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Department headquarters and they all urged him "to resist any pressure to quit following criticism from president trump and to stay in the job at least through the midterm elections." so just a couple of months' worth of encouragement there. the senators reportedly urging jeff sessions to remain on the job through the november elections where jon cornyn of texas, tom tillis of north carolina, jerry -- if donald trump does replace jeff sessions his new attorney general would immediately be able to control robert mueller's investigation and possibly much more importantly the new attorney general...

That's seriously mentally ill, that's on the terrorist watch list. mr. president, it's going to have to be you that brings the republicans to the table on this. >> sure. >> right now the gun lobby would stop it in its tracks. >> i like that responsibility, chris. i really do. i think it's time that a president stepped up. i'm talking democrat and republican presidents, they've not stepped up. and maybe before i call on marco, i would like to have pat toomey and joe mansion, can you sort of detail your bill? i haven't heard a lot about it, actually. >> thank you very much. absolutely, mr. presi...

We saw vice president mike pence just use there, saying joe voted no. things like that. just going into places and reminding people about that narrow majority. >> as positive as those announcements are from all those companies, the fact is that polling still shows the republican tax plan is deeply unpopular among voters. it just hasn't taken on in the way that the white house would like it to. >> it's not like the president has gone on the road to sell it. >> no. look, he typically does a whole round of post state of the union travel, they're supposed to be going, selling this. the president i...

Schumer's move. this is jon cornyn. let's listen. >> thankfully the democrats realize the mistake they made in shutting down the government over thisresolved issue of daca, but they've kept additional hostages, money that should be appropriated the rest of the fiscal year to support our military and to give some predictability to our nation's national security. and also they're holding hostage the money that the house passed, $81 billion for disaster relief for the victims of hurricane irma and hurricane harvey as well as the wildfires out west. i hope the democrats realize we're serious about...

Majority whip senator jon cornyn of texas is saying there will be no reopening of the government tomorrow. thank you. >> thank you. arthel: so the question still remains, could there be a deal by tomorrow? or will the government shut down carry over into the work week? that's what majority whip jon cornyn is saying. we will talk about it more after the break. we're still here, sorry. eric: that's okay. there's a lot of other news to tell you about too, besides that, arthel. the second consecutive day, women marches have drawn large crowds across the country, as you can see, including the one w...