Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Mike Gonzalez

MICHAEL GONZALEZ, Senior Fellow, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation, former Speechwriter, Securities and Exchange Commission, former Foreign Correspondent, Wall Street Journal, Author, “The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free" and forthcoming "BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution," @Gundisalvus

• Mike Gonzalez talks about how the original theorists behind Critical Race Theory (CRT) believed that the more "just" a society is, i.e. the forced redistribution of wealth, the less freedoms its citizens possess - These theorists knew that CRT was a Marxist idea
• Frankfurt school thinkers came from Germany to "fundamentally transform" America
• Gonzalez: The founders of "Black Lives Matter, Inc." attribute many of their beliefs to the teachings of Angela Davis, who was educated by a former mentee of a Nazi party member
• Gonzalez: At the end of the day, there’s not a lot of differences between the far right and far left
• Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: Had Himmler not invaded Poland, Hitler and Stalin may have remained allies

With Steven Curtis and Todd Bensman

STEVEN CURTIS, Former Official and Consultant, U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, FEMA and U.S. Department of Homeland Security, retired, U.S. Army and Nevada National Guard, Consultant, Readiness Resource Group, Inc

• Pilot Nuclear Program: Converting spent nuclear fuel into energy - How it’s possible and why more people should know about it
• What barriers are preventing this alternative source of energy from taking off?
• Steven Curtis: No one in the U.S. has died from nuclear power, while around 40,000 people die per year from cars
• Wastetoenergynow.org

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

• Texas is using its own resources and personnel to secure the U.S.-Mexico border while many Department of Homeland Security officials are being put on "babysitting duty" by the Biden administration
• Todd Bensman delves into Operation Lone Star
• Bensman: We are witnessing a suspension of the predator vs. prey dynamic along the U.S. southern border

With Ismael Benavides

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

Part 1: 

• In Peru, around 180,000 people have died from COVID-19, while the rest of the population is marred by a 16% unemployment rate. Only 10% of the Peruvian population is vaccinated – Why?
• Was there evidence of fraud in the first round of elections in Peru in 2020?
• Ismael Benavides talks about Communist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo and his connections to Shining Path 
• Benavides: Castillo wants to change the constitution 
• Is Peru the next Venezuela?

Part 2: 

• China as Peru's number one trading partner
• Why should the U.S. be concerned about Peru's imminent future?
• Benavides: Peru is not like Cuba or Venezuela. The country and its citizens do not view the U.S. as the source of all evil

With Caroline Glick and Joe Weiss

CAROLINE GLICK, Senior Columnist, Breitbart News, Senior Contributor, Jerusalem Post and Maariv, Author, "The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East," Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Host, Caroline Glick's Mideast News Hour, @CarolineGlick

• Caroline Glick delves into Benjamin Netanyahu's recent departure from power: "This is not a 'Unity' coalition
• Those in power now are moving swiftly to bar Netanyahu from running for Israeli public office ever again
• Is there a new catalysis for conflict in Israel? 
• Glick: Nothing invites aggression better than weakness

JOSEPH WEISS, Managing Partner, Applied Control Solutions, LLC, former Executive Consultant, KEMA Consulting, former Technical Manager, Electric Power Research Institute, Member, Secure the Grid Coalition

• Is a French designed, third generation nuclear reactor leaking in China?
• Why is the Chinese government not trying to shut down the nuclear plant?
• Joseph Weiss: The Chinese plant is using digital, instead of analogue, controls
• Do insurances companies need to get involved to dissuade energy companies from cutting concerns when it comes to safeguarding infrastructure security?

With Bill Walton, Sam Faddis, Gordon Chang and Elaine Donnelly

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

• Is the G7 looking to find a way to tax Big Tech? 
• Bill Walton: We need a "forward looking" statement from our world leaders

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

• Rep. Eric Swalwell as a threat to U.S. national security
• Chinese influence growing in Texas, as well as the Bahamas
• Does a Chinese militia fishing fleet pose a threat to the U.S. Navy's "Area 51?"

