Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Dr. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence at the Hoover Institution:

• Important parallels between the Iran deal and other historic acts of appeasement
• No urgency in cutting a nuclear deal until President Obama put down a deadline
• Using President Reagan’s Panama Canal treaty to help solve the broken nuclear agreement
• Request of criminal investigation by Justice and State Department officials regarding Hillary Clinton’s private email server

ILAN BERMAN, President of The American Foreign Policy Council:

• Ilan Berman’s testimony regarding the ‘ObamaBomb’
• Consequences of Tehran’s signing bonus
• Global economic motive for the Iranian nuclear deal
• U.S. forces using Turkish airbases to conduct strikes against ISIS

State Rep. JUDD MATHENY, Representative of the 47^th district of Tennessee:

• Tennessee being the nation’s “Jihad Capital”
• What can be done to prevent radicalization in American Mosques
• Influence of Refugee Resettlement programs in Tennessee’s Jihadi problem

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

• The birthday of the Caliphate
  
• Four threat vectors of the Islamic State that make it like no other transnational group seen before
• Taking the fight to the enemy in the counter-idelogical domain

Rep. JIM BRIDENSTINE, U.S. Congressman Representing Oklahoma’s 1^st Congressional District:

• Iran’s nefarious activities against the US and her allies
• Why the agreement will bring about war, not prevent it
• The possibility of an Iranian EMP attack on America’s electrical grid and critical infrastructure
• How Congress may vote on the deal and Israel’s say in the matter

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

• Secret side dealings between Iran and the IAEA?
• Options for Congress Democrats regarding the Iranian nuclear legislation
• Provisions of nuclear agreement requiring U.S. military to protect Iranian nuclear sites?

CLIFFORD MAY, President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• Why people do not see the major flaws of the Iran nuclear agreement
• Setting a precedent of ignoring Congress in favor of the UN
• The danger of large sanctions relief to the Iranian regime

LOGAN ALBRIGHT, Research Analyst at FreedomWorks:

• Importance of the electric grid to U.S. financial markets
• Hillary Clinton’s attack on the “Shared Economy”
• FreedomWorks’ opposition to the Export-Import Bank and consequences of its closing on the global trade market

AMB. YORAM ETTINGER, Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Congress: 

• An overall assessment of the Iran nuclear agreement
• How the Obama administration’s eagerness for a deal affected the negotiations

PART TWO:

• The UN Security Council trumping Congress on the nuclear agreement
• Implications of massive sanctions relief to Tehran
• The prospects for nuclear non-proliferation after Iran deal

PATRICK POOLE, National Security Reporter at PJ Media:

• The U.S. government’s failure to identify the Chattanooga shooter’s motives
• Contrasts between the Charleston and Tennessee shootings
• Why the U.S. government is ignoring Shariah ideology

PART TWO:

• How the idea of “countering violent extremism” is dangerous and misses the point
• An assessment of Britain’s shifting policies towards radical Islam
• The role of mosques in the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy of civilization jihad

DOUGLAS J. FEITH, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (2001-2005), Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute:

• Problems with the structure of the Iran nuclear deal
• Coercive diplomacy as an alternative to war

 PART TWO:

• Differences between Libya and Iran’s nuclear negotiations
• How negotiation tradecraft resulted in the current Iranian nuclear deal

 PART THREE:

• Implications of the U.S. helping advance Iran’s nuclear program
• U.S. concessions on Iranian conventional arms and ballistic missile embargo
• America’s commitment to protect Iran’s dangerous illegal activities

 PART FOUR:

• Iran destroying the non-proliferation status quo
• Administration removing sanctions on Iran by subverting Congress and pleading to the UN Security Council

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

• The UN Security Council’s endorsement of the Iran nuclear deal
• Administration efforts to sell the Iran Deal on the Hill
• “Nuclear exploitation” at the hands of the North Koreans

ROBERT DOUBEK, Project Director for the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Fund and author of “Creating the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial: The Inside Story”:

• The history behind the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial
• America’s image in central Europe

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

• China’s desire for Iranian sanctions relief
• Countering Chinese propaganda against the U.S.
• Japan's adoption of amendments to its Peace Constitution
• North Korean biological weapons and anthrax testing

JOSE CARDENAS, former Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean at USAID:

• Opening of embassies in Cuba and the United States
• Cuba’s failure to reform its repressive tactics
• The “Women in White” movement
• Problems with the Obama administration ignoring Cuba’s support for terrorism
• Predicting the outcome of the FARC peace talks with the Colombian government

Amb. ROBERT JOSEPH, former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security:

• Major concessions and ambiguities in the Iran deal
• Has the White House done more to distort the negotiations than the Iranians?
• United Nations Security Council’s efforts to circumvent the U.S. Constitution

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”:

• Why conservatism is better than the alternative for rebuilding the U.S.
• How American conservatives can compete against the liberal ideology
• Importance of national security in the pursuit of individual happiness
• Relationship between American conservatism and human rights

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Concerns surrounding the Iranian nuclear deal
• Effects of funding cuts to the Pentagon in the context of the Iran deal
• American deterrence of the Chinese in the South China Sea
• The significance of the Chinese-backed OPM hack of personal data
• Parallels between Hillary Clinton's emails and the John Deutch affair

ILYA FEOKTISTOV, Research Director of Americans for Peace and Tolerance:

• Ideological backing of yesterday's shootings in Tennessee
• How and where individuals become radicalized
• Government’s blindness to the threat of jihad

Rep. JOHN FLEMING, Representing the Fourth District of Louisiana:

• Congressional Republicans' weakened position in negotiating the Corker-Cardin Bill
• Why removing U.S. missile defense systems from Europe is a recipe for proliferation
• A critique of President Obama's refusal to stand up to Russian expansionism in Ukraine
• Will the technological advantage the U.S. has over China and Russia end soon?

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

• Obama’s flip-flopping on the definition of a “good” nuclear deal
• The administration’s claim that this deal will prevent a nuclear Iran
• IAEA’s ability to inspect Iranian nuclear sites
• Timetable for sanctions relief and the removal of known Iranian terrorists from the sanctions lists

CHRISTIAN WHITON, Principal at DC International Advisory and author of “Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War”:

• State Department strategy for the nuclear negotiations
• Analyzing the international community’s support for the Iran deal
• How the Iran deal affects military options for Israel and future U.S. presidents
• The current U.S. strategy towards Cuba
• Republican tolerance for sanctuary cities

MICHAEL BRAUN, former Drug Enforcement Administration Chief of Operations:

• Drug lord "El Chapo" Guzman's escape from a Mexican prison
• Popular misconceptions about the "War on Drugs"
• US-Mexican cooperation in the hunt for Guzman
• Concerns over the FARC's submarine force and ties to Hezbollah

Rep. PETER ROSKAM, U.S. Congressman for the 6th District of Illinois:

• How the “Obamabomb” deal centers on the President’s personality
• Putting the value of the sanctions relief and cash influx to Iran in perspective
• The three-staged history of attempts to marginalize Israel
• Latest efforts to suppress Hillary Clinton’s private email server

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal”:

• Results of the Administration's negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Why dealing with the Iranian mullahs is dangerous
• Updates on American forces in Afghanistan
• Purging of American history

JIM CARAFANO, Vice President of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy:

• What the Iran deal means militarily and strategically
• Importance of sanctions relief to the Iranian economy and military
• Parallels between the North Korean and Iranian nuclear negotiation
• Fears for a conventional arms race in the Middle East

Amb. ROGER NORIEGA, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs under President George W. Bush:

• Similarities between the Iranian Negotiations and those with Cuba
• Latest regarding the Alberto Nisman case
• Bob Corker’s recent trip to Venezuela
• “El Chapo” Guzman’s escape from a Mexican prison

ANDY McCARTHY, author of “Willful Blindness” and former federal prosecutor:

• President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran
• Does this deal limit Israel’s options to deal with Iran?
• Possible options left on the table to reject the deal

Prof. WILLIAM INBODEN, former Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council under George W. Bush:

• The “White House Bubble” and the President’s overactive historical imagination
• An opposition policy to Bibi Netanyahu
• A lack of objective reporting throughout coverage of the Iran negotiations
• Encouraging an Iranian hegemony in the Middle East as part of Obama’s grand strategy of a new international order
• Comparing Presidents Obama and Reagan

KEVIN FREEMAN, Founder and CEO of Freeman Global Investment Counsel and author of “Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack”:

• Last week's crash of the New York Stock Exchange
• Possible economic terror threats from hostile countries
• Lloyd’s of London’s report on cyber attacks to electrical grids
• Consequences of Iranian sanctions relief
• Recent trends in the Chinese markets

ANTHONY KIMERY, Editor-in-Chief of Homeland Security Today:

• Iranian threats to the U.S. electric grid
• CYLANCE report of Iran hacking into the electric grid
• The “Recovery Transformer Program”

ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Harvard Law School Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus:

• Predictions for what an Iran nuclear deal would mean for the broader Middle East
• Evidence of bipartisan opposition to a deal
• Would an Iranian nuclear deal count as a treaty--and be contingent on 2/3rds Senate approval?

Amb. RICHARD SCHIFTER, Chairman of the Board of the American Jewish International Relations Institute:

• Looming nuclear agreement with the Iranian regime
• The United Nations’ assault on Israel
• Threats to American veto power at the UN Security Council
• Obama administrations’ views towards Israel

Dr. PAUL KENGOR, Director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College:

• Valerie Jarrett’s influence over the Obama foreign policy doctrine
• Will Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin replace Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett?
• How will the national security and foreign policy legacy of Barack Obama be remembered?

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

• How Beijing is using risky financial methods to stabilize the Chinese stock market
• A “New Silk Road” connecting China to the west
• Barack Obama's refusal to meet with China’s General Fan