think that this would impact his political career? his chances of being president? would it affect the way you think about him? and every single one of them said no that it wouldn t impact the way they think about him and that they believed it would only make him stronger. now that is a microcosm. it was obviously in a very red state in a very red area, but it was a lot of people gathered there who had to say that they did not believe that this is going to impact him politically. that was in waco, texas. i want to go back to manu raju up on capitol hill. manu i understand you re getting some reaction that s starting to come in from the republican leadership. is that right? the speaker of the house just winging here, indicating that he plans to use the power of his house majority to go after the prosecutor in this case, alvin bragg now he just released a statement via twitter, saying that bragg has, in his view, irreparably damaged our country , contending that bragg is trying to quote
went on to say the d.a. should be put in jail and, wolf, our colleague ted barrett asked him about that. what is he alleging that could cause the district attorney to go to jail. he declined to comment and said he d let his tweet speak for itself. manu raju up on capitol hill. let s get more on all of this. joining us our legal law enforcement and political experts and dana bash, i ll start with you, donald trump s prediction that he d actually be arrested today has at least so far been proven wrong. but he s using this waiting game to clearly blast the probe in his words as a disgusting witch-hunt. is he trying to influence the d.a., his supporters, or both? all of the above. absolutely all of the above. and you mentioned his prediction didn t come true. the prediction that he put out there was absolutely he didn t put out that he was going to get
manu raju up on capitol hill. thank you very much. david chalian, you re a political director. santos told cnn last month that he was not concerned about a house ethics probe. but should he be? well, i don t know of a member of congress who is the subject of an ethics probe who doesn t have some concern. so sure, he should be. i think what manu got out there that is so important is the scope of what has been put forth of what is being investigated. that alone should give him pause. now, we ve seen for months now george santos seems almost impervious to public pressure around any kind of decision to abandon his post or leave the house, wolf. we have seen in the past other members do face mounting pressure when they are in the midst of an ethics probe that may cause them to make different decisions about their future. we don t know if santos will choose that or not. but when this is wrapped up and we learn more about what the ethics investigation finds
manu raju up on capitol hill, thanks very much. let s get back to our political and legal experts. elliot williams, you served at the justice department. you were a deputy assistant attorney general of the united states. what do you make of this call by republicans for a special counsel to investigate hunter biden? let s look at the arguments for and the arguments against. back to the law and the regulations. if it s an extraordinary circumstance, which that might be the case when you have the son of a president of the united states being investigated by the justice department. that s sort of the argument for the republicans are going down. on the other hand, famous people notorious people, whatever it might be, are investigated by the justice department all the time. and certainly that s the case happening right now. number one. and number two, it s also important to note how spectacular the circumstances are involving the former president where you have possibly the former presiden
of the day we always land at the highest common denominator, and we will do that in this case and we re going to pass the infrastructure agreement and we re going to pass the build back better act. let s get straight up to cnn s manu raju up on capitol hill. is jeffries optimism justified? very optimistic and very uncertain right now, the biden agenda hanging by a thread. it could all collapse and could all come together quickly, but if it does it will require significant agreement between the various wings of the democratic party, namely the moderates and the house and the senate and the progressives in the house. now, one key thing is that this morning the house majority leader steny hoyer made clear that on september 27th, next monday, they do plan to move forward and have a vote on that bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the senate last month. that s $1.2 trillion for roads, for bridges, for broadband, but why that is significant is because the progressives in the hous