I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

But I will bear true faith and allegiance to the sea that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.

So help me God, so help me God.

So help me God.

Welcome to the oath and for many of you welcome back.

I am Chuck Rosenberg and I am honored to be your host for another compelling conversation with a fascinating guest from the world of public service.

This is our season 4 premiere and I am privileged to share with you a conversation with an American hero, Robert S. Mueller the third Bob Mueller, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Bob was known to so many Americans as special counsel Mueller and also as the namesake of the thorough and thoroughly professional Mueller report which focused on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

But his story and his legacy is so much deeper than that.

Bob was born in Manhattan and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, the oldest of five children and the only boy, he was a star three sport athlete in high school and excelled in the classroom and on the cross fields of Princeton where he went to college.

Following the death of a Princeton teammate in Vietnam, Bob volunteered for service there.

In 1968, after Marine Corps officer basic school, Army Ranger school and jump school, Bob was deployed to Vietnam where he led a rifle platoon along the demilitarized zone.

Bob did not fear death in Vietnam, though death was all around him. He feared failure, which meant he had to do all he could to ensure that the young Marines under his command survived the war and made it home.

A recipient of the bronze star with valor and the purple heart, Bob returned to the United States after his military service.

He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, became a federal prosecutor in San Francisco, and embarked on a career that would take him to the heights of federal law enforcement in this country and to the helm of the FBI.

My interview with Bob Moller is in two parts. The first part covers his childhood through his selection as the sixth director of the FBI, the second part, which we will publish at the end of this season, picks up where this first interview leaves off and covers his tenure as director guiding the FBI through a post 9-11 world, a difficult and challenging transition.

I should note what is not in either episode, that is any detailed discussion of Bob's work as special counsel leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Bob was abundantly clear when he testified before Congress about his work and his report, and that the report spoke for itself.

One of the things I learned working for Bob Moller at the FBI is that you take this decent honorable honest and courageous man at his word.

When he says he does not want to talk about something, believe him. Bob is a man of few words, and so each of his words matters a lot.

And when he speaks, which is not often, it is worth listening.

This interview with Bob Moller is the only full one he has given since leaving public life, and it may be the only full one he gives.

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