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of pop culture nostalgia this week to give us all the feels. so, get comfy in your thinking chair and grab your handy dandy notebook. we will tell you all about it. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. 20 years ago, at this hour, millions of americans turned on our tv screens and watched president george w. bush address the nation. today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. none of us will ever forget this day. yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. it has been a day of somber ceremonies across the country. many of us remember 20 years ago not being able to stop watching the coverage. maybe, you felt that way today. for some of us who lost friends, family, and neighbors, they never really looked away. everyone s got their own story from 9/11 and some of you shared your stories with u ....
after a nail biting prologue that plays out on day one of the alien invasion, a quiet place part ii picks up where the previous film left off, with emily blunt, millicent simmonds and noahjupe as the survivorfamily with a newborn baby trying to make their way in a world where any sound can be deadly. this time they rejoined by cillian murphy s emmett, an old friend who s lost everything and does not see any point in trying to reach others. at least initially. most people had finally given up hope. the original a quiet place film, written by bryan woods and scott beck, took around $340 million, not bad for a movie that cost only 17 million to make. no wonder the studio were desperate for a sequel. but having originally rejected the idea, directorjohn krasinski changed his mind after writing a script based around millicent simmonds s character. the daughter whose deafness makes are ideally placed to survive in a world of silence. a rising star who had a break out role in ....
on january 6th, qanon came out of the shadows. what had started as an online conspiracy theory had quickly become a kind of cult. and for some qanon followers, this was the day they d been waiting for. i m here because q sent me. they made their presence known in the crowd of trump supporters in washington that day when a mob stormed the capitol, many qanon supporters were on the front lines. freedom! at least one supporter died that day. this woman, ashley babbitt, tried to break through a door inside the capitol. she was shot to death by a capitol police officer. she was a 14-year veteran of the air force and the air national guard. this is her in a qanon shirt at a trump rally in september. how does a veteran fall into a deranged conspiracy cult? to understand what qanon is, you have to go down a rabbit hole where suspicion and fantasy mix with age-old anti-semitic conspiracy theorys and resentments. we will not cow down to evil. some q believers li ....
surveillance? she d stepped right into the twilight zone hidden codes, government agents, undercover spies. i was so scared. who was this man she was about to marry? your brain has got to be saying holy cow to learn the truth, she would launch a secret mission of her own. testing, testing. a high-stakes game of spy versus spy. reporter: you were your own detective here. i was. he wasn t going to stop unless somebody stopped him. hello, and welcome to dateline. ask any divorced parent, finding love a second time around can be hard. but when mischele lewis met liam allen, he checked all the boxes. he was charming, smart, and something of a jet-setter. mischele welcomed him into her heart only to realize her new boyfriend was leading a double life. who was the real liam allen? it was a riddle this single mom was determined to solve. here s dennis murphy with the mystery man. reporter: what s love got do with it? well, as mischele lewis tells it ....
i m here because q sent me. they made their presence known in the crowd of trump supporters in washington that day, and when the crowd stormed the capitol, many qanon supporters were on the front lines. freedom! at least one supporter died that day. this woman, ashley babbitt tried to break through a door inside the capitol. she was shot to death by a capitol police officer. she was 14-year veteran of the air force and the air national guard. this is her in a qanon shirt at a trump rally in september. how does a veteran fall into a deranged conspiracy cult? to understand what qanon is, you have to go down a rabbit hole, where suspicion and fantasy mixed with age old anti-semitic conspiracy theories and resentments. we will not kowtow to evil! some q believers liken it to a scene in the matrix, when the truth of the world is revealed to those who take the right pill. the truth, according to q, was that then president trump was a kind of messiah. some q foll ....