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know bull and the aftermath.

First you need to know what's in the oath and broadly speaking, it's the notion that

we pledge, swear, affirm, to defend the Constitution of the United States against all

enemies far and and domestic, to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.

What's missing from the oath, which by the way is mandated from Congress, is a pledge

to any particular person or party or president.

The law enforcement environment in which I grew up was not bipartisan, it was nonpartisan,

and bipartisan makes no sense in that context.

Nonpartisan makes sense.

And so it struck me when I was listening to people talk about Jim Comey or Bob Mueller

on the air and they would describe them as Republicans or Democrats or whatever they

described them as.

And many cases, I had not only had I never thought of them that way, I didn't know that.

That might strike people as odd.

I worked for Bob Mueller and didn't know his political party, but in fact Ben, I worked

for Bob Mueller and didn't know his political party.

I'm Michaela Fogel and this is the LawFair podcast, May 21st, 2019.

Chuck Rosenberg is a former US attorney, former senior FBI official, and the former acting

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