Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Robert Spencer, Sam Faddis and Hon. Robert Charles

ROBERT SPENCER, Director, Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist, PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, Author, "Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the U.S.?," and forthcoming, "Islamophobia and the Threat to Free Speech," @jihadwatchRS 

• Robert Spencer talks about U.S. aid deals with Afghanistan: “According to Sharia, it is the responsibility of non-Muslims to pay for the upkeep of the Muslims” - The Taliban sees the U.S. as “paying its dues”
• Are some Afghan refugees staying in a vacation hotel in England?
• How and why is the Biden administration kowtowing to Iran?

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

• Are we developing a vaccine against a disease that is now extinct? 
• What do vaccine mandates have in-store for the rest of society?

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: Talk is cheap - if we lose an interest in defending freedom in Taiwan, we give up the notion that freedom matters
• Charles: “We [The United States] are more like France in 1939”
• Charles: Attorney General Merrick Garland knows what he is doing is illegal

With Dr. Lawrence Sellin, Bill Walton and Dr. John G. West

LAWRENCE SELLIN, retired international businessman and medical researcher, Veteran, US Army Reserve, @LawrenceSellin

• Dr. Lawrence Sellin: China’s experience working with Coronaviruses began in the 1990s
• Dr. Sellin talks about People’s Liberation Army Colonel Ji-Wei Guo’s reported mission to revamp China’s biological weapons program, starting in the early 2000s

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: America needs to rethink what war really is
• Walton: Your defense budget can be a lot lower if you’re not conducting research and development, and just stealing such capabilities
• Former Chief Software Officer at the Pentagon: “We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years.”

Dr. JOHN G. WEST, Vice President and Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute, Author, Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science

• Dr. John G. West: Francis Collins is using the Bible to make the case for vaccine mandates - For all of Collin’s talk about “loving thy neighbor,” he’s not loving the unvaccinated
  Dr. John West: If Francis Collins is really concerned about vaccine hesitancy, why isn’t he explaining why the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has been flooded with inquires?

With Dr. Carol Swain

DR. CAROL SWAIN, Host, "Conversations with Dr. Carol Swain," President, Be The People Project, Author, Black Eye for America, @carolmswain

• Dr. Carol Swain: When you look at America’s founding documents - the Founders drafted works greater than themselves
• Dr. Swain: critical race theory is one many critical Marxist theories that originated within academia and divide the world between the oppressed and the oppressors
• Dr. Swain: Many critical race theorists want White people to become “consciously Anti-Racist” since Racism in “in their DNA”
• Dr. Swain addresses the Justice Department’s recent threat to intervene in school board meetings
• Ways to stand up to critical race theory: Challenge the legality and constitutionality of these ideas 

With John Rossomando

JOHN ROSSOMANDO, Senior Analyst of Defense Policy, Center for Security Policy, Former Senior Analyst, Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism, Former Senior Managing Editor, The Bulletin, Author, The Arab Spring Ruse, @JohnRossomando

• The Muslim Brotherhood was founded with the express intent of reestablishing the Islamic Caliphate
• John Rossomando talks about Muslim Brotherhood influence operations in the United States and how key operatives contacted notable U.S. government officials, such as Antony Blinken, William Burns, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, and Lloyd Austin
• Rossomando: The Brotherhood co-opted the language Americans had grown up with, i.e. democracy
• Presidential Directive 11: The Obama White House’s alleged rationale for backing the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East
• The Obama administration, with the help of the Brotherhood, backed the Free Syrian Army, which in turn created a power vacuum in Syria, allowing Russia to swoop in and back the al-Assad regime
• Rossomando talks about the Biden administration's apparent inability to fire its top generals: “It’s become who you're friends with”

With Robert Spencer, Hon. Robert Charles and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin

ROBERT SPENCER, Director, Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist, PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, Author, "Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the U.S.?," and forthcoming, "Islamophobia and the Threat to Free Speech," @jihadwatchRS 

• Robert Spencer: Women in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan are limited to domestic servitude - The mainstream media fell for the Taliban’s “promises”
• The Polish government is preventing Muslim migrants from crossing their borders

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 Department of Justice's recent decision to intervene in public school board meetings: Using the power of the federal government to chill peoples' speech
• Charles: Aggregation of power starts with aggregation of information
• Charles: The abdication of responsibility is at a level we have never seen before

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

• Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin: We are seeing these same people that started their careers towards the stars…under Barack Obama…reaching the pinnacle of leadership within the DoD”
• Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Boykin: Either he [Joe Biden] is lying to the public or he really doesn’t remember. Either way, we got a huge problem - Very reminiscent of Rep. MaxineWater’s “impeach 45” campaign

Capt. James Fanell, Michele Bachmann and Benjamin Weingarten

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

• Capt. James Fanell: The People’s Liberation Army has mass on its side
• Henry Kissinger’s 1971 trip to Communist China got the ball rolling on the “One Country, Two Systems” form of engagement
• Capt. Fanell: It’s been over 14 years since we sailed a U.S. aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Straits - “We need to send an aircraft carrier right now…as another indicator to China [about] how serious we are”

