Podcasts by The Oath with Chuck Rosenberg
Listen in on revealing and thoughtful conversations with fascinating men and women who took an oath to support and defend our Constitution and our nation – leaders in law enforcement, the military, the intelligence community, and many more. What inspired these people? What drew them to this work? How did they overcome adversity and failure? And what are the lessons for our country and our democracy as we move forward? These captivating stories exemplify what is best about our nation: integrity, civility, service, humility, and collective responsibility.
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Andrew McCabe: Crisis Response from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.291463
Andrew McCabe served as the Deputy Director – and briefly the Acting Director – of the FBI at the end of a fascinating career in federal law enforcement. A graduate of Duke University and the Wa...
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Nicolle Wallace: Lottery Tickets from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.277161
Nicolle Wallace has had a fascinating career at the intersection of journalism, politics, and public service. The popular host of MSNBC’s Deadline White House, Nicolle talks about her first jobs...
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Preview: Season 2 from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.266736
An oath is a promise to faithfully serve our country and our fellow citizens. This season: Rob Spencer, the former federal prosecutor who led the 9/11 case; Four-star Admiral William McRaven – a...
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Joyce Vance: Sweet Home from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.251804
Joyce Vance was an Assistant United States Attorney in Alabama for many years. Rising through the ranks in Birmingham, she was confirmed by the Senate as United States Attorney for the Northern ...
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Anthony Williams: The Mayor from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.248834
Anthony Williams's path to becoming the fifth mayor of Washington, D.C. was circuitous.
During the Vietnam years, Williams left college to join the Air Force, ultimately leaving the servic...
John Pistole: Full Circle from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.192627
John Pistole’s remarkable life has come full circle. A career FBI special agent who rose through the ranks to become the Deputy Director (the second highest official in the Bureau), John held th...
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Leon Panetta: Worthy Fights from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.176507
Leon Panetta is one of the most distinguished and most accomplished public servants in American history. Leon was born and raised in Monterey, California, the place where his father – an Italia...
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Carol Lam: Her Honor from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.165633
Carol Lam grew up in New Jersey, and was educated at Yale and Stanford Law School. Soon after law school, she found a job she loved in the Justice Department – as a federal prosecutor in San Di...
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Jim Miller: Hawkeye from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.154037
Jim Miller is the former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. In that vital role – the number three position in DOD – Jim was at the forefront of some of the nation’s most important and most d...
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Captain"Sully"Sullenberger: My Aircraft from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.145179
Captain Chesley Burnett Sullenberger, III (Sully) was born in Denison – a small North Texas town on the Oklahoma border. There, as a teenager, he learned to fly a single engine prop plane off a...
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Robert S. Mueller III: The Director (Part 1) from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.135174
Robert S. Mueller III – Bob Mueller – is an American hero. Though best known as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and as the Special Counsel that led the investigation in...
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Anne Milgram: A City Invincible from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.101272
Anne Milgram grew up in East Brunswick, New Jersey, the daughter of a college professor and an engineer. But other relatives – including her grandfather who was a New Jersey police chief – were ...
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Robert S. Mueller III: The Director (Part 2) from 2022-04-21T15:00:46.064823
Robert S. Mueller III – Bob Mueller – is an American hero. Though best known as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and as the Special Counsel that led the investigation i...
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Introducing: Southlake from 2021-08-23T18:49:41
As a bonus for The Oath listeners, we’re sharing a special preview of “Southlake,” a new, six-part original podcast series from NBC News that takes listeners inside a Texas suburb’s war over race a...
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Carrie Hessler-Radelet: Choose Optimism from 2021-01-20T05:00
Carrie Hessler-Radelet – a native of Michigan and the former Director of the Peace Corps – and her extended family have a remarkable and unique relationship with that storied organization. They ...
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Carrie Hessler-Radelet: Choose Optimism from 2021-01-20T05:00
Carrie Hessler-Radelet served in – and was Director of – the Peace Corps, whose volunteers tackle the most difficult problems in communities around the globe.
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Frank Figliuzzi: The FBI Way from 2021-01-15T21:03:08
Frank Figliuzzi grew up in southern Connecticut, but with his eyes and ears tuned to the nearby New York City media market and to enthralling stories of mob busting FBI agents. Those amazing tal...
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Matt Olsen: The Line from 2021-01-15T20:52
Matt Olsen held so many important and difficult jobs in federal law enforcement and national security that it is hard to know where to begin. A son of North Dakota and a graduate of the Univers...
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Mike Bush: Kia Ora from 2020-12-30T05:00
Mike Bush, the former Commissioner of the New Zealand Police, served for more than four decades in law enforcement – starting as an 18-year-old constable, serving as a detective, and promoting u...
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Heather Penney: Lucky from 2020-12-23T05:00
Heather Penney was born in Tucson, Arizona, the daughter of a fighter pilot. Flying was in her blood, and Heather earned her own pilot’s license while studying as an English major at Purdue Uni...
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Jon Jarvis: Absolutely American from 2020-12-16T05:00
Jon Jarvis grew up in rural Virginia, in the magnificent Shenandoah Valley. With national forest land in his backyard he learned to love the outdoors, roaming, hunting, and fishing with his fath...
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Introducing: Season 4 from 2020-11-25T14:54:58
In the Fourth Season of The Oath, Chuck Rosenberg speaks with thoughtful and inspirational men and women from the highest levels of public service – men and women who took an oath to support and...
