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As the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) prepares for a pivotal year ahead, this special episode takes a moment to reflect on the progress made in health care policy and the challenges and opportunities on the horizon. Join host Chip Kahn as he sits down with retiring Executive Vice President of Policy, Steve Speil, to discuss his nearly four decades of experience in health care policy and his reflections on his remarkable 27-year tenure at FAH.Steve's career has spanned transformative decades in health care, from his early days in Massachusetts state health planning to tackling the evolving complexities of hospital policy in Washington, D.C. His insights in health care policy and the hospital community's resilience shine a light on how far we've come—and the work still ahead to ensure patients have access to 24/7 care.In this episode, Chip and Steve discuss: Steve's Career Journey Leading to FAH: From a Master in Public Health to law school and a career spanning Massachusetts state health planning, the Dukakis administration, AdvaMed, and ultimately the Federation of American Hospitals.Early Days at FAH: A look back at the early years of Steve's time at FAH, navigating key regulations like IPPS and legislation including the Balanced Budget Act.Changing Landscape of Health Policy: Steve reflects on accomplishments during his tenure and insights into how hospital policy has evolved, now facing increased burdens.Opportunities Ahead: Steve discusses the continued resilience of hospitals in the face of challenges and the critical role of organizations like FAH in supporting hospitals and the communities they serve.Guest bio: In his capacity as Executive Vice President of Policy, Steve Speil manages the Federation's broad portfolio of payment policy issues. He serves as the association's chief liaison on these issues with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Working closely with the senior finance and policy executives in the Federation's member companies, Steve develops and carries out both issue-specific and general strategic plans designed to advance the finance and payment related regulatory and legislative interests of the FAH.Prior to joining the Federation, Steve served as Associate Vice President, Policy Coordination and Communication for the Health Industry Manufacturers Association (now AdvaMed), the national trade group representing the medical technology industry. Before moving to Washington, Steve held a succession of increasingly senior management and policy positions in Massachusetts. During his time in the Bay State, Steve served as Legal Counsel to the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative Counsel for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Executive Director of the Disabled Persons Protection Commission, and Legal Counsel and Policy Director in the Office of State Health Planning. Steve also taught health law and policy as an Assistant Professor at Simmons College Graduate Program of Health Administration.At the federal level, Steve served in the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs. He also worked in the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of General Counsel.Steve earned a J.D. degree from American University's Washington College of Law; a Master in Public Health degree in Health Administration from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health; and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology/Zoology from the University of Michigan.

In the second part of this conversation, Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, and AMA experts continue their discussion on the upcoming physician shortage and how to fix it. Experts include, Dr. John Andrews, vice president of graduate medical education innovations; senior attorney Alexis Pierce; and Christopher Sherin, assistant director in the Division of Congressional Affairs. 

Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, is joined by AMA experts to discuss the impending physician shortage and how to fix it. Experts from the AMA include, Dr. John Andrews, vice president of graduate medical education innovations; senior attorney Alexis Pierce; and Christopher Sherin, assistant director in the Division of Congressional Affairs. 

What is the forecast for telemedicine? What are the threats to telehealth? Do doctors like telemedicine? What telehealth services are covered by Medicare? Our guest is Dana Lichtenberg, assistant director for Congressional Affairs at the American Medical Association. AMA CXO Todd Unger hosts.

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Amb. Yoram Ettinger, Former Israeli Minister for Congressional Affairs.Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

Hosts Tod Ibrahim and David White are joined by colleague Zach Kribs, ASN Manager of Congressional Affairs to discuss ASN's recent Capitol Hill advocacy on transplant.

Hosts Tod Ibrahim and David White are joined by colleague Zach Kribs, ASN Manager of Congressional Affairs to discuss ASN's recent Capitol Hill advocacy on transplant.

Climate Correction™: What Does It Mean to Put a Price on Carbon?  This panel will discuss what it means to put a price on carbon, why this is important to drive climate action and provide insights into efforts being made in the U.S. and around the world by governments and businesses.  Speakers:   Angela Churie Kallhauge  Executive Vice President, Impact, Environmental Defense Fund  Angela Churie Kallhauge is the Executive Vice President, Impact at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Her work is focused on using inclusive processes and economic approaches to achieve ambitious climate solutions that deliver equitable benefits to people around the world. Angela joined EDF from the World Bank where she served as the head of the Secretariat of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) for five years. Before that she was at the Swedish Energy Agency where she worked for 14 years on climate change, energy and development issues. During her time at the Swedish Energy Agency, she worked on carbon market development issues, including portfolio development and capacity building in developing countries. She also served as the EU lead negotiator on adaptation and resilience issues under the UNFCCC for close to a decade and represented Sweden in the Adaptation Fund Board where she led the work on accreditation for direct access. Angela also draws experience from the International Renewable Energy Agency, where she spent a couple of years leading the work to develop a climate change work program that places renewable energy action as a key part of climate change strategies. Prior to her engagement at the Swedish Agency, Angela spent close to a decade working at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and in Zimbabwe and Kenya with civil society organizations on climate, energy and development policy. Dirk Forrister  IETA President and CEO  Dirk is the CEO of IETA, a business association of carbon market professionals dedicated to delivering the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. IETA's 330 member companies operate in every carbon market in the world. Dirk's prior roles include Managing Director at Natsource, a 1.4 billion carbon fund management firm and Energy Director, Environmental Defense Fund. Earlier, he served as Chair of the White House Climate Change Taskforce in the Clinton Administration and as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional Affairs. Holly Pearen  Lead Counsel, Global Climate Cooperation, Environmental Defense Fund  Holly Pearen is Lead Counsel for EDF's Global Climate Cooperation Team where she helps teams develop and execute legal and regulatory strategies to achieve climate objectives. Her work focuses on addressing price transparency and equity in voluntary carbon markets through tailored and predictable regulatory oversight and private law solutions. Prior to joining EDF Holly represented banking and financial clients in litigation involving natural resource assets and worked as an Attorney-Advisor for the Department of the Interior, Southwest Regional Office of the Solicitor. She has a J.D., with focus on Environmental Law from Lewis & Clark Law School, an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and studied at the London School of Economics.  

About this week's guest: Dr. Sebastian Gorka is a Talk Show Host on the Salem Radio Network Platform, and began his show AMERICA FIRST on New Years Day, 2019. With parents who had lived as children under fascism and then escaped Communist Hungary, Sebastian was raised to love freedom. And his love of talk-radio developed early. As a child he would listen late into the night to the shows of the London Broadcasting Company with a small transistor radio under his pillow. It was with this special family background, and growing up under the influence of Margaret Thatcher, that Sebastian learned how to fight totalitarian ideologies, be they Fascism, Communism, or Global Jihadism.He would end up serving in the British Army reserve in a Military Intelligence unit, then after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in the first freely-elected Conservative administration in Hungary. The after the 9/11 attacks he became a professor on a Pentagon-funded counter-terrorism program run out of Germany.In 2008 he moved to America with his family where he continued to work for the Defense Department and become a proud American citizen in 2012. He obtained his doctorate in Political Science from Corvinus University in Budapest and was a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In Washington, he served as Associate Dean for Congressional Affairs and Relations to the Special Operations Community at National Defense University and has also taught on the Masters program at Georgetown University.In 2020, President Donald Trump named Gorka to the National Security Education Board. This board provides strategic consultation and was established by congressional act in 1991.Dr. Gorka has briefed the CIA, the DIA, the US Navy Seals, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, served as an expert for the DoJ during the Boston Bombing trial, and testified before Congress on the threat of Global Jihadism. He remains a guest instructor at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, at Fort Bragg, the home of the Green Berets.Gorka writes for The Hill and has written two books for Regnery Publishing. His first “Defeating Jihad,” was a national best-seller and his latest, released in October, is called “Why We Fight…Defeating America's Enemies with No Apologies.” Before launching his SALEM show, “AMERICA FIRST with Sebastian Gorka,” he was an advisor to candidate Donald J. Trump and served on the staff of the White House in 2017 as Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategy.Support the show✅Support The Show Help Us Grow! Help us reach more veterans by donating the cost of a cup of coffee today...

Anne Reinke and Joe Lynch discuss trucking though trouble. Anne is the President & CEO of Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA), the trusted voice for third-party logistics companies of all sizes. About Anne Reinke Anne Reinke was named President & CEO of the TIA in October 2020, coming from the USDOT where she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary – Congressional Affairs. Reinke started her service at USDOT in April 2019, initially as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, and transitioned to Congressional Affairs in November 2019. Prior to her time at USDOT, Reinke spent 16 years at CSX Corporation in their Federal Affairs office, ultimately serving as the Vice President – Government Affairs, overseeing the Federal, State Government and Community Affairs Departments. Before joining CSX, she worked at the Association of American Railroads and High-Speed Ground Transportation Association. Reinke is a Washington, DC native, and graduated from the National Cathedral School.  She received a B.A. from Rice University in Houston, and a J.D. from the Wake Forest University School of Law. She and her husband, Brett, have two sons and reside in Alexandria, VA. About TIA The TIA is a leading industry organization dedicated to advancing the interests of transportation intermediaries across the United States. Established in 1978, TIA has consistently demonstrated its commitment to fostering excellence and innovation within the logistics and transportation sector. As a collective voice for freight brokers, 3PLs, and other intermediaries, TIA plays a pivotal role in shaping industry policies and promoting best practices. TIA provides its members with invaluable resources, including educational programs, advocacy efforts, and networking opportunities, enabling them to thrive in an ever-evolving marketplace. With a history of advocating for fair and equitable regulations, TIA ensures that its members are well-prepared to meet the challenges of a dynamic transportation landscape. Through collaboration, education, and advocacy, TIA remains at the forefront of the transportation industry, driving growth and innovation for its members and the broader logistics community. Key Takeaways: Trucking Through Trouble The Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) is an Alexandria, Virginia based non-profit association that advocates for the third-party logistics (3PL) industry. TIA offers educational resources and business services to its members. TIA offers a Certified Transportation Broker (CTB) program. TIA publishes reports on the 3PL market: 3PL Market Report - Transportation Intermediaries Association (tianet.org) Championing Efficiency: The Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) advocates for streamlined logistics processes, promoting regulations and technologies that optimize supply chains and benefit both shippers and carriers. Advocating for Safety: TIA prioritizes safety in the transportation industry, pushing for training programs, equipment standards, and policy changes that minimize risks and accidents on the road. Building Connections: TIA acts as a bridge between transportation intermediaries, government agencies, and other stakeholders, fostering collaboration and communication to address industry challenges and opportunities. Empowering the Workforce: TIA invests in professional development for transportation intermediaries, offering educational resources, certifications, and networking opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge. Navigating Regulations: TIA provides members with guidance and resources to navigate the complex web of transportation regulations, ensuring compliance and minimizing legal burdens. Promoting Innovation: TIA embraces technological advancements in the transportation industry, supporting the development and adoption of new technologies that improve efficiency, transparency, and sustainability. Shaping the Future: TIA actively participates in shaping the future of the transportation industry, engaging in policy discussions, industry initiatives, and research to ensure a thriving and resilient ecosystem for years to come. TIA Capital Ideas Conference – Every April, North America's most successful brokerage-based logistics professionals come together for three days of education, networking, and meetings with leading suppliers across the 3PL industry. There's no other event out there designed by 3PLs for 3PLs, so don't miss it. When: April 10-13, 2024. Where: Phoenix, Arizona Learn More About Trucking Through Trouble Anne Reinke | Linkedin TIA | LinkedIn TIA | Twitter TIA | Facebook TIA | Instagram TIA | YouTube TIA  Preventing Freight Fraud with Dale Prax | The Logistics of Logistics Eliminating Freight Fraud with Michael Caney | The Logistics of Logistics The Voice of 3rd Party Logistics with Anne Reinke | The Logistics of Logistics The State of Freight with Anne Reinke | The Logistics of Logistics TIA Technovations with Tom Curee | The Logistics of Logistics Home - TIA 2024 Capital Ideas Conference (cvent.com) The Logistics of Logistics Podcast If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a positive review, subscribe, and share it with your friends and colleagues. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast: Google, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Tunein, Podbean, Owltail, Libsyn, Overcast Check out The Logistics of Logistics on Youtube  

YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and U.S. legislators An overview of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East under the Biden administration A "wave of pressure" being put on Israel in its war against Hamas Is the rest of the Middle East in favor of a Palestinian state? ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President for the Center for Military Readiness The importance of meritocracy in the U.S. military Is the Department of Defense in favor of meritocracy? TREVOR LOUDON, Creator/Author, The Enemies Within (Documentary and Book) and Enemies Within the Church @TrevorLoudon1 Who is in control of the policy direction of the Biden administration? A "revolution" underway in the U.S. Who is Eliseo Medina?

Max Goldman, Director of Congressional Affairs at the AAN, gives a year-end advocacy update.      

