msnbc s sunday show. what other details are we learning about exactly what happened, and the person who has been apprehended? well, we know now that the suspect is a 41-year-old male who is in police custody and we know that the firearm used on former prime minister shinzo abe was homemade, made of metal and wood. and during a subsequent search in his home, in the nearby town of nara in western japan, they found other explosives as well. we don t know what the motive was. we have heard from the police that he had held a grudge against a political organization which he believed had some kind of affiliation with shinzo abe. as you pointed out, the nation is in disbelief that their former prime minister could be shot in broad daylight, at what was a routine speech rally, ahead of elections on sunday,
times he mentioned vice president biden in a speech rally leading up to the july 25th call you back president trump goes to a lot of rallies and does a lot of tweeting. is pretty difficult to draw too many conclusions from his tweets for his statements at rallies. pardon me. the gentleman is not recognized. the gentleman is not recognized mr. burke has the time. we are going to ignore the rules and have witnesses to ask the questions. how many other rules or you just going to disregard? the gentleman will suspend. parliamentary inquiries are not an order at this time. this is not appropriate to have a witness be the questioner of somebody that was a witness when he was. was. the gentleman will desist. it is just wrong. wrong. the gentleman will refrain. i m making a point of order and you want to rule on it.
at 51 past the hour, keeping a very close eye on all the events in boston where the rival protests are underway, though boston police have officially said that the free speech rally is over, the demonstrators have left the boston common. that was a rally that had about 20 in attendance for that free speech rally. lots more than 20 otherwise on the streets here in the anti-free speech rally, those count protesters, almost 20,000 by one estimate. we have seen minor clashes between this particular line of riot police and protesters. all this was happening just moments ago. we ve seen flashes of it elsewhere, small skirmishes, but there are thousands of people remaining in downtown boston right now, and this free speech rally was organized by a group who says it is not affiliated with those groups that were involved in the deadly violence in charlottesville, virginia, last weekend. the other, the counterprotest, has been assembled by a group far and wide that are rejecting
commissioner say 500 officers are being deployed to make sure there is no violence during a speech rally and counter protest this week. organizers of the event saturday on boston commons say it is about free speech. critics say it is about white supremacy. we will see what happens. we have got you covered here on fox. that s tonight s live look outside the beltway from special report. we ll be right back.
by some of these right wing groups. this is something they ve been working on for weeks but in the wake for charlottesville it started to get more attention and they ve been building up opposing effort has been built up to do a counterprotest and that s the event that could draw 20, 30,000 people depending on how many people who have suppress expressed interest. a lot of these folks are starting to draw in here. they ll eventually march across boston and both of these rallies will be in the same place. i want to bring in one of the organizers of the counterprotest. tell me what you expect to see out here from the counterprotests today. i expect to see a powerful message, not only just a moment but a movement that happens because people have been aexpired to join in the fight against hate. reporter: the organizers of your event say it s a free speech rally. what do you hear when they say free speech rally? i hear it s a cover for just the hate speech based on the