This is Words Matter with Elise Jordan and Steve Schmidt.

Welcome to Words Matter. I'm Elise Jordan along with Steve Schmidt.

Our goal is to promote objective reality.

As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.

Words have power and words have consequences.

Elise is on assignment this week. I'm Adam Levine.

Steve and I are thrilled to be in Los Angeles today and welcome the legendary Rob Reiner to Words Matter.

Thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me.

We're going to get to the midterms, your movies, and a lot more in a minute.

But first let's get to the news.

The earlier dozen pipe bombs have been now been discovered and what law enforcement officials describe as an attempted acts of terrorism.

Also, officials have warned that the number of bombs and the intended victims could grow.

Up until now, Steve has described this as a cold civil war.

Rob, you've gone through this. You've seen this. You were a very young man in the 60s when you saw some of this.

Talk to us about your thoughts, your feelings, your impressions of this last week.

Well, you know, that's a good way to describe it, cold civil war, but that cold civil war could become hot very quickly.

And we've seen that happen. We had division in our country as you pointed out during the Vietnam War, and we saw rioting in the streets in Chicago in 68.

So these kinds of outbursts, we saw students killed on campus.

These kinds of things can blow up very, very quickly.

And I think, unfortunately, right now, there's been a division in this country for a long, long time.

And I think that Trump came into office exploiting that division, and he's exacerbated that division.

And when something like this occurs, a president is supposed to calm the waters, is supposed to come out and basically unify us and say, you know, we can't stand for this in the United States of America.

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