♪ announcer: from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: welcome to the program. it is the end of summer. as we prepare for the next season, we bring you some of the favorite conversations from "charlie rose." we bring you an hour of music with jon bon jovi, gary clark jr., john mayer and chris stapleton. ♪ i left something in motion something you can't see ♪ >> ♪ now i am starting

you got nothing at all ♪ ♪ou that wayve charlie: an hour of music, when we continue. ♪ jon bon jovi is here. this year marks the 33rd anniversary of the lead singer's legendary rock band bon jovi. the group sold more than 130 million records and played in thousands of shows around the globe. jon bon jovi is known as much for his philanthropic work as his rock star status. his foundation is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

they aim to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty around the country. i am pleased to have jon bon jovi back at this table. jon: pleased to be back. charlie: 33 years. 33. jon: i have a gray hair. it comes with the turf. but i am happy to say, 33 years. charlie: what is the magic to stay in power? to be as good today? push.here is no magic hard work always comes first. being true to who you are is very important, so that an audience that grows up with you can remain with you. those who have gotten off the train because life happened, a next generation can come on with a certification of those that came before them. charlie: we will get more to this album in a moment. remain truthful to

who you are but you also have to change. jon: within the parameters of who you are. why i use the word truth and integrity, i have been around long enough that fads and fashions have come and gone. three iterations of boy band generations have come and gone. rap music has come and gone, grunge music has come and gone. was jump on did those bandwagons when they were becoming increasingly popular. as i grew and grew up, i would not try to rewrite "living on a prayer" again. you have to have something else to say. or else i will come to you and bs you. charlie: you hate to play it when you were on tour? jon: not because i hate to play it but i know all the words. i don't hate it. charlie: i hated to hear that, in fact. jon: it has taken a little out of context, but the truth is every artist is proud of his new record. you are very anxious to play the new one.

that is where did these four theater shows to explain. only a new record, only the new stuff. and it was received well. i have been blessed, having written or cowritten a number of big hits. yes, "living on a prayer" is that song. i have it. charlie: sometimes i look at the stage and i see people looking down at the prompter for the words. jon: sure. they are there for me as well. not because i don't know the words. because my mind, in a perfect show, the last thing i'm ever doing is thinking about what is going on. i am on another plane. charlie: where are you? jon: i'm thinking about having a drink with you somewhere at the bar after. in truth, i'm having such a great time that i'm not in the minutiae. if i hear a note go wrong, that

is when i pay attention. it is fantastic. it is spiritual. charlie: you are one with the audience. jon: most definitely. but on another plane. it is not about worrying about tiae.w show -- minu charlie: why is your band not in the rock 'n roll hall of fame? jon: the truth is we have met all the prerequisites. if you want to be brutally honest, some of us have friends in the business and some of us have friends that are not such good friends. there are people that are envious and jealous. i have had a couple of falling outs with some of those people. they will hold it over my head. look statistics speak alone. , the music has spoken to generations, but i will not get in while these guys are there. charlie: you can outlive them? jon: rock 'n roll is founded on rebellion and i would rather have the integrity and let them know what finger is pointing in

their general direction. charlie: who are these people? musicians, artists, editors? jon: the people in charge of the voting in the secret little ballot. it is the truth of the matter. none of our memorabilia is in there. i have taken it all out. and i had a falling out with a couple of people there. more than one. charlie: are you a songwriter that happens to perform, or a performer that happens to write songs? jon: i am a very good performer, but my joy comes from songwriting. songwriting, performing. the applause, but i am not a applause junkie. i know those who are. i don't live for that. charlie: you have a good sense of business. you think about owning an nfl team.

you count among your friends one of the most successful business people around. you enjoy their company? jon: i do. charlie: do you know their language? jon: i am not a 25-year-old. charlie: but people are paying money for us to show up and we have to show up. jon: that is most definitely the truth. but there is also that commitment to the people who work for you and their families or the fan that works so hard to buy a ticket. your legacy, all these things matter. 1970, coming up the way i watched led zeppelin come up, it was fun when i was 20. but you have to go to work. it does not ring true anymore. charlie: it is hard to keep a band together. jon: it is. it is a family and it is very difficult when you have marriages and kids and life goes on. charlie: but the story i hear is

are alwaysnd keith in conflict or competition. i do not know who it is that most wants to go on tour, but they get it together. and they do it. jon: i don't have the pleasure of knowing those gentlemen. i would love to sit in a room with mick jagger. charlie: what would the conversation be about? [laughter] what would you want to know? jon: the first question -- when in god's name are you going to quit so at least i know where the end zone is? let me start this conversation light. give me a day and the date so at least i know where the end zone is. how does he do it? they have done it or so long. however they kept it together? god bless them. they are without question my rock 'n roll band idols. yes, without question.