The Chief of Congressional Affairs, Mike Johnson, has recently emphasized the approach of House Republicans towards border security in relation to the proposed additional financial support to Ukraine. In a communique dispatched to the White House this Tuesday, Johnson elaborated on the position of GOP members. According to this message, the Republicans are reluctant to pledge further assistance to Ukraine without a solid agreement on border security entrenched in the proposal. The Biden Administration, on Monday, had aired its anxieties to Johnson about the prospective exhaustion of resources allocated for Ukraine's aid program before the year runs out. This is on the premise that additional funding approval wasn't granted by the legislative arm. Responding, Johnson stated that GOP members in the House would agree to expand aid to Ukraine only if a comprehensive solution towards border security finds its way into the package.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest Michael McQuerry shares extensive experience in communications and legislative roles as a lobbyist & Congressional Relations Specialist for various organizations.Michael McQuerry is a current Capitol Hill Communications Director for Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett and has over 20 years of communications and legislative experience. He has worked for four Members of Congress. He has also worked at the Department of Transportation and also as a Lobbyist here in Washington, DC over the past 20 years. Michael graduated from Jackson State University (Jackson, MS) in May 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. As the Senior Legislative Assistant for Congresswoman Barbara Rose Collins of Michigan he primarily handled postal, education, transportation, children, veteran's affairs, judiciary, immigration and crime issues. He then worked for Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas. As her Senior Legislative Assistant. Michael contacted and conferred with Members of Congress and staff, and other holders of public office, in reference to legislation favorable to client's interest as a lobbyist for Holland and Knight, LLP. Later Michael focused on lobbying for the Association of American Railroads (AAR) as their Manager of Congressional Affairs. Michael then began working for the U.S. Department of Transportation (FTA) as a Congressional Relations Specialist where he prepared Op-Ed's, press releases, speeches, newsletters and talking points for the Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration. He then went on to work for as the Communications Director for Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas. Michael then served as the Special Assistant to the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) in the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer for the United States House of Representatives. Michael then returned to the Office of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas as the Senior Advisor and Communications Director. In October of 2016 Michael went to work for Make Room as Director of Advocacy Communications. Michael currently works for Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett as her Communications Director. Michael is one of the co-host of one of he most exciting Podcast out there – Hip-Politics – which is a discussion/fusion of hip hop and politics in America.Main Takeaways:00:00:06 Podcast focuses on executive career advancement.00:08:26 Access and relationships are crucial.00:10:25 DC is a competitive and transient city.00:15:02 Political theater is scripted and strategic.00:21:33 Importance of effective communication.00:24:24 Hire young, tech-savvy communicators.00:32:22 Take time to slow down.00:34:21 Lobbyists have multiple interests.00:41:48 Take chances and seek advice.Purchase your copy of "Relationships that Work" on Amazon today at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CD2KJX17?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420

In this episode of Building the Future, Dan is joined by CSIS's Director of Congressional Affairs, Elizabeth Hoffman, to discuss their takeaways from the recent Congressional staff delegation they led to Ukraine, Poland, and Moldova, and the importance of decision-makers to witness the impact of Congressionally appropriated aid to the war effort. 

In this episode of the Independent Rx Forum, host Jack Mozoloom, vice president of Public Affairs & Marketing at the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), leads a discussion with guests Kaite Krell, MPH, associate director of Congressional Affairs, and Adam Harbison, senior director of Congressional Affairs at the NCPA. Together, they delve into the legislative landscape, exploring NCPA's priorities for independent pharmacies and providing crucial updates on legislation concerning pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform, direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) fees, and mail-order and specialty pharmacies. Key Takeaways: NCPA is actively advocating for legislative changes to benefit independent pharmacies, focusing on key areas such as PBM reform and DIR fees. Ongoing efforts are being made to level the playing field for independent pharmacies in the face of challenges posed by mail-order and specialty pharmacies. The discussion sheds light on the complexities and potential delays in moving important bills through Congress.

CAPT. JAMES FANELL, Retired Intelligence Officer for the Indo-Pacific, US Navy, former National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institute Issues with promotions inside the U.S. military A “social re-engineering” of the military What is being prioritized for promoting generals in the armed forces? Does the U.S. intelligence community understand the relationship between China and North Korea? YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators The new “deal” between the U.S. and Iran What do Middle Eastern countries think of U.S. foreign policy? Israel's advanced technology related to water Developments of new defense technologies in Israel Will Israel's allies support them in the event of an Iranian attack?

CAPT. JAMES FANELL, Retired Intelligence Officer for the Indo-Pacific, US Navy, former National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institute Issues with promotions inside the U.S. military A “social re-engineering” of the military What is being prioritized for promoting generals in the armed forces? Does the U.S. intelligence community understand the relationship between China and North Korea? YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators The new “deal” between the U.S. and Iran What do Middle Eastern countries think of U.S. foreign policy? Israel's advanced technology related to water Developments of new defense technologies in Israel Will Israel's allies support them in the event of an Iranian attack?