MICHELE BACHMANN, Dean, Robertson School of Government at Regent University, former US Representative, Minnesota's 6th Congressional District, former State Senator, Minnesota, Author, "Care of Conviction: My Story," @MicheleBachman 

• 9/11: A 20-Year Retrospective
• Michele Bachmann: “…the way the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, a signal was unmistakably sounded like a trumpet…it wasn’t the collapse of Afghanistan, it was the collapse of the United States of America”
• Bachmann: The Democrats in Congress want to the complete “legalization of voter fraud” in this country

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

• Ben Weingarten: The “leading edge” of China’s operations in America is economic engagement
• Weingarten: The U.S. Department of Justice is now preoccupied with going after those speaking out against Critical Race Theory

With Gordon Chang, Sam Faddis and Bill Walton

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: “We’ve got to remember that Xi Jinping inherited a consensual driven political system where nobody got too much credit or too much blame - [Xi Jinping] took power from everybody else and therefore he accumulated unprecedented accountability”
• About 600 Chinese planes have flown through Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone so far this year
• Chang: The U.S. Navy is in trouble because it has a “risk averse officer corps”

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

• Where are the transcripts of President Biden’s phone calls with Xi Jinping?
• Sam Faddis: The Biden administration “cut loose” from a common sense definition of domestic terrorism a long, long time ago

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

• 25% of the Chinese economy depends on real-estate development
• What will the U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai find after reviewing U.S. tariffs?
• Will China corner the lithium battery market?
• Former head of the World Bank “caved under pressure” and changed China’s ranking, placing them ahead of Switzerland, within the “Ease of Doing Business” metric

With Vice President Francisco Tudela

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

• Francisco Tudela talks about the horrors he witnessed during his time in captivity throughout the 1996-97 Japanese Embassy Hostage Crisis in Peru
• What happened in the run up to the 2021 Peruvian presidential elections?
• Tudela talks about the social, political and economic climate surrounding Pedro Castillo’s rise to prominence
• Tudela: People were shamed into either voting for Castillo and abstaining instead of supporting Keiko Fujimori
• In a country of 40 million inhabitants, Pedro Castillo narrowly won the presidential election by 44,000 votes
• Tudela talks about how the Russians established a connection between the Communists in Cuba and the Marxists in Peru
• Tudela delves into China’s 800 hectare Chancay port complex project - which when completed may have the capability to host a naval strike group
• Tudela: If you have “island hopping,” what’s stopping bad actors, like China, from introducing "port hopping"?
• The “Free Peru” political party is linked to the military arm of the shining path terrorists group, which, according to the White House, produces 8-10 tons of refined cocaine per year

With Col. (Ret.) John Mills, Todd Bensman and Bob Carlstrom

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

• Col. John Mills: The Bush administration’s number one priority in Afghanistan was to “deny sanctuary” - “We just did an about-face” and gave sanctuary to global jihad extremists
• Col. Mills talks about General Milley's, Austin's and McKenzie's testimonies before the U.S. Congress

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: It was really obvious that there was going to be a mass migration surge to the U.S. because of the rhetoric used by then-Presidential candidate Joe Biden on the 2020 campaign trail
• Bensman: “…about 1.7 to 1.8 million people would have been encountered in some fashion or form at the U.S. southern border in one single fiscal year…50,000 a week”
• International migrants, i.e. those not from Central America, make up around 27% of all Customs and Border Patrol monthly apprehension statistics
• Why did the Mexican government begin deporting Haitians to Haiti themselves?

BOB CARLSTROM, Former Senior Executive, Reagan White House Office of Management and Budget, President, AMAC Action, @MatureAmericans

• Bob Carlstrom talks about the progression of the radical left’s plan to transform America: Black Lives Matter demonstrations, defund the police, going after the 2nd amendment, cancel culture and critical race theory
• Carlstrom talks about the Left’s “Unholy Trinity” and useful idiots
• Carlstrom: The erosion of the U.S. dollar coupled with excessive government spending is “absolutely ludicrous”

With Sam Faddis, Hon. Robert Charles 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

• Sam Faddis: "It [The U.S. Armed Forces] only works if the men and women who are putting their lives on the line believe not just the cause but in their leaders” - The gap between “uniformed bureaucrats” in Washington and active duty soldiers deployed across the world is widening
• Faddis: Gen. Mckenzie asserted that the War on Terror is not over - He’s right
• Faddis talks about Lt. Col. Schelle's uncertain future

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

• How many Americans are really currently inside Afghanistan?
• Frank Gaffney and Robert Charles delve into the litany of examples for President Joe Biden’s apparent “wrecking operation” against the United States of America
• What is the current state of the U.S. Armed Forces?

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 John Thornton’s, China-US Financial Roundtable Co-Chair and former Co-President of Goldman Sachs, 6-week trip to China
• Talking your portfolio: Trying to stir the market to further your economic interests - Black Rock, Goldman Sachs, etc. are doing this now in regards to China
• Why are America’s leading CEOs and entrepreneurs “making cause with Ibram X Kendi?”