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Kelly. kelly: while those activities are are disgusting, it seems the fear was the protest, counter-protest could turn violent like they did in charlottesville last week, but they didn't. how did they avoid the violence? >> reporter: that was the real concern, two competing protest groups meeting here in the park and going at it head to head in a real orgy of violence. that simply did not happen in part because the numbers were so lopsided. the right-wing demonstrators pretty much fled the scene as the thousands and thousands of counter-demonstrators arrived here. the police did really a textb...

His true colors are coming out, to equate a group that is a protest group, two protests group. yes, they are both protest groups, calling antifa. they were there protesting fascism. maybe their tactics weren't exactly right. it is messy. there is a difference between the two groups. one is a nazi, white supremacist group. what they want to do is extinguish people that look like me and you, wolf, jewish people, black people, even women. they don't think we are equal. the other is a protest group, protesting a political and racism movement. i am not saying that that group, all of their tactics a...

Deal with figures like robert e. lee and confederate flags. it is no different than flying a swastika. the president is ignorant of history. he does not know context. he should go back to school and get an elementary education on how this country started and about protest groups and how this country works and who he represents and who he should represent. >> david axlerod, i'm really anxious to hear your reaction. >> at times like this, wolf, you expect the president of the united states, you want the president of the united states to exercise some moral authority, to exercise some leadership....

Military circles is true in law enforcement. that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. here we have the chief describing how they had an agreement with these protest groups on the right, and almost immediately the expected response from the groups broke down with them coming into this park from different directions. part of the plan has to be, you have enough resources to plan for contingencies. you have to expect things will break down, things do not go, they're not linear, they will go in different directions. there's crowd dynamics that are important and individual dynamics that w...

The end with the tones of racial bias and racial tensions. >> you know, the city is many aspects the epicenter of the dilemma. it's where we now stand. a couple of miles from the university of virginia, virginia college built in large part by thomas jefferson which home monticello3 miles, one of the founders, signers of the declaration independence, a revered figure in america and also a slave holder. that fundamental dichotomy comes right to roots and helps to explain the anger that we are seeing on both sides. kelly: very sad to see this unfolding, doug, what are the antiwhite nationalist pr...