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A small crowd of protesters garrett, what happened >> reporter: capitol police have been preparing for this rally for weeks. they've been concerned a far-right crowd demonstrating in support of people arrested after the january 6th insurrection could become violent, so they reinstalled the fence around the capitol complex and brought in a multi-state police force, a massive police force, to deal with a large-scale event that never really materialized capitol police say only about 400 people were in the protest area at peak today probably about half of those were journalists capitol police say ...

Outnumbered pro-trump supporters at a rally outside the u.s. capitol, the same site of course as the january 6 insurrection. now saturday's protest ended after only a couple of hours and was mostly peaceful. capitol police made only four arrests. there was, though, a massive police rennes around the protest area to insure there would not be repeat of the deadly attack. marshall koehn reports. >> reporter: the rally in support of january 6 reuieuiotr went off, but it is the latest gambit by right wing groups to twist the narrative about the insurrection. here is what organizers said was the pur...

Capitol building on january 6th. nbc's elson barber on the ground with the latest for us. it seems at this point, right, the rally is now over. we were out there together a little while ago. how have things transpired since then? >> reporter: yeah, let me just let you look with me to show the kind of little bit that is left of the police presence over here. you can see it's very much whittled down. when you look out in the crowd you see little groups of pockets of people here. but it's still unclear whether or not they were part of this protest, this rally or whatever you want to call it or if...

Front of the capitol and pond in front of it. also arlington police, when in virginia, 25 agencies planning for this. capitol police responsible for protecting the capitol grounds and the protest area. d.c. police responsible for protecting the streets and surrounding neighborhoods. capitol police chief john manninger said they've been to believe tabletop exercises. he said there are threats coming in, but he cannot say how specific or how serious they are. >> it's tough to say whether they're credible or not. we don't know with any certainty. but what we do know is that this -- the chatter th...

There is traffic still moving here, but there are thousands and thousands of people now who met about -- gathered about an hour ago who are now walking into the central part of hong kong. and we've been talking to them, george, and they're all saying that they are ignoring what the police said. the police said any gathering like this is now illegal. but they are saying we have come to talk and protest about our democratic rights still. and what we're seeing so far, george, is a very, very low police profile. we've been told, we've seen pictures, that there are police vehicles with water cannon...