Bing West, Kyle Shideler, Gordon Chang, Jose Cardenas

BING WEST, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, USMC Force Recon veteran of the Vietnam War:

• Russian tanks and possible air defense capabilities on the ground in Syria in support of Assad
• Possible outcomes for Iraq
• Passive administration responses to anti-U.S. actions taken by the regimes in Tehran, Moscow, and Beijing
• Prescription for a new U.S. policy in the Middle East

KYLE SHIDELER, Director of the Threat Information Office at the Center for Security Policy:

• CAIR’s support of California’s AB-953 Bill
• Importance of the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Pharaoh” label
• European police hunting for jihadists hidden in the migrant population
• How the U.S. can protect itself from unvetted refugees

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China”:

• The Chinese Navy’s incursion into U.S. territorial water
• American weakness in the Pacific empowering Xi Jinping
• Beijing’s continued economic free-fall
• Prospects for China becoming the world’s economic leader

JOSÉ CÁRDENAS, Former State Department official and contributor to Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government Blog:

• Recent developments regarding Venezuelan political prisoner Leopoldo Lopez
• Chances of strengthening American-Venezuelan relations
• China’s propping up of the Maduro Regime
• Increase of human rights violations in Cuba since the diplomatic normalization