Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Kenny Vaughan, Mike Berry, Nick Ballasy and Jeff Nyquist

KENNY VAUGHAN, Founder and Owner, Shields of Strength, Author, "The Right Fight: How to Live a Loving Life"

MICHAEL BERRY, General Counsel, First Liberty Institute, former Attorney, US Marine Corps, former Adjunct Professor of Law, United States Naval Academy, Marine Corps Reserves

Part I: 

• Kenny Vaughan explains his life story and why he decided to found Shields of Strength
• Mike Berry: With Mikey Weinstein, no good deed goes unpunished
• Replica dog tags with scripture on one side and military logos on the other allegedly violate the separation clause in the US constitution - Kenny and Mike think otherwise

Part II: 

• Mikey Weinstein has a long history of trying to purge the US military of any and all religious symbols
• Vaughan talks about his recent book, "The Right Fight: How to Live a Loving Life"

NICK BALLASY, Senior Correspondent, Just The News, @NicholasBallasy

• Nick Ballasy recaps the recently passed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 Rescue Bill, the 2nd largest rescue package in history
• Republicans complain that they were locked out of the decision-making process
• There are currently robust discussions taking place amongst Democrats about whether to remove the filibuster

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 Chinese used Sun Tzu's "Art of War" to influence the Soviets heavily in the late-1950s
• To this day, the Chinese Communist Party exercises the practice of "winning without fighting" by using deception
• Nyquist: We have a President that wants to kowtow to China

With Paul Boardman, Gen. Jerry Boykin, Amb. Pete Hoekstra and Col. John Mills

PAUL BOARDMAN, Chairman, Decouple China Political Action Committee: 

• In 2020 the US had a $310 billion trade deficit with China
• Paul Boardman does not buy the argument that the US is not capable of reenergizing its manufacturing sector, as seen by mass mobilization following COVID-19
• Mainstreet America gets it - China is committing genocide
• H.R. 8491 is the first step in recognizing the Chinese Communist Party as a transnational criminal organization

1. GEN. (RET.) WILLIAM G. BOYKIN, Executive Vice President, Family Research Council, original Member, U.S. Army's Delta Force, @GenBoykin

• Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin: Donald Trump did to the military what Ronald Reagan did after succeeding Jimmy Carter; creating War Fighters
• Individuals belonging to extremist groups have always been banned from the military – President Biden's purges are a completely different story 
• Lt. Gen. Boykin explains who is really in control in Iran

PETE HOEKSTRA, former Congressman (1993-2011), Michigan's 2nd Congressional District, former US Ambassador to the Netherlands (2017-2021), Fellow, Center for Security Policy:

• Elements within the Obama administration were tasked with monitoring the Trump campaign and transition team
• Pete Hoekstra argues that law enforcement crossed a line when they used information gathered by the US intelligence community to pursue American citizens
• Chairman of the US Intel Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, would agree with CIA Director John Brennan's assessment that the federal government needs a "laser-like" focus to deal with supposed domestic threats

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

• Col. John Mills: Will the real Biden China policy please stand up?
• What are China's military capabilities, and should the US be concerned about the People's Liberation Army's growing amphibious applications?
• China's "Operational Preparation for the Environment" - a dress rehearsal for conflict against the US

With Dr. Murray Bessette, Dr. David Wurmser and Joseph Bosco

MURRAY BESSETTE, Director of Academic Programs, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, former Associate Professor, Morehead State University, former President, Kentucky Political Science Association, Lincoln Fellow, Claremont Institute, Academic Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Co-Director, Bluegrass State Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence, @MSYBessette

Part 1: 

• Murray Bessette: The Communist Manifesto says clearly that in order to implement socialism, you must abolish private property, which in practice can only be done by a totalitarian government
• Karl Marx believed that there are no enduring characteristics within human nature - mankind is mostly malleable
• Socialism, Marxism and Communism are not voluntary ideologies

Part 2: 

• Bessette argues that Nazism and Communism both deny the individual in favor of some group identity
• Communist China's revamped vision of Lenin: The western capitalists will lend you the money to buy the rope for you to hang them with
• Deng Xiaoping: When we open up, it's not that we will have to listen to them [the West], it's that they will have to listen to us

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 delves into a supposed eco-terrorist attack off the coast of Israel orchestrated by the Iranians 
• The US assassination of Qasem Soleimani put the Iranians on edge
• Wursmer argues that the US should not break its decades-long commitments with Israel not to question their defense initiatives

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 in a zero-sum game with China
• China is willing to give a little ground in some area in exchange for the US to compromise on many non-negatable terms, like human rights
• Robert Gates: 'Strategic ambiguity' towards Taiwan has already served its purpose. It's time for the Biden administration to readdress the Taiwan question

With Sam Faddis, Bradley Thayer, Steven Kwast and Bill Walton

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 delves into the impending trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and its implications for public safety
• How did George Floyd die - Extreme force or a fentanyl overdose? 
• Faddis talks about Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's progressive roots 

BRADLEY THAYER, Professor of International Security Studies, Tallinn University, former Senior Analyst, National Institute for Public Policy, Author, How China Sees the World: 

• Bradley Thayer: The Biden administration wants to return to an era of accommodations - an era that ushered in China's rise
• When negotiating with the Communists, if you must, always be sure to enforce a strict time-limit
• Thayer contends that China has no desire to follow or enforce any singular international system and norms - they will do whatever suits their Marxist ambitions at that exact moment

STEVEN KWAST, Lieutenant General (Retired), US Air Force, Deployments include Desert Shield and Storm, Southern Watch, Allied Force and Operation Enduring Freedom: 

• San Antonio's grid infrastructure and partnership with the US military should serve as a model for the rest of Texas
• Steven Kwast: China wants to dominate space the same way the British Empire ruled the high seas
• China has ambitions to establish a base on the dark side of the moon

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: Republicans can't count on Sen. Joe Manchin to prevent Democrats from rewriting elections laws and taking away the filibuster
• What will come of the For the People Act?- Democrats have about 18 months until the 2022 midterms

With Col. John Mills and Trevor Loudon

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

Part 1:

• Xi Jinping has one goal: Retire the United States as the leader of the world
• The Chinese Communist Party played to politicization from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic
• As early as the mid-2000s, the Chinese government has viewed bioweapons as the "strategic commanding height" of the great showdown with the US

Part 2:

• Col. John Mills comments on China's willingness to use biological warfare in the future - "read your opponent's literature"
• The out-of-control nature of the federal government is contributing to the formation of a fourth branch of government, the Administrative State
• Col. Mills: Take the Chinese Communist Party at face value

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

Part 1:

• Deb Haaland has close ties to the Communist Party USA, forged during her time in the US House of Representatives and civic action campaigns, such as the XL Keystone Pipeline protests
• Communist Party USA was originally loyal to the Soviet Union and has now moved closer to the Chinese Communist Party
• Trevor Loudon: She will be working closely with the Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, another prominent proponent of the Communist Party USA

Part 2:

• Loudon argues that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is well connected to some of San Francisco's most notorious communist leaders
• Council for a Livable World, which was founded in-part by a Soviet agent, influenced Joe Biden while he was a young Senator, later endorsing him for President in 2020

With Jeff Nyquist, Gordon Chang and Sam Faddis

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

Part 1:

• Jeff Nyquist walks us through Russia's grand strategy in the 21st century
• Jeff Nyquist: Putin's Russia and Xi's China believe that nuclear war can be waged and won - The US government is fooling its own people into thinking nuclear war will never happen

Part 2: 

• Nyquist argues that the American public does not have civil defense anymore, whereas our adversaries, such as Russia and China, have drills and plans in place to counter a nuclear strike
• 3,000 miles of hardened underground tunnels in China and underground cities in the Ural mountains built around the 1970s in Russia
• US policymakers are not connecting tactics to philosophy and thus grossly misunderstand our enemies intentions

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

• President Trump's November 2020 executive order banning US citizens and companies from investing in People's Liberation Army-linked Chinese companies is currently being reviewed by the Biden administration 
• Gordon Chang delves into one of his recent articles on China's mysterious super solider program

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 delves into a new autonomous zone in Austin, Texas called "Orisha Land," founded by the "400+1" group 
• The group intends to make a "Pan-African" homeland, which is akin to the Black Panthers ideology in the 1960s
• Faddis: There is an armed component they are trying to dance around

With Dr. Jason Hill, Lawrence W. Reed and Robert Spencer

JASON HILL, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University, Author, "Cosmopolitan: What It Means to Be a Human Being in the New Millennium, "Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity: When We Should Not Get Along," and forthcoming "What Do White Americans Owe Black People," @JasonDHill6

Part 1

• Jason Hill: America is special because of its "self-reflexive clause" - It is a country that is always questioning and evaluating its past
• The American Left today wants to embrace "America Phobia" 
• Critical Race Theory goes further than viewing race as a social construct

Part 2

• Equity means equal results amongst all groups in society, regardless of abilities, virtues, background or work
• Dr. Hill argues that the Framers of the Constitution intended for all men to enjoy free and equal standing before the law
• Equity rests on the false assumption that we are all born equal, when in fact we are all born with different talents
• H.R.40 and reparations for Black Americans: Dr. Hill finds that reparations have already been paid through initiates like President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty  

LAWERENCE W. REED, President, Foundation for Economic Education, Author, "Was Jesus a Socialist?," former President, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Contributor, El American

