Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Diana West, Sam Faddis and Trayce Bradford

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

• An update on Hunter Biden's laptop story
• Did Joe Biden profit from Hunter Biden's business dealings?

(PART TWO):

• A letter signed by 50 former intelligence officials concerning the New York Post article on Hunter Biden
• Ideological drivers behind the anti-Trump conspiracy
• The upcoming presidential debate

SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress, Senior Subject Matter Expert at Axon/Lockheed Martin, Author of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA (2009):

• Analyzing the business relationships of Hunter and Joe Biden
• The Biden family's relationship with China

TRAYCE BRADFORD, Vice President of Christians Engaged, Serves as the Eagle Forum National Issues Chair for HumanTrafficking:

• The magnitude of human trafficking in the United States
• The human trafficking issue in Texas
• Various groups in the US combatting human trafficking

With Rich Higgins

RICH HIGGINS, CEO of Higgins Technology Group, LLC, VP for Intelligence and National Security of RED, Inc., Former Director of Strategic Planning for the NSC, Author of The Memo: 20 YEARS INSIDE THE DEEP STATE FIGHTING FOR AMERICA FIRST:

• A concerted campaign targeting President Trump early on in his presidency
• Various personnel elements within the early Trump administration

(PART TWO):

• A memo Rich wrote regarding members of the White House who were opposed to President Trump
• H. R. McMaster's role in distributing Rich's memo

(PART THREE):

• Analyzing the MAGA doctrine of the Trump administration
• The importance of the One Belt One Road project
• A convergence of multiple threat streams to American democracy

(PART FOUR):

•  What is a "color revolution?"
• Is this revolution taking place in the United States?
• What to expect after the presidential election in November

With Tara O, Gordon Chang and Kevin Freeman

TARA O, Founder of East Asia Research Center:

• Moon Jae-in's relationship with China
• Moon's attempt to save China's reputation with respect to COVID-19
• Assessing the United States' relationship with South Korea

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019):

• The upcoming IPO of Ant Group
• Confucius Institutes in the United States
• Is China trying to divide Australia from the United States?

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• The Chinese borrowing of US treasury bonds
• The financial impact of coronavirus on the United States

(PART TWO):

• What does Ant Group do?
• Patriotic investing Kevin is making available to the American people
• US investor underwriting of the Chinese Communist Party

With Robert Charles, Sam Faddis, Kyle Shideler and Peter Huessy

ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author of Eagles and Evergreens:

• Takeaways from the recent presidential town halls
• The crackdown of big tech on social media

SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress, Senior Subject Matter Expert at Axon/Lockheed Martin:

• An attempt to stop the peaceful transition of presidential power in 2016
• What are the FBI and DHS claiming is the largest domestic threat to the United States?

KYLE SHIDELER, Director/Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at Center for Security Policy:

• The threat of Antifa to the United States
• What is the first job of the US government?
• Is the government countering violent extremism in the US?

PETER HUESSY, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Former Senior Defense Consultant at the National Defense University Foundation, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Russia's buildup of nuclear weapons
• China's continual testing of ballistic missiles
• The current state of the United States' nuclear deterrent

With Fred Fleitz, Derek Maltz, Jeff Nyquist and Dr. Anders Corr

FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO Center for Security Policy, Former CIA analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Dept., Author of The Coming North Korea Nuclear Nightmare: What Trump Must to Reverse Obama’s Strategic Patience (2018):

• A possible new North Korean ICMB
• Assessing the health of Kim Jong-un
• An update on Hunter Biden's dealings with foreign powers

DEREK MALTZ, Executive Director, Government Relations for Pen-Link Ltd., Former Special Agent in charge of the US DOJ, Special Operations Division, Former Chief of the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force:

• A recent drug bust in Los Angeles
• The problem of methamphetamine production in Mexico
• China's contribution to the drug crisis taking place in the United States

JEFF NYQUIST, Has written for Newsmax, WorldNetDaily, SierraTimes, Financial Sense and Epoch Times, Author of the book Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War:

• Analyzing the character of Vladimir Putin
• What presidential candidate would Putin prefer to win?

DR. ANDERS CORR, Publisher, Journal of Political Risk:

• The unrestricted warfare of the Chinese Communist Party
• Joe Biden's attitude toward China
• How will the US engage with China in the future?

