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Overseeing the justice department is facing recusrecus. he's distancing himself from matt witz kerr. >> i didn't speak to matt whitaker. i know matt whitaker. he has a great reputation. that's what i wanted. >> kristen welker is there. kristen, already some drama in the president's trip. >> there is some drama. good morning to you. president trump as you said is here to mark the 100th anniversary to the end of world war i to celebrate peace among allies. and yet at the moment he was touching down here in paris, he sparked essentially a verbal batter with the host leader, president emmanuel mac...

Battle. the president is there with ma krorn. right now we will go to kristen welker, who is joining us. she is traveling with prumpl. she -- president trump. she's the msnbc correspondent. >> reporter: hello, let's set the scene here for why president trump is here in paris this weekend. he is here to mark the 100th anniversary of armistice day to essentially celebrate peace among allies and it was stunning, darragh, as he was landing yesterday, as he was touching down here in par israelis. he lashed out at the host leader, french president emanuel macron, someone considered to be one of his ...

They will be at a couple of group it contindinners, but thet they go to the side when the cameras are watching to look like they're whispering pleasantries seems unlikely. everybody i've talked to on the american side seems to think that's unlikely. putin as host leader seems to be very busy. but to go back to the syria question, they're butting heads on two things. one is edward snowden, but the second thing happens to be syria of course. and what's interesting is as tough of a reception as john kerry got in the house, that's about the same tough reception president obama will at the time her...

Session, putin, who's chairing it, since this is -- he's the host leader here, said let's table any discussion on syria until the dinner tonight. and that dinner doesn't start for about another hour, in our half. that's when you'll see from what i understand the president's going to make his personal pitch, make his plea. the question is does it become a full-fledged debate at that dinner between the president, and putin, or does putin sort of hang back a little bit and watch the president frankly struggle a little bit convinszing some folks in that room because that room is as divided as cong...

Diplomat a liar. i guess do we chalk this up as the character that is putin or do we hit him back hard on this? >> reporter: we'll see. what was interesting about yesterday, he does this official interview with the associated press and russia's channel 1 and he for putin sort of had an olive branch for president obama saying that they disagree on some things, but they have plenty that they would like to work together on, that he thought that they could get through this. and then of course he turns around into another news organization, calls john kerry a laye liar. i thought there was a possib...