Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Jim Hanson, Diana West and Faith McDonnell

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

• Facebook internal turmoil over Trump’s “Muslim-ban”
• How the left uses shame and peer pressure to limit speech

(PART TWO):

• Peaceful deterrence
• What did Obama know about Hillary’s E-mails and when?
• Cyberattack on Twitter, Netflix, and other large U.S. websites this week
• Effort to take back re-enlistment bonuses

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

• Hate speech bans
• Germany’s migrant rape crisis cover-ups

FAITH MCDONNELL, Director of Religious Liberty Programs at the Institute on Religion and Democracy:

• Chemical weapons attacks and genocide in South Sudan
• White House demonstration about Sudan’s use of chemical weapons in Darfur on Friday
• Persecution of Christians in Germany

With Admiral Ace Lyons

ADMIRAL JAMES “ACE” LYONS, Former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, served as Senior U.S. Military Representative to the United Nations:

• Why Duterte’s visit to China is an ominous development
• Beijing’s expansion in South & East China Sea
• Significance of trade in the South China Sea

(PART TWO):

• Turbulence in China due to economic slow-down and demography
• Will Chinese social engineering lead to a conflict with the U.S.?
• Why Scarborough Shoal is the red line

(PART THREE):

• Russian carrier taskforce in the Mediterranean
• Oil and gas reserves in the Black Sea
• Re-affirming the NATO alliance
• Infrastructure necessary for the U.S. to avoid a conflict

(PART FOUR):

• Iranian use of proxies
• Tehran’s strategy for control of the Strait of Hormuz and the Suez Canal
• The cornerstone of the U.S. Navy

(PART FIVE):

• Purposeful decline of American power
• What steps should the next President take to restore American dominance?
• Why ridding the military of social engineering is key

With Rep. Rob Wittman, Adam Kredo, Rep. Lee Zeldin and Gordon Chang

REP. ROB WITTMAN (VA-1), Member of the House Armed Services Committee, Chairman of the Readiness Subcommittee:

• Duterte’s anti-American rhetoric
• Putin’s playground-bully behavior
• Did Houthi rebels receive arms purchased with U.S. ransom money?

ADAM KREDO, Senior Writer for the Washington Free Beacon:

• Hillary continually thwarts Congressional oversight
• Susan Rice’s history of drug use
• Iran has more hostages, wants more ransom money

REP. LEE ZELDIN (NY-1), Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee:

• The “unsigned political commitment” between the U.S. and Iran
• How Obama has undermined Israel
• Likely outcome of U.S. handover of the Internet

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World:

• Blowback in the Philippines from Duterte fiasco
• China’s Sixth Plenum
• End of China’s ‘century’

With Admiral James “Ace” Lyons, Richard Pollock, Katherine Zimmerman and Bill Gertz

ADMIRAL JAMES “ACE” LYONS, former Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, served as the Senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations:

• Why the Manila is key to control of the South China Sea
• How the U.S. should handle the Yemeni civil war

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Report at The Daily Caller
• Clinton Foundation pay for play
• The Clinton sweat shop in Haiti

KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN, Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Lead Al Qaeda analyst for AEI’s Critical Threats Project:
Update on Yemen
• Hezbollah’s involvement in the Yemen civil war
• Strategic importance of the Bab Al-Mandab strait
• Will the fall of Mosul create a Shiite crescent?

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, “Inside the Ring” columnist at the Washington Times:
• Have ISIS leaders cleared out of Mosul?
• Is Duterte crazy or calculating?
• Violations of the INF Treaty

With David Feith, Kevin Freeman, Fred Fleitz, Russ Dallen and Susan Warner

DAVID FEITH, Editorial Writer for The Wall Street Journal Asia:

• Philippines’ President Duterte’s comments in Beijing
• Chances of impeachment or military coup in Manila
• Why China supports Pyongyang

KEVIN FREEMAN, Founder of GlobalEconomicWarfare.com, author of Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again:

• All Tribes D.C.: A National Day of Prayer for the First Nations
• Contrast of forgiveness and victimhood
• How the country can unify after a turbulent election season

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

• Dangers resulting from the politicization of the intelligence agencies
• Are the Wikileaks e-mails authentic?
• Iran seeking more ransom money

RUSS DALLEN, President and Editor-in-Chief at The Latin American Herald Tribune:

• Principal cause of the Venezuela’s unraveling
• What is the potential for significant civil unrest to oust Maduro?

