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And there is protesters and counter-protesters marching towards each other. the counter protests are chanting anti-nazi slogans, in this response to what is being called a free speech rally that many believe that a lot of white supremacists will show up at. we've not been able to confirm that any white supremacists have shown up so far. more than 500 police officers on the ground and more police officers on reserve, if you will, ready to be called in as necessary. so far though, things pretty peaceful. ed davis, former boston police commissioner will joining us by phone in just a minute. steve...

And we've seen an organized effort, black lives matter as part of that effort, to counter-protest them. so you can see the situation being very enflared with tens of thousands of people marching their way through boston and i just question the politics of all of this, the organization of all of this. what is this designed to do, buck? >> welsh the counter-protesters are part of a larger movement underway right now to change public opinion about the first amendment. this has been long settled by the supreme court going all the way back to skokie, illinois and nazis marching in a neighborhood th...

Been organized and peaceful. loud and almost a festive air so far. we're seeing people carrying signs against white supremacy and against president trump, we've seen very few people with masks or helmets or any kind of threatening menacing behavior. so far we haven't seen any arrests either. the real question, what's going to happen next? about a mile down the road the counter-protesters will be in the same place as those conservative, free-speech protesters. the two groups are going to meet in boston common about a mile down the road sometime within the next hour, the goal for the police to k...

Rally that's getting ready to start in boston with counter-protesters gathering nearby. they're marching towards boston common where our own molly line is right now. and molly, it seems like they're shouting. what's the mood? >> trish, we're here just outside of the bandstand where the free speech rally is to be. these are members identified as the counter-protesters, to speak out against the free speech rally, they feel are the messages of hate. we see a lot of signs here against nazis, against the kkk. we've seen anti-fascist groups with signs saying they're anti-fascist, self identifying as...

We were to go in and do anything at this point, it would have turned out very much more negatively. maybe it's the -- i don't know if it's manpower, but they were allowed. they were two to one over the white nationalists, the antifa, the counter-protesters were. i can imagine it's only larger in boston, massachusetts and in this case it sounds as if almost the police are taking the isn't to take care of the people who were doing the free speech protests, and that really cannot make the people happy who were the counter-protesters. elizabeth: right. >> now, i want to focus on something else rea...