Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Dr. Mordechai Kedar and Dr. Peter Pry

DR. MORDECHAI KEDAR, retired Lieutenant Colonel, Israel Defense Force, Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University's Department of Arabic and Middle East Studies, Director, Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam at Bar-Ilan University, Twitter: @kedar_mordechai

Part I: 

• The Muslim Brotherhood’s founding principals: Rid the Islamic world of western occupation and culture, and implement Sharia Law. Has anything changed?
• Dr. Kedar: The Muslim Brotherhood seeks to alter the regime and culture of their “new homeland” to meet the expectations of living in an Islamic environment 
• President Biden's Senior Director of Intelligence Programs within the National Security Council, Maher Bitar, was previously associated with the Palestine Solidarity Movement at Georgetown University

Part II: 

• A Palestinian state already exists in Israel, Gaza, and it's run by Hamas
• Dr. Kedar: Does Israel really want another terrorist state operating along their borders?
• Pro-Palestine activists fail to see beyond their movement. All involved actors needs to create eight different Palestinian emirates 

DR. 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:

Part I:

• The threats posed by an Electromagnetic Pulse attack were only recognized recently
• For decades, our adversaries have been developing different ways to wage "no contact wars" against the US
• Dr. Peter Pry briefed then candidate Donald Trump in 2015 on these pressing issues, who was in turn taken away by just how ill-prepared the nation was to countering an EMP attack
• Why was President Trump's March 26, 2019, executive order, "Resilience Against Electromagnetic Pulses," was met with backlash from Obama-era bureaucrats? 

Part II: 

• The coronavirus crisis woke Americans up to our dependence on foreign countries for critical supplies 
• President Trump and his administration didn't want to have our electric grid dependent on Chinese technology
• Dr. Pry explains why he believes the Biden administration was quick to suspend President Trump's May 1st Bulk-Power System executive order
• New START treaty between the US and Russia will be a challenge for the Biden administration to oversee considering that Russia has a long history of disregarding all other arms agreements

With Elaine Donnelly and Dr. Carol Swain

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

Part I: 

• Elaine Donnelly's reaction to recent controversies surrounding the US military: 200 plus national guard members infected with COVID after being sent to protect the US capitol, who were also confined to a parking garage and had their loyalty questioned by the media and some politicians
• During the Obama-Biden era, officials within the armed forces were ordered not to report any issues about the administration's transgender policy 
• Less than 1,000 transgender soldiers required over 30,000 mental health visits, further dampening prospects of efficient deployability

Part II: 

• President Biden's recent Executive Orders about the military are retroactive: Those who were forced to leave the military during the Trump years now have cause for legal action
• The US military runs one of the largest educational systems in the country. What effects will Biden's reinstatement of critical race theory courses have on unit morale?
• Donnelly: The civilians running these programs have very little idea about how their policies will affect troop readiness

DR. CAROL SWAIN, Host, "Conversations with Dr. Carol Swain" and Be The People Podcast on the America Out Loud Podcast Network, Owner and Founder, Unity Training Solutions, President, Be The People Project, Twitter: @carolmswain

Part I: 

• Dr. Carol Swain: I saw systematic racism collapse after the passage of 3 major civil rights acts
• Academia originally accepted and awarded Dr. Swain's intellect and ideas, however, things gradually changed once she left the Democratic Party
• The Biden administration's slogan, "Diversity, equity and inclusion," only divides the world into the "oppressors" and the "oppressed" 
• Dr. Swain: Critical race theory violates the equal protection clause within the 14th Amendment

Part II: 

• The 1776 Commission was designed to address many of the claims made by the New York Times' 1619 Project by encouraging Americans to go back to America's true founding
• Dr. Swain: Wasn't under the impression the Biden administration would be so hasty to disband the 1776 commission and burry their report
• Response to critics within academia who felt that the 1776 report was factually inaccurate

With Tommy Waller, Steve Mosher and Pastor Brian Gibson

TOMMY WALLER, Director of Infrastructure Security, Center for Security Policy, Lieutenant Colonel, US Marine Corps, Secure the Grid Coalition, Twitter: @Secure_the_Grid