Anne Reinke and Joe Lynch discuss the state of freight. Anne is the President & CEO of Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA), the trusted voice for third-party logistics companies of all sizes. About Anne Reinke Anne Reinke was named President & CEO of the TIA in October 2020, coming from the USDOT where she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary – Congressional Affairs. Reinke started her service at USDOT in April 2019, initially as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, and transitioned to Congressional Affairs in November 2019. Prior to her time at USDOT, Reinke spent 16 years at CSX Corporation in their Federal Affairs office, ultimately serving as the Vice President – Government Affairs, overseeing the Federal, State Government and Community Affairs Departments. Before joining CSX, she worked at the Association of American Railroads and High-Speed Ground Transportation Association. Reinke is a Washington, DC native, and graduated from the National Cathedral School.  She received a B.A. from Rice University in Houston, and a J.D. from the Wake Forest University School of Law. She and her husband, Brett, have two sons and reside in Alexandria, VA. About TIA The TIA is a leading industry organization dedicated to advancing the interests of transportation intermediaries across the United States. Established in 1978, TIA has consistently demonstrated its commitment to fostering excellence and innovation within the logistics and transportation sector. As a collective voice for freight brokers, 3PLs, and other intermediaries, TIA plays a pivotal role in shaping industry policies and promoting best practices. TIA provides its members with invaluable resources, including educational programs, advocacy efforts, and networking opportunities, enabling them to thrive in an ever-evolving marketplace. With a history of advocating for fair and equitable regulations, TIA ensures that its members are well-prepared to meet the challenges of a dynamic transportation landscape. Through collaboration, education, and advocacy, TIA remains at the forefront of the transportation industry, driving growth and innovation for its members and the broader logistics community. Key Takeaways: The State of Freight Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) Is the trusted voice for third-party logistics companies of all sizes. TIA provides leadership and direction for the 3PL industry and professionals to advance professional standards and business practices, to include the overall image and credibility of the profession and its ultimate contribution to society. TIA serves more than 1,700 third-party logistics members and helps them better manage their companies for growth and profitability. No other association provides more ways for third-party logistics professionals to grow, connect and to protect their business. TIA 2023 Technovations Conference, October 18-20, San Diego, CA Focuses on technology innovation, trends, and new product offerings for the 3PL community. Features 21 showcase presentations with innovations that will advance the industry. Offers education sessions crafted by the TIA's Technology Committee. Provides an opportunity to network with peers and leaders in 3PL technology deployment. TIA 2023 3PL Policy Forum, September 25-27, Washington DC Opportunity for seasoned veterans and first-time attendees to shape the future of the industry in the nation's capital. Over 100 TIA Members participated in the 2022 Policy Forum, engaging with over 200 Members of Congress and their staff to support the 3PL industry. TIA receives strong support from its members and holds personal meetings with Members of Congress, setting it apart from other groups in Washington, DC. Learn More About The State of Freight  Anne (Anne Chettle) Reinke Tia on LinkedIn Tia on Twitter Tia on Facebook Tia on Instagram Tia on YouTube TIA website TIA 2023 Technovations Conference TIA 2023 3PL Policy Forum The Voice of 3rd Party Logistics with Anne Reinke | The Logistics of Logistics Freight has an Identity Crisis with Jordan Graft | The Logistics of Logistics How to Build a Successful Freight Brokerage with Joe Chandler | The Logistics of Logistics Sponsor: Tusk Logistics Tusk Logistics is a national network of the best regional parcel carriers that puts Shippers first, with lower costs, reliable service, and proactive support. Tusk save Shippers 40% or more on small parcel shipping. 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Show notes and Transcript... Dr Sebastian Gorka joins Hearts of Oak to discuss the latest bout of Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Dr Gorka is a unique figure in the US media and political scene as he is originally a Londoner with Hungarian background which gives him a deep understanding of European culture and politics.  And as someone who served in the Trump White House he has seen many attacks from the left and from The GOP on DJT.  The most recent indictment (No 3) is just the latest attack from the establishment who fear President Trump more than anyone else. There is no end to their hate and fear of MAGA.  Dr Gorka also discusses election integrity and the lack of action to protect this process before moving onto the latest sorry saga in the Hunter soap opera (an appointed special counsel) and we finish up by looking at Dr Gorka's 2016 book "Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War" and why this topic is no longer part of the conversation. Dr. Sebastian Gorka was named as the newest Talk Show Host on the Salem Radio Network Platform, and began his show AMERICA FIRST on New Years Day, 2019. His ascent to this role could not have been more unusual, or more of a true “American Story.” To find out how it began, you have to go back to the 1950s, to Communist controlled Hungary. Hoping for freedom after the utter devastation of the Second War, the proud nation of Hungary was instead taken over by a Stalinist dictatorship subordinate to Moscow. One young man, who had suffered under the Nazis, decided to resist and so Paul Gorka created a secret Christian student organization to subvert the Communist stranglehold of his homeland. Paul was eventually betrayed by the British double-agent Kim Philby, arrested by the Secret Police, tortured and then given a life sentence for fighting for democracy and liberty. After two years in solitary confinement, two years down a prison coal mine, and two years in the central political prison in Budapest, Paul was eventually liberated by the brave freedom fighters of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. With the 17-year old daughter of a fellow political prisoner, Paul escaped across the minefields along the border of Western Hungary to a life of liberty in the UK, where Paul and Susan would be married and their son, Sebastian, was born. With parents who had lived as children under fascism and then escaped Communist Hungary, Sebastian was raised to love freedom. And his love of talk-radio developed early. As a child he would listen late into the night to the shows of the London Broadcasting Company with a small transistor radio under his pillow. It was with this special family background, and growing up under the influence of the Conservative warrior Margaret Thatcher, that Sebastian learned how to fight totalitarian ideologies, be they Fascism, Communism, or Global Jihadism. He would end up serving in the British Army reserve in a Military Intelligence unit, then after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in the first freely-elected Conservative administration in Hungary. The after the 9/11 attacks he became a professor on a Pentagon-funded counter-terrorism program run out of Germany. In 2008 he moved to America with his family where he continued to work for the Defense Department and become a proud American citizen in 2012. He obtained his doctorate in Political Science from Corvinus University in Budapest and was a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In Washington, he served as Associate Dean for Congressional Affairs and Relations to the Special Operations Community at National Defense University and has also taught on the Masters program at Georgetown University. In 2020, President Donald Trump named Gorka to the National Security Education Board. This board provides strategic consultation and was established by congressional act in 1991. Dr. Gorka has briefed the CIA, the DIA, the US Navy Seals, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, served as an expert for the DoJ during the Boston Bombing trial, and testified before Congress on the threat of Global Jihadism. He remains a guest instructor at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, at Fort Bragg, the home of the Green Berets. Connect with Dr Gorka.... X:  https://twitter.com/SebGorka?s=20 GETTR:  https://gettr.com/user/sebgorka TRUTH:  https://truthsocial.com/@SebGorka SUBSTACK:  https://substack.com/@sebastiangorka WEBSITE:  https://www.sebgorka.com/ Interview recorded 16.8.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share!   Subscribe now Transcript (Hearts of Oak) Hello, Hearts of Oak, and welcome to another interview coming up in a moment with Dr. Sebastian Gorka. You will, of course, know him from his media time, but also his time in the White House. But we start this conversation looking at his background. He was born in the UK, grew up in London, also lived in Budapest for 16 years. Hungarian is his first language, and he brings a unique perspective, I think, to the US, understanding UK and US culture and politics more than most others. But then we of course get on to President Trump and his latest indictment. Number three, he will need a trophy cabinet to collect these. We discuss what exactly is happening. We discuss election integrity. We discuss David Wise being the special counsel, on the Hunter Biden case. And then we end up with something completely different, looking at Islam or Islamism or Jihad. The first book I read of Sebastian was Defeating Jihad, The Winnable War. A lot to pack in, in 45 minutes.  Dr. Sebastian Gorka, it is wonderful to have you with us today. Thank you for your time.  (Dr Sebastian Gorka) Thank you for inviting me today.  Not all. And obviously, @SebGorka on Twitter, GETTR, Substack is there, Sebastian Gorka, America first, what, every day, Monday to Friday, 3 p.m. Eastern Time. There's a lot. And of course your latest book, The War for America's Soul, is out and available. Lots to discuss, but if I can mention your website on your merchandise. I loved it. sebastiangorkastore.com. First of all, your FBI, Fascist Bureau of Intimidation, but then your LGBTQ, which I thought was lovely. You looked well in LGBTQ, let's get Biden to quit. I loved it. Yeah, it's sad. The FBI t-shirt, Fascist Bureau of Intimidation is now our second hottest selling item on the website, SebGorkaStore.com. And even before that, I designed a mug. With a photograph of the Gestapo and an FBI agent in his raid jacket with the big letters FBI. And this was six months ago, or maybe it was after the raid on President Trump's home. And I said, you know, 80 years from Germany to the United States, the FBI, Biden's Gestapo. And my producer, who's a pretty forward-leaning guy, pretty hardcore conservative, he said, that's a little bit too much, Seb. Yeah, that's a little bit. That is like the number one item, because sadly, and this kind of, I don't wanna go into too much detail here, but before I joined the White House, I did a lot of work with the FBI. I trained them. I trained literally thousands of agents and intelligence analysts on the ideology of Jihad. That was my job with my wife. We had the only external contract providing that kind of training to the Bureau. And I was proud to do that. Now, after what the FBI has become, raiding the homes of pro-life ministers, raiding President Trump's home on a trumped up garbage documents charge. If the FBI knocked on my door right now, Peter, I'd tell them, go talk to my lawyers, sod off. I mean, this is what has happened to America under the radical leftist neo-Marxist cabal that is today's Democrat Party. Its bonkers and I want to end with that touch on the Islam on the jihad because Defeating Jihad was at the first time I came across a book by you and I remember, it is this book here Defeating Jihad, fantastic book but we'll we will end off on that but if I can maybe start with, I mean you don't you don't need an introduction even for a UK audience, it's your, but you're not the typical, U.S. media or political personality. Your military, national security and political background is British and European. Do you want to touch on that because that sets you apart from many others? Yeah, I appreciate it. So yeah, I've had a pretty crazy whirlwind of a career. My parents escaped communist Hungary during the revolution in 56. My father created a secret Catholic student's organization in college to undermine the communist takeover. He was betrayed by Kim Philby, one of the Cambridge Apostles, one of the worst traitors of the Cold War. He was arrested at the age of 20, tortured and given a life sentence in a political prison. After six years, he was liberated literally by the revolutionaries who captured a Soviet tank in 56. And with the 17-year-old daughter of a fellow prisoner, he escaped to the West over a minefield, They made it to the UK. A few years later, they were married and those are my parents. I grew up in the UK, speaking Hungarian. My first language was Hungarian. I learned English in preschool and kindergarten. Hungarian is a difficult language. It is, yeah. According to the State Department, it is the hardest non-pictographic language. So if you leave out Chinese and Korean, it's the hardest non-pictographic because it's not related to anything. You can learn the Romance languages, the Indo-European languages. It's irrelevant. it is this kind of Martian language in the middle of Europe. I think it wires your brain differently. It's good for cognitive capacity if you can speak that language and other ones. Then in college, so I went to London University. In college, a buddy of ours used to disappear every two weeks and wouldn't come out drinking with us. One Friday, I said to him, dude, you're coming out with us this weekend. He said, no, I can't. Where are you going? And he refused to tell me. And I said, well, I'm not going to let you go unless you tell me where you're going. And he said, I can't tell you, but why don't you come with me? And I was this long-haired philosophy and theology student. I had hair down to my chin and kind of like on a bet, on a dare, I said, oh, okay. So I followed my buddy to this unmarked building in downtown London, this red brick building. And it turned out to be the headquarters of the Military Intelligence Reserve. So the intelligence cause TA element in London, and it was selection weekend. And I was given a pair of overalls with about 30 other people. And I'd driven in a lorry to the middle of nowhere. And I did selection for this weird iconoclastic bunch of eccentrics in the intelligence core. And I loved it. I mean, linguists, interrogators, photographic interpreters. So I joined the territorial army intelligence core in college, loved it. Then the whole communist system collapses. And because I spoke Hungarian, French, German, and English and had served in a British military unit. That parlayed itself into a job working for the first conservative, freely elected government in Hungary. So I ended up working as an assistant to the deputy minister of defense, helping the former Warsaw Pact Hungary get into NATO. So, that was milestone number two. And then just to cut it short, 9-11 hits, I had a bit of background in counterterrorism. And I'm invited to teach on a Pentagon-funded counterterrorism training course out of Germany. There's this beautiful base the Americans never gave back to the Germans after World War II. It's called Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Marshall Center. And for four years, I would commute between Budapest and Bavaria. And I teach counterterrorism to a group of international officers. And eventually that translated to me and my American wife and our kids moving to America. I became a U.S. citizen, a professor of irregular warfare at National Defense University, at the Marine Corps University. And the last kind of milestone is the book you held up. The book, Defeating Jihad, got onto people's radar screens and helped me to get a job in the White House working for President Trump. I was deputy assistant to the president for strategy based upon all the work I'd done in counter-terrorism. And now I have a national radio show, And God's been very good to me, Peter. Funny, from Ealing to Budapest to D.C, it's quite a journey.  Can I, because in the US, I think probably from my point of view, there's only maybe Steve Hilton and Raheem Kassam who have an understanding of what happens over in Europe, both in being heavily involved in politics in the UK. So you're kind of a fish out of water there, and see things quite differently. I mean, the whole election integrity stuff, I know watching the votes coming in in London many times, it is a paper ballot. We would never consider an electronic voting machine. So you see things quite differently that way. Well, I do. And I'm kind of galled by the fact that, look, there's only one flag on the moon, and it's America's flag. And there's six of them. So we managed, out of all the nations on God's green earth, to send men to the moon half a dozen times. And we can't have modern elections run in ways that are fitting for a superpower. I mean, think about it. We don't have voter ID. In many states of the union, you don't have to prove who you are when you go and vote. You say who you are. They look up your name and your address. And if you can confirm the address in the big record in front of the poll worker, you're given a ballot and you vote, which is asinine. Democrats say showing an ID at the polling station is voter suppression of minorities, which of course is the most bigoted thing you can say because you're saying black people and brown people are too stupid to get a driver's license is really what the Democrats are saying. And not only that, thanks to COVID and many other things, we don't have an election day. Here in Virginia, I live just outside Washington, D.C. in Virginia, which is now run by a conservative governor, but even he has failed to change the fact that in the Commonwealth of Virginia, this probably shock your listeners, and if you don't believe anything I say, please do look it up. We have 45 days of voting. We vote for a month and a half before the election, which is just asinine. I mean, Mexico, which is in the midst of a drug-fueled insurgency, has voter ID. India, with a billion people, has voter ID. And the fact that we can't count our votes on election day and it's one day, and we don't have voter ID, it tells you why things like 2020 can happen. Okay, let's talk about President Trump. We've just seen another indictment. I'm kind of thinking he's gonna have to have a trophy cabinet of all these indictments because they're building up. What on earth is going on? Well, yeah, he posted on his social media site, Truth Social, last week after the third indictment here in Washington, DC. He, you know, tongue-in-cheek, he said, well, one more indictment and I've got this election sewn up. It's insane, I mean, utterly insane. And he's right. I mean, every time, you know, they drop another, you know, facetious, false indictment, his popularity actually increases. What's going on? I'll tell you what's going on. President Trump is a force of nature. In 2016, he got 64 million votes. Four years later, after being called a racist, a misogynist, an Islamophobe, a Nazi, and a white supremacist for four years by the mainstream media, he got 10 million more votes, which is unheard of. He got 74 million votes, the most of any incumbent president in history, despite the fact that the Democrats mailed out 81 million ballots to be not voted on on election day, but to be filled in by somebody somewhere and then posted back or dropped into collective ballot harvesting boxes. So despite all of the shenanigans, he gets more votes than any incumbent president. Now they don't have COVID, to have that cover of mailing out ballots, and they're very worried. The Uni-party, and look, I said this when I was in the White House. I said it when I left the White House, Donald Trump won despite the Republican Party and not thanks to the Republican Party. He is a deadly threat to the vested interests of the Uni-party, as Steve Bannon calls it. Why? Because he's not owned by any of their special interests. He's not owned by the Chamber of Commerce that owns the GOP. He's not owned by Big Oil or Big Pharma. He's not owned by the unions like the Democrats are. He is a clear and present danger to the quote-unquote political elite that just wants to control the lives of 330 million people, irrespective of what those people want. So, you know, the Democrats have to put him in prison. He's now, depending on which poll you look at, Peter, he's 20 to 40 points ahead of his nearest rival, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis. I mean, he is the de facto Republican nominee, and in the latest polling, he's beating Biden as well. So they're just desperate. They are throwing everything at him. This latest indictment, I know your listeners probably won't watch it or read it. This latest indictment is so Kafka-esque. It's so KGB tactics. They have indicted Mayor Giuliani, one of the greatest Americans who ever lived, who put five Mafia dons in prison when he was a prosecutor in New York prior to becoming the mayor of New York. They have indicted him for conspiracy because he retweeted a tweet saying, please call your state representatives and senators to request a special session so we can verify the results of the election. That tweet is deemed to be a felony by this woman, this prosecutor in Fulton County, who by the way, a little bit of a delicious tidbit, is the daughter of a former Black Panther extremist. I mean, you cannot make this stuff up. They have to stop him because he's not controlled by them.  