SUSAN WARNER, Co-founder of Olive Tree Ministries, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute:

• Iranian cultural centers in Venezuela
• The trafficking of drugs and terror in Latin America

With Diana West, Chris Farrell and Michael Cutler

DIANA WEST, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up:

• Social Justice Warrior’s attempt to shut down speech by intimidating venues
• James O’Keefe’s Project Veracity’s new videos

CHRIS FARRELL, Director of Investigations at Judicial Watch:

• Judicial Watch forces Hillary to testify under oath for the first and only time
• What Clinton stated under oath
• Legal ramifications of Clinton’s server will continue
• Huma Abedin’s “Special Government Employee” status

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

• Hillary’s “private” opinion on immigration
• The dangers of Clinton’s open border mentality
• What is the truly humane way to help refugees?

With Michael Pregent, Tom Trento and Peter Huessy

MICHAEL PREGENT, Visiting Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University:

• On-the-ground report from Iraq
• Ongoing operation to retake Mosul
• What will happen to the Sunni population in Iraq after the collapse of the Islamic State?

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

• Is current U.S. defense spending sufficient?
• Nuclear modernization timeline

TOM TRENTO, Founder of the United West, Producer of Fallen Angel: Cover-Up of Seal Team Six Shoot-Down:

• Shoot down of Extortion 17 in August 2011
• Deadly Rules of Engagement that lead to the shoot-down

With Rep. Steve Russell, Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman and Trevor Loudon

REP. STEVE RUSSELL (OK-5), Member of the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on National Security:

• Ongoing operation to liberate Mosul
• Will there be another terrorist group to take ISIS’s place?
• Consequences of weak U.S.-Philippines alliance
• Damage done to National Security from Hillary Clinton’s private server

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

• Potential outcomes of Dueterte’s visit to Beijing
• China’s economic outlook
• HSBC's warnings of a stock market crash

KEVIN FREEMAN, Founder of GlobalEconomicWarfare.com, Author of Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack:

• Why the British Pound dropped six percent in a matter of minutes
• Chances of a currency war with China and Russia
• Economic warfare through commercial transactions

TREVOR LOUDON, Creator of the new documentary The Enemies Within:

• The modern Communist movement
• Saul Alinksy’s legacy
• Difference between Democratic Socialism and Communism

(PART TWO):

• How the radical left has subverted educational institutions
• Why Unions no longer oppose illegal immigration

With Daniel Horowitz, Faith McDonnell and Bill Gertz

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

• Why the US should avoid yet another Islamic civil war in Yemen
• Obama’s perfect record of foreign policy failures

(PART TWO):

• Social transformation without representation
• How Federal judges render elections moot
• Ohio Judges give voting rights to the dead

FAITH MCDONNELL, Director of the Religious Liberty Programs at the Institute for Religion and Democracy:

• Persecution of Christians in Syria and Iraq reaching genocidal proportions
• Why the UN is not providing asylum for the persecuted
• Pakistan blasphemy laws
• Unrest in South Sudan

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

• New military requirements for transgendered soldiers
• Hillary Clinton’s assistance to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 2012
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s monitoring of China’s build up in the South China Sea

With Rep. Chris Stewart, Fred Fleitz, Michael Cutler and Chris Graham

REP. CHRIS STEWART (UT-2), Member of the House Appropriations Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Is the increasing aggression from Iran underwritten by U.S. tax dollars?
• President Obama’s legacy in Afghanistan
• Security situation in the South China Sea

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

• Anti-ship missiles fired at US Navy Destroyer in Persian Gulf
• Another secret Iran side deal
• President Obama’s post-Presidency plans
• Clinton Foundation’s exploitation of Haiti

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

• What is at stake for immigration in the 2016 election?
• FBI Director’s warning
• Issues with President Obama asking other countries to help stop illegal immigration

CHRIS GRAHAM, author of Election: Unrestricted Warfare:

• What is unrestricted warfare?
• How US institutions are subverted
• Foreign entities co-opting charitable foundations