Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Jed Babbin, Dr. Mark Moyar, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, and Andy McCarthy

JED BABBIN, Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense in George H.W. Bush Administration, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research:

• Assessing the damage of former Secretary Clinton’s private e-mail account to human intelligence
• Hillary Clinton’s pay-for-play tenure as Secretary of State
• Is FBI Director Comey likely to resign if Hillary is not indicted? 

Dr. MARK MOYAR, Visiting Scholar at the Foreign Policy Initiative, member of the Hoover Institution Working Group on the Role of Military History on Contemporary Conflict:

• Assessment of the on-the-ground situation in Afghanistan
• Is Afghanistan conflict still considered a war?
• Continued cooperation between Al-Qaeda and the Taliban
• Level of U.S. support needed to help the Afghans maintain a degree of control

Dr. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, weekly columnist at National Review:

• Obama administration’s appeasement of Putin
• Consequences of immigration crisis for Europe
• How a national implementation of California immigration policies would change America
• What it would mean for homeland security if the Afghan government fell

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• Levels of classification for government emails
• Holding Hillary Clinton accountable
• Obama’s upcoming visit to a Baltimore mosque
• Ted Cruz’s Iowa Caucus victory

John Wohlstetter, Dr. David Adesnik, Dr. Harold Rhode, and Gordan Chang

JOHN WOHLSTETTER, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute and the London Center for Policy Research:

• Tepid response of the authorities in response to the sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany
• Multiculturalism blinding the Obama administration
• NYPD’s mosque surveillance 

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

• National security issues such as the Iran Deal and Syria crisis taking center stage at today’s Iowa Caucus vote
• FBI investigations open in all fifty states regarding Islamic State operatives
• CVE narrative used to obscure not inform
• Consequences of ignoring shortfalls within the US armed forces

Dr. HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, former Turkish Desk Officer at the Department of Defense:

• Tense relations between President Obama and Israel
• Failure of JCPOA to moderate Iranian regime
• Erdogan and Gulen feud 

GORDAN CHANG, Fox News Contributor, author of “The Coming Collapse of China":

• Chinese reaction to recent freedom of navigation exercises conducted by U.S. Navy in Paracel Islands
• North Korea’s missile deals with Iran
• South Korean interest in the missile defense system THAAD
• Chinese buying oil for their strategic petroleum reserve

Dan Bongino, Dr. Daniel Gouré, Bill Gertz, Jim Hanson

DAN BONGINO, former Secret Service Agent and NYT’s bestselling author:

• Mayor de Blasio and the ACLU taking legal actions against the NYPD for their surveillance activities on mosques, endangering the citizens of New York City
• Islamist supremacists leveraging the rights and privileges of a constitutional democracy like the United States, against its own citizens
• How can the Democratic Party let a woman who put US human intelligence agents in mortal danger, be allowed to run for Commander in Chief?
• While the FBI may not be able to indict Hillary Clinton, the Department of Justice will have to

Dr. DANIEL GOURÉ, Vice President of the Lexington Institute, Adjunct Professor at the National Defense University’s Homeland Security Program:

• How the national security discussion at last night’s GOP Iowa debate has shown that the US no longer can maintain a global military, effective homeland security, and their nuclear deterrence
• Ben Carson’s debate comments on the Muslim Brotherhood’s Explanatory Memorandum bringing stealth jihad into the national spotlight
• Iran deliberately testing the US through strategic provocations
• Endangering our servicemen/women by putting them in faulty military equipment
• China continues to steal defense intelligence from the US

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Reorganization of the PLA gives rise to a strategic support force and a hypersonic glider
• Recent Russian provocation on US Air Force over the Black Sea

JIM HANSON, Executive VP of the Center for Security Policy, former operator in the US Army special forces:

• Upcoming SASC hearing on implanting women in combat involuntarily
• Sweden to remove 80,000 migrants
• Institutions already present in Europe to radicalize migrants

Rep. Jim Bridenstine, Dr. Gene Kopelson, Elaine Donnelly and Fred Fleitz

Rep. JIM BRIDENSTINE (OK-1), House Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces:

·      Iran’s behavior since the JCPOA

·      Likelihood of continued Iranian aggression

·      Zero-Tolerance for Terrorism Act

·      Consequences of a weakened American military 

Dr. GENE KOPELSON, author of the forthcoming “Reagan’s 1968 Dress Rehearsal: Ike, RFK, and Reagan’s Emergence as a World Statesmen”:

·      Reagan’s ‘golden age of politics’

·      How Dwight Eisenhower influenced Reagan while governing California

·      Looking at Reagan’s potential grasp as the 1968 republican presidential nominee

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

·      Assault on the culture of the US military

·      Sec. of Defense Ash Carter ignoring advice of the USMC, regarding female soldiers in direct combat

ELAINE DONNELLY (PART TWO):

·      Upcoming Senate Armed Services Committee hearing where Sec. of the Navy Maebus and Marine Commandant Dunford will speak on women in direct ground combat

·      Marine helicopter training accident part of a much larger issue

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

·      The dangerous fantasy behind Obama’s Iran deal

·      Upcoming Iranian elections

·      Will Hillary be indicted by the Justice Department?

·      National security consequences of Clinton’s private email server

Rep. JIM BRIDENSTINE

Rep. JIM BRIDENSTINE (OK-1), House Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces:

·      Iran’s behavior since the JCPOA

·      Likelihood of continued Iranian aggression

·      Zero-Tolerance for Terrorism Act

·      Consequences of a weakened American military 

 

 

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Michael Rowan, Monica Crowley and Diana West

Rep. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (FL-27), Chairman Emeritus of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs:

·      Italian’s covering up nude statues so as to not offend Iranian president Rouhani during his state visit

·      US abandoning allies in the Middle East

·      Clinton Emailgate: what should the punishment be?

