korea’s claim that President Trump declared war via Twitter
• Are intensified economic sanctions on Pyongyang and its allies enough to deter the threat?
• China’s continued proliferation of material for nuclear programs 

KEVIN FREEMAN, 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:

• How countries are attempting to supplant the U.S. dollar
• Saudi Arabia and the oil market  

With Doug Feith and Clare Lopez

 

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

• Election results in Germany
• How extremist groups can take the place of non-bigoted nationalists
• The upcoming referendum on Kurdish independence 

(PART TWO):

• What would happen after the referendum passes?
• Why have the Turks always been opponents of Kurdish sovereignty?
• Can Turkey under Erdogan still be considered an ally?
• The effectiveness of NATO- countries with shared principles

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

• Why President Trump should not recertify Iran as compliant in JCPOA
• Iran’s clandestine nuclear weapons programs
• The latest supplements to the travel moratorium

(PART TWO):

• The leading edge of civilization Jihad
• Recent OSCE conference and Sharia blasphemy restrictions
• How Canada’s M103 and the United States’ PL115-5 act as precursors to free speech restrictions
• The rise of Germany’s ‘ADF’ party

With Rick Fisher, Bill Gertz, Liz Yore and Trevor Loudon

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow, Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, Former Consultant on PLA issues for the Congressionally chartered U.S. China Security and Economic Review Commission:

• How the Chinese are enabling the Pyongyang threat to the U.S.
• The dangers of an atmospheric nuclear test from North Korea
• Are economic sanctions enough to garner support from Beijing? 

BILLL 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:

• Law-fare tactics and the South China Sea
• Is Beijing calling the shots on North Korea’s actions?
• Recent U.S. fleet collisions and possible interference

ELIZABETH YORE, Attorney and International Child Rights Advocate, Head of “End FGM Today”:

• Significance of the ‘End FGM Today’ campaign
• Over half a million girls at risk for Female Genital Mutilation in the U.S.
• The recent federal case Michigan doctor
• Why FGM is not simply a practice of religious freedom

TREVOR LOUDON, Creator of the new documentary The Enemies Within (Out September 2016), Author of Barack Obama and the Enemies Within (2011) andThe Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress:

• Tracing the history of Antifa
• Senate Joint Resolution 47 and the revoking of free speech
• Dangers of the red-Green Axis

With Fred Fleitz, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff and Claudia Rosett

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

• President Trump’s address to the United Nations
• The future of the Iran Nuclear Deal
• John Bolton’s alternative plan to JCPOA

ELISABETH SABADITSCH-WOLFF, Advisor to the Board, Burgerbewegung Pax Europa (a German human rights NGO), Encounter Truth Inc. (Coming soon):

• The OSCE and the fight for freedom of speech
• Sharia blasphemy restrictions in Austria

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

• President Trump’s speech at U.N. delivers on all fronts  
• How Trump’s speech was received by other nations
• Is the U.N. an effective tool in benefitting U.S. interests? 

(PART TWO):

• Why North Korea should be thrown out of the U.N.
• The recent U.N. security council resolution’s response to Pyongyang aggression
• Why sanctions cannot be effective without enforcement