And I mean what happened to Rudy was intriguing living through 9-11 watching America's mayor as he became and absolutely loved and yet because of his support for Trump the establishment just turns on him. I mean apart from Trump that he is the biggest example of the lunacy of the establishment. Yeah I mean look at you know go back and just Google 9-11 and Rudy Giuliani, and you'll see the cover of Newsweek, the cover of Time. He's standing there at ground zero on the pile of rubble. He's getting the New Yorkers back on their feet after 3,000 Americans and others were murdered by jihadi terrorists. And now he's some kind of traitor who should be given 200 years in prison. But look, it's not about Rudy. I mean, it happens to everybody. It happens to me or anybody else who works for the president or supports the president. But look at what happened to him. Remember Donald Trump five years ago. No, no, let's go six years ago. Let's go 10 years ago. Donald Trump was loved by everybody. I mean, rap singers rapped about being the Donald. You know, he would have lauded cameo appearances in, you know, Home Alone 2, the movie. He had, for 14 years, the most popular reality TV show in America. The Apprentice was the most popular reality TV show in America. He was loved. Everybody wanted to be the Donald. Everybody. The second he comes down the escalator, The second, he says, I'm a conservative and I want to be your president, he's the devil incarnate. This tells you what you're dealing with. This is who the left have become. This isn't your grandfather or even your father's Democrat party. Strong national security, pro-life, Catholics. The likes of JFK or Scoop Jackson, they would not be allowed into today's Democrat party. Today's left is open borders, if you're white, you're an oppressor, America is bad. This is what we're dealing with. So I've long said on my radio show, forget political labels, forget little r or little d, it's not conservative or liberal, it's not Republican or Democrat. The dividing line today in America and for much of our civilization is whether you love the country or not. If you love America, then you're in one tribe. If you hate America, then you're going to vote Democrat. Think about Obama, and it all starts with Obama. Obama said what during the election campaign? He said, I am going to fundamentally change this nation. Now, I don't know if you're married, Peter, but imagine if you said to your wife, I'm going to fundamentally change you, right? I don't think your wife would be too happy. You don't fundamentally change anything you love. You fundamentally change things you don't like or you hate. This is the perverse situation our civilization is in. We are being lorded over by people who hate the countries they come from and the civilizations they live in. I mean, translate it into another sector. Imagine you're a businessman and you utterly detest Coca-Cola. Why would you want to become the CEO of Coca-Cola, right? I mean, I don't know how these – it's perverse. Why would you wish to be in charge of that which you detest, unless, of course, you want to destroy it? Well, we're seeing that self-hatred across Europe, all on the left, where the left has abandoned its working class roots and become part of this woke agenda. But then the whole MAGA is a pushback on that and it's something different. It's not just the normal Republicans wanting states to be read. It's actually winning back the country and as someone in the UK it's fascinating watching the rise of the MAGA movement that puts your own country first which should be the norm. Yeah, I mean, think about it. You are lambasted. People are literally cancelled if they're public figures and they put on a red hat with the, letters M A G A. And what does that hat say? Is it a swastika? Is it the hammer and sickle, which would be fine, of course, for the left? No, it means make America great again. So you must be excoriated. You must be completely isolated and shunned from polite society if you want to make your country great again. I mean, it's truly beggar's belief, and again, it's not politics. I don't read autobiographies. I don't have the patience for autobiographies, but there's two. If you want to understand what's happened to America, there's two that I can't recommend more, and they're really life-changing, especially Andrew Breitbart's Righteous Indignation. His book on how as a drunk, mindless student at Tulane University, he suddenly became a conservative because he saw what they were doing to a black judge because he dared to be a nominee to the Supreme Court, and a conservative. This is the Clarence Thomas hearings. And chapter six of his book, Righteous Indignation, if you want to understand what the left has become, he paints it all from Antonio Gramsci in an Italian prison cell all the way through the Frankfurt School to Alinsky to Clinton to Obama. It is a masterpiece. So his book, Read Righteous Indignation. If you want to know what happened to conservative politics and to America, I was in the White House and it was Thanksgiving weekend and my boss Steve Bannon said, hey, you've got to read this book by J.D. Vance called Hillbilly Elegy. And I'm like, not interested. My wife had a copy of it. And it was Thanksgiving weekend. Went away for the long weekend. And I read the whole book that weekend. And the interesting about J.D. is, he's from a hillbilly family. He's from a real country, working class family. And he was no Trump supporter. When he wrote this, he was not a fan of Trump. Now he's a very Trumpian senator in DC. He's one of only two senators out of a hundred that I'll let on my show because he's a citizen politician, not a career politician. And in his book, which you can read in two days, three days. He just chronicles what happened to the working class in America through the eyes of his family. So how the people who literally built America, who travelled from Tennessee, from Kentucky to Ohio, became the factory workers, facilitated this incredible blossoming of prosperity and freedom after World War II, how basically the Republican Party took a massive dump on them 50 years ago and said, we can make stuff cheaper in China, we can make stuff cheaper in Mexico, we don't need factories in America, and consciously destroyed these families and said, yeah, fentanyl, who cares about fentanyl? Who cares about working class overdoses? We need to get the next shareholder meeting to demonstrate double digit growth for our companies. So this is why MAGA, this is why Brexit, this is why Maloney, this is why Modi. Because it's not party politics, it's people saying, you know what, my nation matters, and the people who built that nation matter, and we don't want to have career politicians who don't give a crap about the will of the people who say, I will represent you, become elected, and then do the polar opposite of what they were elected to do. So it's not about President Trump. It's about a global phenomenon, of the recrudescence of national sovereignty. And it's so fascinating that, you know, the word populism is a dirty word, which is, you have to stop for a second. Populism? You mean policies that are popular with the majority of the people, that's bad. If that's bad, you're either a communist or a fascist. And by the way, let's be clear, fascism is a left-wing policy. If you look at who Mussolini was, who invented fascism, it wasn't Hitler. The fasces is an ancient Roman symbol. If you look at the fact that he was an ardent communist before he invented fascism in the 1920s, you have to understand what these people are, whether they're AOC, whether they're Bernie Sanders, or whether they're Obama, whether they're you know, Klaus Schwab. These are fascists. No completely. We're seeing, actually it's exciting, the rise in populism, with many populist parties doing extremely well in Europe, until the poll, until the election, often in Spain, once we're going to have a majority with the party on the right, and suddenly they don't get that. Now the AFD, they're discussing banning the AFD because they're polling second in Germany. It's kind of the same tactics that we're seeing in America, more brazen, but we're seeing those same tactics to silence populism in Europe as well. Yeah, there's, this isn't well understood, so how we got here and what happened in 15 and 16, I strongly recommend to your viewers, there's a genius level guy who's been on my show several times, he was the head of cyber for the State Department in the Trump administration, His name is Mike Benz, B-E-N-Z, and you should get him on your show. I'm happy to connect you. And Mike Benz kind of, he made the light bulb go off for me because he explains, and he has a website called the Foundation for Freedom Online, where he has all the receipts, all the documents, all the inside video conferences from, you know, the global elitists admitting what they're doing. And Mike Benz, his huge contribution is the following. The foreign policy elite, which is totally Uniparty, right? I mean, let's be clear. The Republicans, the Democrats, when it comes to being a global police and blah, blah, blah, there's been a unanimity on that since the 1990s. And the foreign policy elite, quote unquote, built a complete superstructure to target and undermine populism abroad, whether it's Orbán in Hungary, whether it's Brexit with Obama coming and telling the British, you better not vote for independence because you'll be at the back of the queue, giggle, giggle, right? So for 30 years, they've created a system to undermine populist movements in other countries saying, oh, that's not good for us. So let's have a system where we're funding these NGOs, undermining conservatives because they're scary and fascist. And then what happened after 30 years of building this infrastructure to target the likes of Orbán or Brexiteers, when Trump comes along, what do they do? It's like the gun turrets of the ship turn from facing outwards to facing inwards. And the quote-unquote disinformation tools, the censorship tools, were targeted against populists at home. Again, do not take my word for it. Go and look at the unclassified documentation of how the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security were meeting with Twitter executives in Palo Alto on a weekly basis to have individual accounts deleted. How the story of Hunter Biden's laptop, which is, you know, all of the crimes of the Biden family, was suppressed by Palo Alto. And when that story broke, when the Hunter Biden laptop story broke four weeks before the election in 2020, you know, I tried to retweet it on my account. You couldn't, if you cut and paste the link onto your Twitter and you try to press post, it would refuse to post. Now that, you know, that's okay, I guess, I guess if you're trying to undermine an election in Cuba, but if you're doing it at home in front of your own citizens, that's when the light bulb goes off and you realize, yeah, these are fascists using fascist tools to control information to what end? Not to protect us from some boogeyman, but to maintain their grasp on power. Well, let me ask you on that issue, because I think a few days ago, program was sweetheart deal, David Wise is now special counsel. And I was trying to scratch my head trying to understand this because it seemed to be good, but then why is this happening now? For what reason? What is Biden playing at in putting this in play now? And then it was really David Wise was good, then not. So what is happening on that? But we've had Miranda Devine, Garrett Ziegler. We've discussed the stuff on Hunter, but suddenly this appears out of nowhere. Well, it's very easy to explain why, because they have to protect the Biden's for the next 15 months. I mean, remember, David Weiss is the Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. attorney who investigated Hunter Biden for four years, waited until last month to give him a sweetheart deal with universal immunity that he didn't disclose to the judge, and the judge exploded in Wilmington, Delaware, to give him a universal immunity deal on the felonious handgun purchase, the non-payment of taxes. He waited for all the other crimes to expire past their five-year statute of limitations. So he's the guy who's protected the Biden's for five years. And now, because of the pressure on the Biden's, his boss at the Department of Justice, the Attorney General, makes him, quote-unquote, special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden even further. Why? Well, very simply, if he's still under investigation, you can't ask questions about him in Congress. That's the buried lead. If an individual is under quote-unquote active investigation, when the attorney general is next testifying in front of Congress, and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee says, We want to talk about the $20 million that was sent to Hunter Biden from China and then split up amongst the family, including Joe. The attorney general says, excuse me, Mr. Chairman, this is an ongoing case I cannot comment. So it's just blatant political top cover from an existing biased individual. And by the way, it's also fascinating, if you read the statute, the statute in black and white says a special counsel is appointed when there is conflict of interest. The reigning regime, because of their implied connections, cannot fairly investigate a case. You hire somebody from outside of government. You find a lawyer, an attorney, a judge who's not part of the federal government to be the ombudsman, to be the fair investigator. You can't hire your flunky deputy from Wilmington. So the whole thing is in contravention of statute itself. But why? Because they have to protect Biden for the next 15 months. On to, at CPAC, I heard many of the candidates speak, except DeSantis, and I heard him speak in Florida a month before at CNP. And as much as I love what DeSantis has done in Florida, but my thinking is if Trump is in the ring, you don't get in the ring. You can't win. And like some of the other candidates, they're maybe looking for a position in the White House. DeSantis thinks he can beat Trump or, I mean, explain that because Trump has an unassailable lead. Why would you be crazy enough to step into the ring and try and beat him? Well, look, ego. I mean, why are people like that fat embarrassment, Chris Christie, or losers like Asha Hutchinson that nobody's heard of? Why are they running? Or Mike Pence. Mike Pence's political career after January 6th is dead. I mean, it is forever dead. The guy who said 48 hours, I played the video on my show multiple times last week, the guy who says two days before January 6th. Yes, there were serious problems with the election, and we're going to find out, and I'm going to do my duty as president of the Senate. And then he caves, the yellow belly completely collapses. That guy, nobody's, anybody who supported President Trump, or 74 million of them, none of them are going to vote for him, who ran and hid. So why the heck is he running? So there's a saying in Hungary that these are the people who if they jumped off their ego onto their IQ, they'd be committing suicide. So a lot of these people, it's just totally out of touch ego. For Vivek, who's been very deferential to President Trump, but has said, look, there are people who will vote for me who won't vote for Trump, which is fine. You can say that. But he's the guy who went to Miami the day of the president's arraignment, said, if I'm elected, I'm going to pardon President Trump. And he's sitting there with a truth social hat on, President Trump's media app. This guy is playing it very smart. I had him on my show multiple times and said, Vivek, you're not going to win, But I'd love to see you as the Jared Kushner of a second Trump term. You're an incredibly successful private business entrepreneur. You should be the innovation guy in the next Trump cabinet. So he's playing a very canny game. When it comes to DeSantis, I said on my radio show maybe two years ago, or at least a year and a half ago, if he's smart. He comes in as the vice president. He supports President Trump, he runs with him, and then in 2028, he just slides into the top slot. If he knows what he's doing, that's what he does. And he has just, it's like, you know, during the Vietnam War, it's like there's peace protesters that poured gasoline on themselves, poured petrol on themselves, and then, you know, self-immolated. This campaign has self-immolated for a couple of very clear reasons. Number one, and even off the record, his fans will tell you this, he's a charismatic black hole. I mean, he has no charisma. I think he's on the scale. I think he's a little bit on the scale and he doesn't have, he has a little bit of that autistic incapacity to socialize. That's why his wife is essential. His wife is this beautiful, charming, erudite woman. She kind of makes up for his complete lack of charm. So number one, you gotta charm voters. Number two, his, I call it his honour deficit. I mean, what he said on the Monday after the brag, the New York indictments were leaked against President Trump was appalling. I mean, just utterly appalling. He made two quips about, I don't know about hush money for porn stars, giggle, giggle, right, as the governor of Florida. And then he says, I'm not gonna get involved because I've got business in Florida. Hey, dickhead, President Trump lives in Florida. Look at the map. Mar-a-Lago is in Florida. He is a citizen of the state over which you preside, and you're not gonna get involved. And lastly, if you know his backstory, the most galling of all, he's a former JAG. He's a former member of the Judge Advocate Corps, which means what? He's a former military prosecutor. Of all people, the probity of the judiciary should be of importance to him. And he says, I'm not gonna get involved. When a prosecutor in Manhattan deletes the statute of limitations. Expunges it so he can charge President Trump with something that happened years ago that didn't happen, and you don't have an opinion? I mean, utter, utter honesty and integrity deficit. And you know, the dumbest thing of all? All he needed to say, just one sentence, this is an outrage and it should outrage all conservatives and I will not stand for it as governor of the Florida, of the state in which President Trump lives. One sentence and he would have looked like a leader. And then one additional thing, I'm not sure percentage wise, but for a lot of people who care about foreign policy, his utter U-turn on Ukraine was a disaster. When he says on, I think it was Tucker's show, So, we don't care about this, it's not relevant, he gets a lot of crap, and then 72 hours later he says, oh yes, Ukraine is important, dude. This is the only thing you had to prove something on, okay? You've been running Florida, you've got a little bit of domestic credentials, the one thing you have to convince people of is your foreign affairs national security credentials. When you do a 180 on war in Europe, not a good look, not a good look. What are your thoughts on how we've seen three indictments, as I said, the more they do, the more Trump's support goes up. And I guess every MAGA wants that mugshot of Trump because what they're trying is not working. His support going up and they thought they could I guess embarrass conservative voters to make them think he was too toxic. It's not working and yet they keep trying. Do they keep on that tactic? Do they try something else? Because at the moment it's not working.  Well look you're trying you're trying to get me to, channel lunatics. What they're doing isn't rational. What they're doing is. When you believe, I mean, let's just say one example. This individual has been labelled by the left, by Democrats, and by the mainstream media, the mainstream media, as a Nazi and a white supremacist, as an anti-Semite. This is the man who, after 23 years of broken promises from Clinton to Bush to Obama, 23 years of presidents saying, yeah, yeah, we're going to move the embassy, broken promises for 23 years, President Trump comes in and says, yeah, we're going to move the embassy and we're going to recognize Jerusalem. That guy whose daughter converted to Judaism, whose grandchildren are Jewish, he's the anti-Semite? I mean, it is a cult. I mean, TDS used to be a joke. Trump derangement syndrome, we threw that around as a joke. It's not a joke. It's a clinical condition. When you accuse a man of being a dictator. Who did nothing dictatorial, in fact, had the most open administration ever, was giving impromptu press conferences for 40 minutes as he's getting on Marine One, the helicopter, That guy's a dictator?, but the people you voted for are literally sending teams of armed FBI agents to bust down the door of a pro-life preacher in Philadelphia in front of his seven screaming kids. But that administration, they're the good guys. So I can't, look, my job, my whole life has been strategy. That's the thing I do. That was my title in the White House. That's based upon reality, empirical evidence, on logic. I can't tell you what their strategy is because it's based upon rank hatred, recuperation, and just irrationality. I mean think about this every indictment, every indictment has made him more popular and raised him more money. I had Lord Black on my show yesterday, Lord Conrad Black, and he said, he made this point that kind of like, boom, you know, kind of obvious, but yeah. Nothing they've done, nothing they've done has hurt him. Zero. So why are they doing it? Because they're insane, and because they think that if they can actually put him in prison, they can get Biden re-elected. And the joy of it all, and this is what I say with some, you know, frequency on my show, is the other side, they're evil bastards. I mean, really, if you are okay with having a 14-year-old girl, healthy girls, breasts removed in the name of transgenderism or chemically castrating a 12-year-old boy because he thinks he's a girl. If you're okay with that, you're actually demonic. I mean, you are pure evil in league with the dark one. So no doubt, evil, cunning evil bastards. But they're also stupid. This is the nice thing about... It's also dangerous because stupid people can be dangerous, but they're really dumb. They don't have a Newt Gingrich. They don't have a Victor Davis Hanson on their side. Thank the good Lord, all right? I mean, they're really dumb because they haven't even read the Constitution, Peter. The Constitution of the United States is pretty clear about who can be president. You have to be in your 30s. You have to be 35 or older. You have to be a natural born citizen, born to Americans. You don't have to be born in America. That's not correct. You have to be born to American citizens and you have to be a permanent resident in America for at least the last 14 years before the election. That's it. You can be a felon. You can have been charged and convicted of crimes that would lead to 400 years in prison. It doesn't matter. You can still be the president. That's how stupid they are. I just want to finish off on the book I mentioned, obviously your latest book, The War for America's Soul, I think that was 2019, and that is available. But I said at the beginning, defeating jihad, the winnable war. Just to finish, just on a completely different subject, the issue of, and for years I've studied Islam, for 10, 12, 13 years, and it's that cultural clash between the freedoms that Islam has and the freedoms the West have and then jihad, Islamism coming out of that. And it's not a topic that seems to be on the table for discussion a lot. And I was intrigued going to CPAC and it wasn't even mentioned and yet that is a threat just as China is a threat, just like many other issues are a threat. And I wanted just to finish on kind of your thoughts on that and why it is not part of the mainstream discussion. Well, it's not part of the mainstream discussion here in America, and for a very good reason. I mean, think about it. ISIS was on the front pages for years and years and years. I mean, American citizens being beheaded on video, the Yazidi Christian hostage-taking, Jordanian fighter pilots being burnt alive in cages. People forget ISIS was a thing. This was the biggest jihadi insurgency in history. I mean, they controlled multiple countries in the Middle East. And when we came in, we said no. President Trump said, unleash Special Operations Command, unleash Fort Bragg, unleash Delta, and get the stinking lawyers out of the way. I mean, like Shakespeare said, kill the lawyers first. We got the lawyers out of the way, and what happened? We have been told by Obama that ISIS is a generational issue. You're just going to have to suck it up and live with it. He actually said a generational issue. President Trump said, no, kill them all. Within five months of us coming into the administration, the caliphate, the caliphate of ISIS had ceased to be. People forget that. I mean, who talks about ISIS now? Nobody because we let our boys give them all a dirt nap. That's why it's not on the radar screen. Does it mean it's over? No, absolutely not. Does it mean that there won't be jihadi attacks in America because this administration is letting 6,000 illegal immigrants across the border every single day? You think you got it bad with a couple of rubber dinghies in the channel? Try 6,000 a day. We've had at least 40 people on the terrorist watch list come across the border that we know of, that we know of. So I'm not saying it won't come back. Why it's not on the radar screen? Because of the bloody good job our guys did back in 2016 and 2017 and 2018. But no, if you want to understand the threat of jihad, you have to understand that... The biggest lie since 9-11 is that they're not Muslims, right? That Al-Qaeda and ISIS are not Muslims.  Well, no, that's actually a lie. Read the Quran. Read chapter 9, verse 29. Hunt down the infidel after the holy month and kill them all unless they surrender. That's not Seb Gorka speaking. That's not Bin Laden. that's actually the word of God as quote-unquote dictated to the illiterate merchant Muhammad you know in Medina in Mecca 1400 years ago. The idea that these are perversions of Islam. Yeah you're an apologist for those who are living a very pure form of Islam because who was Muhammad? He wasn't quote-unquote the last prophet. Muhammad was, if he existed at all, he was what? He was a warrior. He is a man who went to Medina and literally wiped out a whole Jewish tribe, literally wiped out whole Arab polytheistic tribes. To the last man jackal, he killed them. That's who Muhammad was. The idea that it's the religion of peace. Well, then learn Arabic. Islam doesn't mean peace. It means submission. Submission to what? To the will of Allah. And what kind of God is that? It's a very different God from the Jewish God. It's a very, very different God from the Christian God. It is a God of zero relationship to the believer and a man, not a man, a deity who can be utterly capricious. If Allah says murder is good tomorrow, it's good. And he can change his mind the day after and say it's bad. He's not truth. God for Christians is the good. There's no such conceptualization of the good. You're not allowed to describe God, right? You're not allowed to talk about his essence. That is blasphemy. To say that you know God, or you are in relationship with God is totally haram. It is total blasphemy in the Islamic faith. But these are the ground truths that you're not allowed to talk about. But people need to read the Quran, read the Quran, read the reliance of the traveller, read the actual Muslim texts about Muhammad, and then understand why... Here's the last example. Why? There's no such thing as an Arab motorcar. Not only is there no such thing as an Arab motorcar, Peter, there isn't an Arab bicycle. Think about that. That tells you about what this deformed theology has done, to knowledge, truth, and science. The best book on all of this, and it's a short read, it's about 250 pages, is my friend Robert Riley's The Closing of the Muslim Mind. His discussion on the deformed theology that explains why Al-Qaeda, why no Muslim bicycles, Why 9-11? It is mandatory. It was one of the texts I made mandatory for the officers that I trained when I was still a professor.  Dr. Sebastian Gorka, I appreciate your time today. Thank you so much. God bless all of you, all of your viewers. Thank you, Peter. Keep doing what you do.

