Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Jeff Nyquist, Joseph Bosco and Mike Gonzalez

JEFF NYQUIST, Writer, Epoch Times, Author, “Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War” and "The Fool and His Enemy," JRNyquist.blog, @JRNyquist

• Unrestrictive Warfare: Do everything short of open war to weaken an enemy
• What is the future of the US dollar as the reserve currency of the world? 

JOSEPH BOSCO, former China Country Desk Officer, Office of the Secretary of Defense, former Director of Asia-Pacific Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Affairs, Fellow, Institute for Corea-American Studies (ICAS) and the Institute for Taiwan-American Studies: 

• Chinese military exercises in and around Taiwan are meant to instill a sense of normalcy 
• Moving forward, Joseph Bosco argues that the US and Taiwan should collaborate militarily 

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

Part 1: 

• Mike Gonzalez: Identity Politics is the reimagining of America as a "Confederacy of Categories"
• America has always been the leader of the global Anti-Communist movement
• The "Long March Through the Institutions" has finally reached Corporate America

Part 2: 

• Critical Race Theory and its Marxist origins – A product of the Critical Thought movement of the 1930s
• Gonzalez highlights how the forerunners to Critical Race Theory also supported planned economies
• Like Marx and Engles, BLM wants to abolish the concept of the nuclear family

With Todd Bensman, Dan Celia, Grant Newsham and David Wurmser

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 apprehension of two Yemenis nationals at the US southernborder
• Bensman expects apprehensions at the US border to swell to around 250,000 this month
• What should the Biden administration do about the large gaps along the US southern border wall?

DAN CELIA, President and CEO, Financial Issues Stewardship Ministries, @financialissues

• Dan Celia: Removing unionizing limits, increasing capital gains taxes and raising the corporate tax rate will push jobs out of the US
• The US Federal Reserve buys our debt in order to monetize it - Is this a sustainable practice?
• If interests rates rise, more of the US's budget will go towards paying off its national debt

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

• Is China willing and able to invade Taiwan? 
• Grant Newsham: China does have the military capabilities to invade Taiwan at a moment's notice
• Adequate training will make up for the People's Liberations Army's lack of recent conventional warfighting experience

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:

• Reflections on Israel's Recent Elections: Although Israel's recent round of elections did not yield a clear majority, the parliament itself has shifted more to the right 
• David Wurmser: We should expect a fifth round of elections in the near future
• The Iranian vessel attacked in the Red Sea was not a simple ship but instead a "floating military base"

With Kevin Freeman, John Rossomando, Gordon Chang and Victoria Coates

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: People don't want "Woke Coke"
• If President Biden's infrastructure plan becomes law, the US national debt could reach $30.5 trillion
• Will the Biden administration convince the world to enforce a global tax rate? 

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

• U.S. and Its Allies Must Focus on Access Denial Against China’s Military
• John Rossomando: Washington does not have the political stomach to put troops in Taiwan
• Does the US have a conventional weapons gap with the People's Republic of China?

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, "Losing South Korea," and "The Great US-China Tech War," @Gordongchang

• Will China annex Taiwan in the next five years?
• China Grabbing Whitsun Reef: 'Sudetenland' in Slow Motion - About 220 Chinese fishing trollers blockading the Whitsun Reef
• Gordon Chang: Our 'Front Line' With China is the Mexico Border 

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: Biden's State Department is detached from reality - They believe it's either war or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran
• Why rejoin the JCPOA if the Iranians want nuclear weapons?

With Bill Walton, Kyle Shideler, Trevor Loudon 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

• Bill Walton explains why large corporations, like Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola, are weighing in on the new voter ID laws in Georgia
• Walton argues that China may be, "cutting off its long-term nose to save face"
• If Chinese-based firms want to be listed on US shock exchanges, they have a responsibility to make their finances more transparent

KYLE SHIDELER, Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Center for Security Policy, Author, "Unmasking Antifa: Five Perspectives on a Growing Threat," @ShidelerK

• Situation Report: Suspect in Capitol Hill vehicle ramming attack kills one police officer, injures another before being shot and killed
• Kyle Shideler finds that in some cases, federal law enforcement is hesitant to close some investigations while tossing others aside if the issue is heavily politicized
• Shideler: Bureaucrats exist to put things into boxes and if the categories do not exist, government officials tend to toss them out

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

• Trevor Loudon's thoughts on new Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh
• As Loudon argues, both Walsh and Julie Su, have a long history of working closely with numerous pro-Chinese front groups, like the Chinese Progressive Association and Liberation Road
• Loudon: "A whole network of pro-China operatives serving in the Biden cabinet"

