Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Gordon Chang, Ben Weingarten, Dan Bongino

Dr. SEBASTIAN GORKA, Major General C. Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University:

• The many facets of jihad
• Subversive activity of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Explanatory Memorandum
• Egypt’s case study in Islamic leadership

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China”:

• Changing bi-partisan consensus on China and Russia
• Using the strength of democracy to discredit authoritarian regimes
• President Obama’s initial disinterest in foreign policy

BEN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media, LLC:

• Republican version of progressive foreign policy
• Seeking a mandate for combating radical Islam
• Getting to 1237

DAN BONGINO, former secret service agent:

• Focus of CVE and the ideological battle
• Political pressure inside US law enforcement
• Anti-anti communists and shariah law

Ben Weingarten, Peter Huessy, Fred Fleitz and Diana West

BEN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC, Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute:

• Super Tuesday results
• Republican candidates’ positions on national security
• NYPD report mentioning Islamic supremacy being scrubbed from official records

PETER HUESSY, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Arguments made for unilateral cuts to US nuclear deterrent capabilities
• Importance of the nuclear umbrella
• Danger of unilaterally disarming

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

• Former Speaker of the House John Boehner’s recent criticism of the Iran nuclear deal
• Moderate candidates barred from participating in Iran’s elections
• United Nations sanctions on North Korea being tampered with by the Chinese
• Last batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department

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

• Trump’s success on Super Tuesday
• Similar use of subversion by Communists and Islamists
• Trump supporters drawn to his rejection of globalism

Sen. Joni Ernst, Dr. Bruce Bechtol and Rebeccah Heinrichs

Sen. JONI ERNST (R-IA), Member of the Senate Armed Services and Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committees:

• Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) needed to fully engage, defeat and destroy ISIS regardless of where they are
• Where else will the West face threats from the Islamic State?
• Importance of Guantanamo Bay for intelligence collection purposes

Dr. BRUCE BECHTOL, Associate Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University, former Intelligence Officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, President of the International Council on Korean Studies:

• North Korea’s nuclear capabilities
• Russia’s role in Pyongyang’s EMP development program
• China’s role in using sanctions to deter North Korean aggression

REBECCAH HEINRICHS, Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Vice Chairman of the Counter-Proliferation Working Group of the John Hay Initiative:

• Nature of the North Korean threat to the US
• State of the US missile defense system
• Hostile nations developing offensive systems specifically designed to exploit the weaknesses of US missile defense

(PART TWO):

• Needed security measures concerning the US nuclear missile defense system
• How long until North Korea and Iran outpace US
• Lack of political will to modernize US defense systems

Garry Kasparov, Mauricio Claver-Carone, Dr. David Adesnik and Gordon Chan

GARRY KASPAROV, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, author of “Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped”:

• Status of the free world
• How Vladimir Putin transformed Russia
• Confronting Putin now would be dangerous but will be impossible tomorrow

MAURICIO CLAVER-CARONE, Executive Director of the Cuba Democracy Public Advocacy:

• Unabated political repression and human rights abuses continuing under the Castro brothers
• President Obama’s intentions for his upcoming Cuba trip
• Havana requesting full control of Guantanamo Bay in their normalization of relations with the US
• US replacing Venezuela as the prime financial backer of Latin American dictatorships

Dr. DAVID ADESNIK, Policy Director at the Foreign Policy Initiative:

• Who prevailed in Iran’s Assembly of Experts elections, moderates or hard-liners?
• Foreign policy actions of presidents in their first year as Commander-in-Chief
• Obama’s belief that he will eventually be vindicated on the Iran nuclear deal
• Cessation of hostilities in Syria benefitting the Assad Regime
• Recommendations for rebuilding the US Navy

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World":

• G20 meeting in Shanghai last week
• Chinese economy and financial system beyond point of no return
• National People’s Congress will meet this week to reveal budget
• China being more aggressive externally to divert attention from political crises at home
• Obama administrations’ failed secret talks with North Korea

Rep. Jeff Duncan, Caroline Glick, Dr. Frederick W. Kagan, Bill Gertz

Rep. JEFF DUNCAN (SC-3), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere:

• Strategic implications of President Obama meeting with Rául Castro
• Will the US need to supply ‘economic life support’ to the Cuban regime?
• Legislative action in Congress designed to stop the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to US soil
• Dire economic situation in Venezuela from low oil prices

CAROLINE GLICK, senior fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, columnist for the Jerusalem Post:

• Donald Trump’s success at channeling public anger despite his lack of policy outlines
• Relationship of the European Union and Israel as the ‘Brexit’ votes approaches
• Turkey turning to Netanyahu out of sheer desperation
• Erdogan as an Islamic revolutionary

Dr. FREDERICK W. KAGAN, Director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project:

• Putin’s strategic use of ceasefire agreements to consolidate military gains in Syria and Ukraine
• The Kremlin’s significant influence upon US foreign policy
• White House and State Department lacking realistic policy direction
• ‘Geostrategic disaster’ in the Mediterranean

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Terrorism more prevalent than ever before
• James Clapper and Adm. Harry Harris’ comments regarding Chinese asymmetric and military capabilities
• Cyber experts being distributed to the major US forces commands

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, Frank Calzon, Dr. Peter Brooks and Fred Fleitz

Rep. BRAD WENSTRUP (OH-2), Member of the House Intelligence and Armed Services Committees:

• The President’s plans regarding transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees into the United States
• Lost intelligence gathering capabilities if base closure occurs
• The American Centrifuge Project in Ohio
• Defense Budget and titanium in nuclear weapons?

