Brown Shooting Fallout: Lies on X — Epstein Redactions
The Oath and The Office
Corey Brettschneider
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Next: Congress votes to release more Epstein-related files, but the initial disclosures arrived heavily redacted from Attorney General Pam Bondi. What was released, what may still be withheld, and what Congress can realistically compel next. Plus: controversy around 60 Minutes after reports that a segment involving El Salvador’s CECOT prison was delayed amid accusations of political pressure. We close with an end-of-year rundown—key lessons from our Trump deep dives in 2025 and what we’re watching in 2026.
Release note: We’re sharing this episode a day early due to the Christmas holiday.
Listener note: This episode includes discussion of gun violence.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Oath and the Office podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm John Fugles saying, happy Christmas and happy Hanukkah and happy everything to all y'all. |
| 0:17.0 | So great to have y'all with us, and it's so great as always to welcome the star of our show. |
| 0:22.1 | Professor Corey Brett Schneider is a constitutional law scholar, a political philosopher, the author of the oath in the office and the presidents and the people, and he was kicked out of both KISS and the Wu-Tang Clan for being too hardcore. |
| 0:35.6 | The professor focuses on what democracy requires of those in power and what |
| 0:39.8 | happens when leaders actively violate those requirements. Corey, it's so good to see you. Happy |
| 0:44.7 | holidays to you and your family. Thank you, John. Happy holidays to you and your family and, of course, |
| 0:49.7 | to all the listeners. And what an intro, you know, was an aspiring. I loved old school rap as a kid and still do. |
| 0:57.1 | And so if only all that was true, I mean, it's the best intro yet. |
| 1:02.6 | Just the end part, you know, far from it. |
| 1:05.9 | Well, like I always like to say, hyperbole is worse than Nazis. |
| 1:09.5 | Okay. |
| 1:10.4 | So we have a lot we have to cover on today's |
| 1:13.3 | episode, a special holiday malfeasance edition between corporate power and the 60 Minutes crisis. |
| 1:20.5 | Of course, the Epstein files an inherent contempt, which I thought was just how my wife's family viewed me. |
| 1:27.0 | And we have to talk a bit about |
| 1:29.7 | dishonesty and how used we've all become to disinformation. Because this was the week where we found |
| 1:39.0 | out who was the perpetrator of the Brown University shooting. Of course, we lost Ella Cook, |
| 1:45.7 | 19 years old, a sophomore from Mountain Brook, Alabama. She was the vice president of the Brown University shooting. Of course, we lost Ellicook, 19 years old, a sophomore from Mountain Brook, Alabama. She was the vice president of the Brown College Republicans and a musician. |
| 1:50.5 | Muhammad Aziz Umersikov was 18. He was a freshman from Virginia. He was an Uzbek American, |
| 1:55.9 | an aspiring neurosurgeon. Their deaths were completely senseless and their deaths were manipulated, as seems to be |
| 2:03.5 | the norm now, by actors looking to place, blame, and stereotype large groups of people. Professor, |
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