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At the north side of lafayette park. they were shouting consistently protesting the presence of these people. meanwhile, on the other side of the park, jason kessler and some of his colleagues in adherence held before the cameras. there were many press here than there were those followers of jason kessler. we talked to a couple of the individuals who came here with kessler. part of the so-called white nationalist group. i asked why, in fact, the group was so small. because they're afraid, they said, because of the backlash they experienced after charlottesville. many of them here had their fac...

Standing here in the rain, most fe those folks look like they're not going anywhere. >> quickly here, your day began 10, 20 miles out from where you are in view yanna. earlier in the day when i spoke to you said this was not a well-oiled machine, not well organized, not a sizable group. looking at the application the group filed with the national park service, there was the expectation early on there would be a group numbering in the hundreds. help us understand what exactly occurred in the plaza, what was they were saying audible? who turned up? you describe how there are more journalists try...

Of that, if you would. garrett saying this is a small group, it's begun to dissipate. what are you seeing from your vantage point? >> reporter: david, appears it's all over but the shouting here. this group that was supposed to really start this rally in earnest as garrett was saying at 5:30, they got here early, they're leaving early. perhaps, it's got something to do with the skies that are starting to open up in washington, perhaps it's because they had their say. as we've been talking about over the course of the last several hours and there you see some of the police leaving. appears they...

Response. i do think in d.c., it's been better than some other places. i'm hopeful that it will be a simple day. it started raining so you see a lot of the energy even dissipating at this moment. again, we can't feed into normalizing white nationalism as anything other than a racist thing. i think you see the counterprotesters out to make that really clear for people. >> chris betwetrina greer, i'll to you. what the group is calling this protest. unite the right. there's annest just in naming this to try to normalize what's happening here. speak to that if you would, the effort to normalize th...

Public office that we don't even know what their actual beliefs are. i think being diligent has to go beyond protesting. we have to also make sure that the right people are running for public office, are becoming law enforcement, are educating our kids, so that we can combat this in more than one measure. >> on that note, where is normalizing of this, this i ideolo ideology, this twisted ideology, i think what you were talking about there is this group to here i cohering. david duke was expected to be there. i don't know if he was. he was on the application by the group to the national park se...