Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Michel Gurfinkiel and Amb. Pete Hoekstra

MICHELE GURFINKIEL, Former Editor-At-Large, Valerus Actuelles, Fellow, Middle East Forum, Founder and President, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute

• Michel Gurfinkiel: The Australians have a global strategic outlook, which is why they struck a deal with the U.K. and the United States and cut France out
• Gurfinkiel: The increased presence of Chinese nationals in French schools was originally welcomed, having been seen as a positive. However, attitudes eventually changed after some university student began vacuuming up state-funded research
• China has the largest high speed rail network in the world - Where did the technology come from?
• Gurfinkiel: The French are aware of the Chinese threat and are willing to cooperate with the United States to counter this threat

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

• Pete Hoekstra: This war is not over - the terrorists are emboldened now more than ever
• Hoekstra: Afghanistan is hell for the people we left behind
• Hoekstra: There are no such as things as “Moderate Jihadists”
• Hoekstra talks about President Biden’s speech to the UN: We are unwilling to confront the Chinese

With Xi Van Fleet

Xi Van Fleet, "Chinese by birth; American by choice," Survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

• Xi Van Fleet recollects her personal experiences during Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China: “We were always told to report on others…Children turned their parents in…it was commonplace”
• Fleet: Mao would never let go of “class,” even though class had all but dissolved after the land reform movement throughout the late 1940’s and early 1950’s
• Mao’s four O's: Old ideas, old traditions, old habits, and old customs
• Fleet: “They [The Red Guards] went door-to-door…and pulled out the antique furniture, vases, old pictures…and burned them”
• Fleet: “The communist infiltration is complete. There is no place we don’t see it…school….military….and workplace….it’s just everywhere”
• Fleet: These are not just “socialist” countries, they are Communist countries

With Robert Spencer and Gordon Chang

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 a plot to blow up a church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ,and the mainstream media’s apparent reporting blackout
• Jumana Nagarwala, a physician from Detroit, Michigan, has been charged with performing female genital mutilation (FGM) on young girls in the United States
• Counterargument to the rise of islamophobia in the United States: Prior to 9/11, there were 1,200 mosques in the U.S. Now, there are over 3,000
• Spencer: Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood for Palestine
• Spencer: Instead of standing up to “the Squad,” the Democratic Party has seemingly capitulated to these far-left Representatives and cut off vital funding to Israel’s Iron Dome

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 reciprocity with China: “We can’t have a Reagan Institute in China. So why does China have Confucius Institutes on our college and university campuses?”
• How and why has China been “vacuuming up” Americans’ DNA?
• Not once during his speech to the UN General Assembly did President Biden expressly mention “China”
• Chang: There are no good scenarios for China and the impending Evergrande meltdown

With Amb. Pete Hoekstra and Todd Bensman

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

• Pete Hoekstra: This is the same administration that embraced the radical jihadists in Libya and many others during the Arab Spring and thereafter
• Hoekstra: While John Kerry was trying to convince the Chinese that they should join the fight against climate change, the Chinese leadership was meeting with the Taliban - “They don’t respect us”
• According to sources, Hoekstra alleged that Gen. Milley conveyed to his Chinese counterparts that the U.S. would not attack the People’s Republic should it invade Taiwan
• Hoekstra: climate change is being used by the Left to reimagine our economies
• Will NATO partners undercut military commitments in favor of pursuing climate change initiatives instead?

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 recent inflow of Haitian migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border: None of these Haitians are fleeing earthquakes or presidential assassination…Most of the country is under this false impression that they’re here [the U.S.-Mexico border] fleeing terrible stuff in Haiti. Almost everyone of these Haitians have been living for years in Chile and Brazil…no problem for years in those countries”
• Bensman: When they [the Haitians] saw Biden had opened the border, they all figured, ‘it’s a good time to upgrade’”
• On Sept. 12, the Mexican government suddenly opened the flood gates to the Mexican border - effectively “stabbing Joe Biden in the back”
• What will happen to the Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas?
• Bensman argues that during the Trump administration, migrants were deterred from immediately migrating to the U.S. because of the U.S. government’s “Remain in Mexico” policy 

With Bill Walton, Victoria Coates and Sam Faddis

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 Evergrande's troubling future: China is not going to let a Lehman Brothers happen within their borders
• Walton: The Chinese Communist Party is racing against the demographic clock
• Hong Kong as "another Chinese city" as the region undergoes its first “Patriot Elections”
• How is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission responding to extensive Chinese influence within American capital markets?

