Amb. ROGER NORIEGA, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs:
- Timing of American outreach to Cuba given the current oil market and the regime’s ties to the Venezuelan government
- Rául Castro's claim that he will use U.S. economic concessions to strengthen the socialist totalitarian regime
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s push to lift the embargo on Cuba
- Will the Cuba prisoner exchange serve as a blueprint for future Obama policy with Iran?
MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies:
- The congressional funding bill that will only provide short-term spending measures for the Department of Homeland Security
- Cruz’s (R-TX) proposed amendment for a vote on the constitutionality of the President’s actions on immigration
- Republican willingness to shut down the federal government to foil an executive amnesty
FRANKLIN MILLER, former Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the NSC Staff:
- Looking at the U.S. nuclear arsenal amidst growing modernization of other nations' capabilities
- An urgent need to modernize warhead delivery mechanisms
- Russia's violations of the 1987 INF Treaty and contempt for international agreements that don’t constrain the U.S.
- Is it time to enlarge the U.S. nuclear deterrence in Europe?
FRED FLEITZ, former CIA analyst:
- The co-dependency of the Cuban regime and Venezuela’s Maduro government
- Cuban intelligence operations inside the U.S. as evidenced by the “Cuban Five”
- A Shariah-inspired atrocity in Pakistan
- John Brennan’s poor defense of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program