Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Fred Fleitz, Dr. Luis Fleischman, Gordon Chang, Diana West

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

• Swap of American hostages for Iranian criminals
• Payment of ransom has endangered Americans abroad  
• Ability of the IAEA to insure Iran’s compliance with the nuclear agreement
• Iran’s plans for ten new nuclear reactors 

Dr. LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Senior Advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy:

• Nicolas Maduro’s actions after taking over for Hugo Chavez
• Newest political fraud in Venezuela
• Possibility of “el Chapo” being extradited to the U.S.
• Review of Sean Penn’s interview with “el Chapo”
• Encouraging prospects in Guatemala          

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

• Results of the Taiwanese elections
• Concern of China’s military build up in Asia
• South Korea possibly obtaining nuclear weapons?
• North Korea, Chinese, and Iranian nuclear cooperation
• Update on China’s economy

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

• Huma Abedin’s history with suspicious groups
• Importance of barring sharia adherent migrants to the U.S.
• Possible demotion of General David Petraeus?

Richard Perle

RICHARD PERLE, former Assistant Secretary of Defense:

• Responding to Obama’s statement of American power
• Absurdity of the Iranian nuclear agreement
• Tehran’s ideological goal for the West

PART TWO:

• Principle of equality in the “Zero Option”
• Verification of the Iranian nuclear deal
• How President Reagan would have handled Iran’s capturing of US sailors
• Comparing Reagan’s use of national power to that of Obama

PART THREE:

• Analyzing Reagan’s strategy for taking down the Soviet Union and Obama’s approach to Iran
• Importance of missile defense to the United States
• Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972
• Vladimir Putin’s aggression

PART FOUR:

• Possibility China will manufacture a crisis to maintain power
• China’s military space program
• Difficulty dealing with North Korea
• Need to increase focus to Latin America

PART FIVE:

• Obama’s hostility towards Israel
• Threats posed to Israel from regional neighbors
• Muslim Brotherhood’s inspiration to destroy the United States

Stewart Baker, Frank Calzon, Danielle Pletka, James O’Keefe

STEWART BAKER, former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security:

• American ability to contend with cyber warfare
• European Union decreasing American intelligence collection capabilities
• Perils of intelligence sharing

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

• Future prospects for a free Cuba
• Economic outlook for investment in Cuba
• Castro brother’s support for terrorism
• Concern surrounding Cuban migrants to the US
• Implications of turning Gitmo over to the Cubans

DANIELLE PLETKA, Senior VP for Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Obama’s foreign policy outlook at the SOTU
• Consequences of sanctions relief to the Islamic Republic's nuclear and ballistic missile programs
• Iranian troops in Syria as the mullahs provide additional support to Hezbollah in Lebanon/Syria and the Houthis in Yemen
• Focusing on ISIS while ignoring the reemergence of the Taliban and giving free passes to Xi in the South China Sea and Putin in Ukraine

JAMES O’KEEFE, Founder and President of Project Veritas:

• Investigation into Common Core education
• Movement on college campuses to shred the Constitution
• Exposing the Hijra in Greece  

Fred Fleitz, Chuck Downs, Bing West, Debbie Weiss

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

• How the IAEA will enforce the Iranian nuclear agreement
• Tehran’s use of sanction relief
• Consequences of US non-response to aggressive Iranian behavior
• Increasing tensions between Saudi-Arabia and Iran

CHUCK DOWNS, former Deputy Director of the East Asia Office at the Department of Defense:

• What did the North Korea use in their nuclear test?
• Pyongyang’s actions as a shake down
• China’s concern of the DPRK’s nuclear actions

BING WEST, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, former Force Recon Marine in the Vietnam War:

• Global standing of the US military
• Effect of withdrawing from Iraq
• Social engineering of US Marine Corps

DEBBIE WEISS, author of “The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Jihad Against Free Speech”:

• Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s global agenda
• Hillary Clinton’s advancement of UN Resolution 1618

Rep. Scott Perry, Diana West, Rep. Ted Poe, Morgan Chalfant

With Rep. Scott Perry, Diana West, Rep. Ted Poe, Morgan Chalfant

Rep. SCOTT PERRY (PA-4), Member of the House Homeland Security Committee:

• Reaction to Obama’s State of the Union Address
• American awareness to the ‘enemy within’
• Threat to the electric grid posed by the Islamic State
• Prospects for finding the truth regarding Benghazi

DIANA WEST, author of “Death of the Grown Up”:

• Effects of the Hijra on Europe
• Koran’s teaching of ‘Sexual Jihad’
• Shifting power of European politics
• Demographic transformation of Los Angeles 

Rep. TED POE (TX-2), Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs:

• President Obama’s failure to address terrorism in the State of the Union address
• ISIS social media recruitment 
• Twitter’s new restrictions on hate speech
• Iranian nuclear deal nearing implementation day

MORGAN CHALFANT, Reporter at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Update on the ten American sailors held by Iran
• Marine Corps study about women in combat
• Surge of unaccompanied minors illegally crossing the border 

Sen. James Lankford, Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad, Marc Lebuis, Michael Braun

Sen. JAMES LANKFORD (R-OK), Member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

• Predicting President Obama’s State of the Union Address
• Hamas-linked individuals attending the SOTU
• Likely outcome of Iranian sanctions relief
• Importance of protecting the U.S. electric grid
• Significance of NSA’s spying on members of Congress

Amb. ZALMAY KHALILZAD, Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, President of Gryphon Partners:

• Peace talks between Afghani government and Taliban
• Situation report on the instability of Iraq
• Significance of Iran’s rapid regional growth

MARC LEBUIS, Founder and director of Point de Bascule (Tipping Point) in Canada:

• Quebec Bill 59’s impact to free speech in Canada
• OIC’s influence in establishing Human Rights Council Resolution 1618
• Prognosis to defeat Quebec Bill 59 and HRC Resolution 1618

MICHAEL BRAUN, Managing Partner at SGI Global, former Assistant Administrator and Chief of Operations at the DEA:

• Implications of capturing “El Chapo”
• Spread of drug related cartels in the United States
• Advice to future presidents to defeat the drug cartels

Clare Lopez, Michael Cutler, Claudia Rosett, Gordon Chang

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, former CIA Operations Officer:

• American support in Saudi-Iran conflict
• Nuclear ambitions of Tehran and Riyadh
• Implications of Iranian sanction relief
• Recent film release of “13 Hours”

MICHAEL CUTLER, former INS Senior Special Agent, Senior Fellow at Californians for Population Stabilization:

• Drug kingpin “El Chapo” back in the custody of Mexican authorities
• Drug trafficking into the US transitioning from Miami speedboats to border crossings from Mexico
• No database to vet Syrian refugees
• Obama’s “instrumentalities of change” regarding immigration

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Journalist-in-Residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• North Korea’s recent nuclear detonation
• Reasoning behind Pyongyang’s aggressive behavior
• Possibility that DPRK negotiation a new nuclear deal?
• IAEA’s unwillingness to investigate Iranian compliance to nuclear deal

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

• Communist China’s intervention in the economy
• Devaluation of the Chinese renmibi
• Beijing’s inner turmoil leading to aggressive external policy
• Likelihood of revolution in China
• North Korea’s recent nuclear test

Rep. Chris Stewart, Fred Fleitz, Dr. Michael Rubin, Bill Gertz

Rep. CHRIS STEWART (UT-2), Member, House Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Reports of the NSA spying on congress
• Administration’s aggressive policy towards Israel
• Dangers in not vetting individuals coming to the U.S.

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

• Views on NSA spying scandal
• Disparities in reports of Iranian exports of enriched uranium
• North Korea’s history of violating nuclear agreements
• Iranian and North Korean nuclear cooperation

Dr. MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Analysis of Iranian-Saudi conflict
• North Korea’s ultimate goal in the recent nuclear test
• Importance of having aircraft carriers in the Asian theater
• Advice to future presidents regarding terrorist ideology

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Latest intel assessment of the North Korean underground nuclear test and submarine-launched ballistic missile test
• Thaw in relations between Pyongyang and Beijing
• Obama Administration using the Muslim Brotherhood to ‘combat violent extremism’
• China’s blinding laser weapon system in direct violation of UN statutes

Rep. Louie Gohmert, Rep. Tom Marino, Con Coughlin

Rep. LOUIE GOHMERT (TX-1), Chairman of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations:

• Presidential overreach by Obama regarding Gitmo and gun control
• Stance on bipartisan support for criminal justice reform

Rep. LOUIE GOHMERT (TX-1), PART TWO:

• Importance of labeling the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization
• How DHS has stripped tools for spotting terrorists
• Attempts by Congress to receive files regarding the Holy Land Foundation trial

Rep. TOM MARINO (PA-10), Member, House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security:

• Implications of executive action on gun control
• Legal blocks to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign
• Obama’s role in Iranian and North Korean actions

CON COUGHLIN, Defense Editor at The Daily Telegraph (UK):

• French President Hollande’s comments regarding a war against ISIS inside Europe
• The Global Jihad Movement’s powerhouse in Raqqa, Syria
• Emergence of a new “Jihadi John"
• Consequences of closing Guantanamo Bay
• Elements of the British Commonwealth Foreign Office sympathetic to Iranian interests versus Saudi

Diana West, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William G. “Jerry" Boykin, Amb. Yoram Ettinger, Guy Taylor

DIANA WEST, author of “Death of the Grown Up”:

• War on women by sharia adherent men in Germany
• Will feminists act against Islamists?

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) WILLIAM G. “JERRY" BOYKIN, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, and original member of Delta Force:

• Maintaining American forces and influence in Afghanistan
• Likelihood Iraqi government can retake and hold Ramadi
• Growing Iranian influence in Iraq

Amb. YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister of Congressional Affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.:

• American and Israeli sharing of military training and equipment

GUY TAYLOR, national security team leader at the Washington Times:

• News about an undisclosed Iranian bunker containing ballistic missiles
• Tehran fighting proxy wars in both Yemen and Syria
• Will Iran and Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic tensions escalate into yet another hot war in the Middle East?