Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Fred Fleitz, Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman and Diana West

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):

• How has the Trump administration handled the coronavirus?
• China's attempt to claim the coronavirus started outside their borders
• Various rumors that have been shot down regarding US involvement with the coronavirus

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 current state of coronavirus in China
• How are Chinese citizens faring once they go back to work?
• How has China controlled information on coronavirus from getting out?

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 the US economy is coping with the coronavirus
• How are financial markets reacting to the coronavirus?
• Impacts the virus is having on global supply chains

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 narrative of communism being the cure to coronavirus according to the Chinese
• How the 'Red Thread' has continued to work throughout the US government

With Dakota Wood

DAKOTA WOOD, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs at the Heritage Foundation, Twenty-year career in the USMC, Former Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Recently served as a strategist for the United States Marine Corps Special Operations Command:

• How is the US military reacting to the spread of coronavirus?
• The challenges of 'social distancing' for the military
• The impact of coronavirus on US troops deployed overseas

(PART TWO):

• How to control the military to ensure they don't become exposed to coronavirus
• Has the coronavirus impacted negotiations between the US and North Korea?
• Effects coronavirus has on the US navy

(PART THREE):

• The current state of the US navy
• The possible integration of AI equipment in the US military in the near future
• Other country's use of AI technology to enhance their own military

(PART FOUR):

• Where does the US stand with respect to obtaining hypersonic weapons?
• The difficulties with operating hypersonic weapons
• How robust are the US defenses against electromagnetic pulse?

With Sam Faddis

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:

• How has the CDC been handling coronavirus?
• What steps need to be taken within the CDC to ensure the virus stops spreading?

(PART TWO):

• What lead to the outbreak of coronavirus in Iran?
• How the Belt and Road Initiative has impacted the spread of coronavirus
• The uniqueness of the coronavirus

(PART THREE):

• What was 'Event 201'?
• The 'price war' going on with respect to fracking in the US
• Why the US should decrease reliance on foreign markets for oil and other goods

(PART FOUR):

• The current state of the southern border in the US
• A shocking development in the political scene of Israel
• Other threats to the US that don't get as much attention in the media

With Robert Spalding

ROBERT SPALDING, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Author of Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept (Avaliable October 1, 2019), Former Special Assistant to the U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, Former Military Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, Former Chief China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, Former Senior Defense Official and Defense Attache to China in Beijing, China, Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council:

• What is the 'stealth war' that China is waging against the US?
• What is the Chinese Communist Party's agenda?
• The predatory trade practices of China

(PART TWO):

• The global dominance of China
• What steps are the US taking to ensure China doesn't dominate 5G?
• The weaponization potential of the 'internet of things'

(PART THREE):

• The power of the CCP to put pressure on American corporations
• What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
• Where do the Chinese get the money for large projects like the Belt and Road?

(PART FOUR):

• Another threat from China potentially more dangerous than coronavirus
• How to end American investment in Chinese companies

With David Goldman and Andy Bostom

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

• What is the state of coronavirus in China?
• Assessing the reliability of China's coronavirus numbers
• How is the coronavirus impacting Europe?

(PART TWO):

• Will the economic panic stop anytime soon?
• What action needs to be taken to stop the economic issues that have resulted from coronavirus?
• How is coronavirus impacting the Middle East and oil prices?

ANDY BOSTOM, Author of The Legacy of Jihad (2005), Author of Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism (2012), Author of Iran’s Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi’ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran (2014), Author of The Legacy of Antisemitism (Updated): From Sacred Texts to Solemn History (2020):

• What is Sharia?
• How Islamic law conflicts with American law
• How 'stealth jihad' fits into Shaira

(PART TWO):

• What is the 'Abrahamic Faiths Initiative'?
• What does Sharia require of its followers?
• An overview of Omar Suleiman

With Maura Moynihan and Claudia Rosett

MAURA MOYNIHAN, Producer at Riverside Films (Produced American Visionary: The Life of Patrick Moynihan):

• Maura's experiences that have inspired her fight against Communist China
• Richard Nixon's impact on her personal life

(PART TWO):

• What is going on inside China since the outbreak of coronavirus?
• The impact of coronavirus on the international economy
• Could a regime change be coming in China?

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

• Is the Chinese Communist Party culpable for the rapid spread of COVID-19?
• The evolution of Xi Jinping’s propaganda narrative
• WHO declares coronavirus is a pandemic

(PART TWO):

• Serious shortcomings in America’s response to coronavirus
• Will COVID-19 lead to the collapse of the Communist Party in China?

With Tyler O'Neil

TYLER O'NEIL, Senior Editor of PJ Media, Has written for the Christian Post, National Review, The Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Signal, AEI's Values & Capitalism, and the Colson Center's Breakpoint, Author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center:

• A history of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
• Morris Dees' founding of the SPLC

(PART TWO):

• The personal politics of Morris Dees   
• How does the SPLC get such favorable treatment from the press?
• The relationship the SPLC cultivates with local law enforcement and schools

(PART THREE):

• An overview of the Family Research Council shooting
• Maajid Nawaz prevails over the SPLC

(PART FOUR):

• The SPLC’s position of influence in social media platforms
• Implications of big tech’s censorship of conservative speech
• How the SPLC weaponizes political warfare

With Robert Charles, Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman and Dan Gallington

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:

• Problems with voter turnout in the US during the primaries
• How will the coronavirus impact the upcoming US presidential election?

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 current state of coronavirus inside China
• Will coronavirus go away in the summer?
• How is the CCP reacting to the spread of the virus?

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”:

• Economic impacts of the coronavirus
• Potential problems of socialism in the United States

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:

• Analyzing the comments of Adm. Charles A. Richard about the US nuclear deterrent
• Does the US still have a nuclear triad?
• Should the US enter into an arms control agreement with China?

With Brian Kennedy

BRIAN KENNEDY, Chairman, The Committee on the Present Danger: China, President of the American Strategy Group, Senior Fellow and Board Member of the Claremont Institute, Fourth President of the Claremont Institute (2001-2014):

• An overview of the Committee on the Present Danger: China
• A previous Committee on the Present Danger in the late 1970s under Ronald Reagan
• The various existential threats China presents to the United States

(PART TWO):

• What economic interests does China have in the United States?
• The United States' reliance on China for medical goods

(PART THREE):

• How has China been handling the coronavirus?
• The uniqueness of the Chinese regime
• The Social Credit System that monitors the Chinese people
• The persecution of Uyghurs in China

(PART FOUR):

• What do American citizens think of China?
• What is the most immediate threat that Americans should be concerned about with respect to China?
• Why production of medicine needs to come back to the United States

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, Author of Apocalypse Unknown: The Struggle To Protect America From An Electromagnetic Pulse Catastrophe and Electric Armageddon, both available from CreateSpace.com and Amazon.com, Newest Book: Blackout Wars:

• The current state of the US nuclear deterrent
• Can we have confidence in US nuclear weapons due to their age?

(PART TWO):

• How concerned are Americans about the state of US nuclear weapons?
• Why haven't there been nuclear tests in recent years?
• Are the US nuclear labs being neglected?
• The dangers of not testing nuclear weapons

(PART THREE):

• The threat that electromagnetic pulse (EMP) poses to the US
• What does the US need to do to ensure the nuclear arsenal is updated?

(PART FOUR):

• The state of Russian and Chinese nuclear weapons
• The active role Vladimir Putin plays in Russia's nuclear exercises