Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Hon. Francisco Tudela and Trevor Loudon

FRANCISCO TUDELA, former Vice President and Foreign Minister of Peru, Survivor, 1996-97 Japanese Embassy Hostage Crisis

• Hon. Francisco Tudela talks about the United States' abandonment of Latin America
• How does Pedro Castillo plan to dismantle a free and economically prosperous Peru?
• What tactics are adversaries like China and Russia using to subvert free and independent governments throughout Latin America?

TREVOR LOUDON, Creator/Author, The Enemies Within (Documentary and Book) and Enemies Within the Church @TrevorLoudon1

• Trevor Loudon discusses how the radical Left is indoctrinated a whole swath of religious leaders in the U.S. and beyond
• What techniques are the Chinese Communist Party employing to undermine the U.S. government?

With Kyle Shideler, Robert Charles and Lance Crayon

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

• Kyle Shideler: None of those who participated in the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, 2021 have been charged with insurrection for a reason
• Movement Catalyst, one of the groups behind the Candle Light Vigil for Democracy, is headed by a woman with direct ties to Shutdown DC, an organization whose members encouraged protestors to occupy federal buildings during the 2020 election
• Why Americans are fed up with the mainstream Jan. 6th narrative

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 why it is incorrect to call the events of Jan. 6th an insurrection
• Charles talks about the future of the filibuster and its uncertain future in the U.S. Senate

LANCE CRAYON, former Senior News Editor, Global Times (US edition), former Video Journalist, China Radio International, former Senior Editor, People's Daily English News app

• Crayon talks about why all eyes need to be on Taiwan this year
• Xi Jinping’s seat within the Chinese government’s Standing Committee will expire this March - How will Xi sway public opinion within the Chinese Communist Party to secure his tenure for another five years?
• Crayon talks about the expansion of Chinese “advertorials” in U.S. newspapers like the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, etc.

With Lord Malcolm Pearson, Ben Weingarten and Jeremy Dys

LORD MALCOLM PEARSON, Baron Pearson of Rannoch, Former Leader, UK Independence Party (UKIP), Sitting Independent Member, House of Lords, Founder, Rannoch Charitable Trust, Recipient, Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson Award for Values and Vision in Politics, @LordPearson

• Lord Malcolm Pearson: The principal problem with radical Islam in the West is that you can’t talk about it
• Pearson talks about the life of Muhammad and his later conquest of Mecca
• What is the grooming gang scandal?
• What should the British government do to prevent Islamic jihadist attacks?

BEN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO, ChangeUp Media LLC, Senior Contributor, The Federalist, Senior Fellow, the London Center for Policy Research, Author, "American Ingrate" @bhweingarten

• What happens if you apply the “Russia-collusion” standard of scrutiny to Rep. Ilhan Omar?
• Weingarten reflects on 2021 and the ruling class' crackdown on dissent

JEREMY DYS, Special Counsel for Litigation and Communications, First Liberty, Host, First Liberty Briefings, Former Clerk, Hon. Russell M. Clawges, Jr., @jeremydys

• Jeremy Dys talks about a recent Federal court decision to prevent the Department of Defense from punishing military service members with religious objections from refusing the Biden administration's vaccine mandate
• Judge Reed O'Connor had the following to say: "The COVID-19 pandemic provides the government no license to abrogate those freedoms. There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment. There is no military exclusion from our Constitution.”

With Robert Spencer, Dr. Darren Beattie and Rod Bishop

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 2 year anniversary of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani
• Spencer talks about efforts underway to further Sharia supremacy in the United States and numerous Islamophobia myths

GEN. (RET.) ROD BISHOP, Former Commander, 3rd Air Force, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, President, Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc

• Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop talks about a new initiative, Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc., and ways to support their mission
• Bishop talks about a recent court case pertaining to vaccine mandates for members of the U.S. armed forces

Dr. DARREN BEATTIE, Former Speech Writer, Trump White House, Founder, Revolver.News, @DarrenJBeattie

• Dr. Darren Beattie: To understand Jan. 6th, people should first turn their attention towards the supposed Michigan kidnapping plot
• How much did the FBI and Congress know about Jan. 6th?

With Sam Faddis, Gordon Chang and Bill Walton

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

• Is the Omicron variant manmade?
• Sam Faddis: "We got all the time in the world to order everybody to get vaccinated…but no time to [investigate the origins of COVID-19]"
• Faddis talks about Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s recent keynote address before a gathering of the Communist Party USA

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 bankruptcy situation with China’s Evergrande
• Walton talks about German Chancellor Olof Scholtz’s recent conversation with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping - Volkswagen derives around 50% of its yearly revenue from China alone

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: The Biden administration needs to view China the way China views the United States
• Chang: In the longterm, China does not pose a serious challenge to the U.S. - The short-term is another story
• Chang talks about the possibility of peace on the Korean Peninsula in the new year and its implications for a free South Korea

With Dr. Lawrence Sellin and Pastor Rafael Cruz

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

• Lawrence Sellin responds to outgoing National Institutes of Health head Francis Collins’s opposition to COVID-19 lab leak theories
• Sellin talks about the “political contamination” of the scientific literature
• How long has Anthony Fauci been a proponent of gain-of-function research?

PASTOR RAFAEL CRUZ, Survivor, Fidel Castro’s Communist Regime, Father, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz

• Rafael Cruz talks about the recent Presidential election in Chile
• Cruz delves into America’s early experiments with Socialism, and later free markets
• Cruz: Communism operates under deception
• According to the Texas State Attorney General, in Houston alone, around half a million individuals are trafficked each year
• Cruz talks about the religious roots of the American revolution
• Cruz: Politics is a ‘dirty business’ because people of principle are not running for office

With Caroline Glick, Gordon Chang and Bill Walton

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

• Is Iran still trying to pursue independent nuclear capabilities while the Biden Administration is attempting to facilitate negotiations with Iranian envoys in Vienna?
• Caroline Glick talks about the state of U.S.-Israeli relations in a post-Netanyahu era 
• Is the mainstream Democratic caucus in America increasingly embracing anti-Semitism?

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: For the past three generations, the Kim regime in North Korea has created one of the “most coercive states” in the world
• Chang talks about China’s dominance over the Solomon Islands

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 future of Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda and legislation
• What will the administration’s further guidance on COVID-19 and the Omicron Variant be?

With Dr. Darren Beattie

Dr. DARREN BEATTIE, Former Speech Writer, Trump White House, Founder, Revolver.News, @DarrenJBeattie

• Darren Beattie talks about the mainstream media's numerous attempts to silence him after he came out in support of Donald Trump
• Is America a “media run state”?
• Beattie talks about what really happened on Jan. 6th - The Left has crafted a narrative that all Trump supports constitute a genuine national security threat
• Who is Ray Epps and how is he connected to Jan. 6th?
• Beattie: Why is the FBI not going after allegedly key individuals who, “turned this rally into a riot”?

With Francisco Tudela, Grant Newsham, Roger Robinson and Kyle Shideler

FRANCISCO TUDELA, former Vice President and Foreign Minister of Peru, Survivor, 1996-97 Japanese Embassy Hostage Crisis

• Hon. Francisco Tudela talks about the Peruvian Congress’s success in passing a resolution that blocks all attempts to unilaterally create a new constitution
• Will Peru become a Chinese protectorate?

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

• Grant Newsham lays out the numerous ways to cut off China’s march towards global hegemony
• Newsham: “if we (the United States) lose the dollar dominance, we are in huge, huge trouble”

ROBER ROBINSON, President and CEO, RWR Advisory Group, Former Senior Director of International Economic Affairs, White House (1982-1985), Former Chairman, US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Co-Founder, Prague Security Studies Institute

• Roger Robinson: To date, only nine of the Chinese military industrial complex companies on the U.S. Treasury department’s entities list have been precluded from raising capital from U.S. investors
• Robinson: The auditors are not auditing the auditors in regards to Chinese companies

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

• Kyle Shideler talks about how some within the Council on American-Islamic Relations imply that all of Israel is situated on occupied territory
• Prosecutor Going After Antifa Peddled Antisemitic George Soros Conspiracies

With Robert Spencer, Sam Faddis and Kerry Gershaneck

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 U.S. Senate's confirmation process of President Biden's nominee for Ambassador at large for international religious freedom, Rashad Hussain

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 Sharia supremacism's ultimate goal
• Will the Biden Administration cave to Iran, like the Obama administration before it?

KERRY GERSHANECK, Visiting Scholar, Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University, Senior Research Associate, Thammasat University Faculty of Law, former US Marine Corp officer, Author, "Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to 'Win Without Fighting" and "Media Warfare: Taiwan’s Battle for the Cognitive Domain"

• Do less than 50% of Americas have confidence in the U.S. military’s ability to win wars overseas?
• How would the U.S. military response, if at all, to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan?