Latest / Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights / News for the week of 2/24/25
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- 0:14Well, welcome to the Live to Shoe podcast.
- 0:17My name is Jeff Doell, and I have been a licensed firearms dealer for the last 18 years.
- 0:21This podcast, to talk about all things related to the Second Amendment.
- 0:24Anything else going on in the world, a sports story or whatever else might be interesting.
- 0:30So welcome, welcome, welcome.
- 0:32Again, another interesting week with the Trump administration.
- 0:37So the big thing I think that was happened since the last podcast is that Kash Patel was named as the interim director of the ATF.
- 0:46We've been waiting to find out what they were going to do with the ATF director.
- 0:50And they as the interim director until they got one that is nominated.
- 0:54So, interesting thing about the director of the ATF.
- 0:57Since 2006, and 2006 is when the director position of the ATF went from a, just an appointee to a Senate confirmed position.
- 1:09And since then, there has only been two directors actually confirmed by the Senate.
- 1:15Every other director has been an interim.
- 1:16Dettelbach, the last one, was actually the last one and they took a little Uh, maneuvering of the rules to get him done.
- 1:25So don't know how long Cash will be serving as the interim.
- 1:29It's, you know, a very political position.
- 1:32On both sides, as we've documented in here, the Second Amendment is probably the most attacked and challenged of our Bill of Rights.
- 1:40People seem to it seems to be a second class right that people seem to, that they have the ability to question and pass laws to challenge it all across the country.
- 1:50And the ATF has not been the biggest supporter of the Second Amendment as, as to say, and so it is a very, politically, uh, heated position to say the least.
- 2:02So I've, you know, have no doubt that Cash will do good things in his position.
- 2:08I'm excited that he is the confirmed director of the FBI, and we'll have to wait and see what, what transpires with the, with the, that, that position and who they nominate.
- 2:18President Trump has not been slow in getting these positions nominated.
- 2:22So I'm expecting some names to come out soon, but I think President Trump and Attorney General Pambani wanted to make sure that there was at least a hand on the wheel of the ATF Watching what's going on in there because to make sure they aren't doing things to violate our second amendment And that they are supporting the mission that President Trump ha has proposed and the executive order supporting the second Amendment that he released.
- 2:51So we will see, we'll have to sit back and, and, and watch those things.
- 2:55Another interesting development was the nomination of Dan Bongino as the deputy Director of the FBI.
- 3:02Very interesting.
- 3:03I'm a big fan of Dan Bonino.
- 3:04I have listened to his podcast.
- 3:07Oh, I don't even know how long for, for a long period of time.
- 3:11And the one thing about, dan is that he has been extremely critical of the FBI and the Secret Service, but the FBI in particular, he's written books about Spygate and Russiagate and, you know, follow the money and all those things that happened in the 2016 Pursuit of President Trump and Russiagate and PP, the PP tapes and all those things that were blatantly against our, our, our and pursuit of, of the truth.
- 3:46So I think Dan will do great things when he gets in there in a few weeks and starts his position.
- 3:52So it'll be interesting to continue to sit back and watch.
- 3:56So, you know, things are happening and it seems to be positive.
- 4:00Doge is still out there shaking things up and I love to see it.
- 4:05People are just.
- 4:06The leftist heads are blowing up, but the other thing that happened transpired, you know, was yesterday.
- 4:12And this is, you know, to me, demonstrates leadership.
- 4:17And if you have not seen it, you need to go watch the interaction between President Trump Vice President J.
- 4:23D.
- 4:24Vance and Zelensky of Ukraine in the Oval Office, and there was a smackdown.
- 4:31And our two president and vice presidents were the boss.
- 4:36They demonstrated exactly who were the leaders and who had the upper hand in this arrangement.
- 4:44And that they did not expect, you know, anything but Submission by Zelensky.
- 4:52And he seemed to be regretting that he was actually kicked out of the White House.
- 4:59And the negotiations stopped.
- 5:01The agreement that they were expected to sign was put on hold.
