about to happen and they were perhaps even just hours away from making an arrest in this case. >> yeah, i could sense also yesterday when they said, guys, go focus in on florida. there's a lot going on in florida. all of a sudden we began to realize that maybe this guy is in florida. and guess what, he was. everybody stick around. there's a lot more we're watching. the bombing suspect known to have attended at least one trump rally and the president is about to hold another one tonight in charlotte, north carolina. our senior white house correspondent, jeff zeleny, on the scene for us already. jeff, walk us through the president's reaction. >> reporter: well, wolf, just a short time ago, as the president was leaving the white house, he disavowed any relationship to this. but he would not answer our question if he should disavow the support of this man, this suspect, in florida. the president throughout the day, throughout the last several days, on one hand, he has been dismissing the acts. today he called them a terrorizing act.