Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Robert Charles, Ann McLean and Zach Vorhies

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

• Are we witnessing a “gathering storm”?
• Robert Charles: The Left’s embrace of “tribalism” is based on false premises 

ANN MCLEAN, Founder and Head, Hunter Classical Christian School

• Ann McLean: For years, we heard “fear no art” from the Left, and now they are launching a cultural revolution in the U.S.
• McLean talks about the controversial decision to tear down the statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia

ZACH VORHIES, Former Senior Software Engineer, YouTube and Google, Author, "Google Leaks," @Perpetualmaniac and Zachvorhies.com

• Zach Vorhies talks about Google’s real time monitoring system, real time events, which looks for signals on the internet and processes them to determine when a topic is trending, and how to control the narrative
• Is Google polarizing American society?
• Vorhies: “The game of protecting your privacy is pretty much coming to an end”
• If Google Ads are supposedly not effective, how does Google make money?

With Gordon Chang, David Wurmser and Dr. David Clements

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 North Korea’s aspiration to sign a formal end of war declaration between itself, the United States and South Korea and a new effort headed up by One Korea News

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 delves into the nature of U.S.-Israeli relations in the Biden era
• Wurmser talks about the reasons behind the apparent Trump-Netanyahu split?

DAVID CLEMENTS, Law Professor, New Mexico State University, former Deputy District Attorney, 12th Judicial District Attorney's Office, former Senior Trial Attorney, 3rd and 6th Judicial District Attorney's Office, The Professor's Record

• Dr. David Clements talks about the rules behind “The Game” and how it is revolutionizing the post-2020 election integrity discourse

With Amb. Morse Tan, Bill Walton and Jonathan W. Emord

AMBASSADOR MORSE TAN, Incoming Dean, Liberty University School of Law, Ambassador at LargE, U.S. State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice

• Amb. Morse Tan: North Korea is in a “state of rightlessness” - The whole country is one big jail
• Amb. Tan talks about the various ways in which the People’s Republic of China does not abide by the international refugee convention
• Could the North’s bid for a formal end of war declaration lead to Korean War 2.0?

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: “If we want to send a signal to the world that we care about freedom and we care about human rights, we ought not to be sending anyone into China to compete in Olympic [games]”
• Walton talks about the Left’s attempt to pass a historic “radical, social engineering, big government, socialist program” through the Congress and whether the bill is actually fully funded

JONATHAN W. EMORD, Former Vice-President, Cato Institute, Attorney in the Reagan Administration, Federal Communications Commission, Author, "The Authoritarians," Founder, Emord & Associates

• Jonathan W. Emord talks about Socialist theorists’ early attraction towards slavery in the American south
• Emord debunks many of the claims made by the 1619 Project
• Emord talks about the Biden administration’s various COVID-related government mandates: “If you believed in the Constitution, and you believed in individual liberty, you would recognize that civil rights are not suspended in the midst of a crisis”

With Amb. Hank Cooper, Rick Fisher and Todd Bensman

 AMB. HANK COOPER, Chairman, High Frontier, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization

• Frank Gaffney: The essential goal of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was to leave our country defenseless
• Amb. Henry Cooper talks about the early founding of the Strategic Defense Initiative and the American Lefts’ fear about “an arms race in space”

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow of Asian Military Affairs, International Assessment and Strategy Center, Author, "China's Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach," former Asian Studies Director, The Heritage Foundation, former China Brief Editor, The Jamestown Foundation

• Rick Fisher: As early as 2017, the Chinese began to display containerized missiles
• Fisher: A Chinese 30 ton space launch, solid fuel vehicle can serve as an intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of around 8,000-10,000 km

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 the ongoing migration crisis throughout the Darien Gap
  • Bensman delves into the Biden administration's decision to reinstate the Trump "remain in Mexico" policy

With Grant Newsham, Peter Huessy and Robert Spencer

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

• Grant Newsham claims that the U.S. needs to look at the China-Taiwan conflict from a global perspective
• Why do the Solomon Islands matter to U.S. national security?

PETER HUESSY, Director of Strategic Deterrence Studies, Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

• Why do some in America still hold on to the idea that China has a “no first use” nuclear policy?
• Peter Huessy: In the last year, China has done more missile tests than the rest of the world combined
• Is China trying to win without fighting?

