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Tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories. have to do it. have to do it. they've got to stop. >> that was the president of the united states tonight responding to the attempted bombings that occurred today. more controversy earlier as well. the president's comments. cnn's jeff zeleny joins us now with that. so, jeff, explain what the president did and did not say today throughout the day. >> reporter: anderson, one thing the president did not say, he did not say that this was an act of domestic terrorism. that is something that the ne...

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 h past administrations about presidents having a bully pulpit. he literally uses it as a bully pulpi 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 e ining e speeches like the other night in houston. if he was to take that out of his speech, that's basically what his program was built on...

Least one of the devices, this pipe bomb, contained sulfur, an explosive material. pipe bombs are notoriously unstable, anderson, and could explode just through handling it, so in some ways, officials i've been speaking with say it's remarkable that nothing was set off here. >> yeah, i mean, it would have very easily, one of these been detonated just by a postal carrier. >> yep. >> or in a sorting room somewhere. just in terms of the investigation, i assume the fbi is in charge and they're the ones who -- they don't already have all the devices, they soon will. >> that's absolutely right. all ...

Some new reporting, some new reporting about how the white house is responding. >> yeah, our colleague, pamela brown, is reporting that the white house -- there's not white house officials saying we're not to blame. he should not be blamed for crazy things that violent people want to do. and a senior official told pam that we're not a doormat. and, you know, anderson, to what david axelrod was just saying, the president tonight said leaders must stop threatening opponents as if they're morally defecti defective. i'm old enough to remember the kavanaugh hearings when the president said that the...

So, again, politicians will look at that and say, well, that's politics, let's not talk about that.ing about that. again, they're trying to get to the bottom of what is motivating this person, inspiring this person to do this. i'll tell you, when i mentioned, anderson, it's a race against the clock. we don't have people in custody. we don't know if there are other devices out there. e with don we don't know if this person will act again. i spoke to someone a while ago, we've been working local law enforcement sources, it was described by a source, this is the most important investigation for t...