• President Joe Biden suspended President Trump's May 1st Executive Order, "Securing the United States Bulk-Power System," during his first week in office - Why? 
• Tommy Waller: The federal government and the utility industry have conspired NOT to protect the grid from attack but to shield the electrical grid industry from federal oversight
• Over 200 large power transformers currently in use are from China

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

Part I: 

• Steven Mosher: Since its founding in the 1920s, the Chinese Communist Party has been in a race to catch up to and defeat the United States of America
• Great Britain's electrical grid has been slowly subdued by the People's Republic of China
• According to Mosher, Wall Street's integration with the Chinese Communists is a problem: People in China normally exaggerate about 50%, sometimes 70%, of their total revenue 
• China was on a gliding path to overtake the US economically by 2020. President Trump put a stop to this trend

Part II: 

• Traditionally, Chinese Communist dictators prefer not to lose face when provoking an attack against Taiwan
• Mosher expands on Colin Kahl's compromising ties to the People's Republic of China
• Stanford University caved to China's demands in the 1970s, who's to say they are not doing the same today

PASTOR BRIAN GIBSON, Lead Pastor, HIS Church, Spokesperson, Peaceably Gather, Twitter: @leadpastor

• Pastor Brian Gibson provides his insight on what happened in our nation's capitol on Jan. 6th
• Why are some political pundits/commentators referring to the Capitol Riot as a "Christian Insurrection"
• According to Open Doors USA, 340 million Christians are persecuted around the world

With Kalbinur Gheni, Sen Hoon Kim and Zach Vorhies

KALBINUR GHENI, Committee on the Present Danger: China Captive Nations’ Representative for East Turkestan, Twitter: @Qelbinur10 & SE HOON KIM, Director, Committee on Present Danger: China Captive Nations Coalition, Twitter: @Se_HoonKim

Part I: 

• Kalbinur Gheni: My sister is currently subjected to forced labor within a concentration camp in Xinjiang
• Reactions to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's closing remarks on the Genocide in Xinjiang

Part II:

• Forced sterilization, state-sponsored rape, assigning ethnic Han Chinese officials to live in Uyghur communities to monitor them 24/7
• Designating the Chinese Communist Party a transnational criminal organization would reaffirm the claims made by those fighting for human rights in China

ZACH VORHIES, former Senior Software Engineer, YouTube and Google, Twitter: @Perpetualmaniac and Zachvorhies.com: 

Part I:

• On Oct. 15, 2020, nearly two weeks before the election, YouTube purged 30 Pro-Trump commentators, forcing them to create and turn to alternative platforms, i.e. Rumble and Parler 
• Zach Vorhies: Helped organize a case against Google to reinstate those accounts which was later blocked by an Obama era appointed judge
• Google requires court cases to be brought up in California 
• Vorhies: Prior to the election, Google sent out "register to vote" pop-ups to more liberals than conservatives - New York Post was going to run a story before the tech giant caught wind and "fixed" the problem

Part II: 

• Vorhies: The purging of conservatives from various social media platforms will continue well into 2021
• According to Section 230, Amazon is not liable for the content posted on their sites - so why ban Parler? 
• Godaddy.com was taken over by Google: A dangerous move
• Vorhies: we need to start migrating to alternative platforms

With Gordon Chang, Todd Bensman, Ilan Berman and Kevin Freeman

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

• China's military and society are being reorganized - potentially to mobilize for mass war
• The Biden administration may continue President Trump's practice of increasing official relations with Taiwan
• Antony Blinken agreed with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo when he labeled China's treatment of the Uyghurs a genocide

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

• President Biden reversed Donald Trump's travel ban, or so-called "Muslim Ban, " on day one in office
• Todd Bensman: Upwards of 20 million illegal aliens may be given amnesty under Joe Biden's recent directive
• Biden's message to the world: If you can get to the US, either illegally or legally, you will eventually be granted amnesty
• With Trump gone, can we no longer rely on Latin American countries to prevent migrant caravans from going to the US southern border?

