Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Kyle Shideler, Rick Green and Robert Charles

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: The events that transpired on Capitol Hill on Jan 6, 2021, were possibly pre-planned
• Orchestrated situations on Capitol Hill, bomb threats called in for the Cannon House Office Building and the James Madison Library of Congress Facility, and two pipe bombs found at both the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee

Part II: 

• Months of rioting by notable left-wing actors vs. violence on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6th: What is the media portrayal like?
• Shideler compares and contrasts the threats posed by white supremacists and the muslim brotherhood

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

• Rick Green: Jan 6th will go down as a victory for the cultural marxists as evil and foolish attackers descended on our nation's capitol 
• Congresspeople changed their votes based not on the evidence but instead from the violence they witnessed
• When you ignore or encourage a problem, chances are it will come back

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

• Robert Charles: There is a picture being drawn of America during a great point of weakness
• Comparison to the post-9/11 international space when our adversaries used our division to advance their interests
• President-Elect Joe Biden needs to double-down on President Trump's deterrence policies

With Gordon Chang, Dan Celia, Michael Rectenwald and Stephen Coughlin

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

• Beijing worked very hard to ensure Joe Biden would be elected the next President of the United States - inciting violence, spreading rumors, disinformation campaigns on social media, etc.
• Gordon Chang breaks down Xi Jinping’s recent call for China’s military to be ready for war at “any minute”
• 53 people were rounded up and charged under the new Beijing imposed National Security Law yesterday in Hong Kong

DAN CELIA, President and CEO, Financial Issues Stewardship Ministries, Twitter/Parler: @financialissues

• Dan Celia contends that this election was not stolen but instead “given away” 
• Wall Street’s only enemy is the one who can do nothing for them
• The on again, off again, on again listing of the three Chinese military-linked companies on the New York Stock Exchange

DR. 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, Twitter: @TheAntiPCProf

• The Marxists' agenda for America has been given the green light after the events on Capitol Hill yesterday 
• Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Shareholder Capitalism to Stakeholder Capitalism to Corporate Socialism and Actual Socialism
• Woke culture is an ideological component to the “Great Reset”

Stephen Coughlin, Attorney, former Intelligence Officer, Director for Intelligence, Joint Chief’s of Staff, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Police, Author, “Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad,” Twitter: @S_Coughlin_DC

• Stephen Coughlin puts yesterday's events in DC at the US Capitol and beyond in context
• The controlled opposition has adopted a "divide and conquer" strategy 
• Why are some Republicans branding the protestors as "insurgents" 

With Diana West, David Wurmser and Joseph Bosco

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs, Dianawest.net, Author, “Death of the Grown Up,” “American Betrayal” and “Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy,” Twitter: @diana_west_

• Diana West argues that what is happening in Georgia is insanity, but not insanity without a purpose
• Trump’s attorneys warned voters in Georgia ahead of the run-off election about voting irregularities
• The bizarre death of Harrison Deal: close ties to Gov. Kemp and his family, Sen. Loeffler campaign staffer…

Part II: 

• Why do Gov. Kemp and the Secretary of State in Georgia continue to advocate for an election system prone to fraud and corruption?
• Blackout Wars: Just as we do not know what is going on in Georgia, we do not know what is going on around the rest of the world
• West finds that we are witnessing a “war-like” control of information as social media giants may be actively trying to manipulate the news

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:

• Iran increased its reserve of enriched uranium by 20%
• Iranians were fearful to retaliate under a Trump administration, their attitude may shift under a Biden administration 
• David Wurmser explains why a recent agreement between Qatar and Saudi Arabia may not be all that it seems
• Wurmser excepts an escalation in violence on the part of the Palestinians towards Israel in the coming months following Joe Biden’s potential inauguration

JOE BOSCO, Former China Country Director, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Member of the U.S.-China task force at the Center for National Interest:

• The threat posed by China pertains not only to the middle class but the country as a whole
• The Biden team needs to follow in President Trump’s foot steps
• Biden needs to accept a phone call from Taiwan’s President, Tsai Ing-wen