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 

• France: Muslim known to police calls police station, rants about Allah, says he is going to blow everything up
• Robert Spencer delves into how blasphemy laws are stilled used in Pakistan today

With Victoria Coates, Sam Faddis and Tommy Waller

VICTORIA COATES, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Security Policy's Middle East and North Africa Department,  President, USAGM's Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc., former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle Eastern and North African Affairs, National Security Council, Author, "David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art," @VictoriaCoates

• What is happening in Natanz, Iran?
• Victoria Coates talks about how Vladimir Putin’s calculus has changed over the past year
• The role that the Federal Communications Commission plays in governing internet policy makes it increasingly a primary shaper of U.S. national security

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

• What message is the Biden Administration sending to numerous south African nations when it bans travel to supposedly mitigate the spread of the Omicron variant?
• Will White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan be indicted?
• Sam Faddis delves into the Left’s Russia Collusion hoax: There was no “super-secret hotline” between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin

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: “We know that both Russia, China and other adversaries…all have in their war-fighting doctrine the desire to strike the United States in our Achilles heel and that is, in the electromagnetic spectrum, utilizing such things as nuclear electromagnetic pulses…I don’t know that the U.S. government, in any respect…is ready to contend with the threat.”
• Waller talks about his recent piece, DeSantis’ move to bolster State Guard fills gap for federal inaction: “…The difference between those governors and those state legislatures that just make laws or executive orders and DeSantis is that DeSantis realizes those laws are only as good as the people who are going to enforce them.”
• How serious is the Chinese threat to the U.S. power gird?

With Robert Charles, Bill Walton and Gordon Chang

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 Biden administration’s decision to reinstitute President Trump’s remain in Mexico policy
• Charles: “[The Biden Administration] has now discussed the idea very directly, and I think very persuasively on their part, that they would like to politicizing the Supreme Court”
• Charles: “Don’t you think for a minute” that China isn’t watching Putin’s troop massing along the Ukrainian border

BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• "Are You Investing In America’s Destruction?"
• Is the “bloom coming off the roses” for Chinese tech firms?
• Bill Walton talks about whether Chinese ride sharing giant Didi will prosper on the Hong Kong stock exchange
• Report: Consumer Group Warns 10 States With Most Pension Dollars Invested in China-Connected BlackRock

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 Chinese belt and road initiative projects around the globe and their possible dual-use capabilities
• Why did the Obama and Trump administrations fail to safeguard U.S. space-based assets?
• Report: 44% of Urban Chinese women do not intend on getting married

With Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, Sam Faddis and Bruce Klinger

M. ZUHDI JASSER, President, American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Former US NAVY Lieutenant-Commander, Host, Blaze Radio Podcast: “REFORM THIS!," Founder, Take Back Islam, Co-Founder, Muslim Reform Movement, Author, A Battle for the Soul of Islam, @DrZuhdiJasser

• Dr. M Zuhdi Jasser delves into how complicit some within the U.S. government are towards radical Islam
• Dr. Jasser: Rashad Hussain never “took on” the Muslim Brotherhood or many other radical Islamist groups 

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 global response to the Omicron variant
• Faddis: The Chinese are not trying to buy access to Hunter, they are buying access to Joe Biden “to the tune of billions of dollars”

BRUCE KLINGER, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center, Deputy Division Chief for Korea, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, @bruceklinger

• Bruce Klinger: Over 70% of the North Korean army is forward-deployed and within striking distance of South Korea
• Klinger: The North Korean regime, not the United States or its allies, is preventing the import of humanitarian aid into the North

With Gordon Chang and Daniel Greenfield

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: Americans need to wake up to the reality that we can lose our society in a war with the Chinese
• Report: Xi Jinping is personally implicated in the Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang
• Chang talks about why it is paramount that the U.S. decouples from China now
• Why is the U.S. “morally” obligated to counter China’s dubious rise?

DANIEL GREENFIELD, Contributor, Front Page Magazine, Investigative Journalist, The Sultan Knish, @Sultanknish

• Daniel Greenfield talks about the Left's campaign to dismantle Federal law enforcement's ability to define and combat various forms of extremism in the U.S.
• Greenfield talks about numerous George Soros-backed, Left wing influence operations underway in the U.S. 
• What are the current states of President Biden's policies towards Israel

With Lt.Gen. Jerry Boykin and Grant Newsham

GEN. (RET.) WILLIAM G. BOYKIN,Executive Vice President, Family Research Council, original Member, U.S. Army's Delta Force, @GenBoykin

• Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin: Why are America’s warfighters not being taught how to fight wars?
• What effect is critical race training having on unit cohesion within the U.S. military?
• What is the current state of Christians throughout the world?

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

• Grant Newsham: How and why did the United States and Australia miss “a golden opportunity”  in the Solomon Islands - “The Americans are missing in action"
• Newsham: The Chinese are interested in operating beyond their border
•  What does the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics tell us about the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics?