fun 0 of you saying something out of line. >> it is brutal. politics at this level is brutal. the only one who seems immune right now from paying consequence of a gaffe is donald trump but who knows. >> who knows how long that will last. lynn sweet, thank you for joining us. good evening, rachel. >> happy friday. thanks to you as home for joining us this hour. this time four years ago, this time in the last race for the presidency it was a big field of presidential candidates on the republican side. but this time four years ago there was one clear front runner. by mid september, by this time four years ago, not only did the republicans have someone leading in the early states and nationally, but by this time in the race four years ago, this one front runner had been the clear front runner in more than 15 straight national polls. he led in the polls at that point he had been leading ever since the first moment he got in

the race and it was interesting because he got in a little late. the front runner this time four years ago hadn't got in the race until mid august. all the other candidates in the spring, early summer but this guy held out for months and it suited him well. owl all the candidates are campaigning and tearing each other down. but he, for months of that time got to stay out of the fray and enjoy all of the people who were imploring him that he ought to get in the race too because he clearly could win. >> you say you don't want to run for president. why not? or are you tempted? >> at the end of the day, for the next week i have a legislative session that i'm focused on. my hope is that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind. >> are you tempted? >> i can't say i'm not tempted.

>> i can't say i'm not tempted. my friend greta van sustern interviewing rick perry in 2011, four years ago. that was may of 2011. it was not until august of that year he finally got in. even though he was beating mitt romney and newt gingrich and herman cain and the rest of them as soon as he got in, as soon as he declared his candidacy. it is interesting what happened to him soon after. he came in as this front runner. the guy who everybody thought would win. once he started campaigning, there were signs in the ways he campaigned. signs in the ways he conducted himself in the debates, signs in the ways he talked to republican audiences. signs he wasn't the can date who everyone expected him to be. rick perry four years ago was supposed to be with the republican nomination hands down because he was going to be a swaggering, borderline secessionist, texas talk guy candidate. but then he did get in the race

and turns out this is how he campaigned. >> the good news is that little plan that i shared with you doesn't force the granite state to expand your tax footprint. if you know what i mean. like 9% in expansion. [ laughter ] i love herman. is he the best? i have fun with him. he's a great interesting guy. thank you, herman to pay for the event tonight. [ laughter ] >> everybody's got a slogan, right? mine is cut, balance and grow. get that. yeah. cut the size of the government, and balance that budget and grow the economy. it is pretty simple actually. or you can stay in the old system out there and senator, you know the ones that want to

stay in the old system, pay the lawyers and accountants all that money is gone, or that. >> that was rick perry in new hampshire in his 2012 presidential campaign when he tried 0 to run four years ago. he had this great resume. perfect resume. on paper, he was the perfect candidate. definitely the romney slayer fwhau is how he campaigned. it was a disaster. a new disaster every day. >> about the two next wars, how do you feel about it? >> she asked about iran, afghanistan, and i try not to make a connection between -- or excuse me, iraq. thank you very much. that will be on the front page

of the something. iraq. >> when you see his appointment, from my perspective inarguably activist judges, whether -- not the mayor -- >> sonya sotomayor. >> soto mayor. >> those who are sitting in this hall who are going to inherit this country are counting on us. those 0 of you that will be 21 by november 12th, i ask for your support and vote. >> the election was not on november 12th. it was on november 6th that year. and you don't have to be 21 to vote. only 18 to vote. don't listen to rick perry, kids, whatever you document he has no idea what he is talking about. rick perry was an unexpected catastrophe in his campaign in 2012. even before he got to oops.

>> i will tell you, it's three agencies of government when i get there that are gone -- commerce, education and the -- what's the third one there? let's see. >> you mean five. >> five commerce, education and the -- >> epa. >> epa, there you go. no, kidding. >> seriously? is epa one you were talking about? >> no, sir. we are talking about the agencies of government -- the epa needs to be rebuilt. no doubt about that. >> you can't name the third one? >> the third agency of government, i would do away with education, commerce and -- let's see, i can't. the third one i can't. sorry. oops. >> that is remembered as the end of rick perry's campaign in 2012

