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Inside the Pentagon on 9/11 | Ambassador Matthew Klimow

2026-09-12 · 145 min · 23 entities

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    Inside the Pentagon on 9/11 | Ambassador Matthew Klimow
Episode description as stored
Ambassador Matthew Klimow recounts his path from West Point and a 30-year Army career to the highest levels of U.S. national security, including his firsthand experience inside the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. We also discuss the chaos of that day, the early War on Terror, working for Vice President Dick Cheney, and his later diplomatic career as U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan. Today's Sponsors: GhostBed ⬇️ https://www.ghostbed.com/house FOR 10% off!  Quince⬇️ go to: https://www.quince.com/house for free shipping and 365 day returns  PrizePicks ⬇️ Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/TEAMHOUSE and use code TEAMHOUSE and get $150 if you win your first $5 lineup!  For ad free video and audio and access to live streams...JOIN OUR PATREON!  https://www.patreon.com/c/TheTeamHouse To help support the show and for all bonus content including: -live shows and asking guest questions  -ad free audio and video -early access to shows -Access to ALL bonus segments with our guests Subscribe to our Patreon! ⬇️ https://www.patreon.com/TheTeamHouse ___________________________________________________ GRAB JACK'S NEW BOOK "THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN"  ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803651/the-most-dangerous-man-by-jack-murphy/paperback/ Subscribe to the new EYES ON podcast here:⬇️ https://www.youtube.com/@EyesOnGeopoliticsPod/featured Jack Murphy's book "We Defy: The Lost Chapters of Special Forces History" ⬇️ https://www.amazon.com/We-Defy-Chapters-Special-History-ebook/dp/B0DCGC1N1N/ Or make a one time donation at: ⬇️ https://ko-fi.com/theteamhouse Social Media: ⬇️ The Team House Instagram: https://instagram.com/the.team.house?utm_medium=copy_link The Team House Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTeamHousePod Jack’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/jackmcmurph?utm_medium=copy_link Jack’s Twitter:  https://twitter.com/jackmurphyrgr?s=21 Team House Discord: ⬇️ https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 "Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio" 00:00 – Start 00:57 – Growing Up in Upstate New York & His Father’s WWII Service 04:31 – West Point in the Turbulent 1970s 05:36 – Serving in Cold War Germany 10:00 – The Old Guard, Reagan’s Inauguration & Washington 12:20 – The Career Decision That Changed Everything 15:06 – Traveling With the Secretary of State & the Balkan Wars 16:55 – Madeleine Albright & the NATO-Russia Brigade Disaster 23:02 – Working With General Richard Myers on the Joint Staff 23:50 – Commanding at Fort Bragg & Returning to Washington 30:39 – Inside the Pentagon Before 9/11 33:32 – Watching the World Trade Center Burn From His Pentagon Office 35:00 – NORAD Calls the Pentagon’s Red Phone 36:27 – The White House Emergency Conference Begins 38:46 – “The Building Moved”: The Pentagon Is Hit 40:23 – General Myers Returns to the Burning Pentagon 42:28 – Could U.S. Fighters Shoot Down a Hijacked Airliner? 43:42 – The Chaos Between NORAD, the FAA & Secret Service 48:47 – Watching the South Tower Collapse From the Command Center 50:49 – Rumsfeld Returns & the Pentagon’s Command Crisis 52:33 – Cheney Is Rushed Into the White House Bunker 54:42 – President Bush: “Find Out Who Did This” 55:36 – Running Out of Oxygen Inside the Pentagon 58:30 – Rumsfeld Refuses to Evacuate 59:38 – “What Haven’t We Thought of Yet?” & Raising DEFCON 1:02:02 – Walking the Flight 77 Crash Site 1:03:15 – Soldiers Try to Reenter the Burning Pentagon 1:04:39 – Continuity of Government & Raven Rock 1:07:05 – The Human Toll of the Pentagon Attack 1:10:20 – General Shelton Returns to Washington 1:13:40 – “We’re Going to War” 1:19:38 – Going Home After 9/11 & Returning the Next Morning 1:22:38 – Planning the Afghanistan War & Discovering Turkmenistan 1:24:43 – Helping the Kabul Evacuation 20 Years Later 1:26:44 – Anthrax, the DC Snipers & Fear After 9/11 1:33:25 – Afghanistan, Iraq & the First Year of the War on Terror 1:35:04 – Working for Vice President Dick Cheney 1:36:47 – A Credible Terror Plot Against the New York Subway 1:38:32 – The Threat of Terrorists Shooting Down