Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With David Wurmser, Sam Faddis and Lance Crayon

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:

Part 1: 

• Recap on Israel's recent elections
• Benjamin Netanyahu does not have the required 61 seats in parliment to form a govenrment of his own
• David Wurmser: Starting with the Clinton administration, the US has been meddling in Israel's elections using taxpayer money for years

Part 2: 

• The peace treaty between the UAE and Israel allows for greater economic development within Israel's arab community
• Wurmser argues that Joe Biden's State Department is trying to rebrand goods coming out of the "West Bank" 
• Wurmser on the Suez Canal incident: "An accident that gives ideas to people who shouldn't be given ideas"

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 unearths a relatively underreported fact about King's grocery store in Boulder, Colorado
• Faddis argues that Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, has no practical intelliegence experience and is someone who politically attached herself to Joe Biden

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:

• Lance Crayon delves into the role both money and propagansa play in transforming China's image abroad, ecpecially in regards to Confucius Institututes - rebranded as "Centers for Language Educaiton and Cooperation"
• There are currently over 100 Confucius Institututes operating within US universitites - Chinese nationals pay upwards of three times more than their American peers to study in the US at these select universities
• H&M's fallout in China - "Kill the chicken to scare the monkey"

With Michele Bachmann, Kevin Freeman and Col. John Mills

MICHELE BACHMANN, Dean, Robertson School of Government at Regent University, former US Representative, Minnesota's 6th Congressional District, former State Senator, Minnesota, Author, "Care of Conviction: My Story," @MicheleBachman 

Part 1:

• Recap on Regent University's recent electoral integrity webinar
• Michele Bachmann: The story about what really happened in the 2020 election has not been told until now

Part 2: 

• During the webinar, Peter Navarro went through the events that transpired in the six swing states and the different kinds of voter fraud found in each
• Dr. David Clements, a law professor at New Mexico State University, analyzed many of the election fraud lawsuits filed in said states

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

• The Biden administration's infrastructure plan would allegedly add another $3 trillion to the US's amounting national debt
• Is inflation really only below 2%? - Kevin Freeman is not convinced
• Freeman: Countries that go down this path usually never return

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

• Col. John Mills’s fight for electoral integrity in Virginia - Need to hold county leaders responsible
• The Obama administration's "pivot" to Asia in 2014 was "strategically distracted" by the midterm elections and the Office of Management and Budget breach 
• Col. Mills: We need to have "precise redlines" in the South China Sea

With Jay Valentine, Caroline Glick, Victoria Coates and Susan Katz Keating

JAY VALENTINE, CEO, ContingencySales.com: 

• "Industrial Scale Fraud" includes thousands of participants, held together by a loose structure
• Sovereign Crimes are crimes committed by government officials
• Michele Bachmann leads one of the first serious academic discussion about fraud in the 2020 election at Regent University 

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, @CarolineGlick

• Recap on Israel's election day
• Caroline Glick argues that Israel needs a government that will not immediately be disbanded after being formed
• Glick finds that Israel changed the definition of bribery to oust Benjamin Netanyahu from power 

VICTORIA COATES, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, President, USAGM's Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc., former Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy, 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 highlights Washington's proclivities towards appeasement with Iran and anti-Israeli sentiments. 
• Coates argues that the Biden administration's decision to remove the Houthis from the State Department’s foreign terror group list was an ill-conceived plan
• A Saudi Arabian ceasefire proposal in Yemen was recently rejected by the Iranians and Houthis

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

• Susan Katz Keating reports on how and why the military slammed Tucker Carlson for expressing his opinion about the role women play in the US armed forces 
• Keating: The military is becoming a politicized beast
• President Joe Biden's recent remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin being a "killer"

With Lee Smith, Bill Walton and Trevor Loudon

LEE SMITH, Media Columnist, Tablet Magazine, Contributor, New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Real Clear Investigations and the Federalist, Author, "The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted The American President," @LeeSmithDC

Part 1: 

• The Plot Against the President: Some government agencies, whose main mission is to monitor foreign threats to the US, are now being tasked with targeting US citizens
• Lee Smith argues that the Washington foreign policy establishment, composed of key figures within the mainstream media and notable think tanks, is urging the Biden administration to go down a dangerous path

Part 2: 

• The War Like No Other: Following the Peloponnesian War, Sparta established a hostile, pro-Spartan government in Athens - how does this connect to our current political situation?
• Lee finds that the American Left is not applying the logic of a constitutional republic but instead the "logic of conflict" 

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: Chinese officials turned the tables on Secretary Blinken and National Security Advisor Sullivan in Alaska last week
• The Biden administration’s allies on Capitol Hill are working to reform the Senate filibuster

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

• The Chinese Communist narrative has consistently worked to promote a racist vision of America
• Trevor Loudon remarks how Stalin accused his enemies of the same crimes he was doing himself
• President Joe Biden's pick for Labor Secretary may be sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party

With Gordon Chang, Fred Fleitz and Jenny Beth Martin

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

Part 1: 

• From the start, Beijing's arrogance was on full display during the first day of talks between Secretary Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and their Chinese counterparts in Alaska
• Why was the Chinese side so arrogant?
• Gordon Chang argues that Secretary Blinken performed admirably when rebutting Chinese retorts
• Chang: The policies of the Biden administration will not be those of Sec. Blinken

Part 2: 

• Chang finds that the US needs to adopt a more Reagan-era mentality when confronting China - "we win, they lose"
• For the leadership in Beijing, the window of opportunity in China is closing fast
• Psychological trauma from dark episodes in the nation's modern history, such as Mao's Great Leap Forward, is still prevalent in China

FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO, Center for Security Policy, former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency, former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton, State Department, Author, "The Coming North Korean Nuclear Nightmare," @FredFleitz

• The US government’s 2017 assessment on electoral interference in the 2016 election flaunted numerous intelligence standards and procedures
• The 2020 report puts an undue heavy emphasis on Russian interference while glossing over Chinese-led influence operations
• Fred Fleitz: The House Intelligence Committee is a lost cause

JENNY BETH MARTIN, Co-Founder, Tea Party Patriots, Author, “Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution,” @jennybethm 

• The For the People Act would eliminate voter ID requirements country-wide and allow states to automatically register voters using federal databases
• Jenny Beth Martin: Voting is a sacred civil liberty
• Martin talks about the horrific shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, and why this crime should not be made a political issue

With Karen England, Todd Bensman, Robert Spencer and Jeff Nyquist

KAREN ENGLAND, Executive Director, Capitol Resource Institute, Founder and Director, Nevada Family Alliance: 

• Karen England argues that California's renamed "Sex Ed for Social Change" initiative may be stretching the bounds of K-12 of sexual education
• England: There is a massive attempt underway to undermine parental authority - we need to take our schools back

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 gives an update on the unfolding crisis at the US Southern Border and Department of Homeland Security officials' recent comments about FBI watchlist suspects entering the US
• The Afrasiabi Affair: An alleged unregistered foreign agent was recently accused of acting on behalf of the Iranian government for the past decade while subverting the US mainstream media

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

• Eleven Iranian nationals were arrested trying to enter the US illegally at the Southern Border in February 2021
• Robert Spencer: The Council on Islamic American Relations has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood

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 argues that the For the People Act will turn the US into a one party state
• Who wants to destroy electoral integrity? 
• Nyquist talks about the "East and West Convergence" theory 

With Dr. David Wurmser, Joseph Bosco, Grant Newsham and Suzanne Scholte

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:

• Multi-billions of dollars have been released to Iran as the Biden administration tries to "entice" the Mullahs to come back to the negotiating table
• David Wurmser: "Why would you be our friend if it comes at the cost of being overthrown?" 
• Dr. Wurmser reasons that should the US abandon an ally, like Saudi Arabia, with a questionable human rights record, who’s to say that a revolution would not take hold, turning said state into a fundamentally destabilized enemy 

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: 

• Joseph Bosco: We are at a "pivotal inflection point" in US-China relations
• China's 2015 Anti-Secession law provides the legal framework for China to invade Taiwan

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

• Grant Newham: We don't want to go to war with a nuclear armed China - But will there be war at all?
• The US and Japan need to officially establish an office to coordinate the joint defense of Japan's disputed island chains
• Newsham: Moon Jae In's government sees America as the problem and is sympathetic towards the North Korean and Chinese governments

SUZANNE SCHOLTE, President, Defense Forum Foundation, Chairwoman, North Korea Freedom Coalition: 

• An End of War Declaration between North and South Korea would give rise to anti-American sentiments in South Korea
• Suzanne Scholte: The Moon government is more interested in appeasing the North Korean regime than standing up for the human rights of all Korean people

With Victoria Coates, Dr. Michael Rectenwald, Sam Faddis and Reggie Littlejohn

VICTORIA COATES, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, President, USAGM's Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc., former Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy, 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 supports any outreach to our Japanese allies but feels that the Biden administration may be trading words for action to counter China's rise
• China's illicit sale of Iranian oil is up to one million barrels a day - a blind-eye is clearly being turned
• Coates talks about the future of the filibuster and the unintended consequences that may arise should Democrats eliminate it

1. MICHAEL RECTENWALD, Author, “Thought Criminal,” “Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom” and “Beyond Woke,” former New York University Professor, Liberal Studies, @TheAntiPCProf

• Dr. Michael Rectenwald delves into President Joe Biden's war on middle America
• Dr. Rectenwald argues that regardless of the verdict, violence will emerge following Derek Chauvin's trial
• "Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom" predicted today's "corporate state-run socialism" 

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: Social justice protests are, "not about people who want reforms around a marginal system – it’s a mass revolutionary uprising"
• Deb Haaland was selected by the Communist Party USA and is now in charge of the largest reserve of federal land

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

• 8 million "extra births" are forcibly terminated in Xinjiang each year
• The Chinese Communist Party's move from the One Child Policy to the Two Child Policy has done little to reserve China's declining growth rate
• If the Biden administration admits that genocide is currently ongoing in Xinjiang, the US government will be forced to following international treaties and use countermeasure against China

With Bill Walton, Kyle Shideler and John Rossomando

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 argues that the Biden administration wants the Quad, whose member states include the US, India, Austria and Japan, to focus on climate change and a couple of small trade disputes
• Walton: China is ruled by engineers, the US is ruled by lawyers – engineers use long term thinking

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

Part 1: 

• Kyle Shideler: Antifa, and its associates, never stopped rioting following the election
• Why is the media not reporting on an uptick in violence in places like Portland?
• Mike Waller's eyewitness accounting: No, Sen. Ron Johnson Didn’t Promote A ‘Conspiracy Theory’ About The Capitol Riot

Part 2: 

• In the wake of Texas's ice storms, "mutual aid" groups, some of which were closely associated for prominent Marxist organization, popped up throughout the state 
• Shideler: Throughout the years, we have been actively disinformed about looming national security threats posed by groups like the Muslim Brotherhood

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: There is a wholesale effort within the military to purge its ranks of anyone who does not abide by the Biden administration’s social engineering agenda
• China now has the largest navy and continues to operate within Taiwanese airspace
• Rossomando: The military is, "not about satisfying a social agenda"

With Sam Sorbo, Mark Meckler, Kevin Freeman and Todd Bensman

SAM SORBO, Host, The Sam Sorbo Show, Actress/Producer, Hope Bridge, Just Let Go, Let There Be Light, Miracle in East Texas, Author, "They're YOUR Kids" and "Words For Warriors: Fight Back Against Crazy Socialists And The Toxic Liberal Left" @thesamsorbo

• Sam Sorbo: Currently, children in the US are being taught in “government schools” to praise the state and hate themselves
• Sorbo argues that children are not getting an education, they are getting a schooling
• Message to aspiring homeschoolers: Parenting issues are not the same as teaching issues 

MARK MECKLER, Interim CEO, Parler Inc., President, Convention of States Foundation & Convention of States Action (COSA), Co-Founder, Tea Party Patriots, @MarkMeckler

• Mark Meckler: Freedom of speech is under fundamental assault in America from the "tech oligarchies" 
• Meckler argues that the Left in America wants the state to be in charge of all aspects of society
• The Convention of States Foundation & Convention of States Action wants to give the power back to the people by invoking Article 5 of the US Constitution

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at Center for Security Policy, Author of “Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack,” Author of “Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again,” Founder of Globaleconomiwarfare.com, @SecretWeaponUSA

• Kevin Freeman argues that the For the People Act federalizes all of the issues from the 2020 election
• Freeman: This is the path to a dictatorship - look at what happened in Venezuela 
• NSIC Institute is weaponizing your capital to protect the country we love

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

• 100,000 migrants were apprehended at the US Southern Border in February 2021, which as Todd Bensman argues, was further fomented by the Biden Administration's "amnesty for all" policy
• By eliminating the Trump era travel restrictions, the Biden Administration will forego the proper vetting procedures and precautions for those entering the US
• The volume of migrants coming across the US Southern Border is causing the system to collapse