SAM FADDIS, Former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, Former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis Targeting of reserve U.S. military members by the Biden administration Is there an end in sight for the U.S. involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict? Has the military been “mutated” beyond recognition? Continuing aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators The Biden administration's emphasis on international organizations like the UN How the current U.S.-Iranian relationship is “self defeating” Isaac Herzog's recent address to a joint session of Congress

JONATHAN EMORD, Constitutional law attorney and author of The Authoritarians: Their Assault on Individual Liberty, the Constitution, and Free Enterprise from the 19th Century to the Present (2021) Attempts to decrease the sovereignty of the United States Invasion of privacy issues associated with digital currency Problems with emphasizing ESG investing Is the U.S. losing its "identity as a people"? A failure by the Biden administration to enforce the United States' immigration laws YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators Is there a "determined hostility" towards Israel by the Biden administration? What is the position of President Biden on Iran? Analyzing China's "enhanced posture" in the Middle East What is Israel's primary national security concern?

DAVID WALSH, President, Takota Group An update on the "Green New Deal" What will happen if gas power is outlawed in the United States? Various issues with energy production under the Biden administration YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators How do Israel and other pro-American Arab regimes view Iran's nuclear program? Who are the potential targets of an Iranian nuclear weapon? Is there a possibility of the U.S. and Israel teaming up against Iran? ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President, Center for Military Readiness The Pentagon's emphasis on LGBTQ+ values in recent years A statement by Secretary Austin on LGBTQ+ "shows" in the military Charles Q. Brown Jr.'s policy direction for the USAF

Federal and state policies are reshaping how people and goods travel, while cutting harmful greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants from cars and trucks. Vehicle electrification is accelerating thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act, and state policies. In addition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's newly proposed tailpipe pollution standards for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles could transform our transportation future. But how will these new policies impact the average consumer and the auto industry? Host Sara Baldwin speaks with clean transportation experts, Thomas Boylan of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, and Trisha DelloIacono of CALSTART to discuss the U.S. electric vehicle market, exciting supply chain developments, and how to ensure a smooth transition.   Guest Bios Thomas Boylan, Regulatory Director, Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA). Thomas joined ZETA after nearly 7 years at the US EPA, working with the Office of Transportation and Air Quality and the Office of Congressional Affairs. His work at EPA covered a range of transportation-related topics including light-duty vehicle emission standards, heavy-duty vehicle emission standards, and implementation of the renewable fuel standard. He also helped facilitate EPA's engagements with Congress during passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022. Thomas holds a BS in Geology from Virginia Tech and an MS in Energy Policy and Climate from Johns Hopkins University.Trisha DelloIacono, Federal Policy Director, CALSTART Trisha leads efforts in Congress and at key agencies such as EPA, DOE, and DOT, while providing support to the US EV Battery Leadership Coalition. She also leads the Federal Policy Action Group. Prior to joining CALSTART, she ed the American Apparel & Footwear Association's sustainability and product safety initiatives and was the chief liaison to Product Safety Council and Environmental Committee. DelloIacono spent the previous decade with Moms Clean Air Force/Environmental Defense Fund, working with Members of Congress to advocate for policies that protect children's health, with a special focus on electric vehicle policy. She has an MBA and a BS in Marketing. She serves on the board for the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health in NYC and is a member of the Women of EVs global organization. To dig in deeper, check out these must-read resources: Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA) ZETA White PapersCALSTARTEPA's Proposed Rule: Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty VehiclesEPA's Proposed Rule: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles – Phase 3

The Honorable Robert R. Hood served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs at the Pentagon. In this role, he supported the Secretary of Defense and the Department's other senior leaders by promoting the policies, strategies, and budget of the Department of Defense (DOD) to the United States Congress.Prior to being confirmed as an Assistant Secretary, Rob served as the Vice President for Government Affairs at CH2M HILL, a fortune 500 engineering company. Rob previously served in the White House as a Special Assistant to President George W. Bush in the Office of Legislative Affairs. Before working on the White House staff, Rob served at the DOD as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs and as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) for Budget and Appropriations Affairs. Prior to the Pentagon, Rob served as the Director of Congressional Affairs for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy responsible for maintaining the nation's nuclear weapon stockpile and nonproliferation efforts.EPISODE NOTES:Follow NucleCast on Twitter at @NucleCastEmail comments and guest nominations to NucleCast@anwadeter.orgSubscribe to NucleCast podcastRate the show

In this episode, Anne Cassity, JD, senior vice president of Public Affairs at the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), Adam Harbison, MSc, senior director of Congressional Affairs at NCPA, and Kaite Krell, MPh, associate director of Congressional Affairs, talk about congressional and lawmaker trends on pharmacy benefits manager reform.

YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators A recent meeting convened by Iran to try and expand their "sphere" all the way to the Mediterranean Analyzing the "vision" of the Ayatollahs of Iran What lead to a resumption of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran? PETER HUESSY, Senior fellow at Hudson Institute Assessing the nuclear capability of the Iranian regime Do Russia and China care if Iran has nuclear weapons? What does Vladimir Putin want the U.S. to do with respect to its nuclear weapons in Europe? FAITH MCDONNELL, Director of Religious Liberty Programs at the Institute on Religion and Democracy: A fight for control of the government taking place in Sudan A history of Sudan's government supporting terrorism Is there any hope for the citizens of Sudan?

In this episode: Meet Tim, the Congressional Affairs Advisor at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and learn about the mission and purpose of the NEH, projects that Tim is excited about, and how organizations can collaborate with the NEH in the future. Learn more about the National Endowment for the Humanities at neh.gov/.Stay in touch with the LSI team by reaching out to social@lsiwins.com or find us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! Learn more at LSIWINS.com.

This week, Jeremy is joined by Denise Bailin, Director of Congressional Affairs at The ALS Association for a deep dive into the role federal funding plays in the fight against ALS and how advocates can help expand existing funding on ALS. Learn more about The ALS Association's public policy priorities at https://www.als.org/advocacy/our-priorities/federal-public-policy-priorities Become an advocate at https://als.quorum.us/register/This episode is brought to you by The ALS Association in partnership with CitizenRacecar.

In this episode, David speaks with Zach Kribs, ASN Manager of Congressional Affairs, on Kidney Community Advocacy Day, ASN's goals for Hill Day 2023, Congressional priorities in 2023, the debt ceiling, and more.

In this episode, David speaks with Zach Kribs, ASN Manager of Congressional Affairs, on Kidney Community Advocacy Day, ASN's goals for Hill Day 2023, Congressional priorities in 2023, the debt ceiling, and more.

