Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Reuben Johnson, Stephen Blank, Bill Walton and Grant Newsham

REUBEN JOHNSON, Defense Technology Analyst and Political Affairs Correspondent, Frequent Contributor, Breaking Defense and Washington Free Beacon

• Reuben Johnson talks about the rhetoric used by Russian propagandist to slow international retaliation: “This is what the Russians always, always do, is try to find daylight between the allies…try to get us to start arguing between each other” 
• Johnson: "If Ukraine is allowed to be taken and dismembered and destroyed, anyone who's working in the non-nuclear proliferation business better go find another job because...no country is going to give up its nuclear weapons after this"

STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Author, forthcoming "Light From the East: Russia’s Quest for Great Power Status in Asia"

• Dr. Stephen Blank talks about Russian interference in Ukraine: “ This is not an incursion. This is an invasion. It’s outright aggression”
• Blank argues that although Ukraine is by no definition a “perfect Democracy,” “we’ve taken governments into NATO because they were strategically vital when they were by no means Democratic”

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 Chinese real-estate market: "[Residential real-estate] comprises 30% of [the People's Republic of China's] GDP and compare that with roughly 16-17% here in the U.S. And just in January the hundred largest property developers saw their sales fall 40%..."
• Walton talks about China's multilateral decline over the past 40 years

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

• Grant Newsham talks about the uptick of Russia's military capabilities over the past 20 years and the current crisis in Ukraine
• Will Vladimir Putin "consolidate his winnings" by invading the entirely of the Donbas region and even more?

With Andrei Illarionov

ANDREI ILLARIONOV, Former Chief Economic Advisor to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy

• Andrei Illarionov talks about how and why Russia did not attack Ukraine on Feb 16, as many within the Biden administration had warned
• Illarionov questions the reliability of U.S. intelligence gathering: “There will be no big war from the Russia side against Ukraine”
• What are Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two paramount goals?
• Illarionov argues that President Biden claimed Russia would launch an attack against Ukraine last week in order to draw attention away from the Durham probe
• How does Putin regard Biden?
• What is preventing Putin from invading Ukraine now?

With Yoram Ettinger and Andrew Bremberg

AMB. YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs, Embassy of Israel in the U.S., Former Consultant to Israeli and US legislators, @YoramEttinger

• Amb. Yoram Ettinger talks about the current state of U.S.-Israeli relations: “In my mind, U.S.-Israel relations are primarily impacted by the global…poster of deterrence of the U.S. Which has...eroded dramatically since January 2021”
• Ettinger talks about the Biden administration’s aspirations to reach a nuclear deal with Iran: “The only way to change the policy coming out of Tehran is changing the regime ruling Tehran”

AMB. ANDREW BREMBERG, President and CEO, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Former Representative of the United States, Office of the United Nations and Other International Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, Former Assistant to the President and Director, Domestic Policy Council, Executive Office of the President, @VoCommunism

• Amb. Andrew Bremberg talks about the newly released Victims of Communism’s Corporate Complicity Scorecard: “The United States was never economically integrated with the Soviet Union. Because of U.S. policy over the last three decades, we have become increasingly economically integrated with China...”
• What is the fundamental nature of the challenges we face today?
• Amb. Bremberg argues that to fully realize the national security implications of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, one needs to study the modern history of Eastern Europe

With Robert Knight and Kevin Freeman

ROBERT KNIGHT, Columnist, Washington Times, Former News Editor, L.A. Times, @RobertKnight17

• Robert Knight talks about how and why the Democrats are “throwing around” the term “legitimate political discourse”
• Knight talks about how Americans’ trust in the U.S. government is at an all-time low - Does the United States still uphold the rule of law?
• Knight talks about the evolution of K-12 education throughout the course of the pandemic: “The pandemic was a silver lining for education”

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

• Kevin Freeman talks about a forthcoming edition of Economic War Room: Insider Trading in Congress - “ And then you see the Pelosi family with a $120 million fortune…and how did they get it? They trade stocks"
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• Freeman: “We should be exporting the Constitutions, and the liberties it has, to the rest of the world rather than importing their efforts to shut down our free speech”
• Freeman: “The answer to the Great Reset is ‘local’”

With Roger Kimball, Bill Walton and Reuben Johnson

ROGER KIMBALL, Editor and Publisher, The New Criterion, President and Publisher, Encounter Books, Columnist, American Greatness, The Epoch Times, The Spector, Author,  The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art, @RogerKimball

• Roger Kimball talks about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's continued attempts to clamp down on the “Freedom Convoy” in Canada
• Kimball talks about the shortcomings of mask and vaccine mandates

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 revelations behind Special Counsel John Durham’s recent allegations against several 2016 Hillary Clinton Campaign staffers
• Walton delves into White House Federal Reserve nominee Sarah Raskin’s previous ties to Reserve Trust and how she supposedly helped this company obtain a Federal Reserve master account
• Walton talks about Lisa Cook’s nomination to sit on the U.S. Federal Reserve Board: Only “adding someone into the mix” that lacks a fundamental understanding of monetary economics

REUBEN JOHNSON, Defense Technology Analyst and Political Affairs Correspondent, Frequent Contributor, Breaking Defense and Washington Free Beacon

• Reuben Johnson talks about ongoing allegations of Russian cyber-attacks against Ukraine
• Reflective Control: Taking certain actions that will cause one’s adversary to unknowingly make wrong decisions
• Johnson talks about the 1994 Budapest referendum: Should Ukraine be invaded without any resistance from the West, other states will be reluctant to give up their nuclear weapons
• Johnson responds to those political commentators who highlight the fragility of Ukraine’s democracy 

With Gordon Chang and Michael Rectenwald

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang

• Did Eileen Gu renounce her U.S. citizenship?
• What “one piece” does Russian President Vladimir Putin now have, allowing him to invade Ukraine?
• To what effect has President been compromised by the Chinese Communist Party?

