charges, why overseas business dealings which have been a central part of the house gop charge, that did not lead to any charges here. so don t expect any republicans to trump this despite this plea deal announced today. manu, thanks so much for that. i want to bring in cnn political analyst laura barone lopez now. what does the charges against his son mean for riz re-election efforts? it s certainly something looming over the president for a while now, briana, but right now response from democrats are a bit muted. they aren t saying they re that concerned about this deal that has been struck and that they don t think it will necessarily right now impact the president s re-election too much. the white house put out a statement, the white house spokesperson ian sam, all they said was that the president and
attorneys say that this inquiry into his activity has been wrapped up, briana, there s a potential for more congressional oversight of his actions. yeah, there certainly is and we ll be looking for that. plenty of reaction to get to in washington. first is cnn s manu raju live on capitol hill. you just caught up to speaker mccarthy. what has he told you? reporter: i caught him for the second time today. and i asked him whether he would accept the fact whether or not it was a trump appointed attorney that did the investigation that led to this plea deal, but he continue today down-play that fact and insisted there are two standard of juls justices in his view given the justice department is pursuing former president donald trump. the question i have, you want
black folks have more rights than we do. speaking of white people, the absolute opposite has been true for decades and decades and decades in this country. rosa flores, thank you so much for bringing us that disturbing story. john news from behind closed doors in washington. now it s been just over 100 days since republicans took control of the house and the party s lawmakers. or struggling to maintain a united front amid several disputes on a bunch of issues, including raising the debt ceiling, the budget how to handle the crisis at the border. cnn s manu raju live on capitol hill for us this morning, manu, i understand you come bearing news from this closed door meeting among republicans. yes indeed talking to a number of republicans who just attended this meeting where speaker mccarthy is beginning the process to try to get his conference in line behind the proposal to raise the national debt limit for one year, coupled with a range of spending cuts, ranging from dealing with rollin
this morning, republican congressman george santos is still defying calls from his own party to resign. it is now 7 gop members of congress calling for him to step down. the latest coming from ohio republican max miller, going after him for lying about his jewish heritage, saying it is not okay to lie for a political gain. this is true when the lie seeks to benefit from the murder of millions of jewish people. cnn s manu raju live on capitol hill this hour. so the pressure is building, but is it having any impact, manu? reporter: well the goal of both santos and kevin mccarthy, house speaker is to simply weather this storm. and hope that it simply blows over and that these investigations don t yield any more damaging information that could potentially lead for him to resign or make things worse. for mccarthy, the reason is very clear. this is a district that democrats could very well pick up if santos were to resign.