STEVEN MOSHER, President, Population Research Institute, Author, “Bully of Asia: Why China's Dream is the New Threat to the World,” @StevenWMosher An overview of the CCP's organ harvesting program The immorality of the Chinese Communist Party The vast impact of China's One Child Policy YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators Analyzing the current government of Israel What is the relationship between the U.S. and Israel under the Biden administration? CHERYL CHUMLEY, Author, “Socialists Don't Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall,” Opinion Editor, The Washington Times, Twitter: @ckchumley What is the Biden administration's plan for dealing with the border crisis? An update on the Brazilian election

December 15, 2022 RL Condra and Vernon discuss how the Mid-term Election results might impact the cooperative landscape, and the importance of advocacy and how he became involved in the cooperative movement. As Senior VP of Government Affairs RL Condra is responsible for advocating for issues that directly impact NCB's cooperative customer segments. Since joining NCB, he has advocated for cooperatives to have access to SBA lending programs, risk retention changes for cooperative housing, and the RCDG program for cooperative development centers. Mr. Condra serves as the advocacy chair for Cooperation Works, a national network of organizations and individuals working on co-op development and on the Inter-agency working group for cooperatives. In addition, he serves as Vice-Chair on the Consumer Federation of America Board of Directors, and is on the board of the Food Co-op Initiative. Prior to joining NCB, Mr. Condra was Vice President of Advocacy for the NCBA CLUSA and spent several years on Capitol Hill as a staff member on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Nutrition and as Director of Congressional Affairs for the Delta Regional Authority. Mr. Condra earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arkansas.

Derek Brandt, Director of Congressional Affairs at the American Academy of Neurology, gives a year-end legislative update.  

BILL WALTON, Host, The Bill Walton Show Why is Wall Street still aiding and abetting the Chinese Communist Party? Xi Jinping's attempt to cut back China's dependence on the U.S. The Omnibus bill trying to be passed in Congress AHARON FRIEDMAN, Director and Senior Tax Counsel, Federal Policy Group Janet Yellen's attachment to the idea of a “global tax code” How would this global tax code impact U.S. citizens? YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators What is the Biden administration's approach for dealing with the Iranian regime? Frictions between the U.S. and Israel over how to deal with Iran The relationship between the Saudis and Chinese

In this episode, ASN Manager of Congressional Affairs, Zachary Kribs, joins Tod and David in discussing what to expect from Congress going into 2023.

In this episode, ASN Manager of Congressional Affairs, Zachary Kribs, joins Tod and David in discussing what to expect from Congress going into 2023.

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang China's impact on the U.S. in the fentanyl market Various “warfares” being waged against the United States by China Are members of Congress unintentionally advancing CCP interests? YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators Why is the Middle East an epicenter of anti-American terrorism? Has the U.S. State Department been ruined? BILL WALTON, Host, The Bill Walton Show What are ESG values in American investments? Do energy investments provide good value? How big of an issue is climate change?

Tod Ibrahim and David White interview Zachary Kribs, ASN Manager of Congressional Affairs, on what to expect during the lame-duck session of Congress, agenda items for the newly elected Congress, and funding for kidney health projects in the future.

Tod Ibrahim and David White interview Zachary Kribs, ASN Manager of Congressional Affairs, on what to expect during the lame-duck session of Congress, agenda items for the newly elected Congress, and funding for kidney health projects in the future.

CAPT. JAMES FANELL, Retired Intelligence Officer for the Indo-Pacific, US Navy, former National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institute How can the U.S. deter the CCP? How does the U.S. Navy compare to China's The ongoing deterioration of the United States military ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President, Center for Military Readiness What values is the U.S. military prioritizing? The DoD's emphasis on Critical Race Theory A recruiting crisis among the armed forces YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators How do the midterm elections impact the U.S.-Israeli relationship? Intensification of recent Israeli conflict with Palestinians Can Israel be a force-multiplier for the U.S. economy?

Healthcare centers, both rural and urban, have benefited from financial relief efforts given out during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now with the state of emergency being lifted but the effects still lingering, what can rural facilities count on? Today we are talking with Alexa McKinley, Government Affairs & Policy Coordinator for the National Rural Health Association. Alexia will be discussing the Rural Emergency Hospital model and how it can be a beneficial tool for rural health providers.  “…I'm excited to see what innovations and policies will come out of this administration, the next administration, and the 118th Congress.” - Alexa McKinley Alexa earned a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. During law school, she interned with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a Pittsburgh-based corporation, and served clients at the Pitt Environmental Law Clinic. Previously, she earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Michigan State University where she interned with the Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs at the Department of Education and served as a fellow at MSU's Institute for Public Policy and Social Research.

BRADLEY THAYER, Director of China Policy, Center for Security Policy, Author, How China Sees the World  Reactions to Xi Jinping's address at the 20th Party Congress A degree of belligerence in Xi's speech Analyzing the current state of China's economy KIMBERLY HERMANN, General Counsel, Southeastern Legal Foundation Critical Race Theory being taught in schools across America Students being asked questions about their parents' political affiliation YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators Why the U.S. cannot negotiate with Iran The relationship between Iran and Venezuela How is the U.S. losing trust of its Middle East allies?

Independent, investigative news, reporting, interviews and commentary

Independent, investigative news, reporting, interviews and commentary

WILL HILD, Executive Director, Consumers' Research Lessons China has learned from the Soviet Union How has China been able to gain millions of U.S. dollars through investments? ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President, Center for Military Readiness A "slow-motion dismantling" of the U.S. armed forces Why are U.S. military recruit numbers so low in 2022? YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators The strategic importance of the West Bank to Israel Iran's continual attempt to expand their influence into Jordan and Syria

REP. BRIAN BABIN, Representative (R-TX 36th District)  Is infrastructure a priority for the Biden administration? Various vulnerabilities the Biden administration has subjected the American people to JAMES JAY CARAFANO, Vice President, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation, Author, “Brutal War,” @JJCarafano Declining numbers of military recruits across America Should the U.S. keep supporting Ukraine militarily? YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators A recent clash in Israel  Different terror groups Israel has to deal with every day

YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators: The Biden administration's "detachment" from the Middle East Analyzing the current U.S.-Israeli relationship The likelihood of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President, Center for Military Readiness Is the LGBTQ+ agenda having an impact on the U.S. military? COL. (RET.) JOHN MILLS, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy The continual desire of the Chinese to take over Taiwan What is the United States' position on defending Taiwan?

COL. (RET.) JOHN MILLS, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy The threat of the Chinese Communist Party to the United States China's determination to replace the U.S. as the world's superpower The potential of the U.S. dollar losing its status as the world's reserve currency Kyle Bass, Founder and Principal of Hayman Capital Management Americans investing in the Chinese Communist Party Chinese stocks in the Thrift Savings Plan YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators A wave of terror inflicting Israel Will Iran eventually get a nuclear bomb? Kyle Shideler, Director/Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at Center for Security Policy Civil unrest following the decision leak on Roe v. Wade Various groups the Left works with when civil unrest occurs in the U.S.

Cassie (Leonard) Ballard, Director of Congressional Affairs for CHIME stops by. In this heightened state of cybersecurity awareness, especially with the war going on in the Ukraine, how is CHIME helping health systems understand the required federal regulations?

Crystal Martinez currently serves as the Director of Federal Education Policy for the University of California (UC) System. She is responsible for providing legislative and regulatory guidance for the Office of the President which supports all ten University of California campuses. During her tenure, Crystal has secured $1.3 billion in federal pandemic assistance for UC's students and campuses as well as launched a national Double the Pell advocacy campaign.   Prior to joining UC, she served in the Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) as a legislative assistant for a range of issues, including education, housing, child nutrition, arts and humanities, disabilities and social safety net programs. Before joining Sen. Feinstein's office, Crystal worked at the U.S. Department of Education in the Office of English Language Acquisition, the Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs and the Office of the Secretary. She has served on the staffs of Sen. Tom Udall (NM) and then-Sen. Barack Obama (IL), as well as for Congressman Ruben Hinojosa (TX).   Crystal began her career in education as a social studies teacher in McAllen, Texas and received both her Bachelor of Arts in political science and computer applications as well as her Master of Education degree from the University of Notre Dame.   In this episode, she shares:   How her upbringing in Little Village of South Chicago influenced her decision to pursue a career in public service   The competitiveness of the job market in legislation in Washington D.C. and the importance of establishing a network in successfully finding career opportunities   How she created a network by participating in affinity groups, attending receptions, communing with college alumni, and building relationships with other young staffers   Two main paths to pursuing educational policy as a career   Why she's made it a point to mentor young policy leaders, especially those from diverse backgrounds   Also mentioned in this episode: Double the Pell NALEO (National Association for Latino Elected and Appointed Officials) Educational Fund Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute Congressional Black Caucus Leadership Institute Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies   Connect with Crystal via email! --- Sign up for my contact list to be the first to know about new offerings and to receive my note on all things!   You can also stay connected with Journey to Jupiter via..... Email: jetaun@jetaundavis.com Website: jetaundavis.com Instagram: @JourneyJupiter Twitter: @JourneyJupiter Facebook: @JourneyJupiter ----- Edited by Ken Inge of Dead End Hip Hop  

Todd Hauptli is fond of saying, “Great people aligned around a common vision committed to excellence can achieve amazing results.” That sounds super inspiring, yet how do we do it? That is exactly what we get into in this episode. About the Guest: Todd Hauptli is President and CEO of AAAE (the American Association of Airport Executives). He is the third CEO in the Association's history. Todd joined AAAE in 1991 and prior to becoming CEO was responsible for overseeing AAAE's interactions with Congress and the Executive Branch agencies. Before joining AAAE, Todd served as a Congressional Relations Officer, handling aviation issues, at the Department of Transportation. Prior to his service at the Department of Transportation, Todd served on the White House staff of President Ronald Reagan as Associate Director of Cabinet Affairs. He also worked at the Department of Commerce, first in the Congressional Affairs office, then directly for the Secretary of Commerce. He began his career on Capitol Hill working on the staff of the House Republican Research Committee. He is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Todd is married with three sons. He and his family reside in McLean, Virginia. https://www.aaae.org/ (https://www.aaae.org/) About the Host: Amy L. Riley is an internationally renowned speaker, author and consultant. She has over 2 decades of experience developing leaders at all levels. Her clients include Cisco Systems, Deloitte and Barclays. As a trusted leadership coach and consultant, Amy has worked with hundreds of leaders one-on-one, and thousands more as part of a group, to fully step into their leadership, create amazing teams and achieve extraordinary results.    Amy's most popular keynote speeches are: The Courage of a Leader: The Power of a Leadership Legacy The Courage of a Leader: Create a Competitive Advantage with Sustainable, Results-Producing Cross-System Collaboration The Courage of a Leader: Accelerate Trust with Your Team, Customers and Community The Courage of a Leader: How to Lead, Sell and Succeed Virtually   Her new book is a #1 international best-seller and is entitled, The Courage of a Leader: How to Inspire, Engage and Get Extraordinary Results.   http://www.courageofaleader.com (www.courageofaleader.com) https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyshoopriley/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyshoopriley/)   Call to action Find Resources to ignite The Courage of a Leader in you here: https://courageofaleader.com/resources/ (https://courageofaleader.com/resources/)   Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to The Courage of a Leader podcast! If you got inspired and/or got valuable leadership techniques you can use from this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have questions or feedback about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new The Courage of a Leader podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which helps us ignite The Courage of a Leader in more leaders! Please take a minute and leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.  

AMB. YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs, Embassy of Israel in the U.S., Former Consultant to Israeli and US legislators, @YoramEttinger Amb. Yoram Ettinger talks about the current state of U.S.-Israeli relations: “In my mind, U.S.-Israel relations are primarily impacted by the global…poster of deterrence of the U.S. Which has...eroded dramatically since January 2021” Ettinger talks about the Biden administration's aspirations to reach a nuclear deal with Iran: “The only way to change the policy coming out of Tehran is changing the regime ruling Tehran” AMB. ANDREW BREMBERG, President and CEO, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Former Representative of the United States, Office of the United Nations and Other International Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, Former Assistant to the President and Director, Domestic Policy Council, Executive Office of the President, @VoCommunism Amb. Andrew Bremberg talks about the newly released Victims of Communism's Corporate Complicity Scorecard: “The United States was never economically integrated with the Soviet Union. Because of U.S. policy over the last three decades, we have become increasingly economically integrated with China...” What is the fundamental nature of the challenges we face today? Amb. Bremberg argues that to fully realize the national security implications of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, one needs to study the modern history of Eastern Europe

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang Gordon Chang discusses the various dangers athletes and spectators may be subjected to should they participate in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games Chang makes the case of decoupling from China: “You're not really looking at market fundamentals anymore, you're looking at political decisions of a Communist regime” Chang: China has somewhere between 35 to 45 million more men than women BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute's Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow Bill Walton responds to China's declining birthrates: “Population is one of the strong indicators that's linked to economic growth…China's curve's moving the other direction” What implications will President Joe Biden's nomination of Sarah Raskin to serve as the next vice chair for supervision at the U.S. Federal Reserve have on monetary policy moving forward? Will Raskin push the Fed to write about climate change as a “systemic risk” Walton: Larry Fink is a genius with money, not at climate change or public policy AMB. YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs, Embassy of Israel in the U.S., Former Consultant to Israeli and US legislators, @YoramEttinger Amb. Yoram Ettinger discusses how the Iranian regime has not changed since revolution Yoram delves into the wider relationship between the Palestinians and the international Arab community at larger What is the current state of Israel-China relations?

