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The u.s. supreme court in december. but abortion rights activists have already taken a position outside the building. suzanne malveaux reports from washington. >> reporter: we're at ground zero of the abortion debate here in front of the supreme court. you can see the officers who are protecting the building. there are counterprotesters outside offering prayers as well as song for some of those justices. and of course you see the police that are lined up to keep these two groups separate from each other. if you swing around here to east capitol street, this is where the women's march is wrappi...

December case and we've been talking about regarding that law in mississippi. this is an intensely felt debate, and it's being underscored and highlighted right here on the steps of the supreme court already. >> you know, lauren, we've been seeing all these supporters of the march and the activists. have you seen counterprotesters? any presence of that today? >> reporter: yeah, alex, a ton of that right behind me right now. we really didn't see it earlier when we were down by freedom plaza. it was really no counterprotesters at all. it was not until we made it up here to the supreme court and ...

There's a lot at stake, especially when we talk about the kind of 50-year precedent of roe and this long-term standing of previability has kind of always been off the table in terms of restrictions, and it seems right now that that's not going to be the case for very long and people are pretty upset. >> yeah. i know you've written, certainly, extensively about this. stay with me for a moment, jennifer, we're going to go to lauren egan, right along that route with the marchers there in washington, d.c. they are on their way from freedom plaza to the supreme court. where are you? have you gotten...

Hours down at the freedom plaza and really didn't hear from any counterprotesters at all while we were down there. >> can you give me a sense of how many as compared to the size of this crowd? i know it's often hard to do. i'm terrible at doing this but if you were to look at the number of counterprotesters, is it like a hundred, 10% of the crowd we're seeing? what do you think? >> reporter: if you can see right behind me, right over here over my right shoulder. there's about, i would say, like 200 counterprotesters right now. you can see the people in the blue shirts over there, the signs say...

Communications so that we don't miscalculate. >> the milley conversations were revealed in the new book "peril." the two will be joining "morning joe" tomorrow for a deep dive into this controversy. the highly publicized d.c. rally in support of those charged in the january 6th insurrection drew a meager crowd of only about 200 people on saturday. with press and law enforcement in riot gear far outnumbering participants. the rally organized by former campaign aide to former president donald trump began just after noon and lasted little more than an hour. featuring only a handful of speakers....