spreading hostility and divisions in this country. president trump has been complaining this week that all of the focus on the mystery behind who was sending these pipe bombs has blunted what he saw as gop momentum heading into the final week of campaigning before the midterms. as you know, the president has wanted illegal immigration and the caravan of central american migrants in central america to be his closing argument for the mid texas and that s what he wanted to turn the conversation towards, but so far in terms of his response to the pipe bomb, he has been alternating between taking swipes at the media and encouraging americans to come together. that s what we saw from him at charlotte last night. take a listen. everyone will benefit if we can end the politics of personal destruction. we must unify as a nation in peace, love, and in harmony. the media has a major role to
play, whether they want to or not. and they do indeed have a major role to play, as far as tone, and as far as everything. and we all say this, in all sincerity, but the media s constant unfair coverage, deep hostility, and negative attacks, you know that, only serve to drive people apart and to undermine healthy debate. now relatively speaking, for the president, we have seen a more moderating tone from him at that rally in charlotte, at a rally he did in wisconsin, earlier this week. last night, he is trying to pivot back to political terrain that is more comfortable for him, he did tease repeatedly an
initial charges that have been field by the federal government, and the investigation continues as authorities try to figure out number one the motive, also whether anyone else was involved, and how in fact, a man of limited means, who apparently was living out of his van, was able to put the entire country ill at ease, if you will. joe johns, thank you for the update. we appreciate it. president trump has acknowledged the mail bombing suspect was his supporter but that s it. he did not disavow his support. the rally in charlotte, where he blasted the media s response, after the suspect was caught, cnn white house reporter sara westwood, live from the white house for us now, what exactly did he say, sara? reporter: well, christie, president trump was renewing his calls for unity in the wake of the package bombing spree. but in the same breath, he was criticizing the media for the negative coverage and blaming news outlets for somehow
connection with the attempted mail bombings routinely criticized democrats on social media. and now questions about twitter, as critics say there were obvious warning signs, twitter missed it, in the tweet, the social media company has repeatedly said it has combatted harassment on the platform but those who use tweeter says it is not enough. we look at the social media ramblings. in addition to repeatedly slamming cnn, sayoc was a frequent online critic of the very people federal prosecutors say he targeted. 14 pipe bombs sent through the u.s. postal service in the last few days. the 56-year-old registered republican has been active across social media. where he has posted multiple images of himself attending trump rally, or wearing a make america great again hat. even wishing trump a happy birthday back in june. he also tweeted pro-republican messages like it is time to take
get the help, became a loaner, and then found a cause. he found a father in trump. we must unify as a nation. we have seen an effort by the media in recent hours to use the sinister actions of one individual to score political points against me. calling them enemies of the people, and then suddenly pretending that you re concerned about civility. come on. good saturday morning to you, after a four-day nationwide manhunt, federal agents say they have arrested the map who sent more than a man who sent more than a dozen mail bombs to prominent democratic figures and trump critics. 56-year-old cesar sayoc told investigators he didn t want to hurt anyone but the fbi director says under the right conditions these packages could have gone off. today s arrest doesn t mean