Best of 2021: We look back on this memorable interview with Gail Adams of International Association of Geophysical Contractors. Gail comes with extensive high level Washington DC experience and during this interview she explains advocacy as an art and discusses what one needs to know about a person's real advocacy why. Gail has more than 20 years of experience in the environment and natural resources public policy arena and working with states and local government. She has more than 30 years' experience in public affairs, non-profit organizations, and governmental affairs. She is the former Director of the Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs (OIEA) for the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), Immediate Office of the Secretary. Her responsibilities were to establish and maintain relationships between the Department of the Interior and Governors, state and local elected officials and the more than 6000 stakeholders and organizations that represent interests related to DOI. Prior to her appointment, Gail served as the Governmental Affairs Officer for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on loan from FEMA to the U.S. Coast Guard. Gail received the Coast Guard Distinguished Service Award, the highest public recognition given by the Commandant of the Coast Guard for her work on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. As the Oil Spill Governmental Affairs Officer, Gail oversaw Intergovernmental Affairs, Congressional Affairs, the Non-Governmental Organization Interaction Unit, VIP and International visits as well as some aspects of Community Relations for the entire Gulf Coast. She also served as the governmental affairs advisor to the three Coast Guard Federal On-Scene Coordinators as a member of their Command Staff for the response. She is the former Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Department of External Affairs for FEMA's Louisiana Transitional Recovery Office headquartered in New Orleans.  As the IGA Director, Gail headed intergovernmental operations for Louisiana offices for Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike. Gail also coordinated all foreign delegation meetings coming to Louisiana to learn lessons of response and recovery efforts.   This podcast is dedicated to the art of advocacy. Contact Voices In Advocacy at: www.VoicesinAdvocacy.com 480 488-9150 At Voices in Advocacy, we work with organizations that want to inspire, educate, engage, and activate their supports to become even better influential advocates.

Derek Brandt, Director, Congressional Affairs at the American Academy of Neurology, gives a year-end legislative update.

AMB. YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs, Embassy of Israel in the U.S., Former Consultant to Israeli and US legislators, @YoramEttinger Yoram Ettinger: “The primary goal of the Ayatollahs in Iran is to topple every single pro-American Arab regime in the Persian Gulf” Amb. Ettinger discusses the future of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute's Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow President Biden nominates Jerome Powell to serve as Chairman for the U.S. Federal Reserve for a 2nd term What would happen to the U.S. energy industry should Biden's nominee for Comptroller of the Currency, Saule Omarova, be confirmed by the U.S. Senate? The New York Times reports that Freeport-McMoRan, a U.S.-based mining company, sold many of its cobalt-rich mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a Chinese company over the past decade GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang Gordon Chang talks about China's moral bankruptcy and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics How much responsibility does China bear for American deaths from drug overdoses?

On Monday, February 4, 2019, Professor Gary Brown sat down with CLCT to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) and the law of war. Joined by William & Mary Law Professors Fred Lederer (CLCT Director) and Iria Giuffrida (CLCT Associate Director for Research), this 45-minute interview surveys key legal issues involving AI, Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems, cyber warfare, and international law. Guest Speaker Bio: Gary Brown currently serves as Professor of Practice at the College of Information and Cyberspace, at National Defense University. Professor Brown served for 25 years as a Judge Advocate with the United States Air Force, culminating in his role as first senior legal counsel for the U.S. Cyber Command. From there, he served as Head of Communications and Congressional Affairs for the Washington Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and then he became a Professor of Cyber Security at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia. He also worked as a Cyber Policy and Strategy Analysis for the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Brown is active in education, consulting, and advocacy regarding cyber law and policy, and regularly speaks on cyber operations law and policy. The views and opinions expressed in this interview are the personal views of the speakers, and do not represent the official position of the U.S. Department of Defense, The National Defense University, William & Mary Law School, or any other affiliated institutions.

Presenters: Michael Cerami, EVP BD & Strategic Alliances, CPA.com Lisa Simpson, VP Firm Services, AICPA Lauren Pfingstag, Director of Congressional Affairs, AICPA Edward Karl, VP Taxation, AICPA Stan Sterna, VP Insurance Services, AON Topics:  Latest from DC on infrastructure bill & pending legislation Tax developments and planning for upcoming tax season PPP update Risks and liabilities associated with client data and cybersecurity

In this episode, Gail Adams, Vice President of Communications and External Affairs for the International Association of Geophysical Contractors explains advocacy as an art and discusses that one needs to know what is a persons real why. Gail has more than 20 years of experience in the environment and natural resources public policy arena and working with states and local government. She has more than 30 years' experience in public affairs, non-profit organizations, and governmental affairs. She is the former Director of the Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs (OIEA) for the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), Immediate Office of the Secretary. Her responsibilities were to establish and maintain relationships between the Department of the Interior and Governors, state and local elected officials and the more than 6000 stakeholders and organizations that represent interests related to DOI. Prior to her appointment, Gail served as the Governmental Affairs Officer for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on loan from FEMA to the U.S. Coast Guard. Gail received the Coast Guard Distinguished Service Award, the highest public recognition given by the Commandant of the Coast Guard for her work on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. As the Oil Spill Governmental Affairs Officer, Gail oversaw Intergovernmental Affairs, Congressional Affairs, the Non-Governmental Organization Interaction Unit, VIP and International visits as well as some aspects of Community Relations for the entire Gulf Coast. She also served as the governmental affairs advisor to the three Coast Guard Federal On-Scene Coordinators as a member of their Command Staff for the response. She is the former Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Department of External Affairs for FEMA's Louisiana Transitional Recovery Office headquartered in New Orleans.  As the IGA Director, Gail headed intergovernmental operations for Louisiana offices for Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike. Gail also coordinated all foreign delegation meetings coming to Louisiana to learn lessons of response and recovery efforts. Gail is a former television news anchor and radio personality. She is also a certified grants writer. Adams is a graduate of Louisiana State University. Thank you to our sponsor: Rap Index, tell them Roger sent you. https://www.rapindex.com   This podcast is dedicated to the art of advocacy. Also listen for this episodes advocacy tip. Contact Voices In Advocacy at: www.VoicesinAdvocacy.com 480 488-9150 At Voices in Advocacy we work with organizations that want to inspire, educate, engage, and activate their supports to become even better influential advocates.  

Episode #035 - Please welcome Deputy Director Faron K. Paramore; he serves as the 22nd Deputy Director of the United States Secret Service. Appointed in March 2021, Mr. Paramore has direct oversight of the agency's daily investigative and protective operations. Mr. Paramore also oversees the agency's current policies and is responsible for implementing emerging protective and investigative technologies. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Paramore served as the agency's Assistant Director of the Office of Strategic Intelligence and Information, responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating all efforts involving the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of operational intelligence and information affecting the protective mission of the Secret Service. A 31-year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service, Mr. Paramore began his career in 1989 as a special agent assigned to the Detroit Field Office.  He rose steadily through the ranks of the agency with subsequent assignments in the Grand Rapids Resident Office, the Presidential Protective Division, and as a Congressional Fellow.  Mr. Paramore assumed greater levels of responsibility with supervisory assignments as Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge of the Recruitment Division; Resident Agent in Charge of the Grand Rapids Resident Office; and, Assistant Special Agent in Charge in the Washington Field Office.  In his subsequent career assignment, Mr. Paramore served as Special Agent in Charge of Congressional Affairs where he worked closely with the Department of Homeland Security Legislative Affairs Office regarding legislative initiatives that could impact the Secret Service. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in June 2009.  During this period in his career, he served as Executive Assistant to the Director and, subsequently, as Deputy Assistant Director of the Office of Congressional Affairs.  He served in that capacity until his appointment to Assistant Director of the Office of Administration where he managed the fiscal responsibilities of the Secret Service.  His areas of responsibility included budget formulation and execution, procurement, facilities property management, and administrative services.  Following this assignment, Mr. Paramore was appointed as Assistant Director of the Office of Government and Public Affairs. Mr. Paramore is a native of Detroit, Michigan.  He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan; and holds a Master's Degree in Management from Johns Hopkins University. Hosted and Edited by: Cody Starken, Associate Producer and assistant editor: Starr Vazquez This episode is sponsored by the United States Secret Service.  www.secretservice.gov Special Thanks to Deputy Director Faran Paramore for his time and support.  Music is “Nova Police” by Hermelin, found here:  www.hermelin.bandcamp.com/track/nova- police The music used in the podcast was altered from the original soundtrack by cutting specific sections of the music to create the intro and outro of the podcast.  This work Attribution- Noncommercial-sharealike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US), which license definition is located here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 Want to join the Secret Service?  Click here to start your journey https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/?k=USSS Please visit us at: Twitter@secretservice, Instagram@secretservice, Facebook @UnitedStatesSecretServiceOfficial, YouTube@US Secret Service, and LinkedIn @U.S. Secret Service Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.com and find it at www.secretservice.gov/press/social-media/

NAHU allies in Congress introduced bills that would address the three-day stay requirement for Medicare beneficiaries who are considered to be under observation status while being hospitalized. On this week's episode of the Healthcare Happy Hour, Vice President of Congressional Affairs and resident Medicare policy expert John Greene discusses these new bills and how they seek to resolve this issue.

NAHU allies in Congress introduced bills that would address the three-day stay requirement for Medicare beneficiaries who are considered to be under observation status while being hospitalized. On this week's episode of the Healthcare Happy Hour, Vice President of Congressional Affairs and resident Medicare policy expert John Greene discusses these new bills and how they seek to resolve this issue.

NAHU allies in Congress introduced bills that would address the three-day stay requirement for Medicare beneficiaries who are considered to be under observation status while being hospitalized. On this week's episode of the Healthcare Happy Hour, Vice President of Congressional Affairs and resident Medicare policy expert John Greene discusses these new bills and how they seek to resolve this issue.

In part 2 of a 2-part series, Derek Brandt, Director, Congressional Affairs at the American Academy of Neurology, shares about funding for medical research in the U.S.

In part 1 of a 2-part series, Derek Brandt, Director, Congressional Affairs at the American Academy of Neurology, shares about the Veterans Affairs Centers of Excellence.

Tom visits with lobbyist (and friend) Jim Free who worked in President Carter's White House as Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Affairs. Jim is also an environmental issues advocate, long term supporter of The Carter Center's programs focused on peace and health. Jim was instrumental securing songwriting rights on behalf of BMI in Washington and is a passionate music fan and was honored by the Country Music Association for his tireless efforts supporting the music of his roots.

YORAM ETTINGER, former Minister for Congressional Affairs, Israeli Embassy in Washington DC, President, American-Israel Opportunities, Ltd, Editor, Ettinger Report, Twitter: @YoramEttinger What does "America is back" mean to you?  Yoram Ettinger: The current fundamental flaws within President Biden's Middle East policy team is their intent to instill "western values" amongst the region's various Arab regimes Ettinger argues that Israel made it clear during the Obama-Biden administration that it was willing to strain US-Israeli relations in order to counter Iran The Obama administration eroded Israel's relationships with other countries in the region that were also intent on combatting Iran's rise  KYLE SHIDELER, Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Center for Security Policy, Author, "Unmasking Antifa: Five Perspectives on a Growing Threat," Twitter: @ShidelerK Kyle Shideler: "You can't deal with American citizens the same way you deal with the Taliban in a cave in Afghanistan"  The Democrats' proposed domestic terrorism bill puts a lot of undue strain on the US military and law enforcement personnel The Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as other left-leaning organizations, is focusing more on rhetoric than actual acts of violence ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary, State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author, "Eagles and Evergreens," Twitter: @RCharles4USA Wedding of ignorance, partisanship and arrogance separates us from reason Robert Charles: There is an extraordinary overreaction to the anticipated obstruction of the election process amongst the policy circles in Washington today Charles finds that last summer, notable Democrats were fully in their right to advocate and encourage people to take to the streets - the same as Donald Trump on Jan. 6th

Derek Brandt, Director, Congressional Affairs at the American Academy of Neurology, shares what he see's on the horizon in 2021 from a legislative perspective. 

Derek Brandt, Director, Congressional Affairs at the American Academy of Neurology, provides a 2020 congressional update.

John Greene is the VP of Congressional Affairs at NAHU (the National Association of Health Underwriters).  He offers The Brokerage Inc. President, Mike Smith an update on what to expect this AEP season. John was a recent guest on our Fearless 2021 Medicare Virtual Conference.  He has great insight and information for insurance agents. Visit www.nahu.org for more information about the agency or if you want to become a part of it.  And as always visit www.thebrokerageinc.com for information about the upcoming AEP selling season.

