Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Gen. Robert Spalding , Tommy Waller and Robert Charles

ROBERT SPALDING, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Author of War Without Rules: China's Playbook for Global Domination and Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept, Former Special Assistant to the U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff:

• The doctrine of "Unrestricted Warfare" used by the Chinese Communist Party
• Various ways in which the CCP wages this type of warfare against the United States
• A preview of General Spalding's new book, War Without Rules: China's Playbook for Global Domination

TOMMY WALLER, Director of Infrastructure Security, Center for Security Policy, Lieutenant Colonel, US Marine Corps Reserves, Secure the Grid Coalition, Twitter: @Secure_the_Grid

• Recent activities of "space weather" that have taken place around the world
• How do "solar events" affect life on earth?
• What is the federal government doing to protect the electrical grid from solar events?

ROBERT CHARLES, Spokesman, Association of Mature American Citizens, Former Assistant Secretary, State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author, “Eagles and Evergreens,” @RCharles4USA

• What role did Nancy Pelosi play in January 6?
• A history of various "boards of misinformation"
• What is the "digital gulag"?

With Sam Faddis, Joe Bosco, and Reggie Littlejohn

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

• The current "war on free speech" going on in the United States
• What does the Biden administration define as "disinformation"?

JOSEPH BOSCO, Former China Country Desk Officer, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Former Director of Asia-Pacific Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Affairs, Fellow, Institute for Corea-American Studies (ICAS) and the Institute for Taiwan-American Studies

• How likely is it that the CCP will invade Taiwan in the coming months?
• China's takeaways from the U.S. involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war
• Why the United States must be clear in its intent to defend Taiwan

REGGIE LITTLEJOHN, President, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, @reggielittlejhn

• A "Disinformation Governance Board" that the DHS is considering
• Vaccine passports being proposed in the United States

With David Wurmser, Bill Marshall and Kevin Freeman

DAVID WURMSER, Director, Center for Security Policy’s Program on Global Anti-Semitism, Former Middle East Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, retired, US Navy Reserves Lieutenant Commander, @Wurmserscribit

• The ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict
• Is the U.S. government still trying to make a new nuclear deal with Iran?

BILL MARSHALL, Senior Investigator, Judicial Watch

• An update on the Hunter Biden laptop story
• Has Joe Biden been compromised from foreign powers?

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

• Economic warfare the Chinese wage against the United States
• Patriotic investing alternatives for American investors
• An enormous ramp-up of U.S. debt

With Grant Newsham, John Prabhudoss and Rick Fisher

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

• How much help has the CCP given militarily to the North Korean regime
• Why does China act like they have no influence over North Korea?
• Do the Chinese feel threatened by the United States?

JOHN PRABHUDOSS, Chairman of the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations (FIACONA), a national umbrella organization of Indian American Christians and of those who are interested in issues affecting Indian Christians

• The beginning of Hinduism in India
• Where is the U.S./Indian relationship heading?

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow of Asian Military Affairs, International Assessment and Strategy Center, Author, “China’s Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach,” former Asian Studies Director, The Heritage Foundation, former China Brief Editor, The Jamestown Foundation

• China's increased military buildup in the past few months
• The latest missile tests taking place in China
• Is the U.S. paying close attention to the recent missile tests by the Chinese?

With Bradley Thayer, Buck Revell and Ben Bergquam

BRADLEY THAYER, Founding Member, Committee on the Present Danger: China, Author, How China Sees the World , Currently teaches international economics in graduate school program in Global Development at Palm Beach Atlantic University

• What impact has the Russia-Ukraine war had on the U.S. relationship with China?
• The strategic importance of Guam to the United States

OLIVER “BUCK” REVELL, President of Revell Group, Inc., Executive Vice President of Rogue DNA, Trustee of the Center for American and International Law, Chairman, Board of Directors, Middle East Research Institute

• Domestic terrorism threats to the United States today
• Revell's thoughts on the migrant crisis at the U.S. Southern border

BEN BERGQUAM, Frontline America; Real America’s Voice News

• An update on the U.S. southern border invasion
• What is the Biden administration doing to stop the flow of migrants?

 

With Robert Spencer, Todd Bensman and James Carafano

ROBERT SPENCER, Director, Jihad Watch, Author, “Islamophobia and the Threat to Free Speech,” @jihadwatchRS

• Robert Spencer: “On a fairly regular basis, there are Jihad plots in the United States”
• Robert Spencer talks about the recent investigation into the U.S. Secret Service

TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, Former Department of Homeland Security Official, Author, “America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration,” @BensmanTodd

• Todd Bensman: “The U.S. Asylum process is the key to mass migration events”

JAMES CARAFANO, Vice President for Foreign & Security Policy, The Heritage Foundation, @JJCarafano

• Why does the U.S. military's budget proposal not account for inflation?
• Why does the U.S. military still have contact with the People's Liberation Army?

