Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Jenny Beth Martin, Lance Crayon and Bill Walton

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

• Jenny Beth Martin: H.R.1 will make it impossible to verify precinct votes
• New restrictions will be placed on free speech for non-profits if the Democrats' "For the People Act" becomes law
• In the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, swing states like, Georgia, changed their absentee ballot laws

LANCE CRAYON, former Senior News Editor, Global Times (US edition) and the People's Daily English News app:

• Lance Crayon arrived on the ground in Beijing in 2009 and began working for some of China's most notorious state-run media outlets, most namely People's Daily
• Lance: China's state-run media is taken more seriously today than it was in the mid-2000s
• US outlets, such as the New York Times and Washington Post, will now quote Editorials from publications like the Global Times, believing them to be fact and the direct embodiment of "Beijing Thought" - While in turn this is just "Xi Thought"

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

• Bill Walton finds that the American Left is adopting the playbook used by history's most devastating authoritarian leaders 
• Major Corporations and institutions are agreeing on one view point
• Suspending the rule of law is the final step in the "End of America" 
• The ability to debate in a free and open society is quietly being quashed

With Jeanne Mancini, Charles Jacobs, David Wurmser and Susan Katz Keating

JEANNE MANCINI, President, March for Life Education and Defense Fund, formally Family Research Council and Office of the Secretary at the US Department of Health and Human Services, Twitter: @jeannemfl

• Jeanne Mancini: Xavier Becerra is an "abortion zealot" 
• Both Kamala Harris and Becerra have a long history of attacking organizations, such as the Center for Medical Progress, for exposing Planned Parenthood's organ trafficking scandal
• During his time in California's Attorney General's office, Becerra sued the federal government, allowing California's healthcare plan to include abortions  

CHARLES JACOBS, President, Americans for Peace and Tolerance, Board Member, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Twitter: @DrCharlesJacobs

• Charles Jacobs elaborates on a civil war within the American Jewish Community between the traditionalists and the radical left
• Jacobs argues that organizations like the Jewish Community Relations Council, J Street and the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society have been taken over by the Left

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: The Biden administration is validating certain beliefs that should never be validated
• Wurmser argues that movements like Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) are anti-Semitic because they question the entire existence of Israel

• The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) funded schools that were used to support Hamas's war against Israel. Maher Bitar, a senior National Security Council official, previously worked for UNRRA

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

• Susan Keating reports how veterans are universally concerned about how they are being casted as extremists
• Political rhetoric is driving veterans closer into their ranks
• Jessica Watkins, a transgender woman charged with allegedly participating in the Jan. 6th breach of the US capitol, was supposedly left naked in her cell for four days after undergoing a hunger strike

With Todd Bensman, Gordon Chang and Jim Banks

TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Twitter: @BensmanTodd

• Summary of Todd Bensman's most recent book, "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration"
• Bensman gives an update on a caravan, possibly consisting of special interest aliens, moving up from Panama into southern Mexico
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are still monitoring their post's abroad for possible terrorists looking to gain entry to the US via our southern border

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" Twitter: @Gordongchang

• Gordon Chang argues that Biden's nearly xenophobic comments during a CNN townhall appearance suggest that crimes against humanity are "cultural norms" within Chinese society
• Biden's view of China, most namely that the Chinese Communist Party is a regime the US should support and nurture, is outdated
• The current administration has busied itself reviewing and repealing Trump era bans on Chinese tech companies

REP. JIM BANKS, Supply Corps Officer, US Navy Reserves, Chairman, Republican Study Committee, Member, House Committee on Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, Education and Labor, Ranking Member, House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, Co-Chair, Future of Defense Task Force, Twitter: @RepJimBanks

Part I: 

• Bad Policies, Bad Personnel: Trying to build a consensus within the Republican Party in a post-Trump Era
• Rep. Jim Banks: Biden is more interested in playing footsie with China than standing up to them
• Republicans are calling on Democrats to stray from the party line and work with the GOP to combat China

Part II: 

• Rep. Banks: Biden's recent comments during CNN's Town Hall were deeply troubling for a number of reasons 
• What did Chairman Xi say to Biden during their two hour phone call?
• President Trump appealed to America's blue-collar Democrats in a way very few have ever succeeded in doing before

With Fred Fleitz, Robert Spencer, Jeff Nyquist and Kevin Freeman

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," Twitter: @FredFleitz

• Fred Fleitz: The Iran Deal still allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium
• President Joe Biden's "Iran-centric" Middle East policy is driven, in part, by policy elites' distain for President Trump
• Very odd for the Vice President to be making introductory calls to foreign heads of state

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

• Maher al-Bitar, Biden's Senior Director for Intelligence at the National Security Council, was once a principle member of Georgetown University's Palestinian Solidarity Movement
• Pakistan's Prime Minister is trying to distance Sharia Supremacy from terrorism. Why? 
• Are certain Western leaders seeking to criminalize criticism of Islam? 

