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Judging from all of the conversations i have had today i talked to one man. his name is bill berk, he was with heather heyer. after that car -- the driver controversy his car into the crowd of counterprotesters last year, killing heather heyer, he ended up laying on top of her. he sustained injuries hes still struggling with to his arm and his head. just to echo what jeff is saying about the security here. d.c. police have come under a lot of criticism lately particularly go back to the inaugura...

It was his first comment at all on the -- then approaching anniversary of charlottesville and i think it is also notable that neither he nor people close to him have had anything really at all to say about the protest that is supposed to take place across the street from the white house this afternoon, the second unite the right rally. >> let me put back the tweet and if you look at what he said, the riots in charlottesville a year go, first of all, it was not riots, it was people protesting, wh...

Was. i think we have the weather to thank for that. it cleared both protester and counterprotester here a little bit earlier. you mentioned the standoff if you will, the tense moments that we experienced here about an hour ago. that was when with the rally over, police moved as though they were going to bring the rally goers out through the same entrance as which they arrived. some of the antifa folks spoiling for a fight, set up a makeshift barricade. they were ready to push against police and ...

Welcome back. im david gura. our coverage will continue of whats going on in washington, d.c. youre looking at live images now of those protesters, white nationalist protesters making their way to the washington metro. their event took place this afternoon. they were dwarfed by counterprotesters. our coverage continues here on msnbc. alice is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. shes also taking prescription ibrance with an arom...

Times over the course of the day, i can tell you the answer to that question is nothing. the counterprotesters absolutely dwarfed this message, drowneded it out. it was impossible for these white nationalists to communicate anything except that they were overwhelmed, frankly, b here, today, by an opposing message. >> all right, garrett haake, were going to check in with you later here. i want to dig into what is behind the hate, what motivates people to march against others theyve never met. joi...

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Welcome back. im david gura with a live look at washington, d.c., right now. on the left-hand side, you see freedom plaza on pennsylvania avenue. just east of the white house, a couple of blocks north of the mall in washington, d.c. gathered there a lot of counterprotesters, there to protest against a rally of white supremacists thats scheduled to take place right in front of the white house, just north of the white house on lafayette plaza at 5:30 eastern time. the organizers of that rally, par...

Im david gura at nbc headquarters at new york. we are preempting "meet the press" for whats happening in washington, d.c. a very small group of white nationalists held their rally in lafayette park, directly across from the white house. just feet away. its the same group from last years rally in charlottesville, virginia, over the course of the day, that very small group has been met by a much larger crowd of counterprotesters. those counterprotests beginning many hours ago, continuing now. you ...

You understand? where do we go from here, how do we fix this? >> honestly, susan, i dont know how. >> i dont, either. think were all trying to figure it out. >> helping us figure it out is christian, who joins us from washington, d.c. christian, i was talking with garrett a moment ago about this small two dozen large group of protesters who showed up today. and were talking about the lack of cohesiveness there. help us understand the motivating factors, what are they? >> well, you know, what i s...

Of antihate demonstrators saturday killing 32-year-old heather heyer. >> six months after the rally, they claim james alex fields isnt a murderer, hes a martyr forced to flee a crowd of violent protesters. >> outside the court house today two self-proclaimed white nationalists start screaming that police, the media and counterprotesters were blamed for saturdays violence. >> its all part of a culture of victim hood to justify their actions. the 2017 unite the right rally was the latest example. ...