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The Decline of the U.S. Navy

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With Sec. John Lehman, Diana West, Rep. Chris Stewart, Andy McCarthy

JOHN LEHMAN, former Secretary of the U.S. Navy:

  • Ashton Carter’s plea to China to cease artificial island proliferation
  • A U.S. reduction of military forces worldwide
  • Paralyzing effects of an increasing Pentagon bureaucracy
  • The Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program’s strategic importance

DIANA WEST, author of “Death of the Grown Up” and “American Betrayal”:

  • The world’s view of the United States since Pres. Obama took office
  • Obama’s strategy to have America “lay low”
  • Diana West’s “A Short History of Our Age”

Rep. CHRIS STEWART (UT-2), member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:

  • Folderol of the TSA program
  • Obama’s non-policy in the Middle East
  • The Syrian refugee resettlement program
  • Is the USA Freedom Act a good compromise?

ANDY McCARTHY, former U.S. Federal Prosecutor: 

  • Rand Paul’s misrepresentation of the NSA’s authority
  • How phone companies could be used as records depositories
  • Policies which have contributed to the rise of ISIS
  • The Supreme Court ruling on the Abercrombie and Fitch hijab case

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A Threat Beyond the “Jihad Caucus”

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With Diana West, Daniel Akbari, Col. Dick Brauer, Joseph Connor

DIANA WEST, author of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character:

  • The Tale of American POWs who were  “liberated” by the Red Army at the end of WWII
  • The United State’s problem recognizing the difference between good and evil
  • Assessing the threat from the Senate’s “Jihad Caucus”

DANEL AKBARI, author of Honor Killing: A Professional’s Guide to Sexual Relations and Guyra Violence from the Islamic Sources:

  • The various body of sources Shariah law is drawn from
  • American Laws for American Courts (ALAC) bill sabotaged in the Texas state legislature
  • Passing the buck on the Iran problem

Col. DICK BRAUER, founder of Special Operations Speaks:

  • Is Hillary Clinton eligible for impeachment?
  • Clinton’s recent release of 300 State Department-era emails
  • Support for Clinton’s impeachment from Congress

JOSEPH CONNOR, co-author of The New Founders:

  • A puzzling lack of American demands from the Castro regime
  • Congressional uproar over Havana’s continued harboring of terrorists and fugitives
  • Has Cuba renounced any of its human rights violations and terrorist ties since opening relations with the U.S. government?

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Scare Tactics Threaten Metadata Program

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With Fred Fleitz, Rick Manning, Diana West, Riki Ellison

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy, former CIA Analyst:

  • Senator Paul’s filibuster on the USA Freedom Act
  • Implications of the fall of Ramadi to ISIS
  • Effect of the nuclear deal on the state of Iraq

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

  • Prospective 2016 GOP candidates express criticism of the President’s request for trade promotion authority
  • House delegates realizing that the TPP is about much more than trade
  • China considered for the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault On Our Nation’s Character”:

  • WW2 betrayals of Russian nationalists allied against USSR leader Josef Stalin
  • The revisionist Iraq War debate
  • The wave of Muslim immigrants into the U.S. since 9/11

RIKI ELLISON, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance:

  • New Pentagon report on China’s increasing ballistic capabilities
  • An outdated U.S. missile defense policy
  • New American missile defense sites in Romania and Poland drawing condemnation from Moscow
  • Japanese and U.S. co-development of the Aegis Interceptor missile
  • Vulnerabilities of an unguarded U.S. eastern seaboard

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The Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East

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With John Hannah, Fred Fleitz, Diana West, Martin Sherman

JOHN HANNAH, former national security advisor to Vice President Cheney:

  • Growth of the nuclear arms race in the Middle East
  • Arab leaders’ rebuff of President Obama’s summit
  • Protecting the electrical grid from an Iranian EMP

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy, and former CIA Analyst:

  • Michael Morell’s claims that the CIA had no part in planning the Benghazi “talking points”
  • Bi-partisian support for an extension of the PATRIOT Act

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault On Our Nation’s Character”:

  • The Duranty case and willful blindness in the media
  • Desensitization to the violence of Shariah and jihad
  • Examples of submission to Shariah norms in the U.S.

Dr. MARTIN SHERMAN, Executive Director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies:

  • What the Israeli government is doing—and not doing—to defend against pressure to recognize a unified Palestinian state
  • Evidence of increasing friction in the U.S.-Israel relationship

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Has the Iran Deal Undermined U.S. Alliances in the Persian Gulf?

