Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Gordon Chang, Chris Iacovella 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’s message to U.S. hedge fund investors: Yes, Xi Jinping means exactly what he says
• Chang: China is well behind on its commitments to Phase One of the Trump administration’s trade deal with the People’s Republic of China
• Chang: Xi has wiped out an entire industry within the Chinese economy
• Variable Interest Entity Structures are helping to underwrite the Chinese threat to U.S. investors
• With international usage for the Chinese Renminbi being around 5%, will the Saudis strike a deal with the Chinese Communists involving the PRC’s national currency?

CHRIS IACOVELLA, CEO, American Securities Association, Former CEO, Equity Dealers of America, Former Special Counsel & Policy Advisor, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

• Chris Iacovella: The Chinese Communist Party is trying to dump the last of its “Golden Gooses” into our markets
• Iacovella: These shell companies have no equity ownership in the China-based operating company
• Passive index loopholes: Wall Street aids and abets the CCP to get unlisted Chinese companies on American investors’ portfolios

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

• Since 2008, the MSCI China Index has been rising rapidly, peaking in February 2021, but has fallen following Xi's crackdown against Chinese tech firms 
• Walton: Foreign firms operating in China have little-to-no rights and privileges, i.e. no voting rights
• Walton talks about the supposed threats posed by Communist China and Victor Davis Hanson’s recent piece, “China’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”

With Rep. Paul Gosar, Ben Weingarten and Natalie Winters

REP. PAUL GOSAR, Representative, Arizona's 4th Congressional District, Member, House Committees on Natural Resources, and Oversight and Reform, Republican Leader, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, @RepGosar

• Rep. Paul Gosar: There are a lot of questions concerning January 6 and the current state and well-being of those incarcerated in D.C. prisons awaiting trial
• Were there “security lapses” at the Capitol on January 6?
• Rep. Gosar: Release 14,000 hours of tapes from Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol
• Is Eric Swalwell a “compromised asset” and is justice being applied evenly to all members of Congress?

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 explains how and why Donald Trump was the greatest threat to the ruling class
• Weingarten: Does General Milley think that understanding “white rage” is part of his job description?

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

• Natalie Winters talks about those behind Communist China’s riseand how many of these individuals made a profit
• Winters delves into the ever-evolving narrative behind the U.S. government’s alleged funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the reported gain of function research within

With Dr. Sean Lin, Joel Caplan and Bill Walton

SEAN LIN, Former US Army Officer and Microbiologist, Survivor, Tiananmen Square Massacre, @XiaoxuSeanLin

• Dr. Sean Lin: Organ harvesting is a strategy used by the Chinese Communist Party to silence opposition within China
• Dr. Lin talks about the scale of on-demand ordering of organs from live hosts and other prisoners of conscience in China
• Dr. Lin: If you investigate the origin of the COVID-19 outbreak, it was clearly in Wuhan - Which the Chinese government denies

JOEL CAPLAN, Investor, The China Hustle

• Joel Caplan talks about China’s green tech investment hustle: Biblical amounts of money have disappeared in these Chinese stock scams
• Caplan talks about Joe and Hunter Bidens’ connection to the “China Hustle”
• Why are some Chinese companies not paying on their court judgments?
• H.R. 7000, or the "Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act": A step in the right direction but has no teeth

BILL WALTON, Managing Partner, Rappahannock Ventures, Chairman, Rush River Entertainment, former Leader, Donald Trump Transition Team, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• Why individual investors should not be investing in China. Your odds may be better in Vegas.
• What’s behind the China’s Communist Party’s crackdown on a growing number of its Chinese businesses, the latest being the private tutoring providers. 
• American headquartered investment managers like Blackrock and State Street see China as their biggest growth market and are setting up shop in Shanghai’s New Market, abetting the CCP’s move to supplant Hong Kong.
• The hypocrisy of ESG investors like Blackrock doing business in China,  the largest emitter of carbon dioxide gas in the world, almost twice as much as the U.S. (10.1 billion vs 5.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2018)
• And is so-called ESG investing really anything new.

With Sam Faddis, Dr. Matthew Spalding and Frances Martel

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: “A damage assessment” is currently being unraveled in the case of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s relationship with an alleged People’s Republic of China spy, Fang Fang
• Faddis: The Chinese Communists have had a particular interest in the Bay Area for some time
• Faddis: Just because Fang Fang left the country, that’s not to say Swalwell is not still a spy

MATTHEW SPALDING, Kirby Professor in Constitutional Government, Dean, Van Andel Graduate School of Government, Hillsdale College

• Dr. Matthew Spalding: For years, Conservatives have failed to recognize the important role education plays in forming the young minds of tomorrow’s leaders
• Dr. Spalding: The 1619 Project has nothing to do with history at all - It’s about looking at history backwards
• Dr. Spalding: We need good old-fashioned civics education to help address the debate we are having now

FRANCES MARTEL, International News Editor, Breitbart News, @francesmartel

• Around 750 people in Cuba are either missing or in prison since the anti-Communist protests broke out on July 11
• The Biden administration’s response to the Cuban government is abysmal at best
• Frances Martel: The protests in Cuba are not the “unprecedented” part, what is unprecedented is how mainstream it has become to recognize the horrors of Communism
• Peru’s robust middle class may be under threat

With Todd Bensman, David Wurmser and Reggie Littlejohn

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: As many as 60,000 “got-aways” entered the U.S. from June 2021
• Bensman: Migrants are being sent to all corners of the country
• Biden’s drain on the public treasury persists as construction on the border wall continues to stall

