regain his lunch break. try now for free visit otter.ai. ai or download the app on jeremy diamond in tel aviv. and this is cnn we ve been situation unfolding in paris that were following this is just into cnn we re told a police operation is underway at the iranian consulate in paris after a man who was seen carrying a grenade or an explosive vest into the building. cnn s melissa bell is pulling together the details for us. she s joining us right now. melissa, what is happening right now well, pretty big police operation underway in the western rents, areou talking about ,000 small he the search well-heel areasf paris, a that s where th uranium sponr located. teve entirely barricaded off th wholeart of paris.
notably, the presidents reelection campaign, which is in starting up here. and yet they have declined to comment on this. what they ve also declined to do is to fund-raise off of the former presidents indictment and arrest. typically, you would look at this as a potential political gold mine for political opponents but instead, the president s political advisers have decided that the risks of fundraising off of this, the potential appearance of impropriety, fueling those republican attacks that president biden is carrying out some kind of politicized prosecution here, that the risks ultimately outweigh the potential benefits. . ultimately, they are simply relying on the split screen that we are saying, the former president, the chaos the voters are being reminded of, and the current president focused on his job. caitlin? jeremy diamond, thank you. jake? it has been a remarkable and remarkably difficult day to witness. a sad day in american history, up to and including what donald
joining us, now white house great on jeremy diamond. jeremy, the question is how serious the white house is about this strategy, of silence, given that it is such a stark contrast with what former president trump is doing. kaitlan, so far the message of discipline seems to be sticking. you saw, there i was trying to ask the president for the fifth time that he s been asked now about the president trump s indictment and now unrest. once again, declining to comments. the white house decided long ago that this was going to be their strategy, it s going to be how they handled matters related to the department of justice, those criminal proceedings, not to interfere and not to comment. they d also prepared for the possibility that president trump could be indicted in this documents case. they had decided long ago that and if that was happening, that president biden and his team wouldn t comment on it. we ve tried to ask the white house press secretary a number of different ways about th