Sen. Joni Ernst, Rick Manning, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Guy Taylor

Sen. JONI ERNST (IA-R), Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs:

• Insights into Sen. Ernst’s recent visit to the Middle East
• Possibilities of President Obama signing the NDAA
• Obama’s insistence of bringing Gitmo detainees to the US
• Importance of passing the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

• Worrisome aspects of the Trans Pacific Partnership
• Accountability to the TPP’s governing body
• Possibility of China joining TPP
• Opposition to the Fast Track Authority

Dr. PETER VINCENT PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security:

• Reestablishment of the EMP Commission
• Fallacies of the White House’s National Space Weather Action Plan
• Unwillingness of electrical industries to protect the grid
• Impact of Ted Koppel’s book regarding cyber attacks on the electric grid

Dr. PETER VINCENT PRY, Part Two:

• “Blackout War”: Taking advantage of natural disasters to harm your enemy
• The 1983 nuclear war scare with the former USSR
• A flawed rational actor model determining American military strategy
• An end to the Pax Americana century

GUY TAYLOR, National Security Team Leader at the Washington Times:

• Ongoing NDAA negotiations between the administration and Congress
• Concern regarding Obama’s lack of strategy towards defeating ISIS
• Evidence that a bomb brought down Russian Flight 9268