Bill Cowan, Rebeccah Heinrichs, Daniel Silva, Andy McCarthy

BILL COWAN, former member of the Pentagon’s Intelligence Support Activity:

• The role the Syrian conflict played in helping the Islamic State emerge from al-Qaeda in Iraq
• Analyzing the extent of Iranian influence within Iraq’s government
• Intelligence and military options for the United States in Iraq
• The national security threat posed by unknown people crossing the US’s southern border

REBECCAH HEINRICHS, a nuclear deterrence and missile defense expert who formerly managed the Congressional Missile Defense Caucus:

• Problems within the U.S. Air Force missile crews responsible for maintenance and operations of the land-based leg of the US strategic triad
• Failures to modernize U.S. nuclear forces and Ohio-class nuclear submarines
• Solutions for improving the U.S. missile defense systems

DANIEL SILVA, #1 New York Times best selling author:

• Origins of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge
• The 14th anniversary of the Two State Solution’s rejection by Yasser Arafat
• Silva’s new New York Times best seller, “The Heist”

ANDY McCARTHY, author of “Faithless Execution: Making the Case for the Impeachment of Barack Obama”:

• Government inaction that helped lead to the current immigration crisis
• Ways the Cloward-Piven Social Welfare Theory may be at work in U.S. immigration policy
• The systemic problems facing the Obama administration