With George Rasley, Diana West, Gordon Chang and Kevin Freeman

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor of Conservative HQ:

• A recent plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan
• Will riots continue after the election in November?

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

• Previous attempts to prevent Donald Trump from being inaugurated
• A recent FBI report regarding Russian collusion in US elections

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019):

• South Korea's recent election
• Does Moon Jae-in want to unite with North Korea?
• How can the US help protect Taiwan?

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• The IPO of Ant Financial Group being put on hold
• An upcoming webinar on national security, the economy and trade policy

With James Fanell

JAMES FANELL, Retired from US Navy in 2015 concluding 30 year career as a naval intelligence officer specializing in Indo-Asia Pacific security affairs with an emphasis on the Chinese Navy, Assignments included tours as the Assistant Chief of Staff for intelligence for the U.S. Seventh Fleet aboard the USS Blue Ridge, the Office of Naval Intelligence China Senior Intelligence Officer, etc., Former National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University:

• The current state of Chinese-Taiwanese relations
• A crackdown on the lives of Taiwan's citizens

(PART TWO):

• Is Taiwan prepared for a potential Chinese military invasion?
• Dual-use airlift capabilities of the People's Liberation Army
• Does China have Russian missile technology?

(PART THREE):

• China's efforts to keep the US out of the South China Sea
• The United States' aspirations for a larger Navy
• Chinese military bases in the South China Sea

(PART FOUR):

• Analyzing America's policy towards Taiwan
• What is the United States' current relationship with South Korea?
• America's underwriting of China's military buildup

With Joseph Humire, Robert Charles and Joe Bosco

JOSEPH HUMIRE, Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society, Former Director of Institute Relations at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Author of Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America (2014):

• Hezbollah's illicit activity around the world
• The infrastructure Hezbollah has put in place in Venezuela

(PART TWO):

• The connection between the Maduro regime in Venezuela and Hezbollah
• Joseph's recent report explaining this connection
• How the Maduro regime is trying to divide the United States

ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author of Eagles and Evergreens:

• Comparing Donald Trump and Joe Biden's approaches to foreign policy
• Biden's idea of arms control
• What is Kamala Harris' idea of foreign policy?

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:

• How serious of a threat does China pose to Taiwan?
• Analyzing a recent speech by Robert O'Brien directed at the Chinese Communist Party

With David Wurmser, Doug Feith, Grant Newsham and Jeff Nyquist

DAVID WURMSER, Director of CSP’s new program on fighting global anti-Semitism and defending the US-Israel relationship, Served as Middle East Adviser to Dick Cheney, as Special Assistant to John Bolton and as a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Served in the US Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer at the rank of Lieutenant Commander:

• David's recent Occasional Paper on Peter Beinart's Anti-Zionism
• A continuation of this type of attitude throughout the Democratic Party
• Validation of Muslim Brotherhood members by the Obama administration

DOUG FEITH, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2001-2005):

• Kamala Harris' thoughts on foreign policy
• What is the United States' national interest?

GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Senior Research Fellow at Japan Forum for Strategic Studies:

• What is "the Quad?"
• Mike Pompeo's meeting regarding this defense alliance
• Was the recent South Korean election rigged?

JEFF NYQUIST, Has written for Newsmax, WorldNetDaily, SierraTimes, Financial Sense and Epoch Times, Author of the book Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War:

• How should US foreign policy be created?
• How will Joe Biden craft his foreign policy if he is elected?
• What has Vladimir Putin said about the state of US politics?

With David Goldman, Diana West, Stephen Blank and Jessica Vaughan

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author of How Civilizations Die, Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler:

• How "America first" broke the establishment curse
• What are Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ambitions for the Middle East?

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

• Recent revelations in the anti-Trump conspiracy
• What did President Obama know about the Russian collusion narrative?

STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council, 26 Years of Experience as a professor of National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of U.S. Army War College:

• Russian influence operations against the United States
• The character of the Russian regime under Vladimir Putin
• The current state of arms control between the US and Russia

JESSICA VAUGHAN, Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, Former Foreign Service Officer with the State Department where she served in Belgium and Trinidad & Tobago:

• The current state of US immigration policy
• What will the Biden-Harris approach to immigration look like?