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Everyone, i'm alex witt at msnbc world headquarters. we're keeping a very close eye on things in charlottesville, virginia. it's been a hell of a morning since 10:00 a.m. local time when members of a militia and those expected to attend a rally in emancipation park that would have started one hour ago to protest the removal of the robert e. lee statue there, they got in each other's way, so to speak, and this is how it all went down. there was a lot of violence. baseball bats, you can see being used, pieces of wood, kicking, rock throwing, bottles being thrown, people trying to break up that k...

Sean, were you surprised al-qaeda actually asked their applicants if they wanted to be suicide bombers? >> i actually thought it was fantastic. the whole al-qaeda hr operation, i just can't even imagine what that was like on linked in. rock throwing and being a coward by targeting civilians. i wonder if some volunteered for suicide missions to stop getting the linked in fan. >> this guy is legit. he's for real. >> they didn't have great internet access. you know how spotty it is. i say it like the president says it. he is couped up inside. don't you think he would want to eat something enjoyab...

Sean, were you surprised al-qaeda actually asked their applicants if they wanted to be suicide bombers? >> i actually thought it was fantastic. the whole al-qaeda hr operation, i just can't even imagine what that was like on linked in. rock throwing and being a coward by targeting civilians. i wonder if some volunteered for suicide missions to stop getting the linked in fan. >> this guy is legit. he's for real. >> they didn't have great internet access. you know how spotty it is. i say it like the president says it. he is couped up inside. don't you think he would want to eat something enjoyab...

Circumstances. have you seen any indication of that any telling of rocks and bricks? >> no. it has been the opposite of that all day today. i mean maybe there was a moment sort of mid day today where things got a little tense. a bottle was thrown. there was something who was drunk in the front of the line. he was pulled out. but there was just a huge concerted effort. you had baltimore residents linked arms between the crowd and the police all day. you have police lines, the resident lines, and you had people moving through the crowds where those were pastors or elders local college students, ...

Restrained. >> and much slower, to put them into play. they basically moved at a very slow pace to move out of that area. there are so many media here now that the protesters and the media there, not just protesters, but they were trying to corral the media and as some shortly after 10:00 p.m., the police started to assert themselves more aggressively, pushing the protesters out slowly. there was some bottle throwing, there was some rock throwing. then they used pepper bullets at some point. and were able to move protesters out using those sort of methods. and now there are people out in the n...