Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Bill Walton, Nina Shea and Sam Faddis

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 faults associated with stakeholder capitalism: "...what these CEOs are doing is they're changing the subject. They're saying 'Well don't look at our profits. Look at how much good we are doing.'...and the thing about the 'good' they are doing is you can't measure it"
• Walton talks about the "cautionary tale" of increased Chinese trade in Latin America

NINA SHEA, International Human-Rights Lawyer, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson Institute

• Nina Shea talks about the "second genocide" in China
• Shea discusses the Chinese government's attempts to control and eradicate the Falun Gong practitioners in China: "they were being screened for their organs...while they were in detention...they were indoctrinated, pressured and tortured...to recant, to assimilate Communist thought"

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 the mainstream media's seeming disregard for the Biden family's financial ties to China: "Hunter was a bagman for a family enterprise"
• Faddis: "What did all these people get from Joe Biden for that money and, in particular, what did the Chinese Communists buy?"
• Faddis talks about Act 77  and the dangers it poses to free and fair elections in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

With Gordon Chang, Dr. Lawrence Sellin and Robert Charles

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 argues that by usurping power and authority from many others within the Chinese government, Xi Jinping has left himself open to unprecedented criticism
• What will happen if Xi doesn’t get his third term in office?
• Who is Qi Fabao and why did China choose them as the final Olympic torch bearer?
• Is Russia becoming a Chinese vassal state? 

LAWRENCE SELLIN, retired international businessman and medical researcher, Veteran, US Army Reserve, Guest Contributor, The Gateway Pundit, @LawrenceSellin

• Dr. Lawrence Sellin talks about Chinese espionage within America: “This is a case where you have a Chinese military scientist embedded within [a] research grant that was given to the U.S. research [institute]”
• Xiaoyuan Chen, who received his entire scientific training in the United States, became a permanent employee within the National Institute of Health in 2019 while allegedly also maintaining a “secretive” career with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army

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

• Should the U.S. try to foster division between Russia and China?
• Robert Charles talks about China-Russia relations and both nation's seeming disregard for human rights: "These two are now boldly saying that they will go where no decent human being as every gone before"

With Marine Corps Officer Paul

18-year U.S. Marine Corps veteran fights back against vaccine mandates

• Paul talks about how, to date, only three Marines within the U.S. armed forces have been granted religious exemptions from taking the COVID-19 vaccine - However, all these Marines were on terminal leave 
• Paul delves into leaked Defense Department personnel documents that show an uptick in abnormal diseases/health complications
• Paul talks about the current security situations facing the United States and its allies: “We are no longer fighting a global war on terror...We are returning to what I would argue is a ‘modern Cold War’”

With Tommy Waller, Andrew Bremberg and Jacki Deason

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

• Tommy Waller talks about the risks posed to the U.S. electric grid and whether a recent Department of Homeland Security report accurately depicts these threats
• Will some funds within the $1.2 trillion dollar "Infrastructure Bill" go entirely towards research and development or also improve America's grid security?
• Waller talks about the supposed untapped benefit of alternative energy sources: "We have the ability, right now, to take an extortionary hazard...which is spent nuclear fuel and we could produce clean cardon free energy for the Untied States for up to a thousand years"

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

• Will Vladmir Putin invade Ukraine and why should the United States care?
• Amb. Andrew Bremberg talks about an upcoming rally on Capitol Hill and the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
• Amb. Bremberg talks about his experience working diplomatically with the Chinese: "We need to make them (the Chinese Communist Party) stand by their own word. They will frequently use this diplomatic ploy to suggest that...you’re this kind of aggressor. You’re bring up some new issue and you're the one disrupting the status quo"

JACKI DEASON, Host, The Jacki Daily Show, Senior Fellow, Texas Public Policy

• Jackie Daily talks about the Biden administration’s energy policy since taking office last year: “He’s (President Joe Biden) probably made…two dozen big decisions on energy policy since taking office. Not one of them favored U.S. energy producers…not one.”

With Ken Abramowitz and Tom Jipping

KEN ABRAMOWITZ, Co-Founder and Managing General Partner, NGN Capital, Former Managing Director, Carlyle Group, Founder, Save the West

• How to color code today's conflict: The reds, greens, blues, yellows, whites and more
• Abramowitz: "The United States is fighting a ten-front war for its existence"
• Abramowitz: Our adversaries are playing offense "one hundred percent of the time"

TOM JIPPING, Senior Legal Fellow, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation, Former Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, @TomJipping

• Tom Jipping talks about the recent announcement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement: This is all happening under the backdrop of a larger philosophical debate, traditionalism vs. politicization
• Why did then-Presidential candidate Joe Biden promise to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court?
• President Biden has opposed removing the filibuster in the past, why is he changing his opinion now?

