Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Grant Newsham, Gordon Chang and Bill Walton

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

• China: If Japan sends but one solider to defend Taiwan, they will be met with nuclear weapons
• Grant Newsham: You cannot rule out any kind of attack from China
• Newsham argues that in order to prevent a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, the U.S. needs convey to the Chinese Communist Party that they will lose everything in the process (their U.S. bank accounts and investments, soldiers, etc.)

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 number one goal of Chinese foreign policy is not to take over Taiwan, but to keep the Communist Party in power - Xi will never relinquish his hold over the military
• Recent revelations surrounding the March 2021 Microsoft Exchange hack confirms the close cooperation between the Chinese central government and criminal entities
• Gordon talks about China’s links to the Taliban in Afghanistan

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

• Bill Walton: For the first time, the Chinese Communist Party’s five-year plan stated that the party needed to strengthen the government’s control over private data

With James Fanell, John Rossomando, Trevor Loudon and Rep. Chris Stewart

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

• Reports are emerging showing the full extent of the Peoples' Liberation Army Navy's and Air Force's repeated incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone - China can attack Taiwan from all sectors
• Capt. James Fanell: Using the USS Reagan to cover our withdrawal from Afghanistan is militarily laughable
• Fanell talks about the “fundamental transformation” of the U.S. armed services

JOHN ROSSOMANDO, Senior Analyst, Defense Policy at the 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 how the Biden administration is "countering extremism" within the U.S. military
• DoD ‘extremism’ contractor tied to initiative backed by pro-Antifa German Communists

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

• What are the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Institute?
• Trevor Loudon talks about Chinese influence operations within the U.S.

REP. CHRIS STEWART, UT-02, U.S. House of Representatives, Air Force Veteran, Author, Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, @RepChrisStewart

• Rep. Chris Stewart talks about Chinese penetration of U.S. capital markets
• Why is Eric Swalwell still on the House Intelligence Committee?

With Kevin Freeman, Victoria Coates and John Suarez

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 talks about a recent Economic War Room episode featuring former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson
• US Capitalists Must Stop Their Risky Business with the CCP

VICTORIA COATES, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, 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

• Making history: The life and times of Donald Henry Rumsfeld - From the Moon landing to the Marine Corp's barracks bombing in Lebanon
• What does the future of Cuba have in-store for the rest of the region?

JOHN SUAREZ, Executive Director, Center for a Free Cuba, Former Program Officer, Freedom House, @johnjsuarez

• John Suarez: The liberal media would have you believe that the protests in Cuba are something new
• The US government needs to fully fund radio Martí, put Magnitsky sanctions on the oppressors and advise Russia, China and Iran to get out of Cuba
• Suarez: The Communist regime in Cuba has always had ambitions to overthrow the various governments in Latin America
• The Castro family is still running the country - Trying to eliminate the black market
• The Communist government is buying 1 kilo of Chicken at $1 and selling it for $7

With Roger Robinson, Susan Katz Keating and Lance Crayon

ROBER ROBINSON, President and CEO, RWR Advisory Group, former Senior Director of International Economic Affairs, White House (1982-1985), former Chairman, US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Co-Founder, Prague Security Studies Institute

• Roger Robinson talks about Chinese involvement in U.S. capital markets - Many Americans’ financial portfolios include companies tied to the Chinese Communist Party and their lackeys
• Asymmetric material risk: Things don’t go kind of wrong, they go very wrong

SUSAN KATZ KEATING, Chief National Security Correspondent, JustTheNews.com, Security and Terrorism Correspondent, American Media Institute, Military Correspondent, People Magazine, @SKatzKeating

• ‘Down with the dictatorship:’ Cuba erupts with mass protests seeking freedom from communism
• Susan Katz Keating: U.S. service members are absolutely rolling their eyes at cultural sensitivity training

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

• Under Julie Su’s watch, $30 billion was syphoned off from California’s unemployment benefits from hackers around the world
• Lance Crayon: For 15 years, Julie Su avoided employee abuse cases involving Chinese companies and Chinese workers - Why?
• Crayon: How does China entice countries in the Caribbean to ally with them - First they kick out Taiwanese influence and then the Communists give them money
• Crayon delves into Chinese influence in Haiti and the recent assassination of President Jovenel Moïse

With Peter Huessy, Todd Bensman and Robert Charles

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

• Admiral Charles Richard: The Chinese are going to at least double their nuclear weapons in the next decade
• Huessy: The Chinese could have twice as many warheads on alert than the U.S. has in its arsenal
• Huessy: The arms control push for Global Zero misses the idea of strategic stability

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

• U.S. Customs and Border Patrol apprehensions in May 2021 were the highest in 20 years
• Todd Bensman: The U.S. is one of the most accommodating countries for illegal immigration - “Catch and Bus”
• What is the future of Peru?

