journal is reporting this morning president trump was central to hush-money payments made to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, two women whom he allegedly had affairs with. and the man he s put in place to lead the justice department, acting attorney general matt whitaker, reportedly has ties to a florida company being investigated by the fbi. yes, the same agency whitaker now oversees. we want to start in paris. melissa bell outside the palace there where president trump and his french counterpart are having lunch right now. good morning you to. reporter: good morning. it was a pretty frosty meeting to begin with. that atmosphere, that mood between the two presidents pretty grim, rather like the weather in paris this morning. emmanuel macron apparently trying to cushion the blow because there was this sort of perplexed reaction on the part of europe when that tweet came