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With Daniel Akbari, Diana West, Michael Rubin, Jim Hanson

DANIEL AKBARI, Leading Shariah lawyer from Iran, and the author of “HONOR KILLING: A Professional’s Guide to Sexual Relations and Ghayra Violence from the Islamic Sources”:

  • An overview of the sources of Islamic legal authority
  • Is the death penalty for insulting Muhammad not Islamic or quintessentially so?
  • The misnomer of “honor killings”: Islamic jealousy and the concept of Ghayra
  • Are more devout Muslims more likely to engage in Jihad and Ghayra violence?

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault On Our Nation’s Character”

  • Claims that Pamela Geller provoked the Garland, Texas attack
  • Enforcement of Shariah against criticism of Islam here in the U.S. on a wider scale than ever before
  • Forced repatriation of citizens fleeing the USSR at the tail end of World War Two

Dr. MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes”:

  • Obama’s negotiated surrender to Iran and the incentivizing of defiance
  • Why the U.S. has lost credibility in the Gulf
  • Concerns about the strength of U.S. leadership before the oncoming proliferation cascade

JIM HANSON, former U.S. Army Special Forces Technical Weapons Sergeant:

  • A look at the Garland, Texas attack as a project of the Islamic State
  • The global reach of the black flag of Jihad
  • The extent to which civilization jihad is thriving in the United States
  • Why law enforcement and counterterrorism agencies can’t properly prevent threats from “known wolves”
  • “Knowing your enemy so you can defeat them”: How the Patton vs. Rommel analogy is relevant today

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Nuclear Agreement Gives Iran a $50 Billion Signing Bonus to Fund Terrorism

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With Diana West, Matthew Brodsky, Richard Manning, Ann Corcoran

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

  • Why the spectacle of 11 Republicans voting down Sen. Ron Johnson’s Iran treaty amendment constitutes a betrayal
  • How nations extinguish themselves
  • Muslim Brotherhood agents of influence fight to prevent Dutch parliamentarian, Geert Wilders, from speaking in America

MATTHEW BRODSKY, Senior Analyst at Wikistrat Inc.:

  • Iran’s claims that sanctions relief won’t go towards terrorist activities, despite Tehran’s uninterrupted flow of arms and personnel abroad
  • Can sanctions against the Mullahs really snap back?
  • Latest United Nations efforts for a unified Palestinian state along with the body’s continued discrimination against Israel

RICHARD MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to sell the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement to the U.S. Congress
  • Why all the secrecy behind what’s entailed in the TPP?
  • Special interest groups lobbying for big government regulation in regards to international trade
  • What do Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul all think of the TPP?

ANN CORCORAN, author of “Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America”:

  • Sub-Saharan and North African refugees making the dangerous trek to Europe
  • Besiegement of Malta during the George W. Bush administration
  • Who in Congress is taking a strong stance against current refugee resettlement policy?
  • United Nations plans for the U.S. to take in 11,000 unvetted Syrian refugees
  • President Obama’s “New Americans Initiative”

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China’s Push to Restart Falklands War

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With Dr. Harold Rhode, Diana West, Rick Fisher, Jasvinder Sanghera

Dr. HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, and former Turkish Desk Officer at the Department of Defense:

  • Weak negotiating tactics that make the Administration’s red lines meaningless
  • How U.S. concessions to Iran are forcing a coalition between Israel and the Sunni Arab Gulf governments
  • Differences between nuclear deterrence tactics used against Iran and the former Soviet Union

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character:

  • A Senate decision to allow the Iran deal to pass through Congress with a simple minority vote
  • The expulsion of cartoonist Lars Vilks from his home by the Swedish government due to his “defamatory” depictions of the Prophet Muhammad
  • Ways in which multiculturalism and an Islamic incursion into Western society is creating drastic demographic changes

RICK FISHER, author of “China’s Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach”:

  • A new Office of Naval Intelligence study highlighting Chinese maritime forces expanding, modernizing, and increasing their global power projection capability
  • Enhancements within the PLA Navy that suggest China is taking a “wartime footing”
  • Beijing’s adventurism in the South Atlantic in efforts to start a second Falklands War

JASVINDER SANGHERA, forced-marriage survivor, founder of the U.K-based Karma Nirvana, and author of “Shame”:

  • Manifestations of honor based violence and forced marriages
  • Sanghera’s campaign to raise awareness, debunk myths, and discuss why these issues are human rights abuses
  • Methods for ending biases towards honor based violence and forced marriages within Western law enforcement

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Chaos Reigns in Yemen

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With Ryan Mauro, Diana West, Jim Hanson, Katherine Zimmerman

RYAN MAURO, National Security Analyst for ClarionProject.org

  • Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist’s ties to Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian-American civil rights activist indicted on terrorism charges
  • Al-Arian’s efforts to pressure the George W. Bush administration to turn national security manners into issues of civil rights
  • Nefarious dealings of an organization stared by Norquist, the Islamic Free Market Institute
  • A warning from an FBI informant that the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a major financier of Al-Arian’s dealings, was attempting to infiltrate the U.S. government

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character:

  • Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ campaign to prevent the “Islamization” of his native Netherlands and the rest of Europe
  • Shariah law’s advancement into Western civil liberties
  • Is Islam expansionist, according to its authoritative text and history?
  • Will Wilders be prosecuted for his recent comments in Vienna?

