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For more, i want to bring in a journalist a isist aw isist and book "everything you love will burn: inside the rebirth of white nationalism in america ."p sirmichael singleton with me as well. struck me earlier today, we're talking about david duke once again, somebody who had been part of the political currents some decades ago. he's back now as garrett said, he was on that application for this protest ted. today. no indication he showed up for it. give us an overarching sense of the status of the group. i use the word, cohesive. how organized is it, how big is it? >> i mean, that's hard to s...

Continuing to cover the aftermath of the protest led by by really just a couple of dozen white supremacists. white nationalists in washington, d.c. covering the aftermath of that and the ongoing counterprotest in washington, d.c. you're seeing a group gathered outside the white house. and near to lafayette plaza where that protest took place. garrett haak, my colleague who usually covers the capital, is there for us. what's the latest hearing from those standing century right to the entrance of the old executive office building in washington, d.c.? >> reporter: yeah, david, look, the rally, it...

There was about maybe two dozen, maybe 20 attendees at this unite the right rally version two. this had been the endeavor in charlottesville last year. this time around, what we saw was a group that was largely leaderless, largely disorganized. lot of these folks coming in on the metro didn't even have metro cards in advance. they didn't have a coherent message. they were met when they got here by a huge counterprotest of folks who had all of those things. they had a message, a united voice and have big-time numbers. if you look around here, this is the scene that will meet those folks from th...

Against the organizers of this group. >> right. there's nothing wrong with necessarily interviewing the organizer of these groups but need to make sure these are not the white equivalent of black lives matter leaders. you need to make sure these are people who are called out as white supremacists who have a specific vision of what they want this country to look like. and who they want in and outside of this country. so i don't think we need to. be a lot more vigilant in how we talk about these groups. these are groups that are built on hate, these are groups that are marching through the stree...

Of this stays with words here as those maybe two dozen protesters will be escorted by a much larger group of police. like we saw when they arrived here earlier today. so, again, in summation of what we saw today, an overwhelming messaging victory by the counterprotesters so who said we don't stand for hate, don't want you on the streets of walk, d.c. concluding earlier than many people expected and in the daylight hours, still, it will conclude without violence, without confrontation, without anything that might mar at least from the counterprotester perspective what was an effective day makin...