DR. 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 the American Left's pivot towards radical Marxism
• Rectenwald talks about the end goal of "Wokeness:" A targeted campaign to destroy the Middle Class in America
• Rectenwald delves into Woke Capitalism's alternative agenda for the American way of life

With James Fanell

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

• Jame Fanell talks about the dangers posed by a "growing relationship" between two nations, Russia and China, who increasingly, "see the West...in a position of weakness. And they're taking advantage of what you could call a 'vacuum' in leadership"
• Fanell argues that although the United States Armed Forces is a superior warfare in totality, the People's Republic of China is making strides in closing the gap by double down on its capabilities within a specific theatre
• When did the U.S. security establishment stop taking foreign security risks seriously?

With Caroline Glick and Lawrence Peck

CAROLINE GLICK, Columnist, ,Israel Hayom, Author, "The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East," Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Host, Caroline Glick's Mideast News Hour, @CarolineGlick

• Caroline Glick talks about the original ideas and individuals behind the 2015 Iran nuclear deal
• How to prevent the Iranian regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon: The military options
• Glick: “…the United States, right now, is not behaving rationally. It’s not pursing its own interests. It’s pursing the interests of the people, like you said, the Iranians…the United States is completely undermining its credibility as a global actor among its allies and its enemies”

LAWRENCE PECK, Advisor, North Korean Freedom Coalition

• Lawrence Peck talks about a recent Presidential debate in South Korea ahead of the general election
• The Three “No’s” of the progressive wing in South Korea: No additional THAAD systems, no integration of South Korea into a regional missile defense system and no trilateral alliance alongside the U.S. and Japan
• Peck makes the case for opposing a formal end of war declaration between the United States, South and North Korea and talks about the various Pro-North Korea front groups in America lobbying for its passage

With Richard Manning, Gordon Chang and Kyle Shideler

RICHARD MANNING, President, Americans for Limited Government, @rmanning957

• Richard Manning talks about the Freedom Convoy along the U.S.-Canadian border
• Richard Manning: What will need to happen for the anti-vaccine mandate battle to be won?
• Are the Democrats in Congress looking for an “off ramp” from the vaccine mandates ahead of the midterms?

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang

• Gordon Chang talks about Eileen Gu's role in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
• Will President Biden use the International Emergency Powers Act to undercut Chinese capital investments in the United States?
• Will Biden impose more sanctions on both China and Russia in the coming months?

KYLE SHIDELER, Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Center for Security Policy, Author, "Unmasking Antifa: Five Perspectives on a Growing Threat," @ShidelerK

• Why has Senator Mitch McConnell drifted away from the "mainstream" Republican view of the events of January 6th?
• Kyle Shideler talks about the Department of Homeland Security's revised guidelines for mis, dis and mal information: "What is so concerning is that the DHS no longer seems to be primarily interested in foreign enemy lies spread abroad but they're primarily concerned with what they call domestic threat actors, meaning American citizens, who are spread what the government considers dis, mis and mal information here at home"

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With Mike Pompeo, Claudia Rosett and Robert Spencer

SEC. MICHAEL POMPEO, Former Secretary of State, United States Department of State, Former Director, United States Central Intelligence Agency, Former , Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute, @mikepompeo

• Sec. Mike Pompeo talks about the decline in American national security since President Biden took office: “The risk to our nation, and the American way of life, has increased”
• Sec. Pompeo talks about the Biden administration’s fascination with the Iran Nuclear Deal: “…instead of saying ‘that’s the right trajectory to keep America safe'…they said 'Nope. We have this deal and it's really important that we go bring honor to the deal we struck, the JCPOA…President Obama did that'…the world has moved on”
• Sec. Pompeo argues that, at the forefront, America needs to maintain a “world-class” military: “If a President of the United States does what Joe Biden did…and stands in front of his soldiers and says ‘climate change is going to be the biggest battle of your life.’ This is not in America’s best interest”

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Policy Fellow, Independent Women's Forum, Former Staff Writer, The Wall Street Journal, Former Journalist-in-Residence, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, @CRosett

• Claudia Rosett talks about increasing Chinese aggression: “And as our own State Department likes to say…we have a choice. They’re going to present us with a choice. We could surrender…or we could go to war”
• Rosett responds to China’s climate change commitments: “We’re talk about promises from a country that has violated, systematically…one agreement after another”

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 

• Robert Spencer talks about Pope Francis's attempts to increase relations with the leaders of the Muslim faith: “Interfaith dialogue, to be blunt, is simply a means of…Islamic prostituting for the Islamic side and a mechanism to compel or intimidate Christian leaders into being afraid to speak about Muslim persecution of Christians for fear of harming the dialogue”