but it was not. that happened in november. he kept that campaign going for a couple more months. the following month he put out an unintentionally funny super anti-gay ad where he looked like a well pressed marlboro man. after the oops thing he told the kids in new hampshire they couldn't vote until they were 21 and until six days after the election. rick perry kept going long enough to come in fifth in the iowa caucuses and sixth in new hampshire. this is after he had been the front runner in poll after poll after he first got in. but when he did get in he just did a terrible job. by mid january he dropped out. four years ago. went back to being governor of texas. four years later, despite that terrible experience in 2012, he decided to run again. even if you forgot about the other things, about the way he campaigned in 2012, honestly that oops thing is

unforgettable. one of the most indelible moments of the 2012 race. if you were bored by the campaign of 2012 you were entertained by oops. that's hard to get over. when rick perry decided to get in this year he knew he would have to get over it and an explanation why oops happened. why he was so bad in 2012 and all of those things happened and why it wasn't going to happen again. he did have an explanation for why he was so bad in 2012 and he wouldn't be this year. he had explanation with this one. >> you know know the health stories and it was what it was. >> he wernts on to say the second thing that was the problem with him is he overprepared. the first thing and main explanation, rick perry gave to the press this year for why he did so badly four years ago he said he was hurt, physically unwell. he was unhealthy. it had all sorts of consequences

for him but he specifically had back surgery at a bad time and it went so poorly it screwed up his whole campaign. you heard him in the clip. you know all of the help stories. that's what it was. the health stories. were about not the fact that he had back surgery in 2011 and was in pain, the health stories that came out around his campaign that year was something sketchy happened around the black surgery. "vanity fair" reported around the time he got out of the race in 2012, that not only had rick perry have back surgery he had made a addition to basically let a friend of his practice amateur back surgery on him. he's "vanity fair" from january 2012. the most intriguing explanation for perry's collapse has been circulating in austin for weeks. this theory suggests this the governor suffers from the

afteraffects of his back surgery in jewel. his surgeon fused two of his vertebra together and then injected the governor for the first time in the surgeon's career with two teaspoon full of stem cellsed that what been cultured from fatty tissue taken from perry's hip. if you have to explain why you can't tell iran from iraq and why you think the name soto mayor starts with an m and why don't remember the name of the election and who's allowed to vote and you can't remember your campaign platform even when people are trying to help you and you give speeches. if you need a tough guy explanation for what happened in troifl 2012, then i had my friend give me amateur back surgery he had never done before. that's a pretty good explanation. when rick perry chose to run again this year, he explained

the only reason he did so badly in 2012 was those health stories. that health concern. that amateur back surgery. that's what happened last time. obviously that was not going to be an issue this time so he would be fine. well, now, having seen rick perry campaign four years later, having seen rick perry campaign in 2015, i think we can say the amateur back surgery in 2011 wasn't the problem. >> joining me now former texas governor rick perry. do you want to make news on the stoirks is donald trump right. are you getting out of the race? >> a broken clock is right once a day. >> twice -- broken -- twice. donald trump was premature in declaring that rick perry was dropping out of the presidential race. he went on fox news that day to say he is still there, still working and he made a good

effort in the interview to get back to his campaign talking points but donald trump ended up right in substance if not on timing and tonight, after losing his first iowa campaign cochair to the donald trump campaign and losing his second iowa cochair to the rick santorum campaign and shutting down his new hampshire campaign all together and shutting down his south carolina headquarters earlier this week, tonight after not paying his staff for weeks, rick perry made it official and became the first major party candidate to formally drop out of a race. . >> when i gave my life to christ, i said your ways are greater than my ways. your will is superior to mine. today, i submit to you his will remains a mystery. but some things have come, have become very clear to me.

that is why today i am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the united states. we have a tremendous field of candidates. probably the greatest group of men and women. i step aside knowing our party's in good hands. >> in his prepared remarks he was supposed to say we have a tremendous field, the best in a generation, departed there, but he said i step aside knowing our party is in good hands. rick perry was the first party candidate to make a run for the presidency of the united states while also simultaneously being under criminal indictment. so maybe this year he's a special case. maybe you can't run for president while you are fighting a criminal corruption case at

home. that said, rick perry is one 0 of a surprisingly large number of well-known, top-tier republican candidates with impressive looking resumes that tanked in the campaign so far this year. it has to be a sobering thing to see rick perry dropping out the race today. he said it is clear to him there's no point in him continuing. it has to be a sobering thing to look at him getting out, because in the latest poll that came out today in, he is tied in the polls with chris christie and rick santorum and lindsey graham. they are all at 1% with rick perry. the last poll before that, gilmore was tied with zero pmpbt. why is rick perry the only one quitting. ordinarily when a big candidate gets out of the race someone scrambles to pick up their