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 NATO ministerial, not the G7 meeting, can talk about China in a more resolute manner
• The US can solve the border crisis by decoupling from China
• U.S. aid Vs. Trade in Latin America - Which is more effective?

ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President, Center for Military Readiness

• Elaine Donnelly: I've, "never seen the kind of intensity of controversy we are seeing now with critical race theory"
• Donnelly talks about Sen. Tom Cotton's recently introduced piece of legislation, the "Combating Racist Training in the Military Act"

With Chris Farrell, Robert Spencer and Todd Bensman

CHRIS FARRELL, Director, Investigations and Research, Judicial Watch, @JudicialWatch

• Judicial Watch Files Two New Federal FOIA Lawsuits for Information on COVID and Wuhan Institute of Virology
• How is Anthony Fauci connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
• Chris Farrell talks about critical race theory within the U.S. military

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

• Is Shariah compatible with the West?
• Brooklyn Film Festival premieres documentary about NJ mayor who ‘fights the forces of Islamophobia’

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

• Why did the Department of Homeland Security quickly withdraw a press release about two Yemeni nationals who were on the FBI's terrorism watchlist and apprehended at U.S. border?
• Is Texas resuming construction of the border wall?

With Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi

DR. SUCHARIT BHAKDI, former Chair, Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz, Recipient, Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate, Author, "Corona False Alarm? Facts and Figures"

• Are COVID-19 PCR tests being used correctly?
• Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi: The actual inflection to fatality ratio is close to that of the seasonal flu, around 0.15%
• Dr. Bhakdi: COVID-19 is one of the most treatable respiratory diseases
• Dr. Bhakdi: "This business about 'Emergency Use' is criminal”
• Who should get vaccinated and when?

 

With Grant Newsham and Dr. Richard Fleming

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

• Grant Newsham recaps President Moon Jae-in's recent trip to Washington D.C.
• While America Slept, China Stole the Farm
• Newsham: China has the largest fishing fleet in the world, which it uses to, "vacuum the ocean"
• In 1989, Motorola launched operations in Mainland China - Where does the company stand today?

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

• Gain of function research: Making something more harmful than it naturally is
• Did China develop COVID-19?
• Where did some of the funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology come from?
• Dr. Richard Fleming delves into the various COVID vaccines, their proteins and a phenomenon called, "shedding"
• What happened at Event 201 in October 2019?

With Victoria Coates and Sam Faddis

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

• Victoria Coates talks about Sen. Ted Cruz's recent trip to the Middle East
• Coates: The U.S. cannot afford to, "let the genie out of the bottle"
• The U.S. has, time and again, refused to replenish Israel's defensive arsenal, giving terror groups, like Hamas, time to regroup - Why?
• Coates discusses the key findings from a recent TIPP survey on U.S.-Israeli relations

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

• Exclusive: Iranian Missiles On Their Way To Venezuela
• Frank Gaffney: Are ransomware hackers the Barbary pirates of the 21st century?
• An American Che Guevara – Glorifying the Revolution - Inciting a race war?
• Sam Faddis talks about Anthony Fauci's supposed ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology 

With Christine Douglass-Williams, Gordon Chang, Lawrence Peck and Bill Walton

CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, Nine-time international award-winning journalist and television producer, former federally appointed Director, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, former Appointee, Office of Religious Freedom in Foreign Affairs, Author, "The Challenge of Modernizing Islam"

• Christine Douglass-Williams talks about a recent report released by the Alliance Canada Hong Kong - Chinese influence, "is going unnoticed by the general public"
• ADL’s ‘Brief History on Anti-Semitism’

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

• The medical community has not been given with any solid evidence asserting that COVID-19 was a natural mutation
• According to senior Chinese officials, World War III will be fought with biological weapons

LAWRENCE PECK, Advisor, North Korean Freedom Coalition

• Lawrence Peck: The problem is not the people of South Korea but the Democratic party in South Korea and its leader Moon Jae-in
• Members of Moon's party have urged him to explain to the Chinese leaders why he traveled to Washington to cement the U.S.-R.O.K. alliance

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 talks about Janet Yellen's proposed ambitions to institute a global minimum tax