Tag Archives: Fred Fleitz

Some Much Needed Moral Clarity

With Brian Kennedy, Matthew Continetti, Bill Gertz and Fred Fleitz

BRIAN KENNEDY, President of the American Strategy Group, Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Claremont Institute:

  • The need for moral clarity
  • President Trump’s resolve to eradicate radical Islamic terrorism
  • Designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization

MATTHEW CONTINETTI, Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Free Beacon, Author of The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine and The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star:

  • The media’s focus on Trump’s exaggerations
  • What does President Trump mean by “America First”?
  • China’s irresponsible global power

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age:

  • Will President Trump reform U.S. intelligence agencies
  • Obama’s failed terrorism strategy
  • The need for American information campaigns

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

  • Trump’s recent comments about enhanced interrogation techniques
  • How President Trump reform the intelligence community
  • The media’s heavy criticism of National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn
  • The White House’s proposed actions to review U.N. funding and multilateral treaties

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast2): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast3): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast4): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Time To Make America Great Again!

With Jim Hanson, Dr. J. Michael Waller, Fred Fleitz and Richard Pollock

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy:

  • Making America Great Again
  • Being “anti-jihadist” does not make one “anti-Muslim”
  • E-Verify as an effective tool to limit illegal immigration
  • Government should ensure equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome

J. MICHAEL WALLER, Editorial Board Member of the NATO Defense Strategic Communications Journal, Senior Writer at the America Media Institute:

  • The history of Russia’s meddling in the U.S.
  • Putin’s actions in Iraq and Syria

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

  • The commutation of Bradley Manning’s sentence and Obama’s disgraceful exit
  • Politicization of the intelligence community
  • Drain the swamp by shutting down the ODNI
  • Realigning the intelligence community’s priorities

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter for the Daily Caller:

  • CNN’s report about Rep. Price’s ethics violations is fake news
  • Does the MSM have any credibility left?
  • Fraudulent Buzzfeed dossier on Trump

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast2): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast3): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast4): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Trumping the Media

With Jim Hanson, Tom Rogan, Meg Opera, and Fred Fleitz:

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy:

  • Trump’s recent press conference
  • The mainstream media’s infatuation with Obama

TOM ROGAN, columnist for National Review, Senior Fellow at the Steamboat Institute:

  • America’s degraded credibility in the Middle East
  • How Trump should confront Putin

MEG OPERA, Senior Contributor at The Federalist:

  • Obama’s contribution to the creation of the Islamic State
  • What influence should the U.S. have in a post-Caliphate Iraq and Syria?
  • Partitioning Iraq

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA official, Executive Vice President of Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

  • The politicized Intelligence community report on Russian hacking
  • Are the Buzzfeed Trump memos real?
  • Dismantling the DNI

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast2): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast3): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast4): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Modernizing the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent

With Fred Fleitz, J. Peter Pham, Dr. Matthew Kroenig and Adam Kredo

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

  • Senate Armed Services Committee on Russian hacking
  • The Kremlin’s nuclear modernization
  • Implications of Obama’s expulsion of Russian diplomats

PETER PHAM, Vice President of the Atlantic Council and Director of its Africa Center:

  • Boko Haram’s expansion
  • Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
  • Democratic Republic of Congo’s political crisis
  • Ethnic cleansing in South Sudan

MATTHEW KROENIG, Author of A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Threat:

  • Did Trump start a nuclear arms race with his tweet?
  • 3 ways to modernize U.S. nuclear deterrent
  • Rusting away to disarmament

ADAM KREDO, Senior Writer for the Washington Free Beacon:

  • Obama administration’s misleading rhetoric on Israeli settlements
  • Possibility of moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem
  • Kerry and Obama recognition of Palestinian state at Paris Peace conference

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast2): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast3): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast4): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

What is Next for Europe?

With Michel Gurfinkiel, Robert Knight, Rep. Lamar Smith and Fred Fleitz

MICHEL GURFINKIEL, Founder and President of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute:

  • The rapid deterioration of German national security in 2016
  • Jihadist threat in France
  • Cultural dissonance in Europe

ROBERT KNIGHT, Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union, Columnist for The Washington Times:

  • Fake News hysteria
  • Micro-propaganda
  • Who are the arbiters of what is and is not “fake news”?
    Obama’s Presidential pardons

REP. LAMAR SMITH, Chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, Member of the House Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees:

  • Border security and interior enforcement in the law under the Trump administration
  • Obama administration fired scientist to further climate change agenda
  • Is the science ‘settled’ on climate change?
  • Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy, former CIA officer:

  • Latest on Berlin Christmas market attack
  • 5 things Americans need to know about the intelligence debate
  • Peter Navarro heads Trump’s trade council

