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Stronger police presence. i think they'll also be a shorter fuse for police to get engaged if, in fact, they see people from moving from expression of their first amendment rights into actions that perhaps are more violent, if their antag nistic if they're inciting people. it's important to sort out those who are streaming in to a particular city, specifically looking to agitate the situation and make it much more challenging for law enforcement. i think we'll see a quicker engagement to just call those people from the group, take them aside and allow the protest to continue. >> it's a fine li...

Number of speakers who represent hate and bigotry and racism, so unfortunately if it was about free speech they would've invited us from the beginning to have a constructive conversation. >> reporter: not a conversation if you only have one side talking. >> absolutely. >> reporter: the president of the united states he tends to watch a lot of cable news on the weekend. what do you hope he gets and turns on his tv and sees thousands of people marching in boston. >> hopefully he'll get the message that he represents all of us and that includes -- not everyone except for the people who have the r...

On the street patrolling the streets, alex. >> jennifer, the aclu is saying that they are no longer going to defend hate groups who protest with firearms adding that they're going to screen potentially violent clients more closely. so is that supported by the first amendment? >> well, the first amendment really just prohibits the government from suppressing speech. the aclu is not a governmental entity. they can do whatever they want with respect to taking clients or not taking clients. what they're doing is just drawing a line. they're saying we take who we want as clients. we're no longer go...

He was kind of pushed into doing that much like he was pushed into making the second series of comments that he made in response to charlottesville, and i just want to go back to the identity part of the speech for a moment, alex, this helps us understand the coverage better. lots of folks talk about identity policy. you think about talking about race, black folk and people of color and transgender folks, this is on the left removing that from the political platform. if you look at the numbers and what's going on in boston today, what happened in charlottesville, if you look at the rhetoric of...

Inciting violence and i think law enforcement has to balance that and it is about swift action and deterring people from moving and crossing that line. i think we'll see a lot more physical barriers. i think they'll step in to separate groups so people can say what they'd like to say, what they're authorized to say under the constitution but to prevent them from engaininging in those violent actions like we saw in charlottesville. >> jennifer, at what point does hate speech become a crime? >> there are no statutes prohibiting speech per se, the only way you can charge someone based on what the...