ILAN BERMAN, Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council, Associated Faculty, Missouri State University's Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Twitter: @ilanberman

• Ilan Berman's thoughts on President Biden possibly seeking to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action: The writing has been on the wall for some time
• President Trump's legacy policies: The Trump administration spent four years building up America's ability to counter Iran. Will the Biden Administration leverage some of these capabilities when they eventually go back to the negotiating table? 
• Taking stock of the Trump Admin's accomplishments: Rolling détente between Israel and much of the Middle East

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

• Kevin Freeman: The US is about to go from a deficit of $20 trillion to $30 trillion in the blink of an eye 
• Inflation is much higher 1%, could be upwards of 6%
• Freeman argues that the only reason the US Dollar has remained relatively untouched by mounting US Debt is because it is still recognized as the reserve currency of the world - will China change things?

With Trevor Loudon

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TREVOR LOUDON, Creator/Author, "The Enemies Within" (Documentary and Film), Twitter: @TrevorLoudon1: 

Part I: 

• The Chinese Communist Party has more resources and influence now than the Communist Party within the Soviet Union ever had in its history
• Trevor Loudon: Too many people believe that if a socialist country adopts a few capitalist policies, like China, they have abandoned communism

Part II:

• John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence, announced recently that China had infiltrated America's body politic
• Both current and former US politicians, such as Garry Locke, find themselves at the heads of organizations with sympathetic views towards, and sometimes ties to, the Chinese Communist Party 
• Loudon: For most of her life, Vice President Kamala Harris has been surrounded by radical Marxists

Part III: 

• Left-leaning organizations, such as the Chinese Progressive Association and Liberation Road have lengthy relationships with the Chinese Communist Party
• High ranking members within the Black Lives Matter movement also have ties to these organizations: Asians for Black Lives is a product of the Chinese Progressive Association
• Loudon: Kamala Harris deliberately promoted prominent Maoists, such as Lateefah Simon, throughout the Bay Area 

Part IV: 

• Canadian intel observed in 2010 that the Chinese Communist Party was using its resources to influence some of Canada's richest provinces
• Loudon: Seed the Vote, which is closely associated with Liberation Road, set up voter registration drives in key swing states during the 2020 election using GIS maps from a professor at Wuhan University in China 
• False narrative constantly perpetuated by the Chinese Communist Party: America is the most racist country

With Dakota Wood

DAKOTA WOOD, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs, The Heritage Foundation, Editor, annual "Index of U.S. Military Strength," retired Lieutenant Colonel, US Marine Corps: 

Part I: 

• Do all US allies live up to their expectations when threatened with conflict? 
• Why are operating conditions more favorable in Europe than other parts of the world? 

Part II: 

• Why is China characterized as an "aggressive" but not a "hostile" threat? 
• Over the past year, the People's Liberation Army, Air Force and Navy have been upgrading and enlarging their power projection techniques
• Dakota Wood: The index's recommendation that the US Army consist of 50 brigades is seriously lacking

Part III: 

• Average age of a US fighter jet is 30 years old
• Under the Trump Administration, the Department of Defense increased flight hours in order to ramp up force readiness
• Overtime, the number of US Marine brigades have shrunk as the branch embraces a "one war force" mentality

Part IV: 

• The index categorizes most of the US nuclear force as strong. Why?
• Wood: Many of the same politicians who are staunch opponents of the 2nd Amendment and advocate for increased public safety are now questioning the loyalty of National Guard troops 

With Mark Schneider, Grant Newsham and Robert Charles

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

Part I:

• Russia currently has around 20 active/announced nuclear modernization programs
• Mark Schneider: About 81% of Russia's ICBMs are modernized, while around 86% of their entire nuclear triad is modernized (will reach 88% by the end of 2021)
• Russia's new hypersonic missiles' main mission: A preemptive nuclear strike

Part II:

• In recent years, Chinese involvement in Russian military exercises have increased
• Schneider: Nearly all of Russia's military exercises ended in a nuclear strike
• Will a Biden administration shrink the size of the US nuclear arsenal?

