outfront tonight, former republican congressman charlie dent from the great commonwealth of pennsylvania. national spokesperson for moveon.org and stephen moore, a former senior economic adviser to the trump campaign. congressman dent, let me start with you. the only person responsible for sending these bombs or whatever they are is the person who sent them. period. full stop. we have no idea what motivated this person and we have no idea if the president s heated rhetoric has anything to do with it at all. that said, did the president miss a moment here? i think so. look, the president s job is to try to keep the country together, unite us, not divide us, and sometimes his rhetoric is very incendiary, very inflammatory and i think he missed that moment. on the teleprompter, he said the right thing. off teleprompter is where he goes off the rails from time to time and i think that s the case and i ve often felt that both he and bernie sanders, you know, when they campaigned for pre
former presidents, a former secretary of state, a former vice president of the united states, cia director, attorney general, two members of sitting members of the united states congress. it s an awful, awful situation. thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, an all-out manhunt. who is responsible for ten potential bombs sent around the country, and could there be more than one bomb maker on the loose? plus, were the bombs ever intended to detonate? why investigators are looking at this angle as they search for motive. plus, one of president trump s spiritual advisers says the country is at a breaking point and the angry rhetoric has to stop. is he also telling that to the president? he ll be my guest. let s go outfront. good evening, i m jake tapper in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, manhunt, investigators focusing on at
big difference between comments made and actions taken. the president is certainly not responsible for sending suspicious packages to someone, no more than bernie sanders was responsible for a supporter of his shooting up a republican baseball field practice. well, i agree. bernie sanders is not responsible for steve scalise being shot, just as donald trump is not responsible for these pipe bombs. but what i would say, though, when you re the president of the united states, your words matter. i always thought when the president spoke, that was policy and with this president, that has not been the case. how many times does he say something only to be contradicted by staff. i ve heard this from foreign heads of state and others. they re not sure where the united states is on a given policy despite what the president has said. the president s words do matter on policy, just as they do with when he gets into the name-calling and the insults. it s simply not presidential. i don t think he
that was not the case. but he believed they did because he read it in a particular periodical. interesting. max noel, juliette, art, thank you so much. outfront next, new details about what exactly is in the bombs. small battery, digital clocks. were they meant to explode? plus, the president believes he s being unfairly linked to these bombs sent to his frequent rhetorical targets. he s digging in on his tone tonight. and a member of trump s evangelical counsel on how the president could be handling this crisis. stay with us. i m ray and i quit smoking with chantix. i tried cold turkey, i tried the patch. they didn t work for me. i didn t think anything was going to work for me until i tried chantix. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke.
so i m told by a variety of people he is not going to change his posture on this at all. he s not going to claim any personal responsibility for the rhetoric, of course, not the actual act of this suspect or suspects. we should make that clear. but he s not going to claim any responsibility for the rhetoric. but jake, my question is, as he goes into more campaign rallies, again, we re 12 days out before this midterm elections, he has at least a dozen rallies between now and then. will he change his tone? he did a bit last night, didn t talk about hillary clinton at all. we ll see if he does that tomorrow night. we ll be in charlotte at his rally in north carolina, seeing if he dials it back up. but jake, it s an interesting point. still tonight, he s not reached out to his predecessor, barack obama, or the clintons or anyone else who was affected by this. it seems unusual. the president s club, of course, very small, but as of now, the people around the president are just fine with how