Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-4), Tom Popik, Gordon Chang, Dan Perkins and Kyle Shideler

REP. JIM JORDAN (OH-4), Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:

• Investigating the investigators 
• How the Comey’s investigation proves unequal treatment of the law
• House Democrat IT scandal 

TOM POPIK, Chairman and President of the Foundation for Resilient Societies:

• A mysterious explosion that left 140,000 people without power in Los Angeles
• Importance of transformers in providing power to the electric grid
• Other risks and threats to the electric grid 

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com Columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger and The Daily Beast Contributor:

• As Beijing aids North Korea, Trump will take harder stance on other bilateral issues
• President Trump’s strategic relationship with New Delhi 
• Why a full-scale war between India and China may be looming   

DAN PERKINS, Author of The Brotherhood of the Red Nile: 

• American leadership in the Middle East under the Trump Administration
• “Good cop, bad cop” strategy in Qatar
• Why the Muslim Brotherhood should be designated a terrorist 

KYLE SHIDELER, Director of the Threat Information Office at the Center for Security Policy:

• Linda Sarsour’s call for jihad against Trump 
• What is the exact meaning in Sarsour’s speech?
• The Islamic Society of Baltimore and their ties to terrorist groups

With Mike Waller, Bill Gertz, Gordon Chang, Luke Roziak, and Frank Calzon:

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

• President Trump’s defense of Western Civilization during speech in Warsaw
• Vladmir Putin’s hindrance of U.S.-Russian relationship
• Former Soviet Secret police system of psychiatric prisons never fully abolished

 BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor of the Washington Free Beacon: 

• Pentagon’s newly released Russian military power report
• Kremlin use of information warfare
• China’s double-game on North Korea

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com Columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger and contributor at The Daily Beast:

• China’s role in the intensification of the North Korean threat
• The Administration’s transition from granting concessions to Beijing to imposing costs
• President Trump’s role in redirecting South Korean President Moon’s position on North Korea

LUKE ROZIAK, Investigative journalist for The Daily Caller:

• Update on the IT scandal involving twenty House Democratic Caucus members
• Why the security breach has not been treated as a counterintelligence issue
• Reasons why the Republican leadership has not opened an investigation

FRANK CALZON, Executive Director at the Center for a Free Cuba:

• The Obama legacy in Cuba and its repressive consequences
• EU’s pursuit of a new pact with Cuba
• Continuing cooperation between Moscow and Havana

With Dan Gallington, Claudia Rosett, Ace Lyons, and Fred Fleitz

With Dan Gallington, Claudia Rosett, Ace Lyons, and Fred Fleitz:

ADM. JAMES “ACE” LYONS (Ret.), Former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the largest single military command in the world:

• Seriousness of the North Korean threat
• Importance of reversing the Obama era demilitarization of U.S. forces
• Bolstering Japanese missile defense

 DAN GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor, George C. Marshall Institute

• Possible actions Donald Trump should take to deter North Korea
• Publicizing hard limits placed on Kim Jong-Un’s regime
• Disrupting Russia and China’s defense of Pyongyang

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA analyst, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• Is a conflict with North Korea inevitable?
• The Trump Administration’s efforts to curtail North Korea and China
• President Trump’s visit to Poland
• Unethical investigation practices by the Intelligence Community

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Affairs journalist at Forbes.com, Fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum:

• The rationale behind North Korea’s strategy
• What policy options are available for the United States?
• China’s role in dealing with Pyongyang

With Dr. Stephen Blank, Diana West, Kevin Freeman, Elaine Donnelly and Tom Popik

TOM POPIK, Chairman and President of the Foundation for Resilient Societies:

• Vulnerability of U.S. critical infrastructure
• Nuclear threat from North Korea
• Effects of a long term electric grid outage

DIANA WEST, Syndicated Columnist, Author of American Betrayal and Death of the Grown Up:

• The long-term strategy of totalitarian regimes
• How Putin compares to previous Russian regimes
• The 2017 Dutch general elections

STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council:

• What President Trump’s trip to Europe means for U.S. relations
• How Ukraine fits into U.S. European strategy
• How Trump should engage with Putin

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of “Economic War Room” on The Blaze:

• Will China be a partner in deterring the North Korean threat?
• Possibility of economic war with Beijing
• Chinese attempts to remove the dollar as the world reserve currency
• Qatar increasing natural gas production

ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President for the Center for Military Readiness:

• The Pentagon’s review of having transgender servicemen in the military
• Difficulties social engineering programs cause in the military
• Cost to the overburdened military healthcare system and readiness

With Matt Brodsky, Jim Simpson, Bill Gertz and Patrick Dunleavy

MATT BRODSKY, Senior Analyst in Wikistrat’s Analytic Community:

• Status report on the war against ISIS  
• Strategic considerations for the United States
• The future of Qatari relations and the Al Udeid Air Base

PATRICK DUNLEAVY, Author of The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism’s Prison Connections:

• Edwin Lorenzo Lemmons: a case study of prison radicalization
• Vetting prison religious volunteers and clergy for criminal background and social media activity 

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Pentagon security breaches by the Chinese and Russians
• Robert Mueller’s special investigation turns to China
• Chinese efforts to hinder U.S.-South Korean relations
• John Lenczowski’s efforts in fighting the ideology battle against terrorism

JIM SIMPSON, Freelance Investigative Journalist, Former Budget Examiner for the White House Office of Management and Budget:

• SPLC and its history with the socialist Frankfurt School
• The refugee crisis and why they should share American values

With Enrique Altimari, John Rossomando, Fred Fleitz, and Heather Sirocki:

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA analyst, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• Origins of the leaks from the Intelligence Community
• Former NSA Susan Rice’s national security legacy
• How former President Obama should address leaks by his former staff
• The Trump administration’s forthcoming Iran policy

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

• Parents in San Diego suing school district for the implementation of CAIR backed anti-Islamophobia program
• DHS denial of grant to MPAC
• Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood visits Democratic offices on Capitol Hill

ENRIQUE ALTIMARI, Pro-Democracy Venezuelan Activist:

• The current picture of Venezuelan unrest
• Helicopter grenade drop on Supreme Court in Caracas
• Why Americans should get involved in Venezuela

REP. HEATHER SIROCKI, State Representative of the 28^th District of Maine:

• Sirocki’s efforts to combat female genital mutilation
• Why it is important for states to pass laws banning FGM, even though it is already a federal law
• History and origins of FGM in Maine

With Andy McCarthy, Rowan Scarborough and Diana West:

ANDY MCCARTHY, Contributing Editor of National Review, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York:

• Response to the Trump investigations and Comey firing
• Comey’s influence on Robert Mueller and his investigation

(PART TWO):

• Attorney General Sessions’ recusal from the Russia investigation
• Difference between counterintelligence investigations and criminal investigations
• Supreme Court ruling on President Trump’s immigration pause

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, National Security writer at the Washington Times: 

• Social engineering in the military
• The future of these programs under Secretary Mattis
• Iranian and North Korean ballistic missile coordination
• John Brennan’s role in politicizing the Intelligence Community

DIANA WEST, Syndicated Columnist, Author of American Betrayal and Death of the Grown Up:

• Susan Rice’s role in the DNC hacking and her undisclosed documents
• Aryaan Hirsi Ali and Asra Nomani’s confrontation at a Senate Hearing

With Richard Pollock, Hans von Spakovsky, George Rasley and Kevin Freeman:

HONS VON SPAKOVSKY, Senior Legal Fellow at the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation:

• Supreme Court’s decision to allow partial enforcement of President Trump’s immigration pause
• The Gill vs. Whitford Case
• Possible Presidential run by Eric Holder

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of “Economic War Room” on The Blaze TV:

• Disconnect between President Trump and Secretary Tillerson on Qatar policy
• Qatar’s connection to economic crises in 2008
• Cyber-attack on British Parliament

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Formal Inquiry by State Department into whether or not Hillary Clinton should retain clearance
• Similarities between the Clinton Foundation and the McCain Institute

GEORGE RASLEY, Managing Editor of Conservative HQ:

• Was the Supreme Court’s ruling a win for Trump?
• Will the Trump Administration be deterred from ‘extreme vetting’?
• Terrorism funding through Obama administration grant programs

With Gordon Chang, Michael Cutler, Anders Atencio, and Ingrid Carlvist

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

• U.S. alliance with India 
• New Delhi's counter-terrorism efforts 
• The murder of Otto Warmbier

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services:

• Hezbollah’s cells in South America and the United States
• Known terrorist’s path to citizenship and “insider threats”
• How terrorists gain easy access into the U.S. through the Visa Waiver Program

ANDRES ATENCIO, Venezuelan Pro-Democracy Activist:

• Current state of affairs in Venezuela 
• Growing levels of opposition to the Venezuelan government
• How the U.S. should respond to the Maduro regime

INGRID CARLQVIST, Free-lance journalist in Sweden:

• The “civil war” in Sweden
• The lack of will to fight against the tide of “Sharia warriors”
• Inability of Stockholm’s “feminist government” to address the threat

With Ken Timmerman

KEN TIMMERMAN, President and CEO of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran:

• JCPOA: a ‘dangerous illusion’
• The likelihood of the Iranians actually complying with the nuclear agreement
• Tehran’s missile program

(PART TWO):

• Iranian naval aggression in the Persian Gulf
• Tehran’s regional ambitions
• Qasem Soleimani’s powerful political and military influence in Iraq

(PART THREE):

• Qatar's alignment with Iran
• Rumored presence Iranian military forces in Qatar
• Moscow's claim it killed ISIS leader al-Baghdadi
• Russia’s growing influence in the Middle East

(PART FOUR):

• Comey’s role in the Clinton email scandal
• Can Robert Mueller conduct his investigation in a impartial manner?
• Where does the Russia investigation go from here?