reporter: i don t think there s going to be a concert tonight for these groups to sit down. it appears the violent part of these confrontations has at least lulled. it is now 12:20 in charlottesville. it has been an hour and a half when these things kicked off. give us a sense, what have you done here in denver to help with the race relations, to prevent the violence we have seen, or what we saw in baltimore, ferguson, the denver police and various community groups in denver haven t always had the best relationship. the past few have been african-american, michael hancock, they have we have all focused on reaching out to the black community making sure we had job training programs not just in the black community but
her casual, nothing really going on. i don t really know what their plans are for the rest of the day. nobody has expressed that to me. there is one group in a van and they rented several large white airport bands to bring people here. i saw one group leaving a little while ago with new york plates. one gentleman in that car had his head severely bandaged up. he said that the emancipation park he was pushed by police officers into the anti- crowd who beat him with sticks. were moving closer into this white nationalist gathering now. to try to figure out what s going on. i think that is david duke if i m not mistaken. is that david duke standing up there? yes, it is. we ll try to hear they re sayi saying. it was david duke. as reported he was talking about how charlottesville and the rally fulfills the promise of title trump. he saying the same thing now.
and disavow that support wholeheartedly. but, david duke was at that rally today. he issued a very strong statement himself about why he is there. he alluded to the fact that he, along with other white nationalists feel emboldened now that president trump is in the white house. of course wethers president trump likes it or not. there is a video posted on twitter by a reporter from vanity for is david duke in a rally in charlottesville today speaking to a crowd of several reporters. i want to share with you all what david duke said on this vanity fair writer s twitter fee. it s a video. he says, we are determined to take our country back. we are going to fulfill the promises of donald trump s what we believed in and why we voted for donald trump, because he said he is going to take her country back. so it s very clear that david duke feels that the policies
emancipation park has been cleared to mcintire park which was the original site that the state police and city of charlottesville wanted them to protest because it s larger and can accommodate crowds better. he said things are happening there now, i don t know whether the white nationalist have moved to the park. you have evidence of that? are you moving your forces in that direction? what you expect for the remainder of the day? me personally, i don t. but because mcintire park and emancipation park were both areas for the gathering and protest, we did have personnel already there throughout the morning. so have them there just in case something should arise in case people need medical assistance in others. but i personally don t. i can t tell you enough on that. do you have any idea of how many police authorities you have on site?
it is not just jobs or economics, more of these different constituencies feel they have been left behind and no one cares. the more their anger grows. that is not the whole thing but is a big part of it. reporter: we had a chance to talk about a lot of things. what you could qualify as peaceful pictures out of charlottesville with police presence, national guard on standby and virginia state police. a lot of news to get to not only what is happening in charlottesville and north korea, more on that when we come back.