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: Should news of the Cuban protests make it to China’s more isolated provinces, the Chinese Communist Party could have an uprising on their hands
• Charles talks about his time working in Latin America and why the region's future matters more today than ever before
• Charles: For the first time since 2003, the Western Pacific is naked
• Charles: There is not a single city that shrunk its police budget last year that hasn’t witnessed a spike in crime

With Reggie Littlejohn, Gordon Chang, Bill Walton and Sam Faddis

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

• Why should the U.S. boycott the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, otherwise referred to as the “Genocide Games”?
• Reggie Littlejohn: When did “never again” become never again unless it’s China?
• Genocidegames.org

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 economy is stalling and heading towards the middle-income trap
• Xi Jinping Is Mobilizing China for War, Possibly With Nukes

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

• American Depository Recipes and Chinese involvement in U.S. capital markets
• Larry Fink's BlackRock became the first global manager to run a mutual fund in China
• Bill Walton talks about Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's upcoming testimony before Congress

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: Tracey Stone Manning, Biden's nominee for Director of the Bureau of Land Management, was once the target of a federal investigation - Unimaginable that someone like this could manage 20% of the U.S. land mass
• RSC Backgrounder: Biden on China—Bad Policies, Bad Personnel

With Robert Spencer, Robert Destro, Natalie Winters and Robert Cahaly

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: A Texas judge ordered a Muslim American woman to go through Sharia divorce proceedings - Where a wife is worth half of her husband
• Spencer: Everything the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) does is to foster division throughout American society
• Culture of misogyny within CAIR

ROBERT DESTRO, former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. State Department, and Professor of Law, Catholic University of America

• Nigeria, geographically, is the largest country in Africa and has one of the most ethnically diverse populations
• Why does the U.S. State Department continue to peddle the narrative that the conflict in Nigeria is only a “farmer vs. herder” one?

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

• Natalie Winters talks about how the Biden administration is deeply compromised by the Chinese Communist Party
• Thomas Zimmerman is just one example of a running list of people who have links to CCP-front groups
• Stunning Daszak/Fauci Emails Reveal Non-Zoonotic Coronavirus And Attempts To Infect Human Cells.

ROBERT CAHALY, Senior Strategist and Pollster, the Trafalgar Group, @trafalgar_group & @RobertCahaly

• In polls, there is a disconnect between the federal government’s mass appeal and President Biden’s approval rating - Why do American’s disapprove of the government but like Biden?
• Robert Cahaly: People voted for a center-of-the-road Democrat, but that’s not what they think they got

With Kevin Freeman, Michael Yon and David Wurmser

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 delves into Microsoft’s terms of service and how the tech giant reserves the right to monitor user content
• What is programable currency and should you be worried?
• Is China’s social credit system being exported to the U.S. and what are the implications?
• Freeman: Before a war, ambassadors are usually called home and embassy shuttered. What does it mean when China prevents its companies from being listed on the U.S. stock exchange?

MICHAEL YON, Former Green Beret, Independent Combat Journalist, MichaelYon-online.com, @Michael_Yon

• Michael Yon discusses how different countries, most namely Turkey, Belarus and Morocco, are weaponizing migrants throughout Europe
• Yon talks about his recent trip to a Lithuanian refugee camp
• Countries like Afghanistan will need more time than the U.S. is willing to give to turn into a developed nation
• Yon: Afghanistan was never going to have a “Happy Ending”

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 explains why the U.S. first went into Afghanistan and when things went, “off the rails”
• Will Afghanistan revert to a staging ground to attack the West?
• Wurmser: Iran and its proxies are raising the costs for us to remain in the region, with the expectation that we will run away

With Col. John Mills, Dan Gallington and Rosemary Gibson

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

• Col. John Mills: Prior to the Biden Presidency, it was retired military officials, not those currently serving in the U.S. armed forces, who openly expressed political views
• Peacetime Vs. Wartime generals: Today, it’s not about performance, it’s about conformance
• National Election Integrity Association: File, Sue, and Settle
• Col. Mills: Why do ransomware attacks keep happening? People keep paying the ransoms

DAN GALLINGTON, Former Senior Policy and Program Advisor, George C. Marshall Institute, Former Senior Staffer, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of Justice, and Bipartisan General Counsel, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

• Dan Gallington: In America, the vast majority of our critical infrastructure are in the private sector
• Gallington: China already has the personal data of almost all Federal employees in the U.S.

ROSEMARY GIBSON, Senior Advisor, The Hastings Center, former Health Care architect, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Editor, JAMA Internal Medicine, Author, “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine,” @Rosemary100

• Rosemary Gibson talks about how and why China subverted America’s generic drugs industry
• Why is the Biden administration not building upon the previous administration’s efforts to fortify the U.S. supply chain?

With Bill Walton, Gordon Chang and Sam Faddis

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

• Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger warns about the platform's deepening bias
• Will the U.S. government raise the debt ceiling - Again?
• Environmental, Social Governance portfolios: Paying more for the same outcomes?

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 Xi Jinping’s speech during the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party
• Chang responds to U.S. Commerce Secretary Raimondo’s recent comments: “The answer to, ‘I want to kill you,’ is not, ‘I want to strengthen your military’”
• What are China’s plans for Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal? 

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

• The rise of the Moors: Who are they and what do they want?
• Why is President Biden’s nominee for secretary of the Bureau of Land Management a former member of an eco-terrorism group
• Faddis talks about a recent ransomware attack