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Welcome back. you are in the cnn newsroom. we are continuing to follow breaking news. within the last few minutes we learned senator orrin hatch, longest serving in the senate will not run for re-election. setting himself up to retire at the end of this term. i want to play you this video. this is from senator hatch making this a noun announcement about his retirement. and also important to note president trump urging him to run. ultimately he decided otherwise. >> my fellow utahans, for over 40 years i've had the great pleasure serving as your senator. as many of you know i came up during the...

His last campaign and even suggested at one point he would like to see mitt romney take his seat. but as the year went on he was really in the center spotlight on tax reform just kind of loving being back in that powerful legislative position. he developed a very close relationship with president trump. and so friends and colleagues were telling me, you know, as recently as a couple weeks ago that he was just really agonizing over this decision, really wanted to run again, but obviously has some concerns about his wife's health and really is kind of a hunger in utah as much as senator hatch is...