voters. right now it is a question of whether there are any voters to be redistributed. one candidate is making an overflay for something rick perry's departure makes possible for him. cnn decided to disqualify one of the candidates all thoeg. they decided not to allow jim gilmore in to either the debate or kids' table event. that got down to 16. of the 16 they would take ten and put them in big debate and six in the kids' table debate. after that, cnn changed the rules and decided instead of ten they would take 11 and put them in the primetime debate and five candidates in the other debate, 11 and five. okay. now one of those five is dead politically speaking. the cnn plan is to have 11 candidates in unu one of their

debate events but not the one guy qualify for either. that one other guy is jim gilmore. i think this means he would please like rick perry's seat at the kids table. it is more ridiculous now that cnn is splitting this weird giant field of candidates in to a real debate and a kids' table debate. really? 11 and 4? but there are a lot of weird things about the presidential race this year. as of tonight, rick perry will no longer be one of them. lots more to come tonight, stay with us. ush was going to clean better than a manual. he said sure... but don't get just any one. get one inspired by dentists. with a round brush head. go pro with oral-b. oral-b's rounded brush head cups your teeth to break up plaque, and rotates to sweep it away. and oral-b delivers a clinically proven superior clean vs. sonicare diamond clean. my mouth feels super clean.

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today i'm suspending my campaign for the presidency of the united states. we have a tremendous field of candidates.

probably the greatest group of men and women. i step aside knowing our party's in good hands. >> governor rick perry of texas losing the thread and nevertheless managing to drop out of the race for the president in a speech in texas. in the latest iowa poll, rick perry was at 1%. so were three other candidates that show no sign of dropping out. chris christie is one of the three in the poll that was tied with perry at 1%. governor christie got potential good news for his campaign today. one thing looming for him was the prospect of the criminal driels of his former staffers and employees in the bridge gate scandals. they were due to start up next month. if you are polling at 1% in iowa, on the brink not making debates having staffers go on

corruption trial is nothing to look forward to. the good news that arrived today is those criminal trials those bridge gate trials suppose to start next month have been delayed until march. those trials could still be political kryptonite for governor christie when they start up but won't have a chance to derail his campaign until march, provided his presidential campaign still exists in march. as of tonight, rick perry is the first to drop out. why him first and who's likely to be next? joining us now is beth, senior editor for msnbc.com. great to have you here tonight. thank you for being here. >> you bet. >> usually people redistribute the support of candidates who quit to other people who are desirous of their supporters. i'm not sure there is anything of rick perry's to distribute. is that fair. >> that is true. he destroyed himself in 2012 and

the field is so large and split among to many people and donald trump is so dominant rick perry never carved out an avenue that was his. he is a conservative, christian, there are many candidates that are both. >> when we saw the size of the field, we thought it was going to be 17 people, what everyone thought would happen is it would be hard for people to break out. everybody would be splitting small numbers. instead what we have is 15 candidates splitting very small numbers and two candidates who are popping in poll after poll after poll. early state and national numbers, ben car sob son and donald trump are in double-digits and everybody else in single digits. does that mean we should see rick perry as the first of them. >> we will see others drop out. the money fight is different this time. we have people propped up by super pac a's so they can stay in longer than otherwise. rick santorum is not polling well anywhere.

he has a super pac that will stand behind him, thick or thin and other candidates wo who were supposed to be do well on their own like scott walker. he has the support of the koch brothers he is tanking, as well. no rhyme or reason to why these people are flat, except for trump and carson who like trump is an outsider. >> in terms of governor walker, one reason i have been fascinated with this iowa poll is not just because rick perry has to quit and there are others that are worse or tied with him in the poll. it is specifically scott walker. the last quinnipiac poll had him in first place and now in tenth place. is there precedent for that sort of thing? i'm trying to find a precipitating event in the scott walker near history that tells us what is going on there. is it that trump is taking hi numbers or something else we can't see. >> trump has devastated everyone

