yeah, this is difficult. hello, my name is michael mcmullin. i m speaking to you on january 17th, inside of a plywood box here to relay my recollections of 9/11. i mean, obviously, it s very unresolved for me. [noise] i can see the damage done to people. they couldn t tell their own story in their own words. it was just plain, plain, plain building down, building down. there was absolutely no space for more complicated stories . it became absolutely clear that this really was a very shattered experience. with a lot of feeling okay, rei guess it s working. [noise] what the bleep was that? the trade center, the trade center. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god! so, my husband and i had decided that we were gonna take the morning to do some errands and have breakfast to gather. so, we dropped our daughter off to school. the stairs from the school and my husband was talking to a stranger. he had a page from a paperback novel in his hand. and the edges were burnt. and
Hello, My Name Is Michael , and im speaking to you on january 17th, in side of a plywood box, here to relay my recollections of 9 11. I mean, obviously its very unresolved for me. I could see the damage being done to people, but they couldnt tell their own story, in their own words. It was just plain, building down, building down. There was absolutely no space for the more complicated stories about what people actually felt. So, this is it. Well i, just click it, go check to see. So we were willing to bust open the space for that. So you can see, we are inaction. Once people went inside the booths, they controlled the recording. They controlled their own story. Hey. It became absolutely clear, that this really was a very shattering experience. With a lot of feeling and emotion behind it. Im just, you know. And, our purpose was to capture exactly that. To tell the personal truth about what 9 11 was. Okay, i guess this is working. What was that . Its the trade center, the trade center. [
i am feeling sad about america right now. i am feeling sad because this was a nation at that was a beacon of hope for many people. [noise] [inaudible] and over the years, post 9/11, we ve come apart. let s talk about a tale of two cities, and america
own base did not want him to make. that takes courage, that takes leadership, and we saw the results of that courage and leadership saying no to his own base yesterday. well, and the president s phrase, at my direction, that s how this operation was conducted successfully, at my direction, in the words of president obama, it was his decision. last night, early this morning in times square, 2:00 in the morning. there were no conservatives, there were no liberals, there were what was on every street and every town and city in america september 12th, 2001, there were americans infused with the spirit of this country i think has been missing or diminished the past nine or ten years. to mark s point, this is one of the healthiest things that happened to this country. we have mike allen coming up. richard haass, really quick. timing could not have been better for president obama, criticized over libya, the phrase has been claimed leading