Rob Wallace, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, currently oversees policy and personnel for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Parks Service. In his previous work in the private sector, Wallace was focused on working with ranchers, energy companies, conservationists, and regulators to balance the needs of conservation and energy development in the West. A native of Evanston, Wyoming and graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Wallace’s government experience includes time as both a seasonal ranger and, later in his career, assistant director of Legislative and Congressional Affairs for the National Park Service. He has been chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Wallop (WY-R), Republican staff director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and chief of staff to Wyoming Governor Jim Geringer. In the private sector, he led U.S. government relations for GE Energy where he co-chaired the Government Relations Operating Council. The council coordinated the company’s energy advocacy throughout the world.

54: Building a Leadership Gift Culture at Your Nonprofit Organization (Chris McLeod) SUMMARYHow do you assure your nonprofit is in a position to receive Leadership Gifts? Many nonprofit organizations dream of that type transformational donor investment, but fail to put themselves in a good position to receive one. Chris McLeod knows all about that challenge, and helped co-found the Institute for Philanthropic Leadership - and its signature program called Leadership Gift School – to help organizations better articulate their case for leadership giving. Chris and I had a great conversation about LGS on episode #54 of the Path Podcast, and also discussed the work she’s done over her 25-year nonprofit career in planned giving and in other fundraising settings. Chris was also willing to open up about her battle with cancer and the career choices she’s made as a result of personal and professional challenges. ABOUT CHRISChris is the Director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Duke University and her professional experience is wide-ranging prior to OLLI. It includes working as a Congressional Affairs Officer for the Office of Congressional Affairs with the Federal Emergency Management Agency; as Director of Corporate and Foundation Development for the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill; as Director of Fund Development and Planned Giving for the Carolinas HealthCare Foundation; as Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for UNC-Charlotte; as Executive Director for The Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust of the Foundation For The Carolinas; and as founder and president of Giving Matters, Inc. (a consulting firm focused upon providing philanthropic counsel). In 2008, Chris was part of a group of philanthropy leaders in Charlotte who were inspired to develop a program to help educate nonprofit leaders about how to cultivate individuals for major gifts; this effort resulted in the creation of the Institute for Philanthropic Leadership and its inaugural program, the Leadership Gift School. Chris earned her bachelor’s degree in political science with honors from Wheaton College and a J.D. from American University. Following her graduation from American, she was admitted to the Maryland Bar. She has also completed the Bridges Program for Academic Leadership (Chapel Hill) and the Innovation Institute of the Transformational Leadership Program (McColl Center for Visual Arts). EPISODE TOPICS & RESOURCESRegister for IPL’s New Development Professionals or Leadership Gift School ProgramsApply for PMA’s Mastermind ProgramHenri Nouwen’s book A Spirituality of FundraisingOsha Davidson’s book The Best of EnemiesBruce Feiler’s book Life is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age

YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators: Analyzing the explosion in the port of Beirut Various foreign actors involved in Lebanon The role of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the rest of the Middle East (PART TWO): The threat Hezbollah poses to Israel How should the US deal with Hamas and Hezbollah? Will defeating Hezbollah require foreign involvement? (PART THREE): Israel's ongoing tension with Iran Who do the Iranians view as their biggest obstacle in the international world? The vulnerability of Iran's Ayatollahs (PART FOUR): An update on the land of Judea and Samaria Israel's relationship with China

YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in DC, Consultant to Israeli and US legislators: Assessing the possibility of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict The history of democratic regimes in the Middle East (PART TWO): What is the strategic importance of Judea and Samaria to the United States? How does the Trump Peace Plan contribute to the prospect of an agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians? DR. HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense, Author of Modern Islamic Warfare: An Ancient Doctrine Marches On (2017): A historical analysis of the dispute over the West Bank The importance of Jordan in this conflict What outcome does Jordan want in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? (PART TWO): What is Turkey doing with respect to Jerusalem? What is Israel's view of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?

This episode is the second part of our series looking at different organizations advocating for Europe on Capitol Hill in Washington. We spoke to Reta Jo Lewis, Senior Fellow and Director of Congressional Affairs at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (one of our partner organizations in Washington). She discussed her career in Washington, and how her prior work as an international lawyer has helped her work at GMF on issues such as technology, leadership and diversity in the transatlantic relationship.  Listen to the first part of our Europe on the Hill series here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/europe-on-the-hill-part-1-bmws-bryan-jacobs-on-trade/id1474443374?i=1000453552859. The Europe Desk is a podcast from the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. It brings together leading experts working on the most pertinent issues facing Europe and transatlantic relations today. Music by Sam Kyzivat and Breakmaster Cylinder  Production by Simon Close, Alistair Somerville and Laura Rodriguez Design by Sarah Diebboll Communications by Charlie Fritz and Laura Rodriguez https://cges.georgetown.edu/podcast Twitter and Instagram: @theeuropedesk If you would like a transcript of this episode, more information about the Center's events, or have any feedback, please email: theeuropedesk@gmail.com.

On today's Israel Uncensored with Josh Hasten, an exclusive interview with Ambassador Yoram Ettinger, Israel's Former Minister for Congressional Affairs in Washington and expert on US/Israel relations. Ettinger is concerned that the authors of the Trump plan might have ignored what he says is the violent nature of the Middle East, particularly in regard to the stability of Israel's Eastern border, when putting together the proposal (based on expected details of the plan). At the same time while Ettinger praises the unique current US/Israel relationship under the Trump administration, he says that we don't know what the future will look like come January 21, 2021, if a new US president is sworn into office. Photo Credit: Flickr / U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv

Jeff and Chelsea are joined by friends and coalition partners Miriam Harmer and Brian Walsh to discuss our advocacy work for a bipartisan repeal of the new tax on nonprofits and, for the first time in American history, houses of worship. Guest biography Miriam Harmer is Director of Congressional Affairs at the Orthodox Union where she works to promote the OU's interest in energy, education, Israel, and religious freedom issues. A veteran of four presidential campaigns, Miriam has spent much of her professional career with the United States House of Representatives and Senate. As a Hill staffer, Miriam was a Legislative Assistant for Representative Rob Bishop, Counsel for Senator Bob Bennett, and most recently a Legislative Counsel for Senator Mike Lee, where she advised him in his position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Prior to her time on the Hill, Miriam clerked in the office of Utah's Attorney General and with the law firm of Oldaker, Biden & Belair. Brian Walsh is a Washington, D.C.-based attorney and serves as Executive Director of the Faith & Giving Coalition, a multi-religious, multi-denominational initiative working to protect and promote faith-based and other charitable giving. Walsh previously served as Senior Legal Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and as executive director of an Ethics and Public Policy Center research program on freedom of religion and conscience. Walsh has testified before committees of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives as well as the White House Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. His commentary has appeared in numerous publicans such as USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, and he has been interviewed on multiple networks including CNBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR. Walsh was a commercial litigation associate with the international law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C., and with Willcox & Savage in Norfolk, Virginia. He served as a law clerk to Judge Pasco M. Bowman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Resources from the Conversation ERLC Supports Technical Fix of Tax Law on Church Parking Taxation Russell Moore's article in the Wall Street Journal | Stop the Tax on Houses of Worship Orthodox Union Advocacy Center ERLC | Capitol Conversation Podcast

Jeff and Chelsea are joined by friends and coalition partners Miriam Harmer and Brian Walsh to discuss our advocacy work for a bipartisan repeal of the new tax on nonprofits and, for the first time in American history, houses of worship. Guest biography Miriam Harmer is Director of Congressional Affairs at the Orthodox Union where she works to promote the OU’s interest in energy, education, Israel, and religious freedom issues. A veteran of four presidential campaigns, Miriam has spent much of her professional career with the United States House of Representatives and Senate. As a Hill staffer, Miriam was a Legislative Assistant for Representative Rob Bishop, Counsel for Senator Bob Bennett, and most recently a Legislative Counsel for Senator Mike Lee, where she advised him in his position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Prior to her time on the Hill, Miriam clerked in the office of Utah’s Attorney General and with the law firm of Oldaker, Biden & Belair. Brian Walsh is a Washington, D.C.-based attorney and serves as Executive Director of the Faith & Giving Coalition, a multi-religious, multi-denominational initiative working to protect and promote faith-based and other charitable giving. Walsh previously served as Senior Legal Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and as executive director of an Ethics and Public Policy Center research program on freedom of religion and conscience. Walsh has testified before committees of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives as well as the White House Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. His commentary has appeared in numerous publicans such as USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, and he has been interviewed on multiple networks including CNBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR. Walsh was a commercial litigation associate with the international law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C., and with Willcox & Savage in Norfolk, Virginia. He served as a law clerk to Judge Pasco M. Bowman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Resources from the Conversation ERLC Supports Technical Fix of Tax Law on Church Parking Taxation Russell Moore’s article in the Wall Street Journal | Stop the Tax on Houses of Worship Orthodox Union Advocacy Center ERLC | Capitol Conversation Podcast

Jim Coon is the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs & Advocacy for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association representing over 340,000 members. Jim has a unique resume with extensive experience working in Congress and in the aviation field. Jim was raised in Virginia. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with a B.A. in Urban Planning. After college, Jim took an internship working on the Hill, getting his foot in the door. Jim worked as a staff member on the Aviation subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives. He transitioned to serve as the Director of Congressional Affairs for the Air Transport Association before serving as the Director of Congressional Affairs for The Boeing Company.  Jim then returned to work in the House of Representatives, where he served as the Republican Staff Director for the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. In 2013, he became the Executive Vice President to the National Air Transportation Association before joining AOPA in 2014. Jim previously served as an officer in the Army Reserves and the Virginia National Guard. The AOPA was founded in 1939, with the mission to protect an individual's freedom to fly in the United States. Many members are people who own their own plane and enjoy flying. AOPA has consistently been named a top 50 advocacy organization Help us grow! Leave us a rating and review - it's the best way to bring new listeners to the show.  Have a suggestion, or want to chat with Jim? Email him at: Jim@theLobbyingShow.com Follow The Lobbying Show on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for weekly updates about the show, our guests, and more.

Retired agent John Kundts served in the FBI for twenty years. His first assignment was to the Philadelphia Division where he initially worked Fraud Against the Government matters. In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, John Kundts reviews the 1981 counterfeit SEPTA TransPasses case where two men using specialty paper, printed and sold fake monthly fare instruments. Before the investigation, the transit agency's losses from the scheme totaled $1 million a month. After a promotion to FBI Headquarters, he worked first in the Inspection Division, Office of Planning, Evaluations, and Audits and then in the Personnel office where he adjudicated employees determined by the Inspection Division to have been involved in serious administrative or illegal disputes. The unit was affectionately known as the "You Fail, We Nail" group. He also worked in the Office of Public and Congressional Affairs.  Later in his career,  he was transferred to the Denver Division where he was the supervisor of the Special Operations Group (SOG), which conducted surveillance operations throughout the Denver Division territory which encompassed all of Colorado and Wyoming supporting case agents by providing ground, air, and electronic surveillance. Upon retiring, John Kundts, took up another challenging role, being a stay-at-home-dad caring for his two young daughters. Join my Reader Team to get the FBI Reading Resource - Books about the FBI, written by FBI agents, the 20 clichés about the FBI Reality Checklist, and keep up to date on the FBI in books, TV, and movies via my monthly email. Join here.   Jerri Williams, a retired FBI agent, author and podcaster, attempts to relive her glory days by writing crime fiction about greed and hosting FBI Retired Case File Review, a true crime/history podcast. Her novels—Pay To Play and Greedy Givers—inspired by actual true crime FBI cases, feature temptation, corruption, and redemption, and are available on Amazon.   

On this episode of Tooth Talk, Sarah and Peter sit down with the ADA’s Director of Congressional Affairs, Chris Tampio, to discuss new approaches to lobbying the ADA’s priorities in the 116th Congress. Chris discusses the current state of play in Congress, both from a political and policy perspective. He also details the behind the scenes activities of the congressional affairs team and their often unrecognized direct effect on federal policies that could impact dentistry.

Sebastian Gorka, Ph.D. serves as the Major General Matthew C. Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at Marine Corps University where he provides courses and lectures on Irregular Warfare. Previously he was Associate Dean of Congressional Affairs and Relations to the Special Operations Community at National Defense University. He is an internationally recognized authority on issues of national security, irregular warfare, terrorism and democratization and has testified before Congress and briefed the CIA, ODNI, NCTC, NIC, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps. His website, TheGorkaBriefing.com, is a collection of his national security commentary and analysis. He served as a subject matter expert for the Office of the US Attorney in Boston for the Tsarnaev trial. Dr. Gorka is an Adjunct Professor with USSOCOM’s Joint Special Operations University where he serves as Lead Instructor for the Special Operations Combating Terrorism (SOCbT) course, as well as the interagency and senior/executive counterterrorism courses. He is also an Adjunct Professor in National Security at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, and is a regular instructor with the US Army’s Special Warfare Center and School in Fort Bragg and for the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. Follow us on westminster-institute.org and youtube.com/user/WestminsterInstitute