Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Cheryl Chumley, Kevin Freeman and Suzanne Scholte

CHERYL CHUMLEY, Author, “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall," Opinion Editor, The Washington Times, Twitter: @ckchumley

• What does the Left mean when they use words like "insurrectionist," "siege" and "domestic terrorism"? 
• Cheryl Chumley argues that the American Left is exacerbating fears in order to "chill conservative speech," ensuring Donald Trump will never rise to power again 
• "Freedom of Speech" is supposed to apply to all American citizens
• Cheryl finds that terms like "Christian nationalist" are being painted by the Left to represent shame, racism, etc. 

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

• The digital yuan is weeks way from being unveiled as China's premiere crypto currency 
• Kevin Freeman: Swift recognizes that under a Biden administration, they will no longer be constrained by US influence - hurting American national interests both abroad and at home
• Freeman argues that President Trump should use the upcoming impeachment trial to make his case for fraud in the 2020 election

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

• What North Korea Claims vs. The Actual Facts:
• CLAIM: The World Health Organization, as well as the North Korean regime, claim that North Korea has not had a single COVID fatality. FACT: North Korea may have been one of the first countries outside of China to experience a coronavirus outbreak given that the government issued a strict lockdown on Jan. 22, 2020
• Suzanne Scholte: Western Sahara is the only country in Africa still colonized - argues that President Trump was ill-advised when recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over the region

With Yoram Ettinger, Kyle Shideler and Robert Charles

YORAM ETTINGER, former Minister for Congressional Affairs, Israeli Embassy in Washington DC, President, American-Israel Opportunities, Ltd, Editor, Ettinger Report, Twitter: @YoramEttinger

• What does "America is back" mean to you? 
• Yoram Ettinger: The current fundamental flaws within President Biden's Middle East policy team is their intent to instill "western values" amongst the region's various Arab regimes
• Ettinger argues that Israel made it clear during the Obama-Biden administration that it was willing to strain US-Israeli relations in order to counter Iran
• The Obama administration eroded Israel's relationships with other countries in the region that were also intent on combatting Iran's rise 

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

• Kyle Shideler: "You can't deal with American citizens the same way you deal with the Taliban in a cave in Afghanistan" 
• The Democrats' proposed domestic terrorism bill puts a lot of undue strain on the US military and law enforcement personnel
• The Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as other left-leaning organizations, is focusing more on rhetoric than actual acts of violence

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

• Wedding of ignorance, partisanship and arrogance separates us from reason
• Robert Charles: There is an extraordinary overreaction to the anticipated obstruction of the election process amongst the policy circles in Washington today
• Charles finds that last summer, notable Democrats were fully in their right to advocate and encourage people to take to the streets - the same as Donald Trump on Jan. 6th

With Tommy Waller, Robert Spencer, Jeff Nyquist and Kevin Freeman

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

• Tommy Waller delves into the actual magnitude of the recent SolarWinds hack
• Waller: the recent attack was meant to target our supply chains and the federal government's new cloud architecture
• Instead of trying to access our electric grid networks via hacking, China has bypassed our "Maginot Line" by exporting around 300 electrical transformers with possible backdoor capabilities to the US

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

• A former CIA official, Robert Grenier, recently argued that the government needs to "hunt down" the individuals behind the Capitol 6th riot the same way the US targeted Al Qaeda and ISIS
• Robert Spencer: If Biden wants to go after the "right wingers," he will crack down on dissent throughout the country, possibly outlawing it
• Spencer finds that France is "a little further down the road" than the US when it comes to dealing with Islamists in their own country

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

• "The Road to Civil War: A Spanish Analogy" and how the patterns of violence in 1930s Spain almost mirror those of Antifa/BLM in the US today
• In the lead up to the 1933 Spanish election, those on the Left argued that should the Right take power, the country would change the rules, ensuring that the conservatives would never rise to power again
• Jeff Nyquist: As the past 6 months have shown, the Left in America will take to the streets on the slightest pretext

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

• A new COVID stimulus bill making its way through Congress may further exacerbate the US's ever-growing deficit
• Forces both within and outside of the US are working to undermine the US dollar as the reserve currency of the world - China developed a new crypto currency
•  Will President Trump use his impending impeachment trial as an opportunity to present his case for fraud in the 2020 election? 

With Ben Weingarten, Pete Hoekstra, David Wurmser and Susan Katz Keating

BEN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO, ChangeUp Media LLC, Senior Contributor, The Federalist, Senior Fellow, the London Center for Policy Research, Twitter: @bhweingarten

• Ben Weingarten: "BGI is the Huawei of Genomics" after being tasked with managing China's nation gene bank and establishing a presence overseas
• The Trump administration's "Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific" sought to prevent China from gaining access to our personal health information 
• Under Xi Jinping's tenure, the Chinese Communist Party will pursue the "path of least resistance," which in Xi's case is lighting the "torch of multilateralism" 

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

• A large majority of the US intel community, an even some entities within the FBI, are bound by law to focus on external threats. However, when some within the community began to look internally and monitor the Trump campaign in 2016, this caused a grave concern for US national security
• Pete Hoekstra: "I look at Washington today and it's become a witch hunt"
• Straying away from "approved political speech" has become the same as lying 

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: Under Biden, we are looking at Obama 2.0 policies in the Middle East
• A lot of the building blocks for Iran's nuclear capabilities today were laid out in the Obama administration's original Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action 
• Iran's centrifuges were supposed to be put in storage. Instead the Iranians found a loophole in the deal and have been busy at work testing and recalibrating them
• Wurmser: "There seems to be an allergy in the Biden administration for anything that President Trump did, good or bad