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

• Terms like "counter-intelligence" do not even begin to encapsulate the threats the US is faced with today
• Sam Faddis address the risks Hunter Biden poses to US national security 

With Susan Katz Keating, Justin Danhof, Jeff Nyquist and Robert Spencer

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

• SOCOM 'inclusion' chief reassigned to new duties pending investigation into anti-Trump memes
• The Pentagon's recent investigations into unspecified "war crimes" committed by members of the US Armed Forces takes away from the military's overarching warfighting mission

JUSTIN DANHOF, General Counsel, National Center for Public Policy Research, Director of the Center's Free Enterprise Project, former Research Associate, National Center for Public Policy Research, @DanhofJustin

• Justin Danhof argues that initiatives like Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance and "Woke Capital" are all smoke screens for advancing liberal policies throughout corporate America
• The "Equality Act" will effectively eradicate women's sports and various religious freedoms throughout the country if passed
• Danhof finds that boycotts, by-and-large, do not work. Instead, center-right groups need to engage with corporate America

JEFF NYQUIST, Writer, Epoch Times, Author, “Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War” and "The Fool and His Enemy," JRNyquist.blog, @JRNyquist

• A weakening US dollar is a national security risk
• Jeff Nyquist argues that Leftwing radicals consider their riots last summer to be a success
• Nyquist finds that in the coming months the country is bound to lose its patients over numerous socialist initiatives

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

• Border Patrol Agents created a whole other category for individuals from countries outside of Latin America trying to enter the US illegally
• Robert Spencer finds that people dissenting from the party line are being labeled extremists
• Is the Biden administration pursing policies meant to strengthen the "Red-Green Axis?" 

With Elaine Donnelly, Sen. Ted Cruz, Stephen Soukup and David Wurmser

ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President, Center for Military Readiness: 

• Elaine Donnelly: What message is the Pentagon sending to our adversaries, like China and Russia, who do not care the slightest about "woke ideology?" 
• Medical costs surged by 300% for members of the US Armed Forces experiencing gender dysphoria
• The Biden Administration asserts that diversity is an "operational imperative" for the US military

SEN. TED CRUZ, US Senator, Texas (R), former Solicitor General, Texas, Author, "One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History," @SenTedCruz

• Sen. Ted Cruz talks about his recent trip to the US southern border
• Sen. Cruz delves into the Biden administration's top three border policy blunders 
• Sen Cruz: There is nothing compassionate about setting up a system where hundreds of children are abused
• The number one priority for Sen. Schumer and Rep. Pelosi was not COVID relief or tackling unemployment, but passing the For the People Act

STEPHEN SOUKUP, Author, "The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business," Vice President and Publisher, The Political Forum, Fellow, Culture of Life Foundation, @ThePolForum

• "Woke Capital" seeks to change the way business is done in the US and the overall relationship between citizens and the state
• Stephen Soukup argues that throughout the post-World War I period, Marxists subdued many mainstream institutions within the US and abroad
• Stakeholder Capitalism was introduced in the 1960s as a practical way for businesses to be successful - What changed? 

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 the numerous national security risks posed by putting the US at odds with its most strategic ally in the Middle East
• Is there any difference between the various political factions in Iran today? 

With Todd Bensman, Dan Celia, Victoria Coates and Grant Newsham

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 estimates that around 30,000 migrants are beneficiaries of the Biden administration's "Catch-and-Bus" policy, in which immigrants at the southern border are put on buses bound for the US interior 
• Why is the Biden administration pursuing their apparently flawed policies at the border? 
• Illegal Immigrants Shopping Border Sectors Amid Unpredictable American Border Policy

DAN CELIA, President and CEO, Financial Issues Stewardship Ministries, @financialissues 

• Dan Celia: Tell corporate America to stay neutral and do what they are paid to do – Making the most cost-efficient product on the market
• Celia finds that many of the same people calling for "unity" in academia are themselves advocating for separate graduation ceremonies

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: It's clear that China doesn't seem to care about our sanctions anymore
• The State Department recently updated its estimates for the amount of people killed during the 2019 protests in Iran from around 1,000 to 300
• Coates argues that the Iranian regime was watching the recent Suez incidentclosely 

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

• Grant Newsham: Chinese officials utterly berated the US-side in Alaska
• Newsham asserts that China is no longer afraid of the US
• Impending attack against Taiwan in the offing?

