Tag Archives: Jim Hanson

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

We Cleaned Their Clocks!

With Jim Hanson, Diana West, Tom Nichols, and Rowan Scarborough

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

  • The Center for Security Policy wins defamation lawsuit against ‘Clockboy’

DIANA WEST, Author of Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

  • Were the Podesta e-mails released by Wikileaks accurate?
  • The long history of Russian infiltration

TOM NICHOLS, Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College:

  • Russia and Wikileaks
  • Press coverage of political leaks

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, National Security Reporter at The Washington Times

  • NCSC report on the global shift in terrorism strategy
  • The difficulty of preventing small cell terrorism
  • Telegram, the app that helps terrorists communicate

The War on Israel

With Doug Feith, Diana West, Jim Hanson and Luis Fleischman

DOUG FEITH, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute:

  • President Obama and Secretary Kerry’s flawed understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Did U.S. policy toward Israel change as a result of the passage of the anti-Israel U.N. resolution?
  • The legality of Israeli settlements
  • Possibility that John Kerry will recognize Palestine as a state at a Paris Peace conference

DIANA WEST, Author of Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

  • The origins of the United Nations
  • Alger Hiss
  • The advisability of a Trump “reset” with Russia

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President of Center for Security Policy:

  • S. Special forces dispatched to the Baltics means
  • Is Keith Ellison the future of the Democratic Party?
  • German intelligence failures

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

  • Russia’s dealings in the Western hemisphere
  • Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations in Latin America

Putin’s Geopolitical Poker Game

With Garry Kasparov, Mark Krikorian, Abigail Esman and Jim Hanson

GARRY KASPAROV, 13th World Chess Champion, Author of Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped:

  • What happened after the USSR collapsed?
  • Vladimir Putin’s use of terror to seize and maintain power
  • The strength of Putin’s regime

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director at the Center for Immigration Studies:

  • Status of immigration after 8 years of Obama
  • Why building a border wall should not be Trump’s first priority
  • Effectiveness of e-verify
  • How to prevent visa overstays

ABIGAIL ESMAN, Award-winning essayist, journalist, columnist and author:

  • What we should learn about the terrorist attacks in Germany
  • Banning sharia courts in the U.K.
  • What a parallel judiciary means for English common law
  • “No go” zones

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

  • Berlin attack
  • How to vet immigrants that want to come to the U.S.
  • Donald Trump’s recent comments on how he will shape nuclear policy

Refuting the “Witch Hunt” Narrative

With Diana West, Jim Hanson, Ken Timmerman and Trevor Loudon

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

  • History of “witch hunting” in America
  • Post World War II Communist penetration of the U.S. government

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

  • Trump’s victory over jihad strategy
  • Will Donald Trump’s campaign promises be diminished after media smear campaigns?

KEN TIMMERMAN, President and CEO of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, Author of Deception: The Making of the YouTube Video Obama Blamed for Benghazi:

  • Trump’s cabinet picks
  • The unruly bureaucracy of the U.S. State Department

TREVOR LOUDON, Creator of the new documentary The Enemies Within:

  • Enemies within our government
  • Keith Ellison’s questionable connections
  • The Southern Poverty Law Center’s claim that hate crimes are on the rise after Trump’s election

The Clinton Cartel

With Ken Timmerman, Diana West, Jim Hanson and Jose Cardenas

KEN TIMMERMAN, Investigative Reporter, New York Times Bestselling Author:

  • Huma Abedin’s mishandling of classified information
  • The implications of having above top-secret information on Anthony Weiner’s unprotected laptop
  • Voter Fraud

DIANA WEST, Author of Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

  • Geert Wilders’ trial in Europe
  • The movement to terrify people into silence

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

  • The Clinton cartel
  • Will Obama pardon Hillary?
  • Genesis of the Council on American Islamic Relations
  • Will ISIS be destroyed in Mosul?

JOSE CARDENAS, Associate with Vision America:

  • Update on Venezuela
  • Why it is imperative for the Venezuelan Presidential recall to happen before the end of 2016
  • Maduro’s nephews on trial in New York for drug trafficking
  • Cuban economy is not as open to foreign investment as the Obama administration planned

What Did Obama Know and When?

With Jim Hanson, Diana West and Faith McDonnell

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

  • Facebook internal turmoil over Trump’s “Muslim-ban”
  • How the left uses shame and peer pressure to limit speech

(PART TWO):

  • Peaceful deterrence
  • What did Obama know about Hillary’s E-mails and when?
  • Cyberattack on Twitter, Netflix, and other large U.S. websites this week
  • Effort to take back re-enlistment bonuses

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

  • Hate speech bans
  • Germany’s migrant rape crisis cover-ups

FAITH MCDONNELL, Director of Religious Liberty Programs at the Institute on Religion and Democracy:

  • Chemical weapons attacks and genocide in South Sudan
  • White House demonstration about Sudan’s use of chemical weapons in Darfur on Friday
  • Persecution of Christians in Germany

The Next UN Secretary General’s Questionable History

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With Claudia Rosett, Jim Hanson, Diana West and Gordon Chang

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

  • UN Secretary-General Guterres’ background
  • The case for capitalism
  • How the UN decides which refugees come into the US

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

  • Saudis and Qataris underwriting the Islamic State
  • Are ISIS fighters truly motivated by unemployment?
  • Hillary’s e-mails from Wikileaks

DIANA WEST, Blogs at Dianawest.net, author of Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

  • How the West is confronting a fifth column
  • Are nearly half of Europeans embracing “extremist” views?

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal blogger, author of The Coming Collapse of China:

  • Philippines President Duterte’s anti-American views
  • How does China wage economic warfare against the US?
  • Why PLA soldiers are protesting in Beijing

Sharing Cyberspace with China and Russia

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With Rick Manning, Diana West, Jim Hanson and Dan Cadman

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

  • Relinquishing the control of the internet to an international body
  • Do tech companies support ICANN?

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, and Author of Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

  • History of information warfare with Russia
  • How terrorists exploit immigration policy

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President of Center for Security Policy, former operator in the US Army Special Forces:

  • Facebook blocks video depicting Islamist violence
  • ICANN and national security
  • How sharing intelligence with our enemies is problematic

DAN CADMAN, Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies:

  • DHS considering ending the use of private contractors for detaining illegal immigrants
  • Why current criminal justice reform is problematic

Iran’s $400 million ransom

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With Richard Pollock, Shoshana Bryen, Dr. Daniel Gouré, and Jim Hanson.

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior investigative reporter with the Daily Caller:

  • The Clinton Foundation’s Sharia promoting backers

SHOSHANA BRYEN, Senior Director at the Jewish Policy Institute:

  • Danger to the US airbase at Incirlik, Turkey
  • Lack of a policy direction in Afghanistan
  • Possible war between Israel and Hezbollah

Dr. DANIEL GOURÉ, Vice President of the Lexington Institute, former Director of Strategic Competitiveness in the Department of Defense:

  • Nature of the Putin regime and prospects for peace
  • Russia’s emboldening
  • US’s need for a modernized deterrent
  • The Third Offset

JIM HANSON, former operator in the US Army Special Forces, Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy:

  • The Trump/Khan feud
  • $400 million ransom to Iran
  • Assessment on the Iran Deal one year later
  • The spread of ISIS