Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Ken Cuccinelli, Robert Spencer and Nicholas Eftimiades

KEN CUCCINELLI, Former Attorney General of Virginia

• An overview of lessons learned from the controversy of the 2020 election
• A great improvement in election volunteering in Virginia
• How vulnerable is American voter data?

ROBERT SPENCER, Director, Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist, PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, Author, “Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the U.S.?,” and “Islamophobia and the Threat to Free Speech,” @jihadwatchRS

• An update on the protests taking place in Iran
• What is the Iranian regime’s primary weapon against its people?
• Is Robert Malley betraying the Iranian people?

NICHOLAS EFTIMIADES, Senior Fellow, McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security

• Nicholas’ extensive work on Chinese espionage
• How is China extending their control over American citizens?

With Bradley Thayer, Dr. Harold Rhode and George Rasley

BRADLEY THAYER, Director of China Policy, Center for Security Policy, Author, How China Sees the World 

• Xi's continued escalatory remarks towards Taiwan
• Is Xi's health in decline?
• Are the "stars aligning" for a military attack against Taiwan?

DR. HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense, Author of Modern Islamic Warfare: An Ancient Doctrine Marches On (2017):

• Ongoing protests in Iran
• What can the United States do to help the people of Iran?
• What is the overall goal of these protests?

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor, Conservative HQ, former White House Staff Member, Vice President Dan Quayle, former Assistant Director, National Park Service, former Director of Policy and Communication, Congressman Adam Putnam (FL-12)

• How does the CCP view the United States?
• Is the Biden administration compromised by China?
• Biden's "war" on fossil fuels

With Raymond Ibrahim

RAYMOND IBRAHIM, Author of Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute

• What is the textbook definition of "Sharia"?
• Enmity within Islam
• Are some moderate Muslims viewed as dissidents?
• Is America Islamophobic?
• What premise was the Muslim Brotherhood founded on?

With Jonathan Emord, Col. John Mills and Kevin Freeman

JONATHAN EMORD, A Constitutional law attorney and author of The Authoritarians: Their Assault on Individual Liberty, the Constitution, and Free Enterprise from the 19th Century to the Present (2021)

• An updated CDC ruling regarding the COVID-19 vaccine
• How this power grab is characteristic of the "deep state"
• The "greatest betrayal" of the United States in recent history

COL. (RET.) JOHN MILLS, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Member, Committee on the Present Danger: China

• The importance of local county elections in the U.S.
• Is polling software vulnerable to hacking?
• What can the U.S. do to prevent voter fraud?

KEVIN FREEMAN, Host, Economic War Room, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Author, “Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack” and “Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again,” Founder, Globaleconomiwarfare.com, @SecretWeaponUSA:

• Continued attacks on the U.S. as being "the most racist" country in the world
• The need to emphasize traditional American values
• Economic warfare taking place around the world

With Bradley Thayer, Kimberly Hermann and Yoram Ettinger

BRADLEY THAYER, Director of China Policy, Center for Security Policy, Author, How China Sees the World 

• Reactions to Xi Jinping's address at the 20th Party Congress
• A degree of belligerence in Xi's speech
• Analyzing the current state of China's economy

KIMBERLY HERMANN, General Counsel, Southeastern Legal Foundation

• Critical Race Theory being taught in schools across America
• Students being asked questions about their parents' political affiliation

YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators

• Why the U.S. cannot negotiate with Iran
• The relationship between Iran and Venezuela
• How is the U.S. losing trust of its Middle East allies?

With Col. Grant Newsham and Will Hild

GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Senior Research Fellow, Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, Contributor, Asia Times, @NewshamGrant:

• What to expect from the 20th Chinese Party Congress
• How Xi Jinping has put himself in a position where he has no real rivals
• The CCP’s desire to control their citizens

WILL HILD, Executive Director, Consumers First

• BlackRock’s influence on the United States Thrift Savings Plan
• Connections between China and BlackRock
• An emphasis on “ESG” investing from Larry Fink
• Moves across the U.S. to separate from BlackRock

With Chuck DeVore, Christine Douglass-Williams and Bradley Thayer

CHUCK DEVORE, Vice President of Public Policy, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Senior Contributor, The Federalist, Intelligence Officer, U.S. Army (Ret.), @ChuckDeVore

• Assessing the state of the U.S. military
• What branch of the military is keeping up with their recruitment numbers?
• Demoralization of U.S. border patrol

CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, Nine-time international award-winning journalist and television producer, Former federally appointed Director, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Former Appointee, Office of Religious Freedom in Foreign Affairs, Author, “The Challenge of Modernizing Islam”

• The CCP’s continued attempts to control their citizens, even outside of China
• Justin Trudeau’s admiration of China
• Does Canada have a strong relationship with Turkey?

BRADLEY THAYER, Director of China Policy, Center for Security Policy, Author, How China Sees the World 

• The importance of the upcoming 20th Party Congress in China
• Will Xi Jinping become more powerful after this meeting?
• China’s targeting of dissidents around the world

With Sam Faddis, Cleo Paskal and Dr. Stephen Bryen

SAM FADDIS, Former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, Former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis

• Efforts by American media to portray the CCP in a positive light
• Recent explosions around the Nord Stream pipeline 
• What would Putin's response be to these explosions?

CLEO PASKAL, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

• The U.S. Pacific Island strategy 
• What is the United States' interest in the Pacific Islands?

STEPHEN BRYEN, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy

• Continued Chinese military pressure on Taiwan
• How are the U.S. and Japan tied into the security of Taiwan?

With Bill Walton and George Rasley

BILL WALTON, Host, The Bill Walton Show

• Needed U.S. disengagement from China
• The threat of nuclear attacks from China
• A looming energy crisis in Europe

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor, Conservative HQ, former White House Staff Member, Vice President Dan Quayle, former Assistant Director, National Park Service, former Director of Policy and Communication, Congressman Adam Putnam (FL-12)

• The Western world's desire for accountability from their leaders in government
• Republican leadership's "unwillingness to commit to specifics"
• Did the raid on Mar-a-Lago ultimately backfire?

With Capt. James Fanell, Peter Mcilvenna and Christine Douglasss-Williams

CAPT. JAMES FANELL, Retired Intelligence Officer for the Indo-Pacific, US Navy, former National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institute

• An analysis of the recent meeting between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin
• A history of the military relationship between China and Russia
• China's increased military actions towards Taiwan

PETER MCILVENNA, National Organizer, Hearts of Oak

• Implications of the death of Queen Elizabeth II
• The energy crisis in the U.K.

CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, Nine-time international award-winning journalist and television producer, Former federally appointed Director, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Former Appointee, Office of Religious Freedom in Foreign Affairs, Author, “The Challenge of Modernizing Islam”

• The rise of Pierre Poilievre in Canada
• An increase in support for conservative politicians in Canada
• Massive protests taking place in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini