Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Mike Gonzalez and Sam Faddis

MICHAEL GONZALEZ, Senior Fellow, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation, Former Speechwriter, Securities and Exchange Commission, Former Foreign Correspondent, Wall Street Journal, Author, “The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free" and "BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution," @Gundisalvus

• Mike Gonzalez explains why America is an exceptional nation and the threats posed to its continued prosperity: “Americans have never lost their freedom. How come they’re so attached to freedom? And I think it has to do the way we are constituted…the more we’ve gotten away from the way we are constituted, the more we’re going to become victims of subjugation”
• Gonzalez: Black Lives Matter, as explained at length in "BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution,” was created by people who were trained by violent, far-left organizations, such as the Weather Underground

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 Aafia Siddiqui’s supposed affinity towards violence and the threat she poses to the American homeland: “We’re talking mass murder and we’re talking the end of the United States…You’ve gotta get on one side of that or the other. If you’re advocating in support of Aafia Siddiqui, you’re advocating for mass murder and the destruction of the United States”
• Faddis responds to the recent Associated Press report claiming that the CIA does not find the “Havana Syndrome” to be a product of dubious foreign nations

With Gordon Chang, Bill Walton and Yoram Ettinger

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 discusses the various dangers athletes and spectators may be subjected to should they participate in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games
• Chang makes the case of decoupling from China: “You’re not really looking at market fundamentals anymore, you're looking at political decisions of a Communist regime”
• Chang: China has somewhere between 35 to 45 million more men than women

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 responds to China’s declining birthrates: “Population is one of the strong indicators that’s linked to economic growth…China’s curve’s moving the other direction”
• What implications will President Joe Biden’s nomination of Sarah Raskin to serve as the next vice chair for supervision at the U.S. Federal Reserve have on monetary policy moving forward?
• Will Raskin push the Fed to write about climate change as a “systemic risk”
• Walton: Larry Fink is a genius with money, not at climate change or public policy

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 discusses how the Iranian regime has not changed since revolution
• Yoram delves into the wider relationship between the Palestinians and the international Arab community at large
• What is the current state of Israel-China relations?

With Bradley Thayer and John Guandolo

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

• How does China see the world and what implication does this have for U.S.-China relations?
• Bradley Thayer argues that the international community needs to do a better job at scrutinizing Chinese racism within China's own borders ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Games
• Thayer explains how letting China into the World Trade Organization 20 years ago gave them the tools necessary to undermine Western powers today

JOHN GUANDOLO, Founder, UnderstandingtheThreat.com, Officer (Ret.), United States Marine Corps, Veteran, Operations Desert Shield/Storm, Former FBI Investigator, Counterterrorism Division

• John Guandolo gives an update on the Colleyville, Texas synagogue hostage crisis
• Guandolo talks about what elements of the attack stand out
• Who is Aafia Siddiqui?

• Guandolo talks about the ongoing Islamist information war in the United States

With Kenneth Blackwell, Capt. James Fanell and Stephen Blank

AMB. KENNETH BLACKWELL, Former Ohio State Treasurer and Secretary of State, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations' Human Rights Commission, Senior Fellow, Family Research Council, Author, "The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency," @kenblackwell

• Kenneth Blackwell: The Left is stuck on a moment in history that has “long passed”
• Blackwell talks about the instrumental differences between the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights legislation

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

• Captain James Fanell talks about the fields in which the Chinese navy is currently outperforming the United States
• Capt. Fanell: “What we see from the PRC central military commission…is this kind of totality approach to warfare”
• Capt. Fanell: For the past decade, the Chinese have been outproducing the United States Navy, building 4-5 ships for every 1 U.S. ship, however, in 2021, it was 7-1 ships

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

• Stephen Blank talks about Russian President Vladimir Putin's grasp on power: "If you remember the old phrase about the Roman Ceasers, they could stay in power so long as they offered the public bread and circuses. Putin can't offer bread, but he can try to offer and imperial circus."
• Blank: The West is not a threat to the Russian nation at-large, but Putin's authoritarian kleptocracy 

With Dr. Lawrence Sellin, David Maxwell and Pete Hoekstra

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

• Lawrence Sellin: New Pentagon Papers Show COVID Is Bioweapon Made in China Paid for and Developed by US Scientists
• Dr. Sellin's talks about Dr. Anthony Fauci's knowledge of the COVID-19 lab leak theory during the first few months of the outbreak

DAVID MAXWELL, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, former Special Forces Colonel, United States Army, former Instructor, National War College, @DavidMaxwell161

• Maxwell: Regardless of what North Korea says, the regime continues to display a hostile attitude to the United States and South Korea
• Maxwell argues that the North Korea regime is conducting missile launches as a means of testing their war fighting capabilities
• What conditions would be necessary to achieve legitimate peace on the Korean peninsula?

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

• Predicting 2022 – China’s Year of the Tiger
• Amb. Pete Hoekstra talks about U.S.-Chinese relations since the COVID-19 outbreak 

James Wallner, Stephen Byren and Col. John Mills

JAMES WALLNER, Senior Fellow, R Street Institute, Former Vice President for Research, The Heritage Foundation, Former Executive Director, Senate Steering Committee, Lecturer, Clemson University, @jiwallner

• James Wallner talks about the overall structure of the Senate, its check and balances and how the late Nevada Senator Harry Reid broke it 
• Wallner talks about Left's attempts to rewrite the rules in Congress and their dangerous implications

STEPHEN BRYEN, President of SDB Partners,  Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy and Defense Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council, @stevebryen

• Dr. Stephen Bryen talks about the prospects of war between China and Taiwan in the new year
• Bryen makes the case for the U.S. ramping up military and diplomatic relations with Japan in a bid to safeguard Taiwan 
• Bryen: “I think the U.S. approach has always been that if there’s a problem in the area, we would take care of it ourselves, without anybody else”

COL. (RET.) JOHN MILLS, Former Director, Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense

• Col. John Mills talks about success examples of how U.S. officials have blocked Chinese actors from stealing confidential information
• Col. Mills talks about how Black Rock, Inc. CEO Larry Fink is putting profit above the national security interests of the United States

With Robert Spencer, Todd Bensman and Hans von Spakovsky

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 

• Iran: ‘Hard Revenge’ for Soleimani Killing Will Come From ‘Within’ the U.S.

• Spencer talks about Britain’s Sharia Courts and how these institutions, in recent years, have circumvented British law

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 talks about a Yemeni migrant that evaded Mexican immigration officials and his purported dubious intensions
• Bensman talks about efforts underway in Texas to safeguard American border security

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 how the Biden administration’s voting agenda is linked to its immigration directives: “For 20 years now, the Progressive Left has been trying to extinguish the line between aliens and citizens”
• Von Spakovsky talks about the pitfalls within the voter ID discourse: According to U.S. census bureau, in the last three federal elections…a higher percentage of citizens turned out to vote in Georgia than New York” 

With Gordon Chang, Bill Walton and Sam Faddis

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 the food shortage crisis in China
• Chang responds to National Security Council official Kurt Campell's recent comments that the U.S. needs to engage with China to fight back climat change

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 warns about the shifts in China's domestic marketplace, and what effect these alterations will have on the global balance of power
• What is Black Rock, Inc. doing with 10% of the world's Gross Domestic Product?

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 discusses the physique of suicide bombers - and the Taliban’s newly established suicide brigade
• Faddis talks about the threat posed to Olympic athletes in Beijing this upcoming February

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.