• Lawrence Reed: No, Jesus was not a socialist - In reality, socialism is the concentration of power to forcibly redistribute wealth and property
• Communism is completely against all religions
• Four Ways Socialism is Anti-Social: "Even if a socialist’s own life is a mess, he still knows how to run everybody else’s. Even if he doesn’t believe there’s a God, he thinks the State can be one. "

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

• Robert Spencer: The Iranians understand that the Biden administration is focused on appeasing Iran
• The Biden administration has to balance multiple constituencies, such as the Muslim Brotherhood lobby in the US
• Qatar is amplifying its influence operations in the US to attack prominent conservative voices

With Richard Viguerie, Victoria Coates and Debbie Georgatos

RICHARD VIGUERIE, Founder, American Target Advertising. Inc, Auhtor, Takeover: The 100-Year War for the Soul of the GOP and How Conservatives Can Finally Win It, Chair, conservativeHQ.com, @RichardViguerie

Part I:

• Richard Viguerie: If the Democrats are able to change our election laws with H.R.1, they will establish a one-party dictatorial state
• 16-year-olds will be able to register to vote
• Constituents need to be like Paul Revere and sound the alarm bells

Part II: 

• Viguerie: Donald Trump has something that many conservative leaders lack - Energy
• As bad as it may seem now, the Republican Party is better off today than it was in the 1960s and 70s when moderate figures like Nelson Rockefeller headed the GOP
• Viguerie argues that the Republican Party today needs newer and younger leaders within its ranks

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: You have people in Washington who built their careers on a falsehood, i.e. there will be no peace in the Middle East until the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is resolved
• Coates argues that the Iranians are deciding who eats and when in Yemen
• Should the US choose to weaken its relations with Saudi Arabia, China may decide to fill this void

DEBBIE GEORGATOS, Host, America, Can We Talk?, Author, "Ladies, Can We Talk?," @DebbieCanWeTalk 

• Debbie Georgatos: Texas's electrical grid officials claim that they came within 3 minutes of a total blackout
• A small coalition of elected officials, such as State Senator Bob Hall, in Texas have been leading the charge for Grid Security for years
• Georgatos: There is no logical explanation for President Biden's decision to suspend President Donald Trump's Executive Order designed to keep Chinese equipment out of our electric grid

With Bill Walton and Stephen Soukup

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

Part 1:

• Bill Walton: The Republican Party is still Donald Trump's Party, as witnessed at CPAC last weekend
• President Biden's first couple of months in office serve as a blatant reminder that his presidency seeks to undo many of the Trump administration's policy objectives

Part 2:

• Reopening the country worked in Donald Trump's favor
• Walton argues that moving forward, Trump needs to find an ability to communicate outside of the mainstream (i.e. Facebook and twitter)  
• Walton: Trump can't just be a one-man show. 
• How are Republicans going to bring the "Never Trumpers" back into the fold? 

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

Part 1:

• Woke Capitalism: A top-down, anti-democratic movement to fundamentally change the relationship between the state and its citizens to "save the world"
• Environmental, Social, Corporate Governance is the successor to Socially Responsible Investing; the philosophy that individuals should align their investments with their personal views
• Stephen Soukup: Renewable energy at this time is not a viable alternative to fossil fuel

Part 2: 

• Blackrock Capital's agenda since January: The firm is using "sustainability" as their primary driver for investments
• 20%-30% of the companies on the S&P 500 are being heavily influenced by Fink's mission statement
• Soukup: Larry Fink, the founder of Blackrock Capital, is consolidating massive amounts of power in very few hands

With Todd Bensman

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

Part 1: 

• Todd Bensman: For every one illegal alien who is caught trying to enter the US illegally through the southern border, 3-7 migrants get through undetected
• Polling shows that a majority of Americans want illegal immigrations at the US southern border to decline, not increase

Part 2: 

• Proof of concept is becoming increasingly more clear in Europe as terror attacks committed by migrants become a reality
• Bensman: There's an ideology within Islam that seeks to dominate the world and establish a caliphate
• The Fence Act of 2006 was meant to build a wall at the US southern border to prevent terrorists from entering the US

Part 3: 

• Traditionally, the US intelligence community has tagged immigrants coming from over 30 countires as Special Interest Aliens
• ICE and other Department of Homeland Security agents are embedded in many Latin America countries hunting down smugglers

Part 4: 

• Security officials in Panama deported over 40 alleged Jihadists, Mexico deported 19
• Bensman argues that people on the Democratic left deny that terrorists  are entering the US through the southern border
• Example: In 2017, a Somali immigrant crossed the US border, was detained and then released, after which he crossed into Canada, later ramming a truck into police officers