Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Amb. Pete Hoekstra, Gordon Chang and Sam Faddis

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

• Amb. Pete Hoekstra: Congress, in a bipartisan way, is recognizing the threat posed by Communist China
• Hoekstra: The bad news is that we are using their tactics to counter their rise - We will never be able to out cheat China
• Hoekstra talks about Fox News host Tucker Carlson's claim that the NSA is illegally spying on him

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 former Chinese ambassador to the U.S. should have been returned long ago
• Chang: The U.S. government should not be picking winners and looser, but we do need to fund technology
• Chang: You are not going to get the dialogue you want with China if you are seen as being the needy party

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 talks about "Bomb Trains" and how the Biden administration has greatly endangered the U.S. fuel industry, as well as, the safety of many Americans
• Faddis: The FBI is more concerned with charging the January 6th Rioters than finding those anarchists responsible for train derailments throughout the Pacific northwest

With Robert Spencer

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Medical Help for Rich Higgins

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, "Isamophobia and the Threat to Free Speech," @jihadwatchRS

• Islamophobia: Conflating criticism of Jihad terrorism with attacks against innocent Muslims
• In what ways is the Southern Poverty Law Center working with the Biden administration to target its critics?
• Pelosi: ‘Root Causes’ of Capitol ‘Insurrection’ Were ‘White Supremacy, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia’
• Robert Spencer on the recent elections in Iran: Extremely ominous but completely expected - The regime believes that they will receive little to no push back from the Biden administration
• Spencer: The United States' continued alliance with Erdoğan's Turkey is a mistake

With Dr. Mark Scheider

DR. MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst, National Institute for Public Policy, Former Director, Office of the Secretary of Defense, former Senior Foreign Service Officer, US Department of State

• Today, Russia can only rely on its nuclear capabilities to dominate its opponents
• Russian President Vladimir Putin employs a Soviet-style nuclear doctrine: First Use
• Mark Schneider: China seeks to develop a 1,000-warhead nuclear force - The Global Times reports that the U.S. is seriously underestimating China's nuclear capabilities
• Schneider talks about the Cox Report  and how the Chinese Communist Party, "Got the family jewels"
• What is the future of the U.S. nuclear triad?
• Should the U.S. resume underground nuclear testing?

With Michael Yon and Sam Faddis

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

• Michael Yon: If Columbia should collapse, the Darien Gap is a highway that leads north, straight to the U.S.
• Migrants from 80 plus countries are traveling though Latin America to cross the U.S. southern border
• What is the extent of China’s influence around the world?

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

• Is white supremacy the number one threat facing the U.S. today?
• Biden Declares War on America
• Are anarchist attacks throughout the U.S. on the rise?

With Victoria Coates, Frances Martel and Dr. Peter Pry

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: The media is pushing a narrative that the Iranian people were apathetic during their recent elections, which couldn’t be further from the truth
• Why did the Biden administration remove defensive Patriot missile batteries from Saudi Arabia?
• What is the future of the U.S. embassy in Israel?

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

• China argues that the U.S. cannot condemn China’s forced labor camps because of America’s historic wrongdoings
• Frances Martel talks about Peru’s Presidential election turmoil and Fujimori’s claims about fraud
• Martel: Marxist theory dictates that people cannot be trusted to rule themselves

PETER PRY, Executive Director, Task Force on National and Homeland Security, Director, U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, previous Member, Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA

• Open Letter to Anti-Nuclear Activists: Russia and China are using lessons from the Cold War to inform their nuclear strategy today
• Peter Pry: Like Europe’s reaction to Hitler’s Blitzkrieg, we don’t know what kind of warfare we are dealing with today
• Pry talks about Russia’s cyber capabilities

With David Wurmser

Medical Help for Rich Higgins

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 what attributes the Islamic Republic of Iran looks for when selecting a new president: Are you willing to kill to keep the regime on top?
• Are there some within the Iranian regime who believe in an incoming apocalypse?
• Why did the CIA originally filter out Iran’s theological agenda?
• Wurmser talks about recent revelations in the Khashoggi Affair
• Are the Iranians and the Turks working together to attack Israel?
• Wurmser talks about Israel’s political makeup in a post-Netanyahu world

With Bill Walton, Dr. David Clements, Joseph Humire and Prof. Brahma Chellaney

Medical Help for Rich Higgins

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

• Biden’s Treasury: Help unwind the destructive forces of inequality and climate change
• Bill Walton: The Federal government’s economic policies are, “killing the golden goose”

DAVID CLEMENTS, Law Professor, New Mexico State University, former Deputy District Attorney, 12th Judicial District Attorney's Office, former Senior Trial Attorney, 3rd and 6th Judicial District Attorney's Office, The Professor's Record

• Dr. David Clements: Critical Race Theory (CRT) is Marxism reloaded - Race has replaced class
• CRT creates divisions between people of different races to “overthrow “ the racial hierarchy

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

• Peru has had four presidents in the past 4 years
• Are Cuban trained Communists within the upper esculents of Peru’s left-leaning political parties?

PROF. BRAHMA CHELLANEY, Professor of Strategic Studies, Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, Affiliate, International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King’s College London, Former Policy Advisor,  Foreign Minister of India, @Chellaney and www.challeny.net

• Dr. Brahma Chellaney: No country has changed Asia’s water map in one stroke the way China has
• Since the Communist seized power in China, the People’s Republic of China has completed around 1 dam per day

With Gordon Chang and Jessica Anderson

JESSICA ANDERSON, Executive Director, Heritage Action for America, former Associate Director, Intergovernmental Affairs and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Management and Budget, @JessAnderson2

• Why did the 2020 election go the way it did?
• What was the bipartisan Baker-Carter commission?
• Overwhelming support for voter ID throughout the U.S.?
• What is the play in the U.S. Senate for the For the People Act and the future of the filibuster?
• Saveourelections.com

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: If Dong Jingwei didn’t defect, why isn’t Beijing, “trotting” him out in public for the whole world to see?
• Chang: If you had any principles, you wouldn’t have a relationship with a regime (China) like this
• Chang argues that China today is “semi totalitarian” and Xi is moving the country in a more totalitarian direction ahead of the Chinese Communist Party's centenary

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