With John Rossomando, Kevin Freeman, Sam Faddis and Jay Valentine

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: The Biden Administration is more interested in settling political scores than improving our armed forces warfighting capabilities
• How is kicking Conservatives out of the military not going to undermine readiness? 
• Rossomando argues that the US needs to acquire the tools necessary to procure its own rare earth metals

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 argues that the Chinese recognize America's dependence on rare earth metals and have been engaged in "resource wars" against the US for decades
• Freeman on the "For the People Act:" Democrats are having their political agenda get crammed through legislature without the will of the People
• Why are some corporations trying to guide legislation in Georgia? 

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's thoughts on the World Health Organization's findings about the origins of the Coronavirus: No motivation to get to the bottom of anything
• Ways in which the Biden administration is allegedly compromised by the Chinese Communist Party
• Faddis argues that the mainstream media has been ignoring the front groups responsible for large-scale violence last summer and fall

JAY VALENTINE, CEO, ContingencySales.com

• Constructing a "No Fly List" for election fraudsters - What would that entail? 
• Jay Valentine: Democrats have spent decades importing the infrastructure necessary to allow for election fraud to take place, i.e., voter rolls with fake addresses
• Valentine explains how cross-reference database searches should be used to remove inaccurate data from state voter rolls

With Rick Green, Rick Fisher, Bill Walton and Kyle Shideler

RICK GREEN, Constitution Coach, Patriot Academy, former Texas State Representative, President, Authentic American History Productions, LLC, @RickGreenTX

• Rick Green delves into numerous recounting efforts in states like Georgia and Arizona
• Green argues that mention of the Congress in Article 1, Section 4 of the US Constitution should be stricken 
• Green: We may not be able to catch the burglar, but we will tighten up our electoral security

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow of Asian Military Affairs, International Assessment and Strategy Center, Author, "China's Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach," former Asian Studies Director, The Heritage Foundation, former China Brief Editor, The Jamestown Foundation

• Why has China not struck Taiwan yet? - The regime needs to obtain some “certainty of success”
• Rick Fisher argues that after the Chinese Communist Party squashed its only existential threat following the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, the Party began focusing on terrestrial domination
• Fisher: Survival did not rest exclusively on internal reforms but changing the entire world

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 expands on the H&M controversy in China, the largest luxury consumer goods market
• Chinese platform companies are being propped up to surpass foreign firms
• Why is China's Central Bank hoovering up everyone's data?

KYLE SHIDELER, Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Center for Security Policy, Author, "Unmasking Antifa: Five Perspectives on a Growing Threat," @ShidelerK

• Kyle Shideler gives an update on the recent mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado
• A recently released ODNI assessment asserts that racial motivated violent extremists are motivated by bias against minority communities and grievances towards globalization
• Shideler explains President Biden's pick for Associate Attorney General, Vanita Gupta's, views on racism

With Robert Charles, Ed Timperlake, Dan Celia and Jeff Nyquist

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," Twitter: @RCharles4USA

• Robert Charles: When you have an absent President, his administration begins to freelance itself
• Judge Laurence Silberman argues that the Supreme Court ruling on libel needs to be overturned and readdressed

EDWARD TIMPERLAKE, former Director of Technology Assessment, International Technology Security, former Representative, National Counterintelligence Executive Committee, US Department of Defense, Captain (ret.), US Marine Corps (1969-1975), Author, Year of the Rat

• Ed Timperlake: We are in a period of “maximum danger” – President Joe Biden did not instill the confidence of a unified approach to deterrence at yesterday’s press conference
• For decades, China has been waging an “Information War” across the straits on Taiwan
• Timperlake argues that the US needs to help the Taiwanese dig-in

DAN CELIA, President and CEO, Financial Issues Stewardship Ministries, @financialissues 

• Recap on President Biden’s comments about China during his first White House press conference yesterday

• Dan Celia: It wasn’t just a softball game, it was a tee ball game

• Celia argues that foreign firms conducting business in China are doing so at their own risk

JEFF NYQUIST, Writer, Newsmax, WorldNetDaily, SierraTimes, Financial Sense and Epoch Times, Author, “Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War” and "The Fool and His Enemy," JRNyquist.blog, @JRNyquist

• Jeff Nyquist: The United States has a long history of "cheap moralizing", as seen during the First and Second World War - which is not a strategy
• China's strategy: "hyper-instrumentalist" - Will do anything to become a global hegemon
• What the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact can tell us about US-China relations today