in the field except ben carson. walker suffered by the fact he came in strong last february, gave a great speech to the iowa freedom noun dags. excited conservatives. a good record as a republican governor of a blue state, cut taxes, he pushed back on labor. good credentials. and then we found out he has no charisma and he was totally ill prepared. he was not prepared for the spotlight to be on him that early. he dropped out after he made a couple of embarrassing statements. went back to learn history and foreign policy. by then he had slowed down. the momentum was basically gone. others had moved in and sort of take than lane that he was trying to grab in iowa, like ted cruz, who are stronger candidates, better for the long haul. have a ton of money and he lost his place. he had a chance to redeem himself at the last debate and he didn't. >> beth fouhy, host of reporters notebook on shift. i did not -- i knew that rick perry was going to get out. i did not know he was going to get out late on a friday at this

point in the race. but the next person that drops out let's come back and do it again. exclusive polling from the democratic side of the race that has surprising numbers in it. and we've got quite possibly the funniest thing ever said on either side of the race since the whole race started. stay with us. (clicking noise) (ding) read text. (siri voice) adam, i'm sorry. i shouldn't have said that about your hair. it's not stupid. (ding) find hair salon. wow. yeah, that's right. (siri voice) ok, jack's boutique is nearby. alright, i've got another friend and his name is bryan adams. ok. this isn't going to work again. ♪"please forgive me, i know not what i do..."♪

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map. donald trump winning there and everywhere else. donald trump's campaign said they have given out 20,000 tickets for a donald trump speech in dallas on monday. bobby jindal really did just tell cbs that donald trump shouldn't make fun of carly fiorina's appearance since he looks like a squirrel is sitting on his head. the republican race for president this year is so nutty and swerving so unpredictably right now if it were a car and you were a cop you would pull it over and breath liez it. the democratic sign we are getting signs of it weaving in and out of lanes. this is from the new poll which gives one interesting new angle on what's going on among the democrats. this poll is not going to come out until next week. we have an advanced look that they polled nationwide.

for hillary clinton versus joe biden versus a few top tier candidates. hillary clinton on the top row. joe biden on the bottom row. the bottom line from what you can see here, the headline is in these hypothetical matchups, democrats beat republicans every single time. in every single matchup. but, again, in this new poll, brand new. vice president biden who is not running at this point, vice president biden beats every candidate by a larger margin than hillary clinton does. they are both winning against trump, jeb, cruz or rubio but biden wins by more. there's honestly no point in speculating whether vice president biden will get in the race. he has made more than clear he hasn't decided. so by definition, if he doesn't know than nobody knows. but if one of the things that is

affecting his decision-making progress about whether or not to get in is the prospect of his viability as a candidate, the question of whether or not he could win, polling like this, which shows him beating republicans more handedly than hillary clinton does it has to be seen as a nudge. there are two other things to watch for here. one is the other democratic candidate who was happily, completely confounding pundits in the beltway press on the democratic side and that is bernie sanders. bernie sanders is fresh off of this iowa poll this week that put him for the first time leading the field in iowa. that comes after three straight polls in new hampshire which showed bernie sanders leading in new hampshire. after all of that, bernie sanders, the vermont socialist is heading south. he spent today in atlanta. tomorrow he will be doing three appearances. three town hall meeting in a row in south carolina. he will be doing those three town hall events in south carolina alongside african-american studies professor cornel west.

so, the pundit class has this easy dismissal of bernie sanders which is that he can't compete for the democratic nomination for real because he can't compete for black voters. it is taken as a given in the beltway press corps that bernie sanders could never compete as a democrat in the south. bernie sanders juggernaut campaign is not conceding either of those points that the pundits keep making and bernie sanders started to test those points in ernest today and tomorrow. so watch that, watch bernie in the south. the other thing to watch on this side is the news we just got from the white house late tonight about vice president biden's week next week. you know, the republican debate is wednesday night. tonight, after 7 p.m. eastern, this late-night announcement from the white house is the morning after that republican debate next week, vice president biden is hitting the trail. he's going to michigan to deliver remarks on the economy and then later that same day another big public event in

