Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Robert Spencer and Sam Faddis

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 

• Can someone who is deeply imbued with Sharia be entrusted in safeguarding religion freedom for all?
• Robert Spencer talks about the Jihad underway in Nigeria
• Spencer: Is there any passage within the Quran that argues non-Muslims are equal to Muslims?
• How did a fully-vetted Afghan refugee almost commit jihad in the U.S.?
• Jihad Watch: If Ilhan Omar is Offended by Being Compared to Terrorists, Maybe She Should Stop Comparing America to Terrorists

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 various issues with the international health community's vaccine regiment: "You are vaccinating against a virus that is virtually extinct"
• Faddis talks about Hunter Biden's Laptop, the mainstream media and Chinese Communist Party’s influence operations in the U.S.

With Bill Walton, Elaine Donnelly and Pastor Steve Cioccolanti

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

• Webinar: “ARE YOU INVESTING IN AMERICA’S DESTRUCTION?”
• Bill Walton talks about J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s recent remarks about the Chinese Communist Party, and his “sincerely reflection” on his actions
• What does the future have in store for Chinese ride-sharing giant DiDi?

ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President, Center for Military Readiness

• Why does this year’s National Defense Authorization Act deserve to be defeated?
• Elaine Donnelly: “The Marine Core is taking the advice of people who think it should be more like the civilian world”

PASTOR STEVE CIOCCOLANTI, Pastor, Discovery Church, @cioccolanti

• Pastor Steve Cioccolanti talks about the Australian government’s “national resilience centers”

With Mark Schneider, Amb. Pete Hoekstra and John McLaughlin

MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst, National Institute for Public Policy, Former Director, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Former Senior Foreign Service Officer, US Department of State

• What is the likelihood that China and/or Russia would use an EMP in a first strike?
• Mark Schneider: We are doing “very little” to counter the threats posed by China and Russia

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: We are two and a half years into COVID and the Chinese are still not cooperating in helping the international community investigate the origins of the virus

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, CEO and Partner, McLaughlin & Associates, @jmclghln

• John McLaughlin talks about McLaughlin & Associates’ November 2021 National Survey and whether respondents felt that the United States is headed in the right direction
• McLaughlin: The mainstream media is under polling Republicans in their national surveys
• How aware are Americans to the fact that the U.S. is “subsidizing” the Chinese threat?

With Russel Vought, Robert Charles and Trayce Bradford

RUSSEL VOUGHT, President, Center for Renewing America, Former Director, Office of Management and Budget, @russvought

• Russel Vought talks about President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda and act: “This bill would have an $800 billion impact on the deficit in just the first 5 years”
• Vought reacts to Biden’s decision to nominate Jerome Powell to serve as Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve for a 2nd term
• What is the Center for Renewing America doing to prevent “systemic voter fraud”?

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 “hyper-politics” at play throughout the Kyle Rittenhouse trial
• Charles talks about the Jan. 6 House Select Committee and the subpoena of War Room: Pandemic host Steve Bannon: The use of a federal subpoena for political purposes sets forth a dangerous precedent

TRAYCE BRADFORD, Vice President, Christians Engaged, Issue Chair for Human Trafficking, Eagle Forum National, Candidate for Lt. Governor, Texas

• Trayce Bradford talks about electoral integrity efforts underway in Texas
• What is the Texas legislature doing to help curb human trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border?

With Amb. Yoram Ettinger, Bill Walton and Gordon Chang

AMB. YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs, Embassy of Israel in the U.S., Former Consultant to Israeli and US legislators, @YoramEttinger

• Yoram Ettinger: “The primary goal of the Ayatollahs in Iran is to topple every single pro-American Arab regime in the Persian Gulf”
• Amb. Ettinger discusses the future of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem

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

• President Biden nominates Jerome Powell to serve as Chairman for the U.S. Federal Reserve for a 2nd term
• What would happen to the U.S. energy industry should Biden’s nominee for Comptroller of the Currency, Saule Omarova, be confirmed by the U.S. Senate?
• The New York Times reports that Freeport-McMoRan, a U.S.-based mining company, sold many of its cobalt-rich mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a Chinese company over the past decade

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 China’s moral bankruptcy and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
• How much responsibility does China bear for American deaths from drug overdoses?

