Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Clare Lopez, Claudia Rosett, Dr. Michael O'Hanlon, Prof. Peter Navarro

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President of Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy:

• A disconnect between the president’s rhetoric on the Iran deal and the agreement’s actual content
• Sen. Chuck Schumer’s decision to not support the deal and its implications for Congress
• Who Iranian Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani is and why he was sanctioned
• Sarah Steelman’s point that the deal will force U.S. states to remove sanctions on terrorist sponsors

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Journalist-In-Residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• Iran and North Korea’s strategic alliance going back to the start of the 1979 Islamic Revolution
• First the Bush then the Obama Administrations cloaking in secrecy the nuclear cooperation between Tehran and Pyongyang

Dr. MICHAEL O’HANLON, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution:

• General thoughts on the Iranian nuclear deal and if Congress should pass it
• The problem of immediate, large-scale sanctions relief for the Iranians
• General John Campbell’s recent analysis of the situation in Afghanistan
• The current state of the Taliban and whether parts of it are joining the Islamic State

Prof. Peter Navarro, Author of the forthcoming Crouching Tiger: What China’s Militarism Means for the World:

• An economic explanation of the national security threat from China
• Consensus among experts on the dangers on an expanding Chinese military
• Obama backing down on currency manipulation and the flawed economic interdependence argument concerning Beijing

Fred Fleitz, Ilan Berman, Adm. James 'Ace' Lyons, Michael Bastasch, Beth Van Duyne

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

• Analyzing President Obama’s Iran speech at American University and what it means
• The president’s continuous ridicule of Israeli concerns about the nuclear agreement
• The North Korean model for using diplomacy to get nuclear weapons
• Implications of Hillary Clinton’s private server holding classified information
• Louis Farrakhan’s public call for violence in America

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

• Failing White House publicity push to sell the Iran deal
• Obama’s straw-men of the Iraq War debate and a warmongering foreign policy
• The Marshall Plan to the Islamic Republic in the form of sanctions relief
• Tehran’s relationship with rouge regimes in Venezuela, Bolivia, and North Korea

Adm. JAMES ‘ACE’ LYONS, Retired Four-Star Admiral and former Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet:

• The military’s absence from the public debate over the Iranian nuclear deal
• Implications of massive defense cuts under the Obama Administration
• How would transgenders and females be integrated into the military?
• The administration’s efforts to train parts of China’s military under military-to-military exchanges
• Anjem Choudary’s arrest by the British government

MICHAEL BASTASCH, Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• EPA trying to play energy regulator by reformulating the U.S. energy grid
• Germany and the United Kingdom learning a lesson from forcing renewable energy implementation
• Potential delay in getting the EPA ruling into the federal register
• Extreme dangers to the grid if coal plants are discontinued

BETH VAN DUYNE, Mayor of Irvine, Texas:

• Responding to recent unfair attacks in the media
• The background on the sharia court controversy in Irvine
• Understanding what a sharia court is and why it’s illegal
• How Mayor Van Duyne initially responded to the incident in her city
• The source of false anti-Muslim accusations from provocateurs

Rep. Mike Pompeo, Sidney Powell, Diana West, Dr. Arthur Brooks

Rep. MIKE POMPEO, United States Representative for Kansas’s Fourth Congressional District:

• Why the Iran deal still allows the Islamic Republic to obtain nuclear weapons
• The major holes in the new verification regime, especially regarding inspections
• Secret side deals between Iran and the IAEA, kept from Congress and the American people
• When the 60-day countdown for Congress to review the Iran deal should start
• How sanctions relief will help Tehran threaten the U.S. through an EMP attack and terrorism

SIDNEY POWELL P.C. Author of Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice:

• Judge Emmet Sullivan’s two cases concerning the Judicial Watch lawsuits against the State Department and the IRS
• Penalty of perjury for Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, and Cheryl Mills
• Department of Justice complicity in crimes committed by former Secretary of State Clinton

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

• Remembering the great Cold War historian and poet Robert Conquest
• Socialism’s longstanding active role in American leftist politics
• Comparing the Yalta Conference at the end of World War II to today’s Iran deal 

Dr. ARTHUR BROOKS, President of the American Enterprise Institute and author of  The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America:

• How GOP candidates need to channel their bases’ anger into aspiration
• The urgent need to reform the high-skill immigration visa policy as well as the guest worker program
• U.S. moving towards a European styled social democratic form of government?
• Iran deal hinges on “Republicans winning elections by making an aspirational case to expand their coalitions”