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lucky for you, kansas. in june, here on the show we reported on what appeared to be not just the single most radical thing that sam brownback had tried yet, as far as i can tell it is the single most radical thing tried in any state in the country by anyone for years. because what he did in june is that he signed a law which told judges in the kansas state court system how he wanted them to rule on a particular case. unless the courts ruled the way he told them to rule, he said he would abolish the whole court system. he would completely defund the kansas judiciary unless they ruled the way he wanted to on this case. enjoy your judicial independence. >> on that case a kansas judge issued the ruling and surprise, surprise, he did not rule the way sam brownback instructed him

to rule. now there is a crisis in kansas. as soon as this judge made the ruling an he ruled contrary to how sam brownback told him to rule, this law says the court system has to be shut down. the court system loses its funding as a consequence of the judge not doing what he was told. the states attorney general filed an emergency motion and got the judge to stay his ruling because they will appeal the ruling to the supreme court but that's a question because if the entire judiciary is shut down, there's not going to be a kansas supreme court to appeal to. they are getting rid of it. even the lawyer that won the case agreed to put his victory on hold because as he said, an independent branch of government would have ceased to exist. if the kansas supreme court does keep funding long enough to hear the appeal of this case, there is the thorny legal question of whether or not they are allowed to decide a matter where their existence is at stake.

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>> time for the friday night news dump selection. >> we will start with a blast from the past. remember this? what did we use it for in a flamingo head. >> we did a thing about the washington zoo during the earthquake a few years ago. the animals -- there was a detailed description of how the animals behaved but no video. so bill reenacted what they did. >> okay. >> remember how a couple of weeks ago i came in wearing a clown jacket. >> oh, yes. i found the rest of the clown suit. it is all here. >> minus the jacket. >> i put the jacket in there. i didn't keep it. so it has a horn, pants, rainbow

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i'm waiting. woohoo! friday night news dump time. producer wendy mcneill, welcome to the program. making your debut as the person that shows off the things. >> i'm the rookie on the block. >> tell us who our first player is. >> linda from houston, texas, baby. she's a nurse, a mom of a 6 -year-old and her 6-year-old is a huge fan of the show. and she loves dr. who. rachel, meet linda. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> i was told when we got you to be our contestant you watch the show really, really really late at night. >> i do. i am a night nurse. i take my lunch break at 3:00 in the morning. that's when the replay is on. and i time it that way so i can watch you. >> i'm an insomniac. sometimes i'm also watching the

rerun of the show at 3:00 a.m. for no good reason. you are doing it for a good reason. i'm doing it because my clock is wrong. it is great to have you here. this is going to be fun. you probably nope how it works. three multiple choice questions if you get at least two right you win this piece of junk. >> the rachel maddow show cocktail shaker, but i'd say more of a shot shaker. >> very tiny. can do no harm. if you get them all right we will have another prize for you which you may or may not want but this is it. >> i wouldn't say these are junk but we are close to halloween they could be used as costumes. the story is in 2011a earthquake hit washington, d.c. and there was a detailed news report about how the animals at the zoo were reacting and there wasn't video of it so the rachel maddow show players had fun reenact aing how

they thought the animals were feeling. >> that's how we document ed the flamingo and gorilla response to the quake. those could be yours. we will bring in the disembodied voice from maddow blog, the man that determines whether or not you got the right answer. hello, steve. >> good evening to both of you. >> hello. >> first question, are you ready? >> okay. >> this is from tuesday's show. tuesday's show we reported the ceo of one of the largest airlines in the world had suddenly resigned in the wake of a federal investigation in to a top appointee and political ally of chris christie. it's been reported that one subject 0 the investigation is whether the airline basically bribed this christie guy by putting in place a money losing non-stop flight between new jersey and this man's vacation home. which major airline just lost its ceo over this potential chris christie scan d.a. was it delta, united airlines, american

eagle airlines or american illegal airlines? >> i believe that was b united airlines. >> steve, did she get that right? >> let's check tuesday's show. >> united airlines allegedly created a new route, a non-stop flight route between newark airport and columbia, south carolina, specifically at the request of david subpoeampson te his trips easier for him and his wife. >> well done. that sound clip giving away i don't know if it is route 0 or route. discussion but we will leave it at that. second question from wednesday's show. on wednesday show we reported one of the presidential contenders is not doing great this year. picked up a patron saint in the form of a popular late-night talk show host. the talk show host has been kpun

running a campaign to get him up above his zero percent to maybe 1%. the campaign doesn't seem to be working. he is mostly polling at zero. but which talk show host and which candidate are we talking about? is it a, conan kenzaburo oe brian and lincoln chafee, steele stephen colbert and rick santorum, jimmy kimmel and rick perry or jimmy fallon and bobby jindal. >> i believe it's a. >>

