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So memory box is a lesson for all of us. and as you correctly stated, it is a catharsis but even more than that, it is a blue print as to how people can come together and how beautiful that can be and it was for some time until we saw some of the other things that started happening afterwards with regard to muslim americans and how they were treated and so on. >> paul just mentioned a moment ago, hes now teaching 9/11 to students who were not even born then. so we are coming up on the 20th anniv...

>> david, thank you. this was an incredible documentary. it is an important part of our collective narrative. you can catch the encore presentations of "the memory box" saturday and sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc and stream it on peacock. make sure you stay with msnbc for special coverage marking 20 years since the 9/11 attacks. coverage starts tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. eastern with a special edition of "morning joe." then watch shows anchored from ground zero, the pentagon and shanksville, p...

The project of an artist gives people the space to talk in the months after 9/11. she set up a booth with a microphone and a camera ten you one who wanted to come. it was truly private. they were the ones who hit record and stop when they were done. and that plywood booth traveled from new york city to the pentagon, to shanksville pa, and the stories collected in that booths, just in the few months following 9/11 are raw and incredible. lots of people who are witnesses to the attacks, people who...

Forget. and i hope people never forget those stories but also the lessons learned. 20 years later, were leaving afghanistan and it seems we forgot that sense of unity, that sense of cohesion. we forgot theres a need for accountability on our wars and on our government and on our entire country. so im always struck by the unity that i saw that day on the ground. its never ive never seen since. i hope this film can help people see that it is possible. we need it maybe more now than we did on 9/11....

American. it became okay for to us profile what religion and how people looked and where they came from in the world. and that obviously is a very dark mark against the american values that most of us, i think, would like to think we still hold on to in this country. >> i hope 20 years from now we can talk more about the unity that is in this country but it will take a lot of work to get there. thank you all very much for your time. for a final discussion, he with wanted to look at the mental he...

It begins with the stories told years ago by people who lived through the september 11th attacks one way or another. captured on video by an artist who wanted to give the space and freedoms to give their own stories known terms uninterrupted. those recordings of people just speaking in their own terms, those are amazing enough. one is even more remarkable though, is the footage from some of those same people, 20 years later, the same people speaking today, about how their stories did not end on ...

This saturday as you know, its the 20th year since the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001. for the 20-year commemoration of the attacks, president biden and first lady jill biden on saturday will visit the world trade center in new york city, they will also visit the pentagon, and they will also visit shanksville, pennsylvania, where united flight 93 crashed after an uprising by the passengers that may have stopped that flight from crashing into the united states capitol. as i mentioned e...

Who wanted to come could come. it was totally private. they were the ones who would hit record. they would hit stop when they were done. that little plywood booth traveled from new york city to the pentagon to shanksville, p.a., where united flight 93 crashed. the stories collected in that booth are just raw and incredible. lots of people who were witnesses to the attacks, lots of people who lost loved one. no documentary filmmakers david belton and bjorn johnson brought this story forward. they...

To leave on the new booth, the 2021 booth. you could see don marshall doing that here. his note was the same as his wifes. make your life extraordinary and fill it with passion. again, the film is called "memory box." p it airs tonight right after our show. you should plan to watch it, okay? our show you should plan to watch it, okay walter, twelve o clock. get em boy! [cows mooing] that is incredible. its the multi-flex tailgate. it can be a step, it can even become a workspace. i meant the cat...

Eradicate islamaphobia and they are speaking with so many others. it was honest and emotional and incredible to hear their voices yesterday. >> and incredibly important. im glad you brought it to our show. we appreciate it. we want to give you a programming note, by the way, tonight is the night that they present "memory box." it it is a new featured documentary that tells the story and the same people, the same eyewitnesss come back to the both to reflect on the past couple decades. that is com...