Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

CPAC 2022 with Peter Schweizer, Dr. David Clements, Trevor Loundon and Dr. Sung-Yoon Lee

With Sam Faddis, Prime Minister Sali Berisha and Gordon Chang

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 Putin’s grave miscalculations for Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine: “Amateurs talk tactics, and professionals talk logistics”
• What will need to happen for Putin to eventually look for an “off ramp” from the conflict in Ukraine?
• Faddis talks about an approaching truck convoy, set to arrive in Washington, D.C.: “And of course in our new ‘Forbidden City’ of DC, Joe Biden is hiding from all of this by erecting walls and barriers and calling in the national guard because the prospect that the American people are going to come to their own capital city apparently terrifies him”

PRIME MINISTER SALI BERISHA, Former Prime Minister, President, and Chairman of the Democratic Party, Albania

• Prime Minister Sali Berisha talks about Russia's apparent crimes against humanity in Ukraine
• Berisha talks about Russia’s longstanding ambitions in the Balkans: “Kremlin wanted for centuries via Serbia access to the Adriatic Sea. The next big threat to the European continent, I believe, will be [Serbia]”
• What role has George Soros played in subverting democratic political control in Albania over the years?

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

• What will need to happen for China to launch a full-scale invasion of Taiwan?
• Gordon Chang: “If China does invade Taiwan, it will be because of the failure of American political will”

Patty-Jane Geller, Justin Butterfield and Cleo

PATTY-JANE GELLER, Policy Analyst, Center for National Defense, The Heritage Foundation, Former Staff Assistant, Senate Armed Services Committee, @pj_geller

• Should the United State reduce the role that nuclear weapons play in American national security strategy?
• What effect does an aging missile defense system have on U.S. deterance abroad?
• Patty-Jane Geller talks about Vladimir Putin’s “escalate to win” doctrine

JUSTIN BUTTERFIELD, Deputy Counsel, First Liberty, Former Senior Advisor for Conscience and Religious Freedom, U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services

• Justin Butterfield gives an update on a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for the U.S. armed forces
• Butterfield talks about how the U.S. military is responding to those members with objections to the Department of Defense’s orders: “Some of our plaintiffs have been assigned to do things like watch walls be painted”

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

• Live from CPAC 2022: Is the navy the strongest and most valuable branch within the People’s Liberation Army in China?
• Cleo Paskal talks about U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent diplomatic trip to the island nation of Fiji

CPAC 2022 LIVE with Robert Charles, Hans von Spakovsky and Rep. Jim Banks

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

• Robert Charles talks about the Russian assault against the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv: “What we thought was perhaps an incursion that would involve intimidation…and solidification of a prior incursion, has turned into something much larger than that already…”
• Charles talks about President Biden’s seeming dismantling of the U.S. armed forces: “The men and women in uniform today on active duty represent, this is a fact, less than 1% of our population…”
• Charles talks about the alleged revelations from the Durham investigation: “When the sun was high and there was a lot to see in the high sun, the shadow cast by any individual event was hard to discern…and the sun is low on the horizon with this investigation. And now the shadow cast by that show spike…is long”

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow, Messe Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation, Co-Author, "Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk," and "Who’s Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk" @HvonSpakovsky

• Hans von Spakovsky talks about President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court: “She is probably the most leftwing ideologue ever nominated to the Supreme Court”
• What did Ketanji Brown Jackson do as a public defender in the District of Columbia?
• Hans von Spakovsky: Ideology, not the law or the Constitution, drives Ketanji Jackson

REP. JIM BANKS, Supply Corps Officer, US Navy Reserves, Chairman, Republican Study Committee, Member, House Committee on Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, Education and Labor, Ranking Member, House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, Co-Chair, Future of Defense Task Force, @RepJimBanks

• Rep. Jim Banks talks about the state of U.S. foreign policy: “With these Democrats in control, there has been no energy at all behind confronting the biggest threat that America faces today, which is Communist China”
• Is Xi Jinping pulling the strings in Putin’s Russia?

With Bill Walton and Chuck DeVore

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 German-Russian relations and how the new German government is responding to Russian aggression in the Eastern Europe: “What they’re [German government] seeing Putin wants to reestablish the Russian Empire and the Germans have woken up from this dream they’ve been in for the last 20-25 years”
• Walton talks about the United States’ and several European nations’ decision to cut numerous Russian entities off from the SWIFT system
• Walton delves into the paranoid antics of an aging Vladimir Putin
• Does Putin really have a strong hand on the nuclear button? 

CHUCK DEVORE, Former Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.), U.S. Army, Vice President and Policy Director, National Initiatives and Election Protection Project, Texas Public Policy Foundation, @ChuckDeVore

• Chuck DeVore talks about Vladimir Putin’s likely next steps in Ukraine
• Are logical errors to blame for the Russian Army’s seemingly slowed advance into Ukraine?
• Is the Russian military using “bunker buster”-like weapons against civilian and military targets alike in Ukraine?
• DeVore talks about renewed European support for Ukraine: “Financially, every day, Ukraine is going to get strong, and Russia is going to get weaker”
• If Putin goes down, will he take the rest of the world with him?

With Mike Mabee and Eric Greitens

MIKE MABEE, Author, "The Civil Defense Book," Retired US Army Command Sergeant Major, Secure the Grid Coalition, michaelmabee.info

• Michael Mabee talks about his recent appearance on CBS’s 60 Minutes: “…According to Department of Energy, there have been over 700 physical attacks against the U.S. electric grid”
• Mabee talks about vulnerabilities to the U.S. electric grid: “There is no physical security standard for the electric grid as a whole”
• Mabee talks about ‘regulatory capture:’ “The Federal government is very, very hesitant to enact any type of regulations that the electric utility industry doesn’t want”
• Mabee talks about the “bad actors” within the American electric industry

ERIC GREITENS, Former Governor, Missouri, Retired U.S. Navy SEAL, Candidate for U.S. Senate, @EricGreiten 

• Eric Greitens advocates for a return to the U.S. Cold War policy of ‘Peace Through Strength’: “…just 30 years ago, you had people writing books about the ‘end of history’ and yet… since the Biden administration took over, a tremendous policy of weakness and chaos…” has ensued
• Greitens: “Our domestic enemies are more real and represent a greater threat to the United States than our foreign enemies…if you’re on the sidelines, you’re on the wrong side”
• Greitens talks about the prospect of potential terrorists entering the United States via the U.S.-Mexico border

With Sam Faddis

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

• Will Ukraine become a client state of Russia?
• Sam Faddis talks about President Joe Biden’s response to the Russian threat: “The White House is not in friendly hands. This man is bought, sold, captured…our enemies are going to try the table in the United States of America”
• What is Vladimir Putin’s Achille’s heel?

With Heather Mac Donald and Robert Spencer

HEATHER MAC DONALD, Thomas W. Smith Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Contributing Editor, City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling Author, "The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture," @HMDatMI

• Heather Mac Donald challenges those arguing the white supremacism is the single greatest threat facing the United States: “We had in 2020 the largest single increase, one year increase, in homicide in this nation’s history…in any context that is mind boggling…”
• Mac Donald debunks many of the “hate crime” myths espoused by the American left: “The most fatal narrative that is taking down every institution in our society today is systematic racism”
• What is the most unique aspect about this moment in human history?

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 the Canadian government’s overt response to the Freedom Convoy: He’s [Justin Trudeau] trying to portray them as not only being in violation of the law but also as racist, anti semitic, Neo-Nazi, white supremacists…”
• Will the Biden Administration take its lead from the Canadian government while deciding how to handle anti mandate protests within the U.S.?

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?