here, to provide the white nationalists with their own metro card, essentially providing safe passage into the city. the transit union, which is 80% people of color, wanted no part of it, so they publicized the plan and the metro ultimately backed off. so, again, we re making our way to lafayette park. we re walking down g street. you see crowds of people there not standing on stoops, trying to get a better view, a better shot of what s happening here. and i suspect we will be at lafayette square in about five minutes time. david? geoff bennett making his way to the white house. our garrett haake doing that, as well. we ll check in with them throughout the afternoon. just to recap what we learned from garrett haake, who rode the metro in from northern virginia to washington, d.c., only about two dozen white supremacists, two dozen white nationalists, boarded those trains to make their way to that protest outside the white house, scheduled to start at 5:30 eastern time. what you see