it's not what he said earlier today, a call for unity. >> he also said at the rally tonight that politicians should stop vilifying one another. i mean, the president has called opponents he doesn't like evil. i mean, he calls maxine waters low i.q. i mean, the idea that he is not the -- i mean, you know, you talk in past administrations about presidents having a bully pulpit. he literally uses it as a bully pulpit. >> reporter: he does, he absolutely uses it as that. if the president decided to follow his own example tonight and not talk about opponents in those terms, i can tell you, anderson, his rallies would be much shorter. he would not be giving 75-minute speeches like the other night in houston. if he was to take that out of his speech, that's basically what his program is built on. his supporters like it. this is coming 13 days before the midterm elections. we do not know where this is going to go. no question. the president has been successful in doing one thing. undermining the credibility of