Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Rachelle Peterson, Kevin Freeman, Daniel Pipes and Peter Huessy

RACHELLE PETERSON, Director of Research Projects at the National Association of Scholars:

• Confucius Institutes – the Chinese government’s presence on U.S. college campuses
• Implications of a Chinese influence operation targeting young Americans 

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room coming to The Blaze Summer 2017:

• Chinese funding and access to the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope
• Russia’s potential use of CITGO for economic warfare

DANIEL PIPES, Founder and President of Middle East Forum:

• Congressional Israel Victory Caucus
• Broadening the debate over Israeli-Palestinian Peace

PETER HUESSY, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies:

• President Trump’s invitation to Kim Jong Un
• Can we end the nuclear threat from North Korea without regime change?
• Our options on Iran

With Russ Dallen, Gordon Chang, Suzanne Scholte and John Guandolo

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

• President Trump’s ‘friendship’ with Xi Jin Ping
• Latest North Korean missile test
• Trump’s comments about terminating U.S.-South Korea trade agreement
• Duterte’s visit to the White House

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

• North Korea Freedom Week
• How information is being smuggled into North Korea
• The biggest threat to the Kim Jong Un regime
• President Trump’s policy on regime change 

JOHN GUANDOLO, President and founder of Understanding the Threat:

• Muslim Brotherhood terrorist designation
• How to equip law enforcement with the information needed to counter the jihadist threat

RUSS DALLEN, President and Editor-in-Chief at The Latin American Herald Tribune, Head of Caracas Capital Markets:

• Minimum wage increase in Venezuela
• GM leaves Venezuela after government seizes plants
• Citgo’s Trump inauguration gift

With Adm. James “Ace” Lyons, Paul Coyer, Fred Fleitz and Bill Gertz

Adm. JAMES “ACE” LYONS, former Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet:

• Why U.S. Navy Carrier strike group took so long to get to the Korean Peninsula
• Is it possible to denuclearize North Korea without getting rid of Kim Jong Un?
• Is China really cracking down on Kim Jong Un?

PAUL COYER, Research Professor at the Institute of World Politics, contributor at Forbes.com:

• Maduro arming citizens
• Castro regime involvement in Venezuela 

FRED FLEITZ, Former CIA analyst, Senior VP for Policy and Programs:

• Trump’s Iran policy
• NCRI revelations about possible secret enrichment work
• Naval confrontations in the Persian Gulf 

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

• Pyongyang’s EMP threat
• The House Intelligence Committee’s Susan Rice investigation
• Sanctioning Chinese suppliers

With Mark Helprin

With Mark Helprin

MARK HELPRIN, Novelist, Journalist, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations:

• Challenges Trump has faced as a President with no governing experience
• Evaluation of the national security team 

(PART TWO):

• Modernizing U.S. nuclear forces
• Is U.S. nuclear submarine invulnerability waning
• North Korea’s nuclear breakout

(PART THREE):

• Likelihood of China actually neutralizing the North Korean threat
• Russia’s involvement in the Middle East

(PART FOUR):

• Why Turkey is now an Islamist dictatorship
• S. policy toward Venezuela

With Clare Lopez, Diana West, Doug Feith and Jim Hanson

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

• Doctors in Michigan arrested for Female Genital Mutilation
• S. federal statutes that outlaw FGM
• Iranian influence operations in the United States conducted by Iran through NIAC

DIANA WEST, Blogs at Dianawest.net, author of The Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

• FGM in the United States
• Frans Timmermans
• French elections 

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

• Obama’s foreign policy legacy
• What should NATO do about Erdogan’s latest power grab? 

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy, former Operator in the US Army Special Forces:

• Trump’s first 100 days as Presidency
• Congressional briefing on North Korea at the White House
• Judge’s ban on administration’s ban on funding for sanctuary cities

With Michel Gurfinkiel, Claudia Rosett, Daniel Horowitz, Deroy Murdock, and Kevin Freeman

MICHEL GURFINKIEL, Founder and President of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute:

• Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron
• Possible outcomes from the upcoming French Parliamentary elections

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Policy Fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum:

• President Trump’s visit with representatives from the U.N. Security Council
• Why the U.N. doesn’t have ‘tremendous potential’
• Are we at the beginning of war with North Korea?

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review, author of Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America:

• President Trump’s 100 day report card
• Republican capitulation on budget deal

DEROY MURDOCK, National Review Contributing Editor:

• Assessment of the Trump Presidency thus far
• Difficulties created by Obama administration personnel
• Turkey’s alignment with Russia

KEVIN FREEMAN, Author of Cyber Economic Attack, Host of Economic War Room:

• Chinese investment in Hollywood
• Turkey’s 85 year battle to crush American movies made about the Armenian genocide
• Confucius Institutes
• Putin’s plan for CITGO’s assets

With Mark Krikorian, Michael Cutler, Gordon Chang and Michael Rowan

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

• Possible government shut down over border security
• President Trump’s seeming reversal on the “dreamers”

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, Senior Fellow at Californians for Population Stabilization:

• Democrats’ flip flop on a border wall
• Republican leadership weakness on border security
• Why every state is a border state 

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

• Continued threats from Pyongyang to the United States
• American citizen detained by the North Koreans
• Iran’s continued development of nuclear weapons

MICHAEL ROWAN, Columnist at El Universal and Veneeconomia:

• Demonstrations in Venezuela
• What is next for the Maduro regime
• How the Venezuelan army will respond to the unrest

With Kurt Schlichter and Bill Gertz

With Kurt Schlichter and Bill Gertz

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy:

• Paris shooting

KURT SCHLICHTER, Senior columnist at TownHall.com,

• How the recent attack in Paris might effect on the upcoming Presidential election in France

(PART TWO):

• The demise of free speech in America
• Berkley riots

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Did America use cyber warfare to sabotage North Korea’s missile?
• North Korea’s submarine missile program

With Fred Fleitz, Diana West, Mark Schneider and Harold Rhode

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

• State Department statement that Iran has been holding to the deal
• Will China really help defuse North Korea?
• Trita Parsi 

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

• The need for investigation of Russian influence operations
• John Brennan’s collusion with foreign intelligence agencies to defeat Trump

MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy:

• Russian Arctic base
• The future of the New START treaty
• Russian bombers fly near Alaska

HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute:

• How Erdogan’s power grab should influence U.S.- Turkey relations
• Is Turkey a reliable NATO ally?

With Dr. James Mitchell

Dr. JAMES MITCHELL, Key architect of the CIA’s Enhanced Interrogation Program, author of Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds of the Islamic Terrorists Trying to Destroy America:

• Effectiveness of enhanced interrogation
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s prediction that America would defeat itself

(PART TWO):

• The obligation to jihad
• Terrorism funding through zakat 

(PART THREE):

• Islamic reform

(PART FOUR):

• Three ways to vet immigrants
• Social media factor analysis