The Importance of Foreign Policy with Cliff May, President of Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Join Robert Chernin and Ericka Redic as they welcome Founder and President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Cliff May.

Cliff, Robert, and Ericka discuss U.S. foreign policy for China, Russia, Israel, Iran, and Ukraine - all important issues that voters are considering this election season.

Brash, irreverent, and mostly peaceful!  

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Cliff May
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Under Cliff May’s leadership, FDD has become one of the nation’s most highly regarded think tanks and a sought-after voice on a wide range of national security issues. He has helped assemble a staff and advisory board whose research, ideas, and recommendations have shaped important policies and legislation on terrorism, nonproliferation, human rights, Islamism, democratization, and related issues.

Cliff has had a long and distinguished career in international relations, journalism, communications, and politics. A veteran news reporter, foreign correspondent and editor (at The New York Times and other publications), he has covered stories around the world, including datelines from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, the U.A.E., Bahrain, Oman, Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Chad, Mexico, Argentina, Northern Ireland, Hungary, Kazakhstan, China, and Russia.

From 2016 to 2018, Cliff served as a commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission that makes policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress in order to advance the pivotal right of religious freedom around the world, and integrate religious freedom into America’s foreign policy.

Robert Chernin 
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Ericka Redic

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Robert is a longtime successful entrepreneur, business leader, fundraiser, political advisor, and now popular podcast and radio talk show host. Robert has been an in-demand consultant on important gubernatorial, congressional, senatorial, and presidential races, including leadership roles in the presidential campaigns of President George W. Bush and John McCain. In 2004 he was praised as a difference maker as Executive Director for the national Republican Jewish outreach operations. Robert also proudly served on the President’s Committee of the Republican Jewish Coalition. He studied political science internationally at McGill University in Montreal.

Ericka L. Redic is a Vermont and Texas-based Chief Financial Officer, author, entrepreneur, and former Republican/Libertarian Congressional candidate. She strongly advocates from an originalist constitutional position for conservative values focusing on the culture war on her show Generally Irritable.