Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Benjamin Weingarten

BENJAMIN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC, Senior Contributor at The Federalist, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, New Forthcoming Book, American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party:

• Implications of the radical takeover of the Democratic party
• Dissecting Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Somalian roots

(PART TWO):

• Dangers of the red-green axis
• The presence of anti-Semitism in the Democratic party
• Who is empowering Omar’s radical agenda?

(PART THREE):

• Why Turkey can no longer be considered a US ally
• How Erdogan sponsors terror groups

(PART FOUR):

• How Americans can protect themselves from radical progressivism

With Brad Johnson, Paolo Borchia, Caroline Glick and Nan Su

BRAD JOHNSON, President, Americans for Intelligence Reform:

• What is the state of US intelligence?
• The politicization of our intelligence agencies
• Why Gina Haspel needs to be held accountable for her acts under John Brennan

PAOLO BORCHIA, Member of the European Parliament:

• The state of political affairs in Italy
• How conservatism has spread throughout Italy in recent months
• How has the coronavirus impacted Italy?

CAROLINE GLICK, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy:

• What would Bernie Sanders winning the presidential election mean for Israel?
• Disparities between Republicans and Democrats on Israel

NAN SU, Senior Reporter, Epoch Times, covering China, Taiwan and California:

• Ben Meng's role in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System
• Would Beijing invade Taiwan once the coronavirus is under control?

With Stephen Young

STEPHEN YOUNG, Global Executive Director of Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism, Author of Moral Capitalism and The Road to Moral Capitalism and The Theory and Practice of Associative Power: CORDS in the Villages of Vietnam 1967 – 1972, Served as Assistant Dean at the Harvard law School:

• Complexities of the relationship between the US and Taliban
• What does the new peace deal require of the US and the Taliban?

(PART TWO):

• Parallels between US negotiations during the Vietnam War and the recent talks with the Taliban
• Possibilities of a "Chinese surveillance state"
• What was the CORDS Program during the Vietnam War?

(PART THREE):

• Comparing the Paris Peace Accords to the peace deal with the Taliban
• How will Afghanistan as a whole respond to the new peace deal?

(PART FOUR):

• Should the US adopt a similar CORDS Program in Afghanistan?
• What should President Trump do to ensure there are no more American lives lost in Afghanistan?
• The need for an insurance policy on this deal

With Andrew Mangione, Tom Van Grieken, and Roslyn Layton

ANDREW MANGIONE, Senior Vice President at Association of Mature American Citizens - AMAC Action:

• Steps President Trump has taken to improve the quality of health care
• The importance of price transparency in the health care system
• How the coronavirus is underscoring the United States' dependence on China

TOM VAN GRIEKEN, Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium:

• The rise of a conservative movement in Europe
• What do the conservatives of Belgium stand for?
• The censorship of conservatives in Belgium

ROSLYN LAYTON, Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute:

• Huawei's theft of technological ideas throughout the years
• Dangers to the US of using Chinese technology
• The security risks Lenovo computers pose to US citizens

(PART TWO):

• What needs to be at the forefront of American national security issues?
• How should the US prepare for 5G?

With David Goldman, Kevin Freeman, Sam Faddis and Diana West

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

• Implications for Chinese political order as a result of the coronavirus
• How accurate are the numbers the Chinese are providing regarding the coronavirus?

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 coronavirus' effect on American medical supplies
• How long would it take for the coronavirus to impact American medicine?
• Why the US cannot be dependent on China

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:

• The Faustian bargain the US made with China 
• Analyzing the work conditions in China
• Do the Chinese have the coronavirus under control?

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:

• Remembering the life of Philip Haney
• The ongoing investigation into the death of Philip Haney

With Yoram Ettinger

AMB. YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in DC Consultant to Israeli and US legislators:

• The current state of the US-Israeli relationship
• A historical look at the genesis of the US-Israeli relationship
• The national security threats facing both the US and Israel

(PART TWO):

• Analyzing the "Deal of the Century"
• Can the Palestinians be trusted with respect to the peace deal?

(PART THREE):

• Hypothetical scenarios regarding the security of Israel
• The critical role Jordan plays in the US-Israeli relationship
• The correlation between economic status and fertility rate in the Middle East

(PART FOUR):

• The international threats currently facing Iran
• What is the end game vis-à-vis Iran?
• The surge in Israel's economy in recent history

A tribute to Philip Haney with Frank Gaffney and John Guandolo

FRANK GAFFNEY, Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy, host of Secure Freedom Radio:

• Remembering the legacy of Philip Haney
• Philip's lasting impact on the national security community

JOHN GUANDOLO, President and Founder of Understandingthethreat.com, Veteran of Desert Storm, Former commanding officer of an FBI SWAT team, Designated “Subject Matter Expert” by FBI Headquarters and created and implemented the FBI’s first Counterterrorism Training program focused on the Muslim Brotherhood and the global Islamic movement, Author of new book, Islam’s Deception: The Truth About Sharia:

• John and Philip's discovery of a Jihadist network within the United States
• How Philip was a "Renaissance Man" with respect to national security

PHILIP HANEY, Retired Homeland Security Officer, Author with Art Moore of See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad:

• Dissecting the concept of sovereignty
• The Sharia supremacist threat
• Tablighi Jammat and civilization jihad

(PART TWO):

• How to reverse damage done to our national security
• The damage the Muslim Brotherhood does to American Muslim communities

With Diana West

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 sentencing of Roger Stone
• The continuation of the anti-Trump conspiracy into 2020

(PART TWO):

• How the case of Rich Higgins underscores issues with the anti-Trump establishment
• Is there equal justice in the US with respect to political figures?
• The infiltration of the justice department and intelligence community by the deep state

(PART THREE):

• Will the Russian collusion narrative re-surface during the 2020 presidential election?
• The connection between the Obama administration and Russia through Skolkovo

(PART FOUR):

• Understanding the roots of McCarthyism
• What are the motivations behind the Democratic Party?

With Dr. Mark Schneider

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

• Why is nuclear deterrence important?
• An increase in Chinese nuclear capabilities in the years following the end of the Cold War
• Can a nuclear war be won?

(PART TWO):

• Vladimir Putin's role in Russian nuclear exercises
• Russia's nuclear exercise in October of 2019
• Why the US needs to upgrade their nuclear deterrent

(PART THREE):

• What kind of nuclear power do the Chinese have today?
• What is the "Underground Great Wall"?

(PART FOUR):

• The current state of the US nuclear deterrent
• What steps can the US take to upgrade their nuclear weapons?

With Paul Kengor

PAUL KENGOR, Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of The Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, New York Times Best Selling author, Author of A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20^th Century (May 2017):

• Tracing the origins of Bernie Sanders' beliefs in socialism
• What does Sanders mean when he calls himself a "democratic socialist"?

(PART TWO):

• A background of Frank Marshall Davis' connection with Barack Obama
• The attempts to turn the US into a socialist country
• What is the difference between communism and socialism?

(PART THREE):

• Communism's connection with Shariah supremacism
• Jimmy Carter's impact on the current US-Iranian relationship

(PART FOUR):

• Parallels between the Soviet Union and modern-day China
• The importance of China in the upcoming US presidential election