FRANK CALZON, Executive Director at the Center for a Free Cuba in Washington, D.C.:

• Possibility of Gitmo being released to the Castro Regime, opening it to Russian and Chinese influence
• The Kremlin's interest in Cuba
• 1996 shoot-down of the “Brothers to the Rescue” civilian aircraft

Dr. PETER BROOKES, Served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs, national security senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation:

• Increased human rights abuses and detention of political dissidents in Cuba
• Faulty argument of Guantanamo Bay as a jihadist recruitment tool
• History of the Russian and Chinese military presence in the Caribbean
• Failures of reducing nuclear tensions in the Korean Peninsula
• Combat operations resumed in Libya against al Qaeda and the Islamic State

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

• Apple and the FBI standoff
• Iran's testing of a long-range missile next week
• Outcome of the Syrian peace accord
• CIA requiring recruitments and promotions based on social engineering

With Mark Helprin

MARK HELPRIN, bestselling author, former IDF infantry soldier, Senior Fellow at the Claremont and Hudson Institutes, served as senior foreign policy advisor to former presidential candidate Bob Dole:

• Spiteful Russia and China bearing down on an America with a declined relative military power and geographic liabilities  
• Three power centers deeply intertwined with alliances and rivalries
• “Tinderboxes” of today’s world in the Middle East, Balkans, North Korea, and South China Sea
• US interests tossed to the wayside concerning Iran

(PART TWO):

• Russia and Chinese aid to the Iranian regime
• Vladimir Putin wants to restore Russia to something that precedes the USSR
• Three Baltic Republics under dire threats

(PART THREE):

• Putin and Xi modernizing nuclear arsenals
• Obama administration's prolific use of soft power
• Lower nuclear threshold of Russia
• US Navy not currently in position to defend South China Sea

(PART FOUR):

• China’s larger ambitions beyond the region
• Social engineering from Beijing
• Characterization of the threat from the global jihad

(PART FIVE):

• Obama’s legacy of transforming America by making it vulnerable to external pressures
• Restoring the government’s ability to protect its citizens
• Assigning priorities in rebuilding the military, rolling back the Muslim Brotherhood in the US, renewing international alliances, and deterring both Russia and the People’s Republic of China

Hans Von Spakovsky, Dr. Matthew Kroenig, Roger Noreiga and Kevin Freeman

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, senior legal fellow in the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies:

• Despite what Democrats say to the contrary, voter fraud does occur in the United States
• The NAACP and the League of Women Voters are fighting efforts to prevent non-citizens from voting
• Justice Department is not only turning a blind eye to voter fraud, but enabling it

Dr. MATTHEW KROENIG, author of “A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Threat,” Associate Professor and International Relations Field Chair in the Department of Government at Georgetown University:

• Unwinding the Iranian Nuclear Deal
• Russia’s nuclear modernization and strategy
• Ted Cruz’s comments on North Korea’s recent missile test

Amb. ROGER NOREIGA, visiting fellow at AEI, Former US Ambassador to the Organization of American States:

• Elections in Bolivia
• Castro regime responsible for the possible collapse of Venezuela
• President Obama’s visit to Havana is further legitimation of Cuba’s mayhem throughout Latin America
• Pope Francis' visit to Mexico last week

KEVIN FREEMAN, Founder and CEO of Freeman Global Holdings LLC., Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Dangers from the sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange to a Chinese company
• Embrace of socialism by Americans
• US vulnerability to economic warfare 

Nick Adams

NICK ADAMS, Australian commentator, author, and columnist; author of the soon to be released “Retaking America: Crushing Political Correctness”:

• Political correctness as a totalitarian ideology
• The Red-Green Axis revisted
• Islam and Freedom of Speech

(PART TWO):

• Political correctness taking its toll on Western Europe
• Losing the war against radical Islamists
• America on the same destructive path as her European allies

(PART THREE):

• How the “Victimhood Movement” manifests itself in Australia
• Australian hard line stance on illegal immigration
• Long term consequences of the Syrian refugee crisis

(PART FOUR):

• “The world will be cloaked in darkness if America doesn’t regain full health”
• Urgent need to reinstate the American idea, wage a culture war, and manipulate liberal tactics
• 2016 – the rise of the anti-PC politician

Michael Pregent, Bill Gertz, Brent Scher and Fred Fleitz

MICHAEL PREGENT, Director of Veterans Against the Deal, Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute:

• Iranian backed Shiite militias are complicating the fight against ISIS
• Ramadi is not a model for retaking Mosul
• Three Americans kidnapped by Shiite militias in Baghdad

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at The Washington Free Beacon:

• Iran is preparing to launch a covert missile in violation of the UN Resolution that implemented the nuclear deal
• China deploying an advanced air defense missile
• North Korean’s nuclear missile test
• ISIS has managed to obtain government air defense missiles

BRENT SCHER, Staff writer for The Washington Free Beacon:

• The Clintons can’t escape their 90s scandals
• Sidney Blumenthal’s shady role as Hillary Clinton’s advisor during her tenure as Secretary of State
• The Clinton Foundation slush fund

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

• Munich Peace Conference results
• Obama’s Syria non-strategy
• Should Apple unlock the San Bernardino terrorists’ iPhone?