With Jose Cardenas, Dakota Wood, Bill Gertz and Diana West

JOSE CARDENAS, Associate at VisiónAméricas, Blogs at Foreign Policy Magazine’s “Shadow Government,” Served in senior positions at the State Department, National Security Council, and USAID, Former Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin America at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the George W. Bush Administration:

• Significance of the US-Brazil alliance
• Implications of Venezuela’s blackout

DAKOTA WOOD, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs at the Heritage Foundation, Twenty-year career in the USMC, Former Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Recently served as a strategist for the United States Marine Corps Special Operations Command:

• Why the US needs a more robust defense industry
• The current state of US military power

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2016):

• China’s aggressive aims for taking over Taiwan
• The controversy of Bill Evanina’s nomination

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at DianaWest.Net:

• Takeaways from the New Zealand shooting
• Consequences of Jeanine Pirro’s firing