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 talks about Iran’s ongoing, government-caused, drought and its implications for the country’s stability
• Wurmser: Over the last year, we have seen nothing in terms of real reforms in Lebanon - which the Iranians continue to raid

REGGIE LITTLEJOHN, Founder and President, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, @reggielittlejhn

• Reggie Littlejohn talks about the prospect of a Chinese-style vaccine passport being used in the West
• Littlejohn: It is not fair to the athletes to have them choose between their conscience and their athletic ambitions

Gordon Chang, Sam Faddis and Christian Watson

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 Wendy Sherman’s, Deputy Secretary of State, recent trip to China: The Chinese Communists are not trying to work with the U.S.
• Chang: The Chinese Communist Party is attacking its own technology sector - Why?
• Americans are very alarmed at the Chinese Communist Party malign influence in the United States
• Chang talks about an alleged uptick of P4 labs in China

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: The average American realizes that we need a major course correction when it comes to China
• Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. government sought to end China’s “looting operation” that targeted American technological secrets
• China’s Dream, The World’s Nightmare: How the Chinese Communist Party is Colonizing and Enslaving the Planet

CHRISTIAN WATSON, Host, Pensive Politics podcast, Spokesperson, Color Us United, YouTube

• Christian Watson talks about Color Us United: A community of people united by their unique differences
• Watson: One of the glaring problems with critical race theory is that it completely redefines racism
• Watson: Do not allow our traditions to be ruthlessly deconstructed
• Justice is not able giving people things evenly - It’s about protecting people’s rights

With Rep. Scott Perry, Robert Spencer and Michael Pack

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

• The Chinese Communist Party’s doctrine of unrestricted warfare: In the minds of the CCP, nothing is off the table in their quest for world domination
• Rep. Scott Perry: China has the largest gene repository in the world - Why?
• Rep. Perry: China is building the largest navy in the world to seek out a forced annexation of Taiwan

MICHAEL PACK, President, Manifold Productions, Inc., Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, Former CEO, US Agency for Global Media, @MichaelPack_

• Michael Pack: The U.S. Agency for Global Media was just another government-funded CNN, at best
• How and why the mainstream media is now beyond biased?
• Pack delves into the individuals behind the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s demise and the steps he took to get the agency back on track
• Pack: The ability for Big Tech and other media giants to act like irresponsible publishers is amazing

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

• How and why the German government doesn’t want to recognize Jihad, or the “victory of Islam”?
• Muslim Brotherhood operations within the U.S.
• Robert Spencer: There seems to be a concerted effort on the part of the people in power to criminalize and silence political opposition

With Rep. Mo Brooks, Rabbi Yehuda Glick and Sec. Robert Charles

REP. MO BROOKS, Representative for Alabama's 5th Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives, Former Alabama State Legislature, Former Commission, Madison County Alabama, Former Prosecutor, @RepMoBrooks

• Rep. Mo Brooks talks about his recent interview with Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese defector and coronavirus expert
• Rep. Brooks: It’s very disappointing to hear that the federal government actually put in money that eventually was used at the Wuhan Bio-Weapons lab
• Rep. Brooks: The Chinese Communist Party knows how to move its pawns across the chess board
• Rep. Brooks: The nations of the world should be demanding reparations from Communist China

RABBI YEHUDA GLICK, President, Shalom Jerusalem Foundation, Former Likud Member, The Israeli Knesset

• Rabbi Yehuda Glick: When Biden came into power, his administration sought to tolerate terrorists, such as the Palestinian Liberation Organization
• Biden is not promoting peace in the Middle East
• Rabbi Glick: Dividing Jerusalem will not lead to peace

ROBERT CHARLES, 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: Critical race theory is a direct attack on Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln
• There was a time when no one thought Venezuela could be anything but a developed country - What changed?
• Robert Charles: Marxism is about justice coming through the barrel of a gun

With James Carafano, Joseph Humire and Todd Bensman

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

• Civil-Military affairs within the U.S. Armed Services have taken a turn for the worst
• Under the Biden administration, the Military’s budget does not account for inflation
• James Carafano: China still wants to win without fighting
• Marxism: This is a power ideology that was not put in place to improve people’s lives

JOSEPH HUMIRE, Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society, former Director of Institute Relations, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, US Marine Corps (retired), @jmhumire

• Joseph Humire: Cuba is a lynchpin for all of the bad actors throughout Latin America
• The middle to upper class will most likely leave Peru in short order following the election of Marxist Pedro Castillo
• Humire: Peru might be the fourth largest mass migration in the region
• Who is prokoving violence in the Columbia protests? 

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

• The June 2021 U.S. Customs and Border Patrol numbers are out: 190,000 reported encounters at the U.S. border last month
• Todd Bensman: The Biden Administration is contemplating lifting Title 42 - What are it’s implications
• Bensman: Very high potential for an emigration out of Peru

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

• Sam Faddis: Black Lives Matter, Inc. is working to dismantle nearly every founding principle of the United State of America, i.e. the nuclear family
• The new Black Panther Party vs. Black Lives Matter, Inc: Comparing and contrasting their ideologies
• Faddis: The decision to declare white supremacist groups the number one domestic threat facing the U.S. is purely political - You take that brush and you paint very broadly
• Faddis: In an administration that is filled with some pretty terrifying people, Josh Geltzer is the scariest of them all
• Even before entering the White House, Geltzer branded the entire MAGA movement as a movement dedicated to overthrowing the Republic
• Faddis argues that should Beijing cut off Taiwan from the rest of the world, the ball will be in the Biden administration’s court to respond militarily - But will they?