On this episode of the Breakdown with Senator James Lankford, Senator Lankford is joined by Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, current foreign relations and religious liberty.

Episode 25: Peace & Policy with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Senator James Lankford (R-OK) and Dr. Christina Francis, chairman of the board of the American Association of Pro-Life OB/GYNs discuss how the science of life in the womb has developed and changed since Roe v. Wade.

Episode 26: Overturning Roe: The Real Science Behind When Life Begins with Dr. Christina Francis

Episode 27: Overturning Roe: The Stories Behind the Pro-Life Movement with guest Dr. Alveda King

Episode 27: Overturning Roe: The Stories Behind the Pro-Life Movement with Dr. Alveda King

On this episode of the Breakdown with Senator James Lankford, Senator Lankford is joined by China expert & former Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger to talk China’s human rights abuses, their economic & military coercion and their efforts to take advantage of the rest of the world.

More about Matt Pottinger: https://www.hoover.org/profiles/matt-pottinger

Matt Pottinger is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.  Pottinger served the White House for four years in senior roles on the National Security Council staff, including as deputy national security advisor from 2019 to 2021. In that role, he coordinated the full spectrum of national security policy. He previously served as senior director for Asia, where he led the administration’s work on the Indo-Pacific region, in particular its shift on China policy.

Before his White House service, Pottinger spent the late 1990s and early 2000s in China as a reporter for Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. He then fought in Iraq and Afghanistan as a US Marine during three combat deployments between 2007 and 2010. Following active duty, he founded and led an Asia-focused risk consultancy and ran Asia research at an investment fund in New York.

Episode 28: China: Coercion & Control with Matt Pottinger

On Wednesday, March 2, 2022 Senator James Lankford (R-OK) released a special episode of The Breakdown with James Lankford to provide a firsthand account from his friend Pavel Unguryan, who is currently in Ukraine, on what is happening on the ground. Pavel details how his country is under attack, thanks America for its support, and called to stop buying Russian oil. During the conversation, Unguryan asked for prayers for him and his nation and specifically asked that the anger does not transform into hate, but the world needs to see what is happening to the country of Ukraine.

#StandwithUkraine A Firsthand Account from Ukraine

On this episode of the Breakdown with Senator James Lankford, Senator Lankford is joined by former Acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security and expert on border security Chad Wolf. Lankford introduced a bill to delay ending Title 42 in an effort to secure our border, warning that the US could see an additional 1 million illegal border crossers in 6 weeks if Biden rescinds Title 42. He has repeatedly condemned the Biden Administration’s push for a wide open border and has called out their lack of a plan to secure it. Lankford successfully blocked Biden’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office from opening a “surge overflow facility” at the Great Plains Correctional Institution in Hinton, Oklahoma and visited the southern border after record high border crossings in 2021.

Episode 29: Break Down of Root Causes of Biden's Border Crisis with Chad Wolf

Episode 30: Opening Up US Energy with guest Michael Cembalest

Episode 30: Opening Up US Energy with Michael Cembalest

Episode 31: The Truth To Protecting Life in Women's Healthcare with guests Senator Steve Daines and Dr. Christina Francis

Episode 31: Truth To Protecting Life in Women's Healthcare with Senator Daines & Dr. Francis

US Senator James Lankford is back with a new season of The Breakdown. This episode digs deeper into the Iran protest, why this is important to Americans, and how we can support the Iranian people. Follow @SenatorLankford to get the latest news from Washington, DC.

Season 3, Episode 1: Iranian Uprising

In this episode of The Breakdown, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) is joined by Erik Baptist with Alliance Defending Freedom and Dr. Donna Harrison, M.D., the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine chairman to break down the latest news on chemical abortions.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Truth About Chemical Abortion

James Lankford was elected US Senator for Oklahoma in 2014. On The Breakdown, James, along with his staff, takes the most complicated topics we hear in the news and breaks them down issue-by-issue.

Episode 28: China: Coercion & Control with Matt Pottinger

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