- 5:05And now Zelensky has come out and been a little control, a little, you know apologetic, you know, been very.
- 5:14Thankful to the US and to the president and we'll see if that buys him any any grace But you know at least me and I think a lot of people believe you know what we've done You know, we feel for the Ukrainian people Russia did invade them But I think it all could have been stopped a long time ago If people would truly search for peace.
- 5:39And I don't think Zelensky really wants peace.
- 5:42I think he likes the money train that the U S has been providing.
- 5:45And I fully believe that he's been skimming that those billions, some of it going into his pocket and he doesn't want to see it stopped.
- 5:52And president Trump is pretty making it clear that, you know, we're not, we're not going to continue this.
- 5:58We're going to search for peace and we're going to go for a ceasefire.
- 6:01So let's keep saying he didn't want to cease fire.
- 6:03And that really.
- 6:04Erked President Trump and so and J.
- 6:07D.
- 6:07Vance wanted to hear some thankfulness from Zelensky which he was not getting So it's very interesting and you know, the history goes back a long way We talked about the Russiagate and everything like that.
- 6:18Well Trump was impeached the first time because of a phone call that he had with Zelensky where the The left accused Trump of looking for a quid pro quo from Zelensky saying, Hey, we need you to go and give us all this dirt on Hunter Biden.
- 6:37And you know, that was not the case of the call.
- 6:41And I think Trump has always had a little bit of resentment.
- 6:46towards Zelensky because Zelensky could have come out publicly, publicly at the time and stood up and supported President Trump and said, no, that was not the intention of the call.
- 6:55We had a really good call and it was very, um, productive, but he never did.
- 7:00He never did.
- 7:01And if I was President Trump, I'd be a little irritated, and I'd be carrying that irritation along with me today.
- 7:07So but you know, President Trump, the one thing, people think that he holds grudges and he's got revenge.
- 7:13He, he doesn't.
- 7:14He is very transactional.
- 7:16You can have a minus in your column from yesterday, and you can do something today and have a positive in your, in your column, and he's gonna move on.
- 7:25And he's going to accept that, right?
- 7:27He doesn't, you know, I don't think he holds grudges, but he doesn't forget either.
- 7:31So, you know, we'll have to see.
- 7:34You know, we're praying for peace in Ukraine.
- 7:36We need that war to end.
- 7:38We need to stop spending the money on it, and we need the lives.
- 7:42the loss of lives to cease.
- 7:45It's ridiculous how out of control this has gotten.
- 7:48But, you know, we need to sit back.
- 7:50We'll watch what happens the rest of the week.
- 7:52You know, every week is a new week with this administration and I'm excited to keep watching it.
- 7:58You know, there's nothing but positives coming out of it.
- 8:01Still wanting to get those Epstein lists.
- 8:04Some of the paperwork was released, but that client list hasn't come out yet.
- 8:08And I am a little concerned by that.
- 8:10But we will see by maybe by the time this podcast gets published, that we'll have all the full client list and we'll see who all has been frequenting Epstein Island and what type of degenerates that we might have in, in sports.
- 8:25politics business, whatever you might have that hung around Epstein.
- 8:30And so we will see what that brings, but keep watching out.
- 8:34You know, I wouldn't be surprised if a new ATF director is, is, is, is announced and that confirmation hearing starting soon I think president Trump is wanting to continue to move fast on that, but we'll wait and see.
- 8:46Lots of names out there that I've heard.
- 8:48But you know, I have no opinions on that.
- 8:50I don't know any of these folks, but take care keep you know, fighting for our second amendment.
- 8:56We've got to keep fighting.
- 8:57They're not going to give up.
- 8:59And this is not over.
- 9:01And by a long shot, we have some great positive steps happening, but this administration is doing great things.
- 9:10There are a lot of things still going on in the courts, and we've got, we've got to continue to fight for our Second Amendment.
- 9:16So share this podcast with people, do whatever you need to do to get the word out not just about my podcast, but just about the importance of the Second Amendment.
- 9:25I appreciate y'all listening, have a great weekend, and I will talk to you later.