jay newton small joins me as well as alieliza collins. all right, ladies, you've seen the pictures.me your initial snapshot thoughts of what we're seeing and why we're seeing it to this extent. you've got almost 20,000 people walking in that counterprotest to the free speech rally. you know, it's made up of all sorts of people. it's not just one group. there's black lives matter and there's the anti-fascist movement and every other group you can imagine, they say. give me your thoughts on the snapshot of this. >> alex, i think this is part of a larger struggle that's been going on frankly in american culture for years. when i went down to charleston two years ago to do a "times" cover story on the massacre in the mother emanuel church of the nine bible study church goers by a white supremacist, if you'll remember the confederate flag in south carolina then came down off of the property and that was what i think really began this debate about confederate symbols, confederate flags, confederate statues across the south. but that was a larger conversation of black lives matter, of tray

. >> eliza collins and jay newton small. ladies, what's going on in boston, we'll start the top of the hour there but i thank you for your time. for all of you a big welcome where it is 1:00 in the east, 10:00 a.m. out west. the stand against hate makes its way to boston. you are looking at some of the estimated 20,000 people marching in protest to a planned right-wing rally. welcome to all of you. i'm alex witt here at msnbc world headquarters. there are more than 500 police officers also on the streets. they are there to keep the peace. they're going to make sure that we don't see the kind of violence this week that we saw last week in charlottesville. let's go back to nbc's garrett haake. he is with the counterprotesting marchers. they are making their way to the boston common. garrett, if you can hear me, i see you can. let's talk about the security, the atmosphere right there right now and i know you've got some folks you want to talk to. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, alex. so we're kind of at another one of those sp

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