Remembering 9/11 Part One

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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🗓️ 11 September 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Twenty years after Sept. 11, we're giving you a break from the money talk, and instead re-airing an interview we did back in 2017 with retired Admiral William “Bill” McRaven.

If Bill’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he presided over the 2011 Navy SEAL raid that resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Bill was the man who identified the body when it was flown back to Afghanistan and told President Obama that the U.S. finally had their guy.

A few years later in 2014, the four-star admiral and 37-year Navy SEAL veteran delivered the commencement speech at his alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin (Hook ‘em Horns!). Little did McRaven know that his address, which spoke to how students could overcome challenges and change themselves, would become a viral hit with more than 10 million views online.

In January, 2015 Bill became the Chancellor of the entire University of Texas system (retired 2018) and was encouraged to expand his commencement speech into a book, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jill on Money podcast. It is Saturday, September 11th. It is the 20th anniversary
0:10.4	of the 9-11 attacks. And Mark and I were trying to figure out what was the appropriate way
0:16.2	to mark this. It feels like we need to do something a little bit special. And so Mark had
0:22.8	the genius idea and he said, why don't we actually resurrect this interview that we had done
0:30.2	with Admiral McCraven. The reason why we wanted to do this is that he is so incredibly inspirational.
0:38.0	So Admiral William H. McCraven, he was really part of this effort to find and to actually eliminate
0:47.3	Osama Bin Laden. He is a lifelong career guy in the military. And he also wrote a book. And this
0:56.8	book came as a result of a commencement speech that he delivered at the University of Texas. So
1:02.4	this is a 2017 book. The book is called Make Your Bed, little things that can change your life
1:09.4	and maybe the world. And he sat with us in our studio in the old CBS studios. And so we thought
1:16.2	this was a good way to commemorate 9-11. Here is the first part of our interview with Admiral McCraven.
1:24.7	Describe just a little bit about having to present the president with options. Will he then say, Bill,
1:32.0	what do you think? Or do you immediately say, here are your five options, this is what I think you
1:37.0	should know. No, no, the military leaders will come in and they will provide options. Now if the
1:41.2	president says what is your number one option, then they are certainly prepared to provide that.
1:45.6	But invariably there is a dialogue as there was with President Obama during the bin Laden raid.
1:52.1	And I can tell you the president, President Obama asked a lot of good questions, hard questions.
1:56.9	What are the risks involved? What are our chances of success? These are kind of natural questions
2:01.3	that the president will ask the military leaders. And so when President Obama asked some of those
2:07.2	hard questions, give me an example of what would he have asked? Well, the president always wants to
2:12.0	know the risk, the risk to the force. But in the case of the bin Laden raid, President Obama wanted
2:16.7	to understand, okay, if I agree to this raid, then how much risk will be? What is the threat to your
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