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,” JRNyquist.blog, and Twitter: @JRNyquist

• Jeff Nyquist delves into Vladimir Putin's recent speech at Davos
• What does Putin mean when he says the war of "all against all?"
• Is China trying to import its method of governance into the US? 

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Host, Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author, “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon," Twitter: @SecretWeaponUSA

• Update on the situation on the ground in Texas 
• Who's to blame for Texas's mass blackouts? The Green New Deal or the Electric Companies?
• Kevin Freeman: H.R 1 is the Democrats' attempt to prevent any moderate Republican from gaining a foothold in congress

With Dr. David Wurmser, Kyle Schideler, Sam Faddis and Richard Kemp

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: When you negotiate with Iran, they will always say “no.” The Iranian Mullah’s believe they have all of the leverage
• Robert Malley, a key policy advisor within the Biden Administration, recently witnessed a meeting between China and Iran
• Israeli officials have signaled an unwillingness to cooperate with the Biden Administration 

RICHARD KEMP, Infantry Battalion Commanding Officer (ret.), British Army, Author, "Attack State Red," Twitter: @ COLRICHARDKEMP

• Richard Kemp: The Taliban will never compromise with the US or the current government of Afghanistan. They will continue to fight
• Need to continue supporting Afghanistan’s government and security forces and not increase the number of foreign allied forces
• The International Criminal Court took up a complaint from a member that’s not a state (Palestine) to prosecute a state (Israel), that is not a member of the court

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

• It’s unlikely that Democratic politicians, like Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will ever be asked why they turned down assistance ahead of Jan. 6.
• Kyle Shideler argues that following 9/11, individuals within the government and the media worked very hard to prevent people from linking Al Qaeda's ideology to other, much larger, doctrines. Following Jan. 6, the exact opposite happened
• Youth Liberation Front's call for direct action on March 6

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

• Sam Faddis: The Left in America is trying to “Balkanize” the US, while also dissuading people from opposing the Biden Administration (i.e. calls for another “9/11 style” truth commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack)
• Faddis finds that what happened on Jan. 6 is representative of a fringe group and not the whole of Trump supporters
• Groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter mean exactly what they say

With Edward Timperlake, Sam Faddis, Roger Robinson and Susan Katz Keating

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"

• Edward Timperlake argues that the honest media of the past would have done a deep dive into President Joe Biden's two-hour phone call with Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping
• Historically, our adversaries, most namely Iraq and the Soviet Union, used diplomatic missteps to justify their aggressive behavior

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

• Sam Faddis finds that China's covert operations in the US are meant to sow dissent within the American population in order to dismantle the country from within
• "The Thirty Tyrants" and what it can tell us about the "managed decline" of the US

ROBER ROBINSON, President and CEO, RWR Advisory Group, former Senior Director of International Economic Affairs, White House (1982-1985), former Chairman, US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Co-Founder, Prague Security Studies Institute

• Joe Biden's "Memorandum of Understanding" waived financial regulations for Chinese companies looking to invest in US capital markets
• The federal pension plan came close to investing in various Chinese companies 
• Roger Robinson: China's most vulnerable area is its financial sector

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

• How did Officer Brian Sicknick die and why hasn't the medical examiner’s office released an autopsy report yet? 
• Symbols/logos used by particular units in the US military are under review by the Department of Defense as the agency conducts a department-wide investigation into "extremism in the ranks" 
• Some soldiers feel that DoD's review is one-sided, only targeting one form of extremism while leaving others unchecked

With Michael Walsh

MICHAEL WALSH, With six critically acclaimed best-selling novels, multiple works of non-fiction, a record-setting TV movie, and several motion-picture scripts in the production pipeline, author and screenwriter Michael Walsh has achieved the writer’s trifecta: two New York Times best-sellers, a major literary award winner, and the Disney Channel’s then-highest-rated show:

• The influence of Camille Paglia on Michael's career
• Michael's characterization of Marxism
• Is toxic masculinity a necessary element of civilization?

