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Top networks. and live sports on the go. included with xfinity tv. xfinity, the future of awesome. >> the boston police department has met to work on a safe pathway forward. theyve agreed to specific rules for boston common. if anything gets out of hand, we will shut it down. >> despite a heavy police presence today, many in boost reason worried fighting could break out between protesters holding a free speech rally and counterprotesters. some of the headliners dropped out. gavin mcguiness and t...

Identity is not a uniform i can take off when im feeling unsafe. >> youre white supremacist until people start chasing you so are you going to put it back on? >> then off he went blending in with the counterprotesters supremely confident he no longer looked like a supremacist. cnn, new york. >> nfl preseason continued last night and so did protests during the national anthem. andy is here with more. >> bennett taking a seat for the national anthem last night to protest injustice but this time he...

Welcome back, everyone. im alex witt here at msnbc world headquarters in new york. at the half hour, heres what were monitoring for you. were monitoring the stand against hate. youre looking at it as it makes its way to boston. its an estimated 20,000 people marching to the boston common in protest to the right-wing rally that is apparently over and done with, with few participants, less than two dozen by one reporters estimate there. though in terms of sheer numbers, more than 500 police office...

Police are looking tough and smart. thank you. i think we have another tweet from the president that has just been posted online too. great job by all law enforcement officers and boston mayor marty walsh. when it comes to the president saying there have been many anti-police agitators, thats not particularly what we have been seeing. there have been confirmed arrests but a largely peaceful demonstration in boston where 20,000 counterprotesters have drowned out the voices to the alt-right today ...

Was very presidential then you cant keep ripping on him unless youre intellectually honest and you say, i hate the president, im never going to give him credit for anything. >> no. no. lets see how long this lasts, ben. people applaud him for doing the right and monday when he gave that hostage video of a statement, to clean up his mess on charlottesville on saturday. so then on tuesday, we saw the real donald trump come back. so maybe today he sent out a couple tweets that were okay, presidenti...

Police presence. even a barricade around boston commons. thats the canine unit coming out of that black van. these are just the preparations ahead of todays rally because this is expected to be the largest rally since charlottesville. theres a free speech rally and they said this is not about white nationalism but rather the ability to express ones belief regardless of whether or not those beliefs are, in fact, offensive. thats also why boston police department expect to see more than 20,000 cou...

Confirm these numbers for us. we were told from various sources, anywhere from 20 to 40 of the free speech rally members, thats all that was there. and then you look at the thousands upon thousands marching in the street to counter that message. so would you say the counterprotesters walk away feeling victorious? >> i mean, if you were to take the comments from those in the crowd and the organizers when they were speaking and when its over, thats definitely how they feel. they feel that boston p...

At 16 past the hour, youre looking live at the city of boston aerial view clearly there where an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 marchers turned out to protest a right wing rally that really didnt seem to have materialized. it was a so-called free speech rally. it has now concluded according to police, about 45 minutes ago. one witness told us she saw only about 20 people there at one point in that rally and said those voices were drowned out. you couldnt even hear what they were saying and that is b...

Microphones, no loudspeakers, or if they had them, they werent using them. actually their backs were turned. they were standing under a gazebo and they -- their backs were turned to the protesters. so it was very difficult to understand what actually went on at this rally. >> so talk about police presence and where they are relative to the rally or the rally that was. >> reporter: so there was a very heavy police presence here and continues to be. there were police surrounding the perimeter, the...