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

• Former Green Beret in Myanmar reports that the military has always been in control of the country
• Susan Keating: Navalny has Putin scared. What will the protestors do next?
• A US Army Chaplin is under investigation after objecting to President Joe Biden's recent executive order allowing transgenders to serve in the military

With Trevor Loudon, James Fanell, Dr. Mark Schneider and Mike Mabee

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

• Trevor Loudon: China's "grand design" is the destruction and occupation of the United States of America.
• From Communist China's point of view, either America, or themselves, will dominate the world
• Committee of a Hundred, New Virginia Majority and other left-wing organizations have worked to change the balance of power from within

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

• As Mao once said, "the real power is the gun," and the People's Liberation Army is that "gun" - has the capability to achieve anything that cannot be gained through non-violent means
• James Fanell: Beijing seeks to bring Taiwan into "total control" in the near future
• People would have laughed at the prospect of China conducting warfare anywhere outside of the first island chain - this has become a not so distant reality
• Are the Bahamas giving way to a new theatre of conflict?

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:

• Mark Schneider: The Biden administration's new START treaty is the worst attempt at arms control since President Ronald Reagan became President
• Russia only likes arms control when they can cheat
• China is not constrained by the new START treaty - a very serious threat

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

• Last year's May executive order on supply chain vulnerabilities in our electric grid established that the US should not rely on critical components from countries like China and Russia
• The US imported about 300 critical electrical transformers from China over the past decade
• Mike Mabee: There are 3,000 different companies involved in the US electric grid

With Rick Green, James Bowers, Gordon Chang and Sam Faddis

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

• Rick Green provides his insights on President Trump's impending impeachment trial, which he refers to as a "miscarriage of justice" and a "show trial" 
• The question as to whether or not a former government official can be impeached was already answered in the 1700s

JAMES BOWERS, Communications Director, American Security Institute:

• James Bowers walks through his organization's China Owns Us campaign
• Bowers: 97% of our antibiotics are manufactured in China, as well as 30% of personal protective equipment
• China gained about 80% of America's personal health data

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

• Gordon Chang: China is trying to buy our DNA - Why? 
• "Gain of Function" research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology may shed light on the origins of the coronavirus
• Chang delves into President Joe Biden's recent Jan. 26 Executive Order targeting "racism and xenophobia" in the US government
• Beijing no longer recognizes Britain's BNO passports for Hong Kongers seeking asylum abroad

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: Biden's pick for US Ambassador to the UN and the administration's numerous other "Legions of Supervillains" 
• The Chinese have been deeply engaged in a "smash and grab" operation in Africa for decades
• Faddis argues that the Chinese Communist Party has managed to subvert the highest levels of the US government

With Joseph Humire, Gordon Chang, David Wurmser and Robert Charles

JOSEPH HUMIRE, Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society, former Director of Institute Relations, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, US Marine Corps (retired), Twitter: @jmhumire

• Lessons learned about Venezuela during the Trump years: Shifting Venezuelan military and oil companies away from Maduro will not solve the problem
• The Venezuelan military is reliant on support from Russia, Iran and Cuba

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

• The Genocide Convention of 1948 requires all signatories to act on their designations - What does this mean for China's genocide against the Uyghur Muslims?
• Gordon Chang: Chairman Xi Jinping must have been "ecstatic" after hearing President Joe Biden's recent comments
• China has sent about 20 different air-force assets into Taiwan's air identification zone since President Biden's inauguration

Dr. 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 (Ret.) Lieutenant Commander:

• David Wurmser reminds us about how the European Union countries have suspended a good portion of their democratic processes
• The "wedding" of wealth and communist bureaucracy is a sign that the "Davos Crowd" is succeeding in their mission to circumvent individualism
• The recent Gamp Stop saga is another prime example of what happens when outsiders interfere with the business of the elites

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

• Why does the Biden administration seem to only be focused on hunting down the perpetrators of the Jan. 6th Capitol riot and not Antifa?
• Swiftly passing a large number of executive orders in a small timeframe breaks with precedent, which can have negative effects on peoples' livelihoods
• Robert Charles reaffirms that executive orders are proclamations, not laws

With Nick Ballasy, Jeff Nyquist and Lt.Gen. (ret) Jerry Boykin

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

• Bill Gates's recent comments about creating a COVID vaccination passport during a Washington Post event - a majority of Big Tech companies are becoming more involved in vaccination task forces
• Speaker Nancy Pelosi's H.R. 1, a revived piece of legislation from the 116th Congress, is a Democrat's wish list for election reform
• During the 2020 election, President Biden raised nearly $70 million from Wall Street, overshadowing the $18 million garnered by the Trump campaign

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

• Who are the "Ultra-Right" as defined by the Communist Party of America's manifesto? 
• Jeff Nyquist lays out how the Communist Party plans to take control of the US government
• The Communist Party USA claims to be aligned with the "Anti-Imperialist" nations of the world, including China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba...

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

• Gen. Jerry Boykin: The Framers of the Constitution feared the day the powers of the federal government would be used against the American people
• Many senior military officials during the Obama-Biden era were promoted not because of their leadership but due to their support of the administration's radical policies
• The John Brennan theory: the show of force at the US Capitol both in the days leading up to and after the inauguration are all part of a larger psychological war 

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

• Naked short selling, short selling and short squeezing: The GameStop and Wall Street saga explained
• Why do people lend their stocks to others full well knowing that they are going to receive less in return?
• When President Biden says that he will raise taxes, increase regulations and tank America's prospects for energy independence, steady economic recovery will not occur
• Kevin Freeman: As interest rates begin to increase on US debt, foreign actors will try to dethrone the US dollar as the reserve currency of the world 

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