(PART TWO):

• The importance of the Battle of Thermopylae
• Personality differences between men and women

(PART THREE):

• What was the Battle of Szigetvár?
• George Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn
• The Battle of Stalingrad's impact on United States' history

(PART FOUR):

• The strong ethnic tradition of the United States Marine Corps
• The increased politicization of the US military

Hans von Spakovsky

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow, Messe Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation, Co-Author, "Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk," @Twitter: @HvonSpakovsky

Part I: 

• Many of the lawsuits about fraud in the 2020 election were dismissed on mere "procedural grounds"
• Moving forward, State legislatures have a responsibility to address election security issues
• Hans von Spakovsky: Little to no investigations into instances of mail-in voting fraud during the 2020 election have been launched

Part II: 

• Spakovsky: H.R. 1, "For the People Act," is designed to make it easier to manipulate election results
• What H.R. 1 allows and doesn't allow: voter ID laws are void, same day voter registration would be given the green light, third parties are allowed to collect and deposit ballots, requests for proof of citizenship are prohibited, etc. 

Part III: 

• Spakovsky: The proposed bill would allow felons to vote the second they leave prison, regardless of any outstanding probations or debts
• Liberals believe that the ends always justify the means

Part IV: 

• Lois Lerner, former unit director at the Internal Revenue Service, allegedly discriminated against various conservative and libertarian non-profits - H.R. 1 would reawaken this practice
• For more, read "9 Election Reforms States Can Implement to Prevent Mistakes and Vote Fraud" 

With KT McFarland

KT MCFARLAND, former Deputy National Security Advisor for President Trump, author, "Revolution: Trump, Washington and 'We The People,'" Twitter: @realKTMcFarland

Part I: 

• KT McFarland found that the Mueller Investigation tried to use perjury traps to incriminate herself and/or President Trump
• Dissenters within the Trump White House tried to sabotage the President's administration from within
• McFarland: The foreign policy accomplishments under the Trump administration were some of the best since Ronald Reagan

Part II: 

• America First was meant to address a changing world. Policymakers in Washington need to move on from a post-war liberal international mindset
• Opening up to China in the 1970s was guided by America's experience in Europe after World War II
• Is "managed decline" the policy of the US government once again?

Part III: 

• Previous generations of policy experts believed that in order to achieve "peace in the middle east," the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had to be settled first - Jared Kushner changed the way Washington approached this issue
• Arab countries looked to Iran as the greatest threat in the region
• President Trump gave the Biden administration a "golden ticket" towards policy in the Middle East and along America's southern border

Part IV: 

• Joe Biden is Jimmy Carter - his administration will fail in the near future as gas prices increase and more troops are sent to the Middle East
• "Down ballot" favoritism for other Republican candidates evoking President Trump's policies illuminates the GOP's prospects in 2022
• McFarland makes the case for why we need to fight H.R.1 

With Rick Green, Steve Mosher, David Wurmser and Mike Mabee

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

• President Donald Trump's attorneys may try to challenge the Democrats' "incitement" charge by likening the President's speech to the rhetoric espoused by many notable Democrats over the past 4 years
• Will House managers try to implicate Trump supports during the proceedings? 
• What should Americans do to overcome the impending curbs on their civil liberties? 

STEVEN MOSHER, President, Population Research Institute, first American social scientist to visit mainland China, Author, "A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy" and "Bully of Asia: Why China's Dream is the New Threat to World Order," Twitter: @StevenWMosher

• Steve Mosher: The United States needs to show strength with China, not "strategic patience"
• A growing fear within the Chinese Communist Party is that their people will soon realize that Taiwan’s democratic success proves that the Chinese people are capable of self-governance
• What is happening in the US today is eerily similar to Communist China's state-controlled media apparatus

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:

• Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's recent comments about the Trump administration's legal recognition of Israel's claim over the Golan Heights is troublesome
• David Wurmser delves into why the US never joined the International Criminal Court
• The Lincoln Project's mission to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu is reminiscent of the Obama-Biden administration's taxpayer-funded support for the V15 movement

MIKE MABEE, Author, "The Civil Defense Book," retired US Army Command Sergeant Major, Secure the Grid Coalition, michaelmabee.info:

• President Trump's original May 2020 executive order to secure the grid did not require the US government to review the Chinese-imported transformers already in the US - this was a mistake
• 10% of New York City's and 18% of Las Vegas's electric grid run through transformers
• It could take months to swap out a downed transformer, leaving the US open to attack