·      If Obama closes Gitmo, will he hand the reigns over to the Castro Regime?

·      Venezuela’s path to implosion

MICHAEL ROWAN, author of “The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chávez and the War Against America”:

·      How the Cuban model of communism has bankrupt Venezuela despite the country’s vast oil and natural gas reserves

·      Hezbollah active in Venezuela and what that has to do with Iran’s sanctions relief

·      Narco terrorists holding government positions in Caracas

MONICA CROWLEY, Fox News Analyst:

·      Obama’s efforts to close Guantanamo Bay as his most dangerous betrayal

·      Looking at ISIS’ recruitment of women

·      Russia, China, Iran and North Korea all had eyes on the Clinton server

·      Huma Abedin’s chances of facing serious legal jeopardy 

DIANA WEST, author of "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

·      Europe’s accommodation of Islamists

·      President Rhouhani’s visit to Italy

·      Contrast of the civilization jihad in America and Europe

 

Rep. Steve Russell, Dr. Peter Huessy, Michael Cutler, Andy McCarthy

Rep. STEVE RUSSELL (OK-5), House Armed Services Committee Member, Iraq war veteran:

• Iran terrorist financier legislation in Congress
• Fifty-two deck of cards of Iranian officials who shouldn’t be free from sanctioning
• Importance of the Guantanamo Bay facilities

Dr. PETER HUESSY, President of Geostrategic Analysis:

• Criticisms of nuclear modernization from former DoD officials
• Is the US provoking North Korea’s nuclear actions?
• Proliferation in North Korea, Russia, China, India, and Pakistan

MICHAEL CUTLER, retired INS special agent:

• Failure to recognize visa fraud even after 9/11
• Examining the recent hostage swap with the Iranians
• Continued flow of migrants fleeing violence in Central America
• Omnibus bill supporting bringing Syrian refugees into the US but failing to take action against sanctuary cities

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• How the NYPD is being compromised by leftist organizations
• How committed is the administration to stopping radical Islam inside of the US?
• Undoing the national security fraud of 2016

PART TWO:

• Criminality element in the Clinton email scandal
• FBI investigation of Huma Abedin
• Abedin’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?

Sen. Mike Rounds, Nik Hanlon, Kevin Freeman, Gordon Chang

Sen. MIKE ROUNDS (R-SD), Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee:

• Update on the Iran Deal’s legislative journey
• Do the 2016 presidential candidates understand the threat from Kim Jong-un?
• Modernizing the US strategic nuclear deterrent

NIK HANLON, Chief Africa Policy Analyst and Critical Infrastructure Security project manager at the Center for Security Policy:

• Recent cyber attack on Ukraine’s power grid
• Iran reverse engineering Stuxnet virus in attack on Turkey?
• Political tensions in Burundi
• Maintaining US influence in the Great Lakes region of Africa

KEVIN FREEMAN, Founder and CEO of Freeman Global Holdings, LLC:

• What’s actually “global” about globalization?
• Protecting the US shale oil industry from economic efforts from the Middle East
• George Soros’ prediction on China’s economy
• Myths regarding the Communist Party in Beijing

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

• Mass outflow of capital from the 2015 Chinese economy
• How far overvalued is the Renminbi?
• North Korea’s abduction of an American student
• Radical jihadism in Indonesia

Russ Read, Kyle Shideler, Guy Taylor, Dr. Ilan Berman

RUSS READ, National Security Reporter at The Daily Caller, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ParrabellumReport.com:

• Recent hostage swap has the US State Department hailing a diplomatic milestone while claims of victory are heard from the Mullahs in Tehran
• Continued appeasement to Iranian demands putting a price tag on Americans living abroad?
• Predictions of increased terror attacks in the West for 2016
• ISIS adopting an al Qaeda-esq strategy concerning extra-territorial violence

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

• Relations between Hamas and the Islamic State in the Sinai
• Islamic extremist groups enabling one another in the name of the Global Jihad Movement
• US troops in Afghanistan finally given the green light to engage ISIS fighters
• Faulty and unrealistic strategy of trying to establish a peace accord between the Taliban and Afghan government

GUY TAYLOR, National security team leader at The Washington Times:

• What does Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Riyadh, Cairo, and Tehran portend for the future of the Middle East?
• Crossover in the geopolitical strategies of Washington and Beijing in their desire for stability
• The ISIS pivot to Libya
• Religious significance of the Levant Caliphate

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

• North Korea envious of the JCPOA and the generous sanctions relief given to Iran
• Will China crack down on Kim Jong-un?
• Looking at the Iranian cyber threat from a retaliatory angle
• How Iran’s hacking shows evidence of their mapping the US electric grid

With Rick Fisher, Seth Cropsey, Rep. Rob Wittman Rep. Lee Zeldin

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center:

• China’s military modernization and development of a Space Force
• Beijing diverting Communist Party failures through military force
• Chinese capability and willingness to attack another nation

SETH CROPSEY, former Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy and Senior Fellow and Director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower:

• Decrease in American seapower under Obama
• What is the difference between freedom of navigation and innocent passage?
• Iranian contempt to the United States
• Strategic significance of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

Rep. ROB WITTMAN (VA-1), Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces:

• Threats to U.S. interests in the Western Pacific and China
• The readiness of the U.S. Navy
• Vulnerability of the electric grid

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

• Reaction to the Obamabomb implementation day
• Importance of stopping Iraqi and Syrian refugees to the West
• Investigation of NSA spying on Congress