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Mike Leiter: Intelligence from 2020-07-29T08:00
Mike Leiter grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, where his extraordinary public service career began early – in high school – when he worked as an Emergency Medical Technician. After graduating fr...
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Amy Hess: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity from 2020-07-22T08:00
Amy Hess dreamed – as a child – of being an astronaut. A star student and athlete in high school, she studied aeronautical and astronautical engineering at Purdue – though poor eyesight dashed ...
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Fiona Hill: Fortitude from 2020-07-15T08:00
Fiona Hill is the former Senior Director for Russia and Eurasia on the National Security Council. A highly respected scholar on Russian history and culture, Fiona was born and raised in the ind...
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Kathy Sullivan: Spacewalker from 2020-06-24T13:30:21
Kathy Sullivan is an explorer and a pioneer, an oceanographer and a scientist, an astronaut and an American hero. Selected as one of the first female astronauts in NASA history, Kathy flew three...
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Vivek Murthy: The Nation’s Doctor from 2020-06-17T07:00
Vivek Murthy is a doctor and an author - a deeply thoughtful, interesting, kind, caring, and reflective medical professional - who served as the Surgeon General of the United States. As Surgeon...
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Maya Wiley: Racial Justice from 2020-06-10T04:51:04
Maya Wiley is a brilliant and powerful woman who has spent her professional life at the intersection of law, education, and policy. Born into both privilege and poverty – the child of two promin...
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Introducing: Season 3 from 2020-05-27T07:00
An oath is a solemn promise to serve a purpose greater than oneself. Now, that promise is more important than ever. In the third season of The Oath, Chuck Rosenberg speaks with people from many ...
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A Message from Chuck Rosenberg from 2020-04-23T04:00
A brief message from Chuck Rosenberg about the upcoming third season of The Oath, and a heartfelt thank you to our listeners.
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Roberta Jacobson: The Ambassador from 2019-11-13T05:01
Roberta Jacobson was the United States Ambassador to Mexico from 2016 through 2018.
A graduate of Brown University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Rober...
Jeremy Bash: Central Intelligence from 2019-10-30T04:01
MSNBC national security analyst, Jeremy Bash has an extensive background in intelligence and national security affairs at the highest levels of the United States Government.
After graduati...
Bob Paulson: The Mountie from 2019-10-23T04:01
After a remarkable career in law enforcement, Bob Paulson retired as the 23rd Commissioner of the iconic Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Bob explains the RCMP, also known as The Mounties, and its...
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James Stavridis: Fair Winds and Following Seas from 2019-10-16T19:16
James Stavridis retired from the United States Navy as a four-star admiral and Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, the only Navy Admiral ever to serve in that crucial role. His retelling of his wo...
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Kathy Ruemmler: The Counsel from 2019-09-25T04:01
Kathy Ruemmler served for three years as White House Counsel to President Barack Obama. She advised the President on numerous complex issues and helped usher the Affordable Care Act into law.
William McRaven: Send Me from 2019-09-18T04:01
In this episode, Chuck Rosenberg interviews William McRaven, the former Commander of the United States Special Operations Command. McRaven retired from the US Navy as the longest serving Navy SE...
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Rob Spencer: Remember from 2019-09-10T04:01
On September 11, 2001, Assistant United States Attorney Rob Spencer sat in his Alexandria, Virginia office – five miles from the Pentagon – waiting to meet an FBI agent about a new extortion cas...
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James Comey: Upward Sloping Line from 2019-06-26T07:00
James Comey discusses his return to public service as a federal prosecutor in Richmond, Virginia, his approach to violent crime and public corruption in that city, and how the prosecution of a R...
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Patrick Fitzgerald: The Right Thing from 2019-06-19T07:00
Former colleagues routinely describe Pat Fitzgerald as the finest federal prosecutor they have ever known. Humble, honest, and brilliant, Pat served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Man...
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Barbara McQuade: Greed and Power from 2019-06-12T07:00
Barbara McQuade served as a federal prosecutor in Detroit for nearly two decades, first as an Assistant United States Attorney and then as the Senate confirmed United States Attorney for the Eas...
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Sally Yates: Decisions from 2019-05-29T07:00
Sally Yates rose through the ranks of the Justice Department over the course of a 27-year career to serve as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States–the second highest ranking position ...
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James Baker: Going Dark from 2019-05-22T07:00
Jim Baker ran the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review at the Justice Department both before and after 9/11 – the office responsible for handling extraordinarily sensitive Foreign Intelligen...
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Lisa Monaco: Dr. Doom from 2019-05-15T07:00
Lisa Monaco’s last job in public service was as the Homeland Security Adviser to President Barack Obama – a position that exposed her to some of the most difficult and perplexing issues in the n...
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Preet Bharara: Doing Justice from 2019-04-30T21:30
Preet Bharara served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, a storied office with a reputation for prosecuting some of the biggest and most interesting cases in the...
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James Comey: Mobsters and Monsters from 2019-04-30T21:00
James Comey served as the Director of the FBI (until he was fired by President Trump), the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and the United States Attorney for the Southern District ...
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Introducing: The Oath with Chuck Rosenberg from 2019-04-25T20:31
The Oath with Chuck Rosenberg, is a series of revealing, one-on-one conversations with thoughtful former American public officials from the highest levels of government service shaping this pivo...
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