>> poor lincoln chafee. the correct answer is lincoln chafee and she is right again. >> well done. last question. this is for all of the fake zoo animal. as host of the first two republican presidential debates, fox news and cnn said they only wanted to let ten candidates on the main stage. when cnn made a late change to their inclusion rules which moved carly fiorina in to tenth place in the rankings, they decided to let the 11th place candidate in to the main debate as well. 11 people on stage instead of ten. last night, we reported the name of the candidate who's led in to the cnn main debate even though he is in 11th place in their own rankings. who is it, rand paul, marco rubio, chris christie, or deez nuts. >> i don't think it is d.

although that would be hilarious. i believe it's c. >> chris christie. steve, do you have the answer for us? mr. let's check last night's show. >> by rights the rule change should have pushed chris christie out of the debate since under their new rules he is no longer a top ten candidate. he's number 11, but seeing that as the eventual outcome of the new rule change they made cnn decide fudge it more and let chris christie in the real debate, too. >> correct answer is chris christie and linda is right once more. >> yeah. >> wendy, give wendy the excellent news. >> you have won the fabulous shot shaker and the paper animals. >> hooray. >> hopefully those will be handy for you at a halloween. will you give your 6-year-old our kindest regards. >> i sure will. her name is katie and she loves you. >> katie, we have an internship

ready for you in approximately 12 years. thank you, lynn d.a. great to meet you. >> thank you. great to meet you. >> thank you. if you want to play the most awesome game in basic cable news, write us and let us know who you are where you are from and why you want to play. we'd love to send our office junk to you. normally i'd send you to prison but it is not the right time. there is actually more show to come tonight, including an incredible personal story from one of nbc news's toughest, most unflappable reporters. it happened today. we had a camera there. it was amazing and that's next. please stay with us. (clicking noise) (ding) read text. (siri voice) adam, i'm sorry. i shouldn't have said that about your hair. it's not stupid. (ding) find hair salon. wow. yeah, that's right. (siri voice) ok, jack's boutique is nearby.

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the nbc pentagon correspondent, a visible, steady, rock solid part of the nbc news gathering team for three decades. one of the most recognizable people on tv. in 2001, when the 9/11 attacks happened, jim miklaszewski was live on the air from the pentagon where he had his office. and where he was when the pentagon was hit by that plane that day. today in shanksville, pennsylvania, at the opening of part of the flight 93 memorial there, jim miklaszewski was part of that program today. at that event he gave an account i had never heard him give before of his own reporting experience he saw that day. honestly it was stunning. just take a minute. this is not a long piece of tape but just hear this, particularly today and particularly was of who he is and how solid he is and what you know of him already. this is just something worth seeing today.

trust me. watch. >> as massive and solid as that total concrete structure pentagon is, the entire building shook, windows rattled. my immediate thought is we are under attack. i jumped up from the chair, looked out the window to see people running from the building. after a couple of hours i walked out the mall entrance, closest to the crash site and in to what i could only describe on the air as a war zone. there was a gaping hole in the side of the building, a ferocious fire fed by thousands of gallons of jet fuel. medics attending to wounded, medevac helicopters. while overhead, two air force f-16 fighter jets were crisscrossing the sky at a very low level. an air force colonel stand next to me, looking up and saying to no one in particular, "my god,

we're flying k. a p.s., combat air patrols over the nation's capitol. the courtyard in the middle of the pentagon with the majestic elm trees has always been a refuge from the daily grind of the pentagon. on 9/11 -- -- on 9/11, it became a makeshift morgue. 120 people at work in the pentagon were killed. >> nbc news chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski is as solid as they come. one of these reporters who himself sometimes seems like he's built of concrete and steel. that was him speaking today in shanksville, pennsylvania, on

the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. what is going to happen right now on msnbc is a presentation called "9/11 as it happened." that is important. it is not a documentary or a typical tv show. what we are about to show is the events of that day presented as it unfolded. this was nbc's live coverage that morning 14 years ago as it happened. and i'll tell you honestly it is presented with only limited editing. but that starts right now. good night. ♪ ♪