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

• China has consistently always tried to weaken US-South Korean relations by arguing that the US is solely responsible for the Korean War
• Loose Taiwan and the "wall to the castle" will be breached
• Grant Newsham: If the US had not adopted the Trump Administration's "Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific," we would have lost 

ROBERT CHARLES, former Assistant Secretary of State, US State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Spokesperson, Association of Mature American Citizens, Author, "Eagles and Evergreens," Twitter: @RCharles4USA

• The rest of the world is looking at us now to see if we are weak
• Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969): How a liberal US Supreme Court upheld free speech
• Robert Charles: Democrats have no idea what kind of damage their impeachment escapade will do to them in the near future

With Dr. Michaela Dodge, Susan Katz Keating and Jeff Nyquist

DR. MICHAELA DODGE, Research Scholar, Nation Institute for Public Policy, formerly worked at the Heritage Foundation from 2010-2019, former Senior Defense Policy Advisor, US Senator Jon Kyl: 

Part I:

• ICBMs bring something to the US nuclear triad that the other two legs, submarines and bombers, do not
• Why are Minuteman missiles, which were deemed obsolete in the 1980s, are still in use?
• During the Cold War, the US issued nuclear challenges to the Soviet Union in order to keep their attention and spending away from other pressing issues - why aren't we still doing this today?

Part II:

• Michaela Dodge: When we renew a nuclear warhead, we move its age to zero. Are we still using nuclear weapons from the 1960s?
• The US government needs to possibly consider conducting yield tests on our aging nuclear arsenal
• Missile defense will continue to be a mounting issue moving forward 

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

• What really happened on Jan. 6th at the US Capitol?
• Number one selling book on Amazon, "1984" - Are top executives or the organizations themselves within Big Tech responsible for censoring conservative voices?
• Susan Keating: Democrats are scared of Donald Trump because he has galvanized his base

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, Twitter: @JRNyquist

• Jeff Nyquist: Contacts within Eastern Europe noticed a supposed Russian operative in photos taken at the US Capitol on Jan. 6th
• Robert E. Lee's reaction to America both before and after the Civil War are telling of the current predicament our nation finds itself in
• Emotions sway an individuals ability to reason

With Robert Spencer, Pastor Brian Gibson and James Fanell

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 expands on the potential link between Al-Qaeda and the Islamic Republic of Iran: "Me against my brother, but both of us against our cousin"
• Iran admitted in June 2018 to playing a role in assisting some of the 9/11 hijackers travel to and from Afghanistan to receive training 
• Joe Biden will likely re-enter the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action treaty with Iran
• President Trump proved that "establishment foreign policy" was a failure

PASTOR BRIAN GIBSON, Lead Pastor, HIS Church, Spokeperson, Peaceably Gather, Twitter: @leadpastor

• Pastor Gibson: We think life is going to be a cruise ship but it turns out becoming a battle ship
• America did not found the church, the church founded America
• Pastor Gibson explains why he came into the crossfire for standing up for America's foundational principals

JAMES FANELL, retired Intelligence Officer for the Indo-Pacific, US Navy, former National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institute:

Part I:

• Recently declassified document shows how the Trump Administration worked to maintain US supremacy in the Indo-Pacific region by ensuring "free and open" navigation of the South China Sea
• James Fanell: America First was not "America go at it alone." The strategy called for renewing our alliances with other emerging and shared Democracies throughout the Indo-Pacific
• US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific: Countering China's direct military threat
• The Trump Administration went a step further, breaking with tradition, by deterring China within the First Island Chain

Part II:

• President Trump and his administration showed their cards in order to allow the public to hold the Biden-Harris administration accountable should they diverge from Trump's effective China policy
• Kurt Campbell: the man behind the failed 2012 Scarborough Shoal crisis
• Heightened danger in the early days of the Biden Administration probable as Beijing seeks to test the new President