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy, and former Army Special Operations officer:

  • Conflicting accounts from Washington and Tehran regarding the nuclear “agreement” framework
  • Lessons from Bill Clinton’s failed deal with North Korea
  • The futility of inspections via the IAEA
  • The worldwide reach of the Global Jihad Movement in Africa

KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN, Research Fellow and lead analyst on al-Qaeda for the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project:

  • Yemen’s transition from “managed chaos” to civil war seen in the post-Arab Spring political marginalization of the al-Houthi group
  • Funding, weapon shipments, allegations of military training, and on-the-ground advisors given to the Houthi rebels from Tehran
  • Yemen’s strategic position on the Red Sea and, from there, the Suez Canal
  • How the Sunni Arab Gulf Coalition and Shia Iran are using the conflict in Yemen to expand the greater sectarian war in the Middle East
  • Limited U.S. options going forward in the Arabian Peninsula

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Obama Delays Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan to Avoid Another Iraq

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With Rep. Trent Franks, Daniel Sullivan and William Wisner, Diana West, Jim Hanson

Rep. TRENT FRANKS (AZ-8), Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee:

  • Problems with the disconnect between the military and the civilian electric grid
  • The Critical Infrastructure Protection Act’s proposal to use hardware-based solutions to secure the grid
  • Iran’s progress towards an eventual EMP capability, thanks to the current nuclear negotiations
  • Why sour relations with Israel undermines America’s international credibility
  • Will President Obama need further convincing on the National Defense Budget?

DANIEL SULLIVAN, President and Co-Founder of the Sergeant Sullivan Center, and WILLIAM WISNER, leader of the SSC’s Veteran Fellowship for Mission Leadership:

  • The story of USMC Sgt. Tom Sullivan’s health issues arising from exposure to hazardous environmental material during his combat deployment in Iraq
  • The Sergeant Sullivan Center’s mission of direct advocacy and promotion of private sector research on environmental-deployment injuries
  • Watching to see if the Department of Veterans Affairs will modify the Veterans Choice Act

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault On Our Nation’s Character”:

  • Circumstances influencing President Obama’s decision to keep more troops in Afghanistan
  • Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson’s comments at the Muslim Public Affairs Council
  • Root crises of transnational progressivism and a unified, global government
  • Was the post-World War II order heavily shaped by Soviet influence operations?

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy, and former Army Special Operations officer:

  • Political pressures weighing on President Obama’s decision to keep 9,800 U.S. forces in Afghanistan through 2015
  • Predicting the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’s future role in the power vacuum of a post-U.S. occupied Iraq
  • Could the proxy civil war in Yemen escalate to direct conflict between Saudi and Iranian troops
  • President Obama’s refusal to meet with the NATO General Secretary, despite Vladimir Putin reinstating Novorossiya

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s National Security Mandate

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With Caroline Glick, Diana West, Jack Caravelli, Pete Hegseth

CAROLINE GLICK, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy and author of “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East”:

  • The results of the Israeli elections and why a unity government is unlikely to emerge
  • Prime Minister Netanyahu’s mandate on national security
  • The appointment of Robert Malley to the National Security Council’s Middle East Desk

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

  • The DNI’s Threat Assessment setting the stage for further Western concessions to Tehran
  • Similarities of Iran’s strategy to the deception-based negotiating of the former USSR
  • Revelations that the White House continues to consult disgraced General Petraeus on the Islamic State
  • Tom Cotton (R-AR) and the Senate 47’s open letter to Iran emphasizing checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution

Dr. JACK CARAVELLI, former Director for Nonproliferation on the National Security Council and 14-year veteran CIA analyst:

  • Putin’s “adventure” in Ukraine: one year later
  • Western wistful thinking and the myth of a “New Russia” under Putin
  • Is NATO prepared to deal with a recidivist Russia?
  • How accepting a nuclear Iran could shred the Non-Proliferation Treaty

PETE HEGSETH, CEO of Concerned Veterans for America:

  • Foreign policy problems arising from the U.S.’s “leading from behind approach” in Libya, Syria, and post-surge Iraq
  • Implications of the Iranian Quds Force and Shia militias filling the power void in the fight against the Islamic State
  • Political biases present in the National Intelligence Threat List due to the ongoing Iranian nuclear deal
  • Veterans Affairs meddling with the Choice Act, a service meant to enable veterans to receive private medical care

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