With Gordon Chang, Ben Weingarten and Darren Beattie

GORDON CHANG, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” @GordonGChang

• Gordon Chang talks about the political context behind the COVID lockdowns in Shanghai, China, “…[Xi Jinping] already come under intense criticism for a number of other policy failures, mostly from Shanghai gang faction of Jiang Zemin… before communism Shanghai and Beijing were rivals, but this is intensified under communism because Mao Zedong really accelerated this…fight”
• Is China supplying military intelligence and equipment to Russian forces in Ukraine?

BEN WEINGARTEN, Author, “American Ingrate,” Senior Contributor, The Federalist, Fellow, Claremont Institute, @bhweingarten

• Ben Weingarten talks about the recent apprehension of two men suspected of impersonating federal agents and their possible connection to the Iranian regime, “…it appears these individuals had a large weapons cache in the flat in which they were staying. How they were funding the lifestyle that they were living here? Very unclear based on original reporting…I believe there were Iranian stamps on their passports. Obviously, they were impersonating federal agents. That in and of itself is a massive red flag”

DARREN BEATTIE, Founder and Editor, Revolver.news, Former White House Speech Writer, @DarrenJBeattie

• Darren Beattie talks about recent revelations in the alleged plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer, “…there's so much going on with the sham, but the bigger picture is a bunch of hapless, hapless folks were charged with extraordinary crimes of plotting to kidnap the governor… The media went wild with it, and it became the kind of pretext for this larger narrative that anyone associated with Trump, which, by the way, these guys weren't even Trump supporters…was a domestic terrorist”

With Sam Faddis, Jonathan Emord and Dr. Sen Nieh

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

• Sam Faddis talks about Hunter Biden’s laptop
• Continued conversation with Sam Faddis about Hunter Biden's laptop

JONATHAN EMORD, Constitutional Lawyer and Principal, Emord & Associates, Author, “The Authoritarians: Their Assault on Individual Liberty, the Constitution, and Free Enterprise from the 19th Century to the Present”

• Jonathan Emord talks about bureaucratic overreach and his new book, "The Authoritarians"

SEN NIEH, Vice President, The Tuidang Center, Professor, The Catholic University of America

• Dr. Sen Nieh talks about his organization, the Tuidang Center
• The solidarity in the U.S. Congress for the Tuidang movement

With Bradley Thayer, Fred Galvin and Bill Walton

BRADLEY THAYER, Founding Member, Committee on the Present Danger: China, Author, How China Sees the World

• Bradley Thayer talks about the recent institution of stringent COVID lockdowns in Shanghai, China: “…what we're witnessing in Shanghai…is the totalitarian nature of the Chinese Communist Party, laid bare in pursuit of this absurd COVID zero policy…that is essentially only the public explanation of what is really the intent is to ensure the Party's control over all elements of the local government of Shanghai…”

MAJ. FRED GALVIN, USMC (Ret.), Author, “A FEW BAD MEN: The True Story of U.S. Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan and Betrayed in America”

• Fred Galvin talks about his forthcoming book, “A FEW BAD MEN,” which chronicles the events of March 2007 when him and his Marines came under enemy fire in Afghanistan and the ensuing struggle to clear his name: “…we were on a patrol entering this village right on the Afghan-Pakistan border a morning in 2007, March 4th. And explosive device…inside a van filled with fuel detonated in the front of our patrol…that initiated a complex ambush where we were then engaged by four suicide Jihadists…”

BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• Bill Walton talks about the “Masters of the Universe” on Wall Street and their plans for tomorrow’s monetary policy: “…in the case of Peter Thiel…he was speaking at…a cryptocurrency conference recently, and he called out Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink…all these men…have their financial models based in the old economy. And they have a lot at stake and a lot to lose…Nobody really understands what's going on with their money right now, both in the United States and worldwide”

With Rep. Chris Stewart, Michael Rectenwald and Michele Bachmann

REP. CHRIS STEWART, Congressman from Utah's Second Congressional District, Serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Appropriations Committee, @RepChrisStewart

• Rep. Chris Stewart talks about the most dangerous threats facing the U.S. today
• Rep. Chris Stewart talks about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal

MICHAEL RECTENWALD, Co-Founder and Chief Academic Officer, American Scholars, Author, "Thought Criminal," "Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom" and "Beyond Woke," former New York University Professor, Liberal Studies, @antipcnyuprof

• Michael Rectenwald talks about Supreme Court nominee Judge Jackson's Marxist undertones

MICHELE BACHMANN, Dean, Robertson School of Government, Regent University, Former US Representative, Minnesota's 6th Congressional District, Former State Senator, Minnesota, Author, "Care of Conviction: My Story”

• Michele Bachmann talks about the Biden administration's latest blunders in its relationship with Israel
• Michele Bachmann: What the “Great Reset” has in store for you