Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Myron Ebell, Jose Cardenas, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Fred Fleitz and Dr. Ilan Berman

MYRON EBELL, Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute:

• President Trump’s roll back of Paris Climate deal
• How the Paris treaty undermines our sovereignty
• Why renewable energy jobs are not sustainable without taxpayer dollars
• The way ahead for coal

JOSE CARDENAS, Associate at VisionAmericas:

• Venezuela’s latest spiral of violence and anarchy
• OAS’ failure to take action on Venezuela
• Trump’s review of Obama’s Cuba policy

PETER VINCENT PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both Congressional Advisory Boards:

• Why North Korea launching another satellite is a national security threat
• Debunking Jeffrey Lewis’ comments about the EMP threat from Pyongyang

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

• The House intelligence Committee’s recent subpoenas
• Intelligence leaks from the Trump administration

 ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Why Trump should get rid of the JCPOA
• How the U.S. can reapply economic pressure to Iran
• The President’s plans for Israeli-Palestinian peace

With Rep. Rob Wittman (VA-01), Diana West, Matthew Brodsky and David North

With Rep. Rob Wittman (VA-01), Diana West, Matthew Brodsky and David North

REP. ROB WITTMAN (VA-01), Member of the House Armed Services Committee, Chairman of the Sea power and Power Projection Subcommittee:

• Successful U.S. missile intercept test
• The need for a more robust missile defense
• Deployment of a third carrier strike group to Korea and readiness of U.S. forces
• Status of the next defense budget

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

• Developments in the Russia investigation
• Pattern of Russian collusion with influential U.S. politicians
• The need for greater nuclear missile protection

MATTHEW BRODSKY, Senior Editor at Wikistrat, Former Director of Policy for the Jewish Policy Center:

• Political impact of last week’s visit to Israel by President Trump
• The Trump Administration’s relationship with the Palestinian Authority
• Arab world’s reaction to Trump’s speech and policies

DAVID NORTH, Fellow at Center for Immigration Studies:

• The overall status and initial effects of President Trump’s immigration policies
• The abuse of visas in US immigration policy
• Potential “entry-exit” tracking system and the “visa mill” phenomena

With Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman, Rick Fisher and Russ Dallen

With Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman, Rick Fisher and Russ Dallen

GORDON CHANG, Columnist for The Daily Beast:

• Deployment of third U.S. carrier strike group to the Korean Peninsula
• Pyongyang’s rumored upcoming sixth nuclear test
• China’s response to Moody’s downgrade

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

• Moody’s Downgrade of China’s debt
• Origins and function of Bitcoin
• Terrorist use of Bitcoin

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow of Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center:

• Chinese advancements in stealth detection
• S. and Chinese arms race for superior computer technology
• Escalation in the South China Sea between China and the Philippines

RUSS DALLEN, President and Editor-in-Chief of the Latin American Herald Tribune:

• Goldman Sachs’ purchase of Venezuela’s State Oil Company’s Bonds
• Russia’s attempts to acquire American and Venezuelan energy assets

The Fourth Circuit Invites Manchesters Here

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

How ironic that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals would choose the day after a man whose family immigrated from Libya conducted a murderous attack in Manchester, England to block President Trump’s effort to prevent such individuals from coming here. 

British investigators were dispatched to Libya, hoping to discover the extent to which the suicide bomber, Salman Abedie, had help and/or co-conspirators there. The absence of a functioning Libyan government makes such inquiries both dangerous and problematic. That’s one of the reasons President Trump instituted his pause on immigration from Libya and other failed states.

If the President is unable to exercise his constitutional and statutory authority to do that, there will be more Manchesters here. And there will be blood on the hands of jurists who arrogate to themselves decisions about national security they are neither equipped nor entitled to exercise.

This is Frank Gaffney.

With Rep. Brad Wenstrup (OH-2), George Rasley, Danielle Pletka and Bill Gertz

REP. BRAD WENSTRUP (OH-2), Member of the House Armed Services Committee:

• Former CIA Director Brennan’s testimony before Congress
• Russian cyber warfare capabilities and their influence on US institutions
• Possible effects of Trump’s defense budget
• Positive developments in Veteran Affairs 

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor at Conservative HQ:

• Trump’s budget proposal
• How Obama and Clinton policies led to the Manchester terror attack
• Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling on Trump’s travel ban

DANIELLE PLETKA, Senior Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute:

