Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With David Goldman, Gal Luft and Daniel Pipes

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

• The current financial relationship between China and Hong Kong
• Could international financial interest in China decline in the near future?

GAL LUFT, Co-Director of the Institute of the Analysis of Global Security, Senior adviser to the United States Energy Security Council, a cabinet level extra governmental advisory committee, Co-author of De-dollarization: The revolt against the dollar and the rise of a new financial world order (2019):

• How the coronavirus has impacted the textile industry in Turkey
• China's attempt to become a 'cashless' society

DANIEL PIPES, Founder and President of the Middle East Forum, Affiliate Professor at the University of Haifa:

• A history of the relationship between the United States and Turkey
• A 'naval passage' between Turkey and Libya
• What has happened to the Turkish military?

(PART TWO):

• The nature of the relationship between Turkey and Russia
• What should the US do to adjust the status of Turkey in NATO?
• The current state of Turkey's economy

With Diana West, Gordon Chang, Peter Pry and Shoshana Bryen

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:

• The fact-checking being done to President Trump on Twitter
• How does Facebook plan to limit free speech?

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 role of Henry Kissinger in US foreign policy throughout the years
• What should be done by the US to stand with Hong Kong?
• Do members of Congress know the threat that China poses to the United States?

DR. PETER PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both Congressional Advisory Boards, Served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA:

• The need to have electric grid technology manufactured in the United States
• How to stop foreign influence on the US electrical grid
• Why the US needs to resume nuclear weapons testing

SHOSHANA BRYEN, Senior Director of the Jewish Policy Center, Former Senior Director for Security Policy at JINSA, Mrs. Bryen was for 17 years author of the widely read and republished JINSA Reports:

• How are things moving in the right direction for the US-Iranian relationship?
• How long will Iran remain in Syria?
• What is the relationship between Germany and Iran?

With Mark Hyman, Claudia Rosett, Kevin Freeman and Fred Fleitz

MARK HYMAN, Author of the new book Pardongate: How Bill & Hillary Clinton and Their Brothers Profited from Pardons, Emmy Award-winning, investigative journalist:

• The numerous pardons given by Bill Clinton at the end of his presidency
• How has Joe Biden profited from his time in government?

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Affairs columnist at Forbes.com, Blogs at “The Rosett Report” at PJ Media:

• China's recent actions towards Hong Kong
• Could the tension between China and Hong Kong lead to a military conflict?
• What can the US do to help the people of Hong Kong?

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”:

• Should the US completely disengage Chinese companies from their capital markets?
• Chinese censorship against Kevin's YouTube channel
• How US citizens are funding the Chinese Communist Party

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):

• Recent developments in the Michael Flynn case
• Will FISA rules be changed in Congress?
• How will history judge the role of Rick Grenell as the acting Director of National Intelligence?

With David Goldman, George Rasley, Robert Charles and Chris Hull

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

• The amount of fraud that takes place inside many Chinese companies
• A technological monopoly that the United States still holds
• Could this monopoly impact Huawei?

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor of Conservative HQ:

• The realization that Barack Obama was out to get Michael Flynn
• The role of Judge Emmet Sullivan in the Michael Flynn case
• What can be done to stop the "persecution" of General Flynn?

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:

• How does the case of Michael Flynn fit in to the anti-Trump conspiracy?
• What was the driving force behind the unmasking of General Flynn?

CHRIS HULL, President of Issue Management, Inc., Senior Fellow with Americans for Intelligence Reform:

• The relationship between China and the World Health Organization
• Has the US government been penetrated by the Chinese Community Party?
• China's role in the United Nations

With Chris Iacovella

CHRIS IACOVELLA, Chief Executive Office of the American Securities Association, Former CEO of the Equity Dealers of America:

• How has China penetrated US capital markets?
• What does the American Securities Association do?
• The current vulnerabilities of the US financial system

(PART TWO):

• What is China doing with their access to American capital markets?
• Why don't these Chinese companies share their financial records?
• Why are Chinese companies not held to the same financial standards as all American companies?

