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Continue to be in the street who represent largely the counterprotesters, so that one rally is over does not necessarily mean that the city and police would feel like, okay, job over. talk to me now about i guess this transitional period, if you will, about what law enforcement is tasked with as people disburse? >> well, certainly whats going to happen the authority there are not going to leave will in the last citizen has left from out there, so when you have a larger crowd as you have there to...

Coalition an extremist group, if they are emboldened, if other groups like it are emboldened, if there is a sense of a greater freedom in which to exhibit this feeling? >> well, i hope that the counterprotesters will demonstrate particularly the white ones, who have decided to act in solidarity with people of color who are always, always under the heel of white supremacy, not just from nazis and the folks like the ones in charlottesville but from a systemic inequality that continues to plague th...

They got too close to some of the counterprotesters. boston police and other authorities had to intervene at one point. we did see -- appear to be counterdemonstraters get placed on the ground and taken away by authorities. now what were seeing are police on motorcycles and police officers and on bicycles blocking the area here. i want to take you back to yesterday when we heard from the commissioner saying theyre going to be taking a, quote, discrete approach at law enforcement here, meaning th...

Im alex whitt at msnbc headquarters in new york. here it is. taking to the streets there, politics, that is, white nationalists and counterprotesters clashing for a second weekend. the challenge authorities have maintaining control in nationwide rallies and how this is changing our national debate. the stand against hate has made its way to boston. youre taking a look at an estimated 20,000 people. were marching in protest of a planned right wing rally that has been over now for some half hour. ...

Matter? >> reporter: no. in fact, alex, police have been really active on this point. they even confiscated the pole to our boom mike to make sure we didnt have anything that could be used as a stick or a weapon. they have used a couple of choke points to keep an eye out for signs that might have big, long sticks so the boston police are being very proactive to make sure that situation doesnt evolve when these two groups eventually meet. >> 500 of them boston strong, thats for sure, and they are...

List of prohibited items that police said hands off, you cant bring anything like this. i mean everything from coolers and drones to bicycles or flag poles. i can tell you that even our garrett haake with nbc news as he is walking with the counterprotesters, the boom, its kind of a long metal stick, if you will, on the end of which a camera is attached or a microphone is attached to capture the news, that was taken away. so my question to you, did you see anything in your proximity there in the ...

Entryway. i can see people waiting for the speech rally waiting to get in. the chanting that youre hearing is all coming from counterprotesters. as they let one person at a time through towards the rally, people are yelling things like smile for your exit interview on monday, which is a reference to being fired on monday. but youre really not hearing much at all from the free speech folks. >> yeah, that reference to all the social media that went through the faces of those who had protested in t...

Its there, right under your nose. get to your best smile up to 50% faster. visit invisalign.com to get started today. take you back to boston now where theres apparently tension on the streets between protesters and police officers. paolo sandoval is there now. it seemed to have quieted down, the mayor and the police commissioner, they were celebrating. >> reporter: thats right. its interesting just a few moments ear what we heard from the commissioner, i wanted to show you what the streets lo...

Columnist at the hill. jeff, im going to start with you because we know the president watches a lot of television. do you think he might take this massive outpourings of counterprotesters as an opportunity to reset the message he gave this week? >> boy, its hard to say, alex. i mean, he tried to reset that message on monday and then on tuesday, after he left the white house and got back to trump tower, he went back to the original message that he had given on that saturday. so, i think he had th...

There are several counterprotesters that are already gathered inside the park itself that we went and saw a few moments ago. the concern here is because of the heated rhetoric thats been taking place, thats been happening across the country. is that this tensions could flare up again. and could potentially boil over so as a result, the city of boston has rolled out a truly impressive security presence here. both some you can actually see others will be under cover as we heard from the police com...