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

• Victoria Coates: Iran has signaled that they will only enter the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action again so long as the U.S. relaxes all its sanctions against the Islamic Republic
• Coates: “You can’t have a good faith negation with a partner that doesn’t have a good faith word to give”
• Coates: This would be quite the moment to play hardball and pressure the Iranian regime into abandoning its nuclear program
• Europe’s coming energy shortage is affecting the continent’s lofty climate change goals
• Victoria: Don’t put your energy security for an entire continent in the hand of Vladimir Putin
• The Biden administration blames “price gougers” for the rising gas prices, refusing to acknowledge America’s apparent lack of energy independence since President Trump left office 

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

• How close is Iran to "getting the bomb?"
• Sam Faddis: “The Biden administration is in the process of surrendering to all these enemies of the United States, not confronting them”
• Faddis conveys that the Biden administration has not backed away from potentially giving conditional aid to the Taliban
• Faddis: We just transported the Taliban into the 21st century in terms of communications
• Faddis: Stanford, like many of America’s preeminent educational institutions, has taken vast quantities of money from the Chinese Communist Party 

With Rep. Scott Perry, Lance Crayon and Ismael Benavides

REP. SCOTT PERRY, Pennsylvania's 4th Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives, Member, House Transportation & Infrastructure, and Foreign Affairs Committees, Former State Representative, Pennsylvania General Assembly, @RepScottPerry

• Rep. Scott Perry: It’s always the suits, not the boots that surrender America to our enemies
• Rep. Perry: The leaving behind of $80-90 billion to numerous terrorist organizations and the abandoning of Bagram Air Base did nothing but create a “terrorist superstate”
• The administration has brought in around 60,000 unvetted migrants from Afghanistan to America
• Rep. Perry: The U.S. droned an individual friendly to our cause. What do you think the intelligence is going to be when we are not in-country?
• Rep. Perry: “If there is not the dismissal with extreme prejudice of Gen. Milley, it is yet one more travesty foisted upon the American people, against their will, that imperils the United States at the hands in the of Communist Party of China” 

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

• Lance Crayon: Last year, for the first time ever, the top films in China were all Chinese productions - China is becoming more self-reliant
• Crayon: For decades, Hollywood has kowtowed to Chinese censors for the chance of premiere film’s on the mainland
• Crayon: “The way China has it set up now, they can control not only what China sees but what the wold sees”
• It’s Sept. 17 and there is no release date for Dune in China, a movie that China put up 75% of the money to fund
• All Taiwanese films at the Venice film festival were labeled as “Taipei” productions

ISMAEL BENAVIDES, Peruvian politician, Former Minister of Economy and Finance, and Agriculture, President Alan García, Former Member, Congress of the Republic of Peru, former Minister of Fishery, President Fernando Belaúnde Terry

• Ismael Benavides: The June 9th runoff election in Peru was rigged in favor of the far left “Free Peru” party
• Benavides: Of the 16 members newly elected Peruvian president Pedro Castillo selected for his cabinet, 12 are extremists, some with close relations to the Shining Path terrorist movement
• Benavides: 5 million Venezuelans have left their country because of the internal political situation there. Is Peru next?

With Capt. James Fanell, Gordon Chang, Dr. Richard Fleming and Kevin Freeman

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

• Capt. James Fanell talks about the United Kingdom’s and the United States’ recent commitment to provide Australia with several nuclear submarines: A step in the right direct, but requires more scrutiny
• Will the United State be able to now operate out of Australian ports?
• Fanell: Chairman Mark Milley’s reported actions put the U.S. at risk to a curious China

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 Chinese already believe the U.S. is in disarray and in terminal decline…General Milley’s two calls…would reinforced that notion”
• Chang argues that there were no indications that China felt that President Trump was going to attack
• Chang reacts to the U.K.’s and U.S.’ recent pledge to provide Australia with nuclear powered submarines: When Biden talked about this publicly, he didn’t mention China
• Chang: The U.S. should base its attack submarines in Australia - The U.S. should be planning for war right now, not 30-40 years from now

DR. RICHARD M. FLEMING, Creator, Fleming Method patent, www.flemingmethod.com

• Dr. Richard Fleming: There’s two decades worth of information that shows that the U.S. federal government provided substantial funding to universities and private research companies, like EcoHealth, to conduct gain of function research on coronaviruses
• Dr. Fleming: In medicine, when we do something wrong, we stop

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Author, “Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack" and “Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again,” Founder, Globaleconomiwarfare.com, @SecretWeaponUSA

• Kevin Freeman: Larry Fink, a chief advocate of social responsible investing, has pushed millions of dollars of investors’ money into the “least socially responsible market in the world,’ China
• What do a carbon-tracking master card and Communist China’s social credit score have in common? 