With Kyle Shideler, Grant Newsham and Doug Burton

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: "...I think one of the problems that we see in the Rittenhouse case is evidence that this country really now has two different conceptions about what justice means"
• Who does Antifa recruit?

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

• Grant Newsham talks about whether America should send U.S. navy ships to the second Thomas Shoal to deter Chinese aggression against the Philippines

DOUG BURTON, Former Associate Editor, The Washington Times, Former Press Officer, Iraq War

• Doug Burton talks about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Nigeria
• Three conflicts in Nigeria: The Boko Haram insurgency, Igbo sessionist movement and radical jihadist bandit gangs in the Northwest
• Are the conflicts in Nigeria simple clashes between farmers and herdsman?

With Trevor Loudon and Robert Spencer

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

• What role did America’s supposed “strong moral fabric” play in nurturing the country's founding?
• Trevor Loudon: “…Religion has three things that Communists want. They want money, they want respectability and they want influence…and organized religion has all of those three things”
• Is culture downstream from religion?

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 comments on a recent terror attack in Liverpool, England: Was the assailant really a genuine Christian convert?
• Spencer talks about the confirmation process for President Biden’s nominee for ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom: “The Senate should dare to ask Mr. Hussain what he thinks about various passages of the Quran, which he has memorized”
• How is Belarus, and its partners in Russia, trying to destabilize Poland?

With Gordon Chang, Bill Walton Ann McLean

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

• Is Xi Jinping’s position in Beijing more tenuous than people think?
• Gordon Chang explains why Beijing is not pursuing “minimal deterrence”

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

• Why and how are the Chinese Communists trying to tank the Eagle Act as it makes its way through the U.S. Congress?
• How will China mine rare earth mineral deposits around the world?
• Bill Walton: Biden’s nominee for Comptroller of the Currency, Saule Omarova, “wants total control of the private credit system, private banking system and would eliminate the banks she regulates…”

ANN MCLEAN, Founder and Head, Hunter Classical Christian School

• Ann McLean talks about the outcome of the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election: “The schools always worked for the parents”
• McLean talks about her mission to restore parents’ rights throughout our nation’s public schools
• McLean makes the case against charter schools

With James Carafano, Robert Charles and Lawrence Peck

JAMES JAY CARAFANO, Vice President, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation, Author, "Brutal War," @JJCarafano

• James Carafano talks about President Joe Biden’s recent virtual summit with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping: "...here you have a tremendously weakened President...he has a three-hour meeting with America's most important adversary in the world and he doesn't hammer [China] on COVID, he doesn't hammer them on...the Uyghur genocide..."
• How will President Biden be portrayed at home and abroad after his virtual meeting with Xi?

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: Is the mainstream media covering up Biden's supposed lackluster performance at the White House's virtual summit with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping?
• Charles: Like China, Iran always "leans forward into weakness"

LAWRENCE PECK, Advisor, North Korean Freedom Coalition

• Lawrence Peck responds to H.R. 3446, the so-called Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act: "I believe it would probably be more accurately named..."The Undeserved Gift Dream Come for Kim Jong Un Act"
• H.R. 3446 calls for the U.S. government to enter into peace negotiations with the North Korean regime and to begin the process of opening a liaison office in the North

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

• Former CIA Operative Sam Faddis: The primary job of a case officer in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is to recruit spies - If you look at the “Biden Crime Family,” it could not be more clear that the Chinese Communists bought off the President a long time ago
• What did then Vice President Biden do when President Obama appointed him as the “point man” for dealing with Chinese adventurism in the South China Sea?
• What should the world expect from Joe Biden’s virtual summit with Xi Jinping?