With Fred Fleitz, Robert Spencer, Kevin Freeman and Rick Green

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

• Increased violence in Iraq following the one year anniversary of Qasem Soleimani's death
• Fred Fleitz: Iran may retaliate against the US following January 20th
• Edward Snowden is not deserving of a Presidential pardon
• Fleitz argues that President Trump found a way to freeze North Korean long-range missile and nuclear tests since 2017, which was not a total success but a step in the right direction

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 elaborates on the current state of sharia supremacy in Europe and what steps the European Union has taken to counter this growing threat
• Spencer: "The Jihadists are bolder than ever"
• As Senator of California, Kamala Harris worked closely with the Council on American-Islamic relations

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: Every fraudulent vote cancels out a legal one
• Many lawsuits have been thrown out on "procedural grounds," not on the basis of their evidence
• Steven Mnuchin and the rest of the deep state have worked tirelessly to curb President Trump's policy ambitions over the past four years

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

• Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution states that State Legislatures choose how their electors are chosen. Following the 2020 presidential election, 7 states will send dual electors
• The 12th Amendment specifically lays out the role the Vice President plays in overseeing the ballot counting process
• Rick Green asserts that the Electoral Counting Act of 1887 is unconstitutional because it strips the executive branch of some of its constitutional powers

With Mike Mabee, Jeff Nyquist, Claudia Rosett and Kerry Gershaneck

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

• As early as 1981, the federal government has known about the threats posed to America's physical grid security
• For the past 10 years, various electric utility companies have used over a billion dollars to lobby prominent US politicians
•  Why would public utility companies not be concerned about their own security?

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:”

• "The Right Side:" We are in a "crisis moment" in history
• In 1956, it was observed that if the GOP should follow a similar course that the Whig Party took in the 1800s, they would lose public support

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Policy Fellow, Independent Women's Forum, Award Wining Journalist, former Journalist-in-Residence, Foundation for Defense of Democracy: 

• President Trump altered the way the US perceives foreign affairs, putting American principles first
• Joe Biden has signaled that he will have us rejoin the Paris Climate Accords - this is a mistake 
• Claudia Rosett implores the US not to pursue free trade with a "mafia state" 

KERRY GERSHANECK, Visiting Scholar, Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University, Senior Research Associate, Thammasat University Faculty of Law, former US Marine Corp officer, Author, "Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to 'Win Without Fighting:'" 

• Short hand characterization of the Chinese Communist threat - global hegemony
• China's next target: Taiwan
• Political warfare is everything short of kinetic conflict
• Democracies around the world disbanded their abilities to combat communism after the Fall of the Berlin Wall 

With Diana West

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs, Dianawest.net, Author, “Death of the Grown Up,” “American Betrayal” and “Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy,” Twitter: @diana_west_
Part I:

• Event 201 from fall 2019 simulated a COVID-19 like disease being "accidentally/deliberately" released on the world
• Diana West argues that in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the "Great Resetters"seek to harness the power of the state to end Donald Trump's "economic renaissance"

Part II: 

• President Trump sought to create an "America First" agenda
• Over the past 4 years, the American left used all of the tools at their disposal to depose President Trump from power

Part III:

• This "woke culture" is not the figments of their American right's imagination - it has real world consequences 
• West reasons that our security institution, FBI, DOJ, CIA, have become the swamp's "secret police"
• Bill Barr as the "cover-up general"

Part IV:

• The US needs to lead the charge against the Great Reset
• West finds that the "psychological warfare" exacted against the American people did little to sway their support of the President

With Gordon Chang

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

Part I:

• Chairman Xi Jinping is under the impression that China, or the "Middle Kingdom," is the only sovereign state in the world
• Gordon Chang argues that Xi knew exactly what he was doing when he allowed for the coronavirus to spread across the world - The Chinese Communist Party understood five weeks in advance that the coronavirus was transmittable person-to-person
• Xi strong-armed countries into accepting flights/travelers from China right as Wuhan was up under lockdown

Part II: 

• Evidence that China is heading towards becoming a totalitarian state, again - Social Credit System
• Elements of Chinese interference in the 2020 election run deep: Global Times, the Chinese foreign ministry, bot social media accounts
• Unconfirmed reports of Chinese protestors in the US coordinating with the central government in Beijing

Part III: 

• The Chinese Communist Party used the Coronavirus to further its domination in Hong Kong and continues to suppress any and all forms of dissent within the once "semi-autonomous" region
• Taiwan is becoming more and more anti-China and has, in recent years, moved very clearly towards the side of the US, Japan and India
• China is building a port in the Bahamas, only 70 miles from West Palm Beach, Florida 

Part IV:

• Chang asks why the US does not block Chinese apps, when in fact China blocks US apps? 
• In order to counter a dubious actor like China, the next US administration must work to cut off all ties to the Chinese Communist regime

With Dr. Michael Rectenwald

DR. 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, Twitter: @antipcnyuprof

Part I: 

• Dr. Michael Rectenwald explains why he abandoned Marxism - "social justice warriors" 
• How and why Marxism has taken a "stalinist" turn in academia?

Part II:

• Dr. Rectenwald highlights the plot of his most recent novel, "Thought Crime" - a warning for what is to come?
• Our Constitution affords us rights never granted to the people of Russia and China after their Communist revolutions

Part III:

• "Big Digital" within the People's Republic of China is working to strengthen the Communists' hold over their own people, the premise of Dr. Rectenwald's other book, "Google Archipelago"
• Dr. Rectenwald predicts that the coronavirus, and its mutations, will increase the Chinese Communist Party's Social Credit System
• China has been the model for the "Great Reset" or "State Capitalism" long before the coronavirus brought the world to a stand still

Part IV:

• How do we respond to social justice warriors and collectivism?
• President Trump is a "firewall," blocking the "Great Reset"
• Donald Trump is one of the only impediments standing in the ways of the Left's plan for America

With Sam Faddis

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

Part I: 

• Issues related to electronic voting machines do not pertain to Dominion alone
• Sam Faddis: "They did it in broad daylight for over a year and nobody cared"

Part II: 

• How do we win the next battle?
• State legislatures circumvented state laws 
• Faddis: Was Joe Biden formally recruited by the Chinese intelligence services a number of years ago?

Part III: 

• Chinese operatives working to court US politicians is nothing new
• Why did Joe Biden help craft the "Memorandum of Understanding" with the Chinese Communist Party?
• China's dream team within an incoming Biden-Harris administration - Anthony Blinken, Jake Sullivan
  

Part IV: 

• Biden Administration's potential aspirations to partner with the Chinese in space
• What will a potential Iran nuclear deal 2.0 look like?
• Is Biden's supposed Iran pick too soft on the Ayatollah?
• A return to Custom and Board Patrol's "Catch and Release" policies in a Biden Administration
  

With Carlos Ponce, Speaker Newt Gingrich and Kevin Freeman

CARLOS PONCE, Senior Fellow and Director of Latin American Programs, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Senior Lecturer, Columbia University, former Director of Latin American Programs, Freedom House, Twitter @ceponces: 

• Carlos Ponce goes through the history of Chinese influence in Latin America, which has worked to safeguard some of the regions most oppressive regimes
• China expanding its influence to countries like El Salvador and Nicaragua

NEWT GINGRICH, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, chairman of Gingrich 360, Host, Newt's World Podcast, Author, "Trump and the American Future" and "Trump Vs. China," Twitter @newtgingrich:

Part I:

• Speaker Newt Gingrich explains why he won't give up on exposing the role Big Tech and others played in interfering in the Presidential 2020 election
• Gingrich: "About 30% of the country thought there was fraud on election day. By the end of November, it was about 36%. In the last week...45% thought there was not fraud in the election"
• House intel committee under Nancy Pelosi's speakership 

Part II: 

• Speaker Gingrich goes through China's infiltration of the California political elite
• The American Left's deep investment in preventing people from thinking that "Communist aren't nice"
• If we do not take on the Chinese threat now, they will dominate the world
• What the West got wrong about Deng Xiaoping

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 explains the true magnitude of "the Big lie"
• Why are voting machines being concealed and major new networks getting threatened with lawsuits from electronic voting companies?