The Middle East Braces for a Nuclear Iran

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With Rep. Vicky Hartzler, Richard Holm, Rep. John Fleming, Amb. Roger Noriega

Rep. VICKY HARTZLER (MO-4), Chair of the House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee:

• A refusal by Democratic Senators to vote on a motion to proceed with debate over the House bill to fund DHS
• National security concerns amid chances of closing the Guantanamo Bay holding facility
• What’s not included in the President’s proposed AUMF draft

RICHARD HOLM, former Director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Office and author of “The Craft We Chose: My Life in the CIA“:

• Holm’s account of surviving a reconnaissance plane crash along the 1960s Congo/Sudanese border despite suffering near-fatal burns
• Today’s intelligence mission of countering the global jihad
• The importance of American support to Egyptian President el-Sisi and of a greater reformation in Islam
• How intelligence capabilities were used to great effect by former CIA Director Bill Casey against Soviet Communism

Rep. JOHN FLEMING (LA-4), House Armed Services Committee member, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Congressional Long-Range Strike Caucus:

• Will a nuclear-armed Iran catalyze an arms race in the Middle East?
• Prime Minister Netanyahu’s grievances over the Iran nuclear talks
• Concerns Vladimir Putin is bringing about a new Iron Curtain with his own unique political and economic systems
• The atrophy of the U.S. nuclear deterrent

Amb. ROGER NORIEGA, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States:

• The Venezuelan regime’s increasingly brutal tactics amid economic woes and government-sponsored narco-trafficking
• Have the Cuban people actually benefitted from the normalization of relations between the Castro regime and United States?
• Potential Russian, Chinese, and North Korean responses should the U.S. vacate Guantanamo Bay
• The supposed Iranian/Argentinian “truth squad’ following the Alberto Nisman death