(PART THREE):

• A fraudulent Chinese pharmaceutical company that has deceived American investors
• Is there a way to get Chinese companies to comply with American financial standards?

(PART FOUR):

• How the SEC is putting American investors at risk of identity theft
• What is the American Securities Association doing to prevent this?

With Diana West, Ken Timerman, Grant Newsham and Peter Huessy

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:

• The role of Judge Emmet Sullivan in the Michael Flynn case
• What is the ultimate goal of the left's battle against General Flynn?
• Digging deeper into the anti-Trump conspiracy

KEN TIMMERMAN, President and CEO of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, Author of Deception: The Making of the YouTube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi, Author of Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi, Nationally recognized investigative reporter:

• The politicization of the Obama intelligence community
• The lockdown of citizens in France during the coronavirus pandemic
• The withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria

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

• Why did it take so long to realize US military funds were being invested in Chinese companies?
• The challenge the Chinese military poses to the United States
• Is China using the pandemic to advance their military capability?

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:

• The nuclear capabilities of the Russians and Chinese
• The advancement of missile technology around the world

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:

• Chinese companies that make up the Thrift Savings Plan
• How is Wall Street handling the pushback against the Thrift Savings Plan's investments?
• The Chinese market share of the US stock market

(PART TWO):

• Do Americans know the true intentions of the PRC?
• Why do Chinese companies get a pass on the rules and regulations American companies have to abide by?

(PART THREE):

• China's increasing military activity in the South China Sea
• Comparing the US and Chinese naval forces

(PART FOUR):

• How many nuclear warheads do the Chinese have?
• The Belt and Road Initiative of the CCP

With Frank Calzon, Dan Gallington, Gordon Chang and Todd Bensman

FRANK CALZON, Executive Director at the Center for a Free Cuba in Washington, D.C., Former DC representative for Freedom House:

• Russia's nuclear submarine activity in Cuba
• A potential resistance forming to the communist regime in Cuba
• The impact of the internet and social media on Cuban politics

DAN GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor, George C. Marshall Institute, Served in senior national security policy positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Justice, and as bipartisan general counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:

• The dangers of Russia investing in massive nuclear technologies
• Why is Putin threatening to put missiles in Cuba?
• The need to enhance our deterrent across the board

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 urgent need for Chinese companies to be held to the same regulations and standards as US companies
• What is taking place at the World Health Assembly meeting?
• A decision by the US Commerce Department with respect to Huawei

TODD BENSMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Writing Fellow, Middle East Forum, Author, the Federalist:

• An overview of a new terrorist travel tactic
• The significance of securing the US border
• Dissecting the vulnerabilities of our immigration system

With Joe diGenova

JOE DIGENOVA, Founding Partner of the Washington, D.C. law firm of diGenova & Toensing, LLP, Former U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia, for four years, Former Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the Senate Rules Committee, Former Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary, Governmental Affairs and Select Intelligence Committees:

• What are the origins of the anti-Trump conspiracy?
• Abuse of the FISA process by the Obama administration

(PART TWO):

• What should be included in the FISA reform being discussed in Congress?
• Who was involved in the takedown of Michael Flynn?
• What was the purpose of the investigation into General Flynn?

(PART THREE):

• The connection between James Baker and David Ignatius
• The convoluted subpoena process in American politics

(PART FOUR):

• The role of Emmet Sullivan in the Michael Flynn case
• Robert Mueller's connection to the Michael Flynn investigation

With Robert Charles, Fred Fleitz, Sam Faddis and David Goldman

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:

• China's quest to dominate space
• A recent rocket launch that was not properly decommissioned by the Chinese Communist Party
• How American citizens may be funding the Chinese space program

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):

• The 'unmasking' that has taken place in the Michael Flynn case
• Richard Burr's decision to step down as Senate Intelligence Committee chairman

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):

• Deliberate spying that was done on Michael Flynn
• The massive conspiracy that took place during the Obama presidency

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

• The Trump Administration's desire to bring computer chip manufacturing back to the United States
• How are the Chinese acting towards Hong Kong?
• The military balance in the South China Sea