Maj. Jeff Struecker, Gordon Chang, Rep. Louie Gohmert, Andy McCarthy

The U.S. will launch its final space shuttle mission on Fri., July 8, and Maj. Jeff Struecker, retired U.S. Army and 1996 recipient of the Best Ranger Competition, asserts that our national security will be undermined as a result, as much of the technology we rely on, such as Google Earth and GPS, was obtained through space exploration. Struecker, author of the novel Fallen Angel, a space-based intelligence story, joins Frank to discuss space as the final frontier for where we fight our battles. “Everyday we’re losing ground to other countries,” he says as a consequence of ending the shuttle program. Next, Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, describes how that collapse could be hastened by the unraveling of Communist control. Chang explains how China’s claims for stability reveal the opposite, as a financial boom led by foreign business has also brought foreign ideas, leading to rising dissent within the country, and the Party’s clambering to maintain control. Then, Rep. Louie Gohmert, of the first district of Texas, discusses the Obama Administration’s decision to reach out to the Muslim Brotherhood in a continued policy of what he terms, “embracing our enemies and slapping our friends across the face.” “The history one day will be written and this will be described as the way you go about losing a country,” says Gohmert on our current foreign policy and the aligning with a group that supports terrorism and a global caliphate. Finally, Andy McCarthy, of National Review, provides his weekly insight, discussing Iran’s so-called Counter Terrorism Conference that concluded America and Israel lie at the center of terrorism problems in the world. More alarming still was that allies Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan were in attendance. McCarthy also defines what he calls the “Incoherent Wing” of the Republican Party after Presidential Candidate Tim Pawlenty declared Iran on the verge of isolation; merely two days after 60 countries converged there to denounce the U.S.