• The Trump Administration’s policy options for counterterrorism in the Middle East
• Risks of the growing terrorist nexus in the Western World
• Analysis of new sanctions imposed on Iran and what future relations will look like
• President Trump’s efforts toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times:

• China prevents businessman from revealing spying on VOA
• Dangerous Chinese aerial encounters toward U.S. aircraft
• THADD missile defense in South Korea

With Herbert London, Matt Spalding, Dale Wilcox and Fred Fleitz

HERBERT LONDON, President of the London Center for Policy Research, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute:

• Reaction to President Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia
• Radical Islamic extremism in Saudi Arabia
• Turkey’s future relations with the US and NATO
• The Red-Green Alliance’s campaign against the Trump Administration

MATT SPALDING, Associate Vice President and Dean of education programs for Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C.:

• Leftist calls for Trump’s impeachment
• How ‘the swamp’ is crippling the President’s ability to govern

DALE WILCOX, Executive Director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, former state director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform:

• Origins and background of the Southern Poverty Law Center History and beliefs of the SPLC’s founder—Morris Dees
• Methods for labeling organizations “hate groups”

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

• Reflections on President Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia
• US—Saudi relations in the future
• Recent developments in the Russia investigation
• Reaction to the testimony of former CIA direct John Brennan

With Diana West, Jessica Vaughan, Luke Rosiak and Dexter Van Zile

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

• Reflections on President Trump’s trip to Riyadh
• Saudi acquisition of US oil refineries and the possibility of oil dumping by Saudi Arabia
• Former CIA Director John Brennan’s recent testimony before Congress
• Developments in the unsolved murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich

JESSICA VAUGHAN, Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies:

• The SPLC’s continued campaign to silence free speech
• Trump’s track record on immigration

LUKE ROSIAK, Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Latest developments in the House IT security breach scandal
• Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s threat to the Capitol police chief 

DEXTER VAN ZILE, Christian Media Analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America:

• Pope Francis’ views on Islam
• Reconciliation vs. submission

With Robert Spencer, Claudia Rosett, Itamar Marcus and Kevin Freeman

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, Columnist for PJ Media and Front Page Magazine:

• Suicide bombing at Ariana Grande’s concert in Manchester
• President Trump’s speech in Riyadh
• Islamist definitions of justice, peace and terrorism
• Should the Muslim Brotherhood be a designated terrorist organization? 

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

• President Trump’s attempts to organize Sunni allies against Iran
• Growing nuclear threats around the world
• Possible link in Iranian and North Korean nuclear arm programs
• Origins of the ransomware attacks and UN response

ITAMAR MARCUS, Director of Palestinian Media Watch:

• Mahmoud Abbas’ so-called ‘culture of peace’
• The difficulties of negotiating with Palestinian leaders

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

• Concerns about new investments in US infrastructure by Saudi Arabia
• Possible Chinese cyber attacks against US economic assets
• North Korea cyber warfare capabilities

With Clare Lopez, Phil Haney, Michael Rubin, Morton Klein and Gordon Chang

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President for Research & Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, former CIA clandestine officer:

• The President’s Riyadh speech
• Trump’s plans for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

PHIL HANEY, Retired Homeland Security Officer, Author with Art Moore of See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad:

• What Trump’s Riyadh speech means for law enforcement policy
• Conflict between the Constitution and Sharia law

MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Outlook for U.S.-Saudi partnership
• Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan – largest state supporters of terrorism
• The Iranian threat to U.S. national security

MORTON KLEIN, President of the Zionist Organization of America:

• Why past Israeli-Palestinian peace processes have failed
• Abbas’ “culture of peace”
• The issues Israel can’t compromise on

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

• North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test
• The most important thing that China provides North Korea
• South Korea’s behavior in light of increased North Korean aggression
• A China policy that works for America

With Ken Timmerman, Ambassador Yoram Ettinger, Bill Gertz and Fred Fleitz

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

• The Iranian elections –and how a winner is actually decided
• Iranian polling stations in the United States 

AMBASSADOR YORAM ETTINGER, Head of “Second Thought: a U.S.-Israel Initiative:”

• The current state of U.S.-Israel relations
• President Trump’s commitment to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
• Israel’s intelligence sharing with the U.S.

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Threat posed from North Korea at the moment
• CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s visit to South Korea
• Allegations that Trump ‘leaked’ intelligence to Russia

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

• The real scandal behind Trump’s ‘Russia leak’
• Former Senator Joe Liberman as a possible replacement for James Comey
• Is regime change possible in North Korea?