rally set to start in about an hour in lafayette park there, directly in front of the white house. it is the same group behind the violent rally that happened in charlottesville, virginia, last year that i was just mentioning. so far, very few white nationalists have shown up. a much larger number of counter protesters there to hold their own rallies nearby. we have reporters monitoring the situation. we re going to start with nbc s garrett haake with the white nationalist rally. and a lot happening there. what are you seeing? reporter: hey, richard. i m actually on the edge of that rally. we are blocked by the police on one side from getting any closer. what you re seeing right now is the arrival, or more accurately, the return of a group of antifa counter protesters. they gathered maybe 20 or 30 minutes ago. best probably to think of them as patrolling the outer edges of this park. d.c. police have made it their mission, and they have been very clear about this, that th