With Chris Fanell

CHRIS FARRELL, Director, Investigations and Research, Judicial Watch, Author, "Exiled Emissary: George H. Earle III, Soldier, Sailor, Diplomat, Governor, Spy," @JudicialWatch

• How did an independently wealthy businessman from Philadelphia become a leading figure in the Democratic Party, governor, diplomat (don’t need to be capitalized) and spy?
• George H. Earle III takes his uncles yacht, offers it as a Naval Reserve vessel at the onset of World War I, and patrols the Atlantic coast for submarines, later winning the Navy cross
• During the inner-War period, Earle becomes an internationally ranked polo player, eventually backing Franklin DelanoRoosevelt for President in 1932, who later appointed him as U.S. ambassador to Austria from 1933-35
• Chris Farrell: A remarkable governor who fought for civil rights and loathed communism
• What if George Earle had run and won the Democratic nomination in 1940?
• Earle arrived in North Africa at the onset of Operation Torch and bumped into his old Polo friend, George Patton
• In January 1943, when FDR meets with Churchill in Casablanca, Morocco, the President declares that the U.S. will only accept Germany’s unconditional surrender - Which resonates within the officer core throughout the Nazi Reich
• The German military’s top intelligence officer comes to Earle in Istanbul with a proposition: In exchange for Hitler and his inner circle, the allies would sign an armistice with Germany and declare war on the Soviet Union - FDR does not respond
• In March 1945, Earle returned to Washington D.C. to meet with the President, after-which it became evident that the whole White House had “gone pink” [Communist]
• Earle threatens to go public about Soviet war crimes, at which point FDR banishes him to the Samoan islands
• Farrell: Where is General Milley’s head in all this?

Bill Walton, Ben Weingarten and Natalie Winters

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: President Biden’s recent vaccine mandate calls into question the existence and expansion of the “administrative state”
• The United State Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision: “Administrative entities have the power to make decisions delegated to them by Congress”
• In passing laws over the past 30-40 years, Walton argues that Congress has not been specific enough when outlining the authority of the state - Only giving the politicians “plausible deniability”
• Walton: It’s hard to know where the Biden Administration starts and BlackRock Inc., begins - Three of the administration’s top economic advisor are BlackRock alumni

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 addresses Sec. Antony Blinken’s testimony before Congress: It’s been the same line from the administration: Defending withdrawing instead of the nature of the withdrawal
• Weingarten: It is "intellectually dishonest" for the Biden administration to point the finger at everyone else but themselves
• Weingarten: Why is it in America’s national interest to import, in a time like this, thousands of people from a country where 90% of the population supports Sharia law
• While the Capitol Riot was treated as a domestic terrorism issue, the George Floyd riots were not

NATALIE WINTERS, Investigative Reporter, The National Pulse, Contributor, The National Pulse Podcast, @nataliegwinters

• Natalie Winters: People do not understand that the entire scientific ecosystem in China is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party
• The National Institute of Health grant money not only went to EcoHealth but also the Wuhan Institute of Virology
• Winters: China’s Southern Medical University, which is linked to the People’s Liberation Army, assisted the Wuhan Institute in conducting their gain of function research by providing human blood samples
• 170 plus professors lobby the Biden administration’s Department of Justice to discontinue the China Initiative, started under the Trump administration

With John Rossomando, Sam Faddis and Todd Bensman

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, @JohnRossomando

• John Rossomando talks about the 20th anniversary of Ahmad Shah Masood’s assassination
• Rossomando: The Biden Administration lied about striking a supposed car bomb in Kabul
• Will Afghanistan become another hotbed for terrorism? 

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: No question at all that the Pakistani’s remain “lashed up” with the Taliban
• Faddis talks about the ongoing genocide against resistance fighters in the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan
• Faddis talks about the findings of some virologists: We have never seen a naturally occurring virus that is built this way [COVID-19]

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: After 9/11, U.S. government officials shored up America’s immigration system to prevent foreign nations with dubious intentions from entering the U.S. with visas by instituting extensive national security vetting
• The eye-bulging case of Naif Abdulaziz Alfallaj
• What happens to those migrants charged with terrorism?
• Bensman: The problem is that national security vetting has become a partisan issue