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>> in the summer of 2003, michael peterson would stand trial for the bludgeoning death of his wife, kathleen. he'd pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. >> i am innocent of these charges, and we will prove it in court. >> with gavel-to-gavel coverage on live tv, the state versus michael peterson was a national spectacle. >> was it surreal, michael, to be in a courtroom charged with murder? >> well, it was surreal from the first moment. i mean, you know, is there surreal beyond surreal? i don't know. >> reporter julia sims covered the proceedings in court. >> every single day of that trial...

Documentary crew to film him every step of the way. but the only audience that mattered was the 12-person jury. and when the trial began, the prosecution introduced them to the man behind the professorial mask, the person they saw as the real michael peterson. >> this case is about pretense and appearances. it's about things not being as they seem. >> reporter: scratch beneath the glossy veneer, the beautiful house and sparkling dinner parties, and prosecutors would tell the jury they'd find a marriage in shambles. more than the couple's money problems, more than the loss of social standing af...

>> reporter: with gavel-to-gavel coverage on live tv, the state versus michael peterson was a national spectacle. >> was it surreal, michael, to be in a courtroom charged with murder? >> well, it was surreal from the first moment. i mean, you know, is there surreal beyond surreal? i don't know. >> reporter: reporter julia sims covered the proceedings in court. >> every single day of that trial the courtroom was packed, and not packed with just media, and not packed with just lawyers, but people off the street. people took vacation to come in and watch that trial. >> reporter: and michael peter...

>> go to the world trade center. oh, my god. that looked like a direct attack. >> reporter: a documentary crew, by coincidence, was following firefighters that day, the naudet film later called "9/11." >> i remember 9/11 exactly. we heard this loud noise of a plane coming overhead, which you never hear in manhattan. and then i saw the first plane aim and crash into the world trade center. and in that moment, i knew i was going to the largest incident of my life. >> reporter: and in that moment, the sky changed, from that clear blue day -- >> it went from this beautiful, bright summer day to da...

Very exciting. one of our news clerks says that he called and said i'm having a salad at union station. do you think the documentary crew could come and film it and make it very exciting. so, yeah, we take your point. >> got it. still ahead -- thanks so much. a group of -- still ahead on "morning joe" a group of former foreign ministers is urging the president to in an open letter to reverse what it calls the dangerous trend of america's deteriorating relationship with its western allies. that trend, of course, includes the president's increasingly blatant overtures to vladimir putin. we'l...