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast2): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast3): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast4): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

CIA’s Politicized Intelligence on Russia Hacking

With Fred Fleitz, Rick Fisher and Benjamin Weingarten

(PART ONE):

  • The Left-Wing Media’s attempts to delegitimize Trump

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at CSP, Former CIA Analyst:

  • CIA assessment on Russia hacking
  • Extensive evidence of the politicization of the CIA
  • Making American intelligence great again

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow, Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center:

  • Major policy shift in U.S. relations with China under the Trump administration
  • How to take on China’s currency manipulation without pushing Beijing into active military measures

BENJAMIN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC:

  • Loretta Lynch’s safe space for jihadists
  • SPLC’s false claim that hate crimes have increased since Donald Trump was elected

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast2): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast3): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast4): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Retired Marine General John Kelly to Lead DHS

With Rowan Scarborough, Claudia Rosett, and Fred Fleitz

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, National Security Reporter at The Washington Times:

  • Marine Corps General Kelly appointed to lead DHS
  • General Kelly’s experience commanding SOCOM
  • How General Mattis can educate Trump about Putin

FRED FLEITZ, Executive Vice President of Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy, former CIA officer:

  • Why John Bolton is the best choice for Secretary of State
  • How Rand Paul is misinformed about Bolton’s role in the Iraq war
  • Agendas of the permanent bureaucracy in Washington
  • “Burrowing in”

(PART TWO):

  • Russia’s nuclear-capable drone submarine
  • What Trump can do with the Iran deal

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Affairs columnist at Forbes.com:

  • What Nikki Haley should do at the United Nations
  • Obama’s U.N. action on Israel

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast2): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast3): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast4): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

President Obama Sends His “Mind Meld” to Castro’s Funeral

With Dan Gallington, Luis Fleischman, Peter Pry, Fred Fleitz and Adam Kredo

DAN GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor, George C. Marshall Institute:

  • The Trump cabinet choices thus far
  • Who will Obama pardon before he leaves the White House?

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy:

  • Trump’s policy towards Cuba
  • Revising Obama’s deal with Havana
  • Peace deal between the Colombian government and FARC

PETER PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum:

  • Current state of the electric grid
  • Building resilient infrastructures
  • Cost of hardening the grid

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs, former Chief of Staff for Ambassador John Bolton:

  • Contrast between responses from Obama and Trump after Fidel Castro’s death
  • Ben Rhodes’ representing U.S. to funeral of Fidel Castro
  • John Bolton as the next potential Secretary of State

ADAM KREDO, Senior Writer for the Washington Free Beacon:

  • Unaccompanied minors on the border
  • Green card processing meltdown
  • Twitter verifies Muslim Brotherhood mouthpiece

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast2): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast3): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast4): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast5): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

The Future of the JCPOA

With Fred Fleitz and J. Peter Pham

(PART ONE):

  • Jim Hanson takes apart the narrative that President Trump will establish a Muslim registry

FRED FLEITZ, Executive Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

  • General Flynn as President-elect Trump’s National Security Advisor
  • What will happen to the Iran Deal under the next administration?
  • How JCPOA has emboldened Tehran

(PART TWO):

  • “Bipartisan” claims that Trump should not get rid of the Iran deal
  • How should the nuclear deal be renegotiated?

J PETER PHAM, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center:

  • Why President-elect Trump should make Africa a priority
  • The Islamist threat in Africa
  • Chinese ownership of key strategic minerals and other resources

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast2): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast3): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast4): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

FBI Probe into Clinton-related Emails Upends Presidential Race

With Joe DiGenova, Fred Fleitz, Rep. Chris Stewart and Claudia Rosett

JOE DIGENOVA, Founding Partner of diGenova & Toensing, LLP, Former U.S. Attorney, District of Colombia, for four years:

  • FBI turmoil over the Clinton laptops
  • Is Director Comey a ‘dirty cop’?
  • How did Huma Abedin manage to get a clearance?
  • Double-standard to the rule of law

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy, Former CIA analyst:

  • Damage assessment from Huma Abedin’s carelessness with classified information
  • Was Abedin cleared for SAP access?
  • Does Trump’s temperament disqualify him from access to the nuclear codes?

REP. CHRIS STEWART (UT-2), New York Times bestselling author, world record-holding U.S. Air Force pilot, Member of the House Appropriations and Select Committee on Intelligence:

  • Hillary has revealed classified means, classified methods and classified human assets to deceive the American people
  • Ongoing battle for Mosul

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

  • ‘Sustainable development’ United Nations agenda
  • Might a lame-duck President Obama force a diplomatic resolution for Israel and Palestine?

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast2): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast3): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (podcast4): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS