Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Soeren Kern

SOEREN KERN, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute , Senior Analyst for Transatlantic Relations at the Madrid based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos (Strategic Studies Group), Contributing Analyst for Jane’s Information Group on Basque and Islamic terrorism in Spain, Stationed in Germany in the last decade of the Cold War, serving in the US Air Force:

• The impact of coronavirus in Europe
• How coronavirus has virtually shut down Spain's tourism industry
• The severity of the lockdown in Spain

(PART TWO):

• The status of illegal immigration in Europe
• Why are the French police not enforcing the lockdown as harshly toward certain religious groups?
• Could these double standards lead to a second wave of coronavirus in Europe?

(PART THREE):

• How are Sharia supremacists perceiving their preferential treatment with respect to social gatherings?
• Could the coronavirus pandemic lead to a reassessment of the European Union?

(PART FOUR):

• What are China's ambitions for Europe?
• Europe's relationship with China for developing their 5G network

With Sasha Gong, Kevin Freeman, Diana West and Robert Spencer

SASHA GONG, Former VOA’s China Branch Chief, Author of “Born American: A Chinese Woman’s Dream of Liberty”:

• President Trump's decision to prevent US federal retirement funds going towards Chinese companies
• China's constant spying on the United States done by their own citizens

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 importance of ending the United States' investment in China
• How did China become a prominent economic player in the international world?
• How to help Americans invest "patriotically"

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 latest developments in "Obamagate"
• Why have these revelations taken so long to get proper attention?

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine:

• How is the French government treating their rapidly growing Muslim community?
• A professor's life that was threatened in Arizona

With Russ Dallen, Joseph Humire, Mark Schneider and Gordon Chang

RUSS DALLEN, President & Editor in Chief at The Latin American Herald Tribune, Head of the international investment bank, Caracas Capital Markets, Served as President of Venezuela’s “The Daily Journal”:

• Threats to the United States due to Russia's relationship with Cuba
• Russian intelligence gatherings taking place in Cuba

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):

• The attempt to remove Nicolás Maduro from power last week
• Military connections between Venezuela and Iran
• Is the Trump Administration aware of the relationship between Iran and Venezuela?

MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy, Longtime career in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy:

• The current state of the United States' nuclear deterrent
• Vladimir Putin's obsession with upgrading Russia's nuclear arsenal

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):

• What is the "crime of the century?"
• How did China deal with Wuhan before the rest of the world knew the scale of coronavirus?
• Analyzing a speech made by Matthew Pottinger directed at the Chinese Communist Party

With Mark Helprin

MARK HELPRIN, Novelist, journalist and conservative commentator, Former Senior fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Latest book Paris in the Present Tense (2017):

• The DOJ dropping the case against Michael Flynn
• The weaponization of US intelligence agencies

(PART TWO):

• A history of the United States' preparedness for a viral disease outbreak
• What could the US have done to better prepare for the coronavirus outbreak?
• What have the Chinese taken away from the coronavirus pandemic?

(PART THREE):

• China's aspirations to dominate the international world
• What makes the Chinese system of government so threatening?
• China's dominance over the South China Sea
• How the Chinese rely on American capital markets to fund their military technology

(PART FOUR):

• Russia's nuclear doctrine compared to the United States'
• How North Korea has built up their biological weapons program

With Brian Kennedy, Hank Cooper, Robert Charles and David Goldman

BRIAN KENNEDY, Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China, President of the American Strategy Group, Senior Fellow and Board Member of the Claremont Institute:

• Analyzing the companies that make up the Thrift Savings Plan
• How much does the Trump administration know about the Chinese companies in the Thrift Savings Plan?
• The role of the Securities and Exchange Commission in protecting American investors from China

HANK COOPER, Director of the Strategic Defensive Initiative Organization (SDIO) during the Bush Administration, Chairman of Applied Research Associates, Senior Associate of the National Institute of Public Policy, Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Center:

• How President Trump's executive order on the electrical grid is a step in the right direction
• What was left out of the executive order?

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 the WHO enabled Beijing’s Covid-19 disinformation
• An overview of Iran’s latest missile launch

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

• How China has used the pandemic to further their surveillance-state capacities
• Dangers of Beijing’s control of 5G networks and data
• How New York politicians have mishandled the Covid-19 response

With Roger Robinson, Gordon Chang, Diana West and Sam Faddis

ROGER ROBINSON, Co-Founded and presently Chairs the Prague Security Studies Group, President and CEO of RWR:

• China's penetration of the US federal retirement system
• How can President Trump intervene to end this investment?

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):

• What is China's "wolf diplomacy?"
• Assessing China's military capability at the moment
• Matthew Pottinger's speech directed at the CCP

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:

• Bill Gates' connection to the World Health Organization
• How does "Event 201" fit into the coronavirus pandemic?

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:

• Recent developments in the case of Michael Flynn
• Why was there an animus against General Flynn within the US government?
• Nancy Pelosi's connection to China

With Ben Weingarten, Claudia Rosett, Grant Newsham and Kevin Freeman

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

• BlackRock's influence on the US federal government
• How Larry Fink is imposing a leftist agenda with respect to federal investment
• What can US citizens do to stop investment in Chinese companies?

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

• China's history of exploiting international organizations like the WHO and UN
• Tedros Adhanom's praise of China during the coronavirus pandemic
• How China is exploiting the pandemic to crackdown further on Hong Kong

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

• What is the US-China military balance in the West Pacific?
• Comparing the numbers of the US and Chinese Navy
• China's harassment of Malaysian ships

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”:

• President Trump's actions to stop federal investment in Chinese companies
• Why are Chinese companies not held to the same standards as US companies?
• An economic war on America's energy sector

With Dr. Peter Pry

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 new executive order signed by President Trump on protecting the bulk power system
• The need to treat the security of the US electrical grid as a national security concern

(PART TWO):

• What needs to be done to ensure President Trump's executive orders are faithfully implemented?
• The need to produce electrical grid technology in the United States
• Is there an ability to provide electricity without using a large electrical grid?

(PART THREE):

• The present vulnerability of the US electrical grid
• The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) satellite launch last week
• Assessing the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran

(PART FOUR):

• Nuclear tests conducted by Russia and China over the past 28 years
• Is arms control good for the United States?
• The US pulling B-52s out of Guam

With Joel Caplan, Roger Robinson and Arthur Herman

JOEL CAPLAN, Former small business owner and investor in Chinese companies, currently becoming a multi-cultural/inter-faith Israeli Tour Guide through the Haifa University “School of Tourism”:

• How transparent are Chinese companies?
• First-hand experience of investing in Chinese companies

ROGER ROBINSON, Co-Founded and presently Chairs the Prague Security Studies Group, President and CEO of RWR:

• What is President Trump doing with respect to the Thrift Savings Plan?
• Analyzing the business practices of companies that are in the Thrift Savings Plan
• What are the next steps to end federal investment in China?

ARTHUR HERMAN, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Author of 1917: Lenin, Wilson and the Birth of the New World Disorder(2017):

• A historical perspective to investing in Chinese companies
• What is the Chinese business strategy applied in the United States?
• Have Chinese companies infiltrated other country's borders? 

(PART TWO):

• How has the coronavirus impacted US citizens' view of doing business with China?
• How can the US disengage from China?
• What is the state of the US industrial base at the moment?

With Lawrence Peck, Mitzi Perdue, Kevin Freeman and Jessie Jane Duff

LAWRENCE PECK, Advisor at the North Korean Freedom Coalition:

• What is the status of Kim Jong-un's health?
• Who would be the successor of Kim?
• How the health of Kim Jong-un affects the political scene in South Korea

MITZI PERDUE, Previous President, American Agri-Women, Businesswoman, Author, and Professional Public Speaker:

• What is food security?
• Could a depletion of the US food supply lead to civil disorder?
• How can the US help ensure food security for their citizens?

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”:

• How shutting down the economy impacts farmers
• An overview of RestartNow.io
• What are US veterans saying about their investment funds going toward malevolent Chinese companies?

JESSIE JANE DUFF, Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), Co-Chair Veterans for Trump, Advisory Board Women for Trump:

• How US military funds going to Chinese companies represent a national security threat for the US
• The various issues with the US investing in these Chinese companies