Rep. Tom Marino, Bishop E.W. Jackson, Rep. Doug Lamborn, Andy McCarthy

Rep. TOM MARINO, United States Representative for Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District:

• Secretary of State Kerry’s testimony in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
• Congressional Democrats following their party despite opposition to the Iran deal
• Iran’s desire to launch an EMP attack against the United States electric grid
• The president’s attack on coal despite its importance to the U.S. economy and security

Bishop E.W. JACKSON, Founder and President of Veterans Taking A Stand and Bishops Taking A Stand:

• President Obama changing the oath to citizenship in the United States
• Eroding America’s military moral and materials
• The ‘LGBT Military’ and the status of the U.S. Armed Forces' readiness

Rep. DOUG LAMBORN, United States Representative for Colorado’s Fifth Congressional District:

• Assessing the Iran nuclear deal’s merits and its current status in Congress
• The EMP threat Tehran poses to the United States
• Will the National Defense Authorization Act survive the president’s veto threat?
• The military’s readiness given President Obama’s attempts to marginalize it
• The importance of maintaining an advantage in space for American national security

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• Judge Emmet Sullivan’s recent order and the mission for transparency in the Obama Administration
• Why isn’t the Hillary Clinton private email server in government hands?

Chris Farrell, Joe Weasel, Sara Carter, Dr. Michael Auslin, Gordon Chang

CHRIS FARRELL, Director of Investigations and Research at Judicial Watch:

• District Judge Emmet Sullivan’s recent important directive regarding the Clinton email scandal
• Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin’s questionable conduct and associations
• A criminal referral against Clinton?

JOE WEASEL, Executive Producer at The Blaze TV, Director of the new documentary “The Sun City Cell”:

• An increasing narcoterror threat to the United States
• High levels of corruption among both local and federal officials regarding combating illicit activity at the southern border
• Mexican cartel’s mastery of blackmail and coercion
• Philosophical targets in the U.S.

SARA CARTER, Senior Investigative Correspondent for American Media Institute:

• Discussing an Islamic State document stating its plan to takeover the world
• The state of the Taliban after a change in leadership

Dr. MICHAEL AUSLIN, Resident Scholar and Director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Chinese inroads into Siberia and the implications for Russia
• High tension between Moscow and Beijing analyzed in terms of arms sales and defense modernization
• President Shinzo Abe restructuring Japan’s international security policies
• Failed Clinton-Bush negotiations with North Korea as a template for "would-be proliferators" like Iran

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

• The looming Chinese debt crisis
• Xi Jinping supporting Putin’s ambitions in Ukraine?
• 2022 Winter Olympic games awarded to Beijing and the consequences to an already battered Chinese economy

Dr. Michael Rubin, Bill Gertz, Fred Fleitz, Amb. Roger Noriega

Dr. MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, author of “Dancing With the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes”:

• The agenda of enabling the Iranian regime
• Comparing Obama’s dealings with the Mullah’s to Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler
• Five questions each 2016 candidate should be able to answer about Africa

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor of the Washington Free Beacon:

• STRATCOM’s Admiral Cecil Haney’s endorsement of the 'ObamaBomb' deal
• China’s hypersonic nuclear threat
• Reports that the weak response to the OPM hacks will lead to more cyber attacks
• The growing threat and ongoing anti-western aggression from North Korea
• Los Zetas cartel shooting down a U.S. border control helicopter

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

• Recent updates in the Corker-Cardin bill’s effects on the Iran nuclear deal
• Likelihood recent ‘side deal’ revelations undo the nuclear deal with Tehran
• Significance of the French claim to an alternative negotiation?
• John Kerry’s role in the concessions to the Mullahs

Amb. ROGER NORIEGA, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, former U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States:

• Dealing with Central American drug cartels financed by Venezuela
• Iran projecting terrorism into the western hemisphere
• The Argentinian government’s cover up of the 1992 and 1994 bombings of Jewish community centers in Buenos Aires and the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman

Sen. Mike Rounds, (Ret.) Lt. Gen William G. "Jerry" Boykin, Rep. John Shimkus, Christian Whiton

Sen. MIKE ROUNDS, United States Senator from South Dakota:

• The recent Senate Armed Service Committee hearing on the Iran Deal
• How members of the Senate should respond to the nuclear agreement
• Examining General Paul Selva’s testimony on Capitol Hill about Iran’s terrorism
• The status of passing the National Defense Authorization Act

(Ret.) Lt. Gen. WILLIAM G. “JERRY” BOYKIN, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, former U.S. Army Delta Force Commander:

• A military perspective on the Iranian hegemony in the Middle East
• Inability to negotiate fairy with the Mullahs because of their devotion to Taqiyya
• Intelligence and security loopholes from the Clinton and now Kerry State Department
• Social engineering harming military readiness

Rep. JOHN SHIMKUS, U.S. Representative for Illinois’ 15th Congressional District:

• Unchanging opposition to the Iran nuclear deal
• How the agreement will enhance Tehran’s record of killing Americans
• The threat posed by Iran launching an EMP or cyber attack against the U.S.
• Should military recruiters be armed?
• DOTCOM Act and protecting the Internet

CHRISTIAN WHITON, Principal at D.C. Int’l Advisory, author of “Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War”:

• Tradecraft of John Kerry and Wendy Sherman and American “preemptive capitulation”
• Iran deal’s similarity to the North Korean Six Party Talks
• Jeb Bush’s shaky stance on the negotiations with Tehran
• Obama’s trip to East Africa failing to highlight the severity of the Islamist threat there

Mark Helprin, Mark Langfan, Seth Cropsey, Jim Hanson

MARK HELPRIN, Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute and author of “A Soldier of the Great War”:

• Evaluating Mike Huckabee’s comments on the Iran deal
• The prospect of Sunni Gulf States actually working with Israel

MARK LANGFAN, Vice President of the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies:

• President Obama’s views on the state of Israel
• Obama’s willingness to give Iran the bomb and implications of possible war
• Details of the ‘ObamaBomb’ deal

SETH CROPSEY, Former Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy and author of “Mayday: The Decline of American Naval Supremacy”:

• China’s recent naval expansion in the South China Sea
• Possibility of conflict between China and its neighbors
• Comparing U.S. and Chinese Naval capability

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy, former U.S. Army Special Operations Technical Weapons Sergeant:

• Turkey’s recent projection of power against the Kurds in Northern Iraq and Syria
• The Iranian campaign against ISIS will lead to sectarian atrocities and a possible civil war
• The “ISIS-Free Safe Zone”
• Is former Taliban leader of Afghanistan Mullah Omar really dead?

Amb. John Bolton, Burak Bekdil, Michael Cutler, Andy McCarthy

Amb. JOHN BOLTON, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs:

• The Iran negotiations described as the U.S. diplomatic version of Waterloo
• Choosing between giving the mullahs a bomb or using military force against them
• How Obama will prevent Israel from taking preemptive action against the Iranians
• Does this deal violate the NPT guidelines?

BURAK BEKDIL, Columnist for the Gatestone Institute and Turkish based Hürriyet Daily News:

• Turkey’s recent shift in military policy regarding ISIS
• Ankara’s military plan for Kurdish fighters in Turkey and Iraq
• How does last month’s parliamentary elections affect Turkey’s presidential power
• Likelihood of a Turkish coalition government

MICHAEL CUTLER, former Immigration and Naturalization Service Agent, Senior Fellow at Californians for Population Stabilization:

• The battle over immigration’s politically correct rhetoric
• Illegal aliens and their voting rights
• A lack of integrity concerning the government’s refugee resettlement policy
• National security concerns for un-vetted Syrian refugees coming into the United States

ANDY McCARTHY, Former Federal Prosecutor and author of “Faithless Execution: Building The Political Case for Obama's Impeachment”:

• President Obama’s impeachable actions surrounding the Iran nuclear deal
• The President’s criticism of Republican opposition to the nuclear deal

Kyle Shideler, John Sitilides, Brig. Gen. Joseph Schroedel, Gordon Chang

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

• Turkey conducting military strikes against the Kurds under the guise of fighting IS
• Has the Obama Administration abandoned the Kurds in exchange for basing rights at Incirlik air base?
• The case for Kurdistan
• Is the U.S. content with an Iranian-controlled Iraq and a Syria dominated by chaos?

JOHN SITILIDES, Principal at Trilogy Advisors, State Department Consultant for Senior Diplomats in Greece and Cyprus:

• Current situation in the Greek financial crisis
• Economic prospects of a possible EU bailout for Athens?
• Dangers of adopting the European model of Social Democracy

Brig. Gen. JOSEPH SCHROEDEL, Executive Director of the Society of American Military Engineers:

• How military engineers protect society’s critical infrastructure, especially the electric grid
• Cyber security concerns in protecting the energy sector
• After the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, pushing the priority to educate the American public on how to respond effectively in emergencies

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

• Misleading reports of Beijing's gold reserves
• Troubles with the Chinese stock market
• Xi Jinping's potential for destabilizing the world
• North Korea’s role as a nuclear proliferator