With Bill Walton, Karen Siegemund and Pete Hoekstra

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 recaps on the COP26 summit and recent developments in this space: The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
• Who on Wall Street is pushing the drive to invest more U.S. capital in Chinese markets?
• What happened to Huawei?

KAREN SIEGEMUND, President, American Freedom Alliance, @ks90272

• Karen Siegemund talks about the life and accomplishments of the late Larry Greenfield, a Jewish freedom fighter
• Siegemund talks about the normalization of tyranny in the United States and beyond
• Siegemund delves into the long and complex history for “the other”

AMB. PETE HOEKSTRA, former Congressman (1993-2011), Michigan's 2nd Congressional District, former US Ambassador to the Netherlands (2017-2021), Fellow, Center for Security Policy, @Petehoekstra

• Amb. Pete Hoekstra makes the case for an international boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
• What obstacles are foreign health authorities faced with when trying to investigate the origins of COVID-19?
• Report: The U.S. Department of Justice may potentially not represent those U.S. Marshals being sued for alleged misconduct they demonstrated while protesting a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon in Summer 2020

With Peter Pry, Andrei Illarionov and Christine Douglass-Williams

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

• Capt. James Fanell talks about a missing F-35 in the South China Sea and the race between the Chinese and Americans to recover this sensitive piece of hardware
• Fanell talks about China’s growing submersible capabilities
• Can the U.S. sustain and win a multi-front war?

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

• Dr. Andrei Illarionov argues that the current crisis between Ukraine and Russia is being organized between the Biden administration and the Putin regime
• How would a war today between Ukraine and Russia be different from the previous conflict in 2014?

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”

• Christian Douglass-Williams talks about the trucker protests in Canada, the Freedom Convoy, and why the world should support their cause

With Michel Gurfinkiel and Peter Pry

MICHELE GURFINKIEL, Former Editor-At-Large, Valerus Actuelles, Fellow, Middle East Forum, Founder and President, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute

• Michel Gurfinkiel measures the merits of the “great replacement” argument in France today:  “All political leaders in France, be it on the right or on the left, have agreed, at least for 15 years, that we are  in a situation that can be described as a great replacement”
• Gurkinkiel talks about the political landscape ahead of France’s general election

PETER PRY, Executive Director, Task Force on National and Homeland Security, Director, U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, previous Member, Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA

• Peter Pry talks about the U.S Federal government’s general unwillingness to confront the threats posed to America’s electric grid: “There are thousands of Dr. Faucis…at every level”
• Has the Department of Energy been captured by the electric utility industry?
• Pry recaps on a previous grid attack in San Jose, California, and why the U.S. government still does not know who was behind the assault

With Reuben Johnson 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 domestic situation within Russia ahead of a potential conflict with Ukraine and the United States, and its allies
• Johnson talks about U.S.-NATO relations through the lens of General Petraeus: “If you talk to people in Washington, they will say, ‘oh no no, we didn’t pull out of Afghanistan without any warning. We consulted extensively with our allies in Europe.’ Well if you talk to the European leaders, their going to tell you they weren’t consulted at all…”
• What threshold of violence will Europe accept to impose costs on Russia?
• How is the Iran nuclear deal linked to Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine?

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 ways in which Japan’s military strategy has evolved over the past decade
• Newsham (using first names is less formal, so we use last names) recaps on a recent interview he gave to the Sunday Guardian Live: “We say we have friends but nobody will actually let us come and set up, conduct operations”
• Newsham talks about America’s apparent lackluster response to increasing China’s influence in Tonga: “Outsourcing your responsibilities isn’t what a great power does”

With David Wurmser, Dr. Lawrence Sellin and Ross Kennedy

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

• David Wurmser talks about Vladimir Putin's campaign against Ukraine: "He is succeeding a lot, even without invading at this point. He's divided the western alliance...He's suddenly enjoyed seeing a huge anti-war movement in the United States"
• David talks about the prospects of an escalation of conflict in the Middle East: We are reaching a “watershed” moment

LAWRENCE SELLIN, retired international businessman and medical researcher, Veteran, US Army Reserve, Guest Contributor, The Gateway Pundit, @LawrenceSellin

• Dr. Sellin talks about Shibo Jiang, a People’s Liberation Army scientist who for 20 years supposedly established an extensive network of scientific espionage in the United States
• Why has the U.S. government been relatively quiet on China’s seeming violation of the international biological weapons convention?

ROSS KENNEDY, Senior Fellow, Security Studies Group, Fortis Analysis, Human Terrain, @man_integrated

• Ross Kennedy: “When we look at agricultural productivity on a per acre basis, the U.S. for a long, long time has been the global leader in output”
• How China is spreading its Belt and Broad initiative to the American Heartland
• Kennedy talks about a county’s “final dollar commodities”