charlie: because of longevity? jon: longevity, catalog and -- of music. how they kept it together. it is a band. they are not a solo artist. i straddled the line between them two. charlie: very distinct personalities. jon: most definitely. god bless him for it because they are the rolling stones. charlie: do you ever look in the mirror and say you are one lucky s.o.b., because you get to do something that is demanding and challenging and requires all of your body and soul and brain and heart and everything about you in order to do it, in order to keep it up, in order to go out there and make sure people say to you, bring it on. jon: yeah, you have to do the same, as does tom brady and your producer. you have to be ready to go to work. and give your best every single

day. all i cared about and why i say .b., i got to s.o do what i wanted to do. as a little boy, that is all it wanted to do. by the time i was 16 years old, 17 years old this was it. , there was no plan "b." i was young enough that the drinking age was low enough that you could do those things and i had no other responsibilities. by 20 when i got a record deal the sweat was off the brow because my folks didn't say i -- say, we don't want to support you. charlie: the foundation has built houses for people in significant numbers. you are a very wealthy man. jon: yes. charlie: you want to buy an nfl team. you have been in pursuit of buying an nfl team. is it going to happen? how close? jon: we were on the doorstep. we had the wherewithal to do it. that wasn't the issue. charlie: with your own funds? jon: i had two partners. we are talking substantial

numbers here, but we really did want very badly to buy the buffalo bills. it didn't work out for me. charlie: do you see another opportunity? once you get on the nfl's list, i assume you stay on the list. jon: i do not know, we will find out. when the opportunity arises -- charlie: owners love you. they will vote. jon: most definitely. yes and no. charlie: meaning? jon: they don't have a vote. if the team is for sale, the owner sells. they approve it, but it is not true. charlie: whoever has the top dollar gets it. why didn't you get the bills? jon: we were outbid. god bless the guy who got it. good for him. ♪ -- charlie: what is it about

football? jon: i love that my boys plated their whole childhood. what i found that the game had given them was commitment and dedication. what i got from it was camaraderie compounded by the fact that i would bring something very unique to it. and that was the lord for me. those 32 men and women are very, very smart people. i think i bring something different. charlie: so that you would be a very good owner? jon: i am not giving away all my tricks. but i have shared more than enough. i am fortunate enough to be included in a little business. there are some things i have been able to share that are

great and exciting. you want to be part of the family? jon: i would like that very much. charlie: much success with this. this house is not for sale, what a fabulous photograph. the numbers in the band. jon: it is a great energy, thank you. charlie: jon bon jovi. ♪ charlie: gary clark jr. is

here, the grammy award-winning blues guitarist has been dubbed the chosen one. his fans include qatar greats like buddy guy, keith richards, and eric clapton who calls him inspiring. he goes on to say gary loves -- does what i would like to do, on stage without any effort at all. his new album was recorded earlier this month. it is called live north america 2016. here is gary clark jr. performing the healing right in our studio. ♪ >> ♪ we stand in formation while the test and they see they compile information

and try to make us believe that there is something we can touch something we will never feel muchi feel like it is too revealsic always this is our healing this music is our healing lord knows we need some healing when this world this music sets me free who will save me

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♪ charlie: i am pleased to have gary clark junior at this table for the first time. welcome. gary: thank you. charlie: how did you know you wanted to be a musician? michael jackson on stage when i was five years old in denver. my parents took me to the show and it was a complete surprise. i just fell in love with the energy. charlie: and the dance and the music. gary: i was always the kid right next to the speaker. trying to figure it out. i knew from day one. sheetsuld make you sign

as a kid what you're interested in, your favorite color, what you wanted to be when you grew up. i would away say something somewhat safe. be a lawyer,d to because i did not want to be looked at as on. -- odd. but i knew from day one i wanted to get up on the stage. ♪ charlie: but it wasn't easy for you. you had to struggle like everybody else. of: yeah, i made a choice oh. i did not do the school thing. i moved out of my parents house. did not have much. i knew i was going to survive as a musician.

i played 4, 5, 6, 7 nights a week. four hours a night, playing for tips in smoky blues bars knowing that i wanted to be alongside people that i have am fortunate enough to be alongside of. charlie: and knowing that you were learning and getting better and all of that. gary: yeah, i wanted that experience from all the stories and legends of blue skies, you got to have your 10,000 hours. you got to really put in your time of work and figure out what it means to be on stage and perform live and be part of a unit. everybody can play guitar solos all day long, but you are a part of something. you have got to understand how it works. you have got to build confidence. you have to understand what works, what doesn't, and become more comfortable. if i had not put in those hours, some of these gigs and these opportunities that came up, i do not know if i would be able to own it and feel comfortable. but i feel like i worked for this.

i think it was really important, it was a struggle, but you know, i got the lights shut off. charlie: your partner would come in and say you have not paid your bills no more water, no , more lights. gary: in the middle of recording something. charlie: my impression is you are more of a live guy than a studio musician. gary: yeah. charlie: the title of this is gary clark jr. live, north america 2016. gary: live in person. some of my favorite records, james brown at the apollo. marvin gaye live in london. charlie: you can feel the audience as much as the performance. gary: i feel like that is really the place for me on stage.

i feel comfortable. charlie: but touring is where the money is today, too. gary: touring is it. charlie: that is true. it has come to that. gary: yeah. it is an interesting, record business. and that is part of why i am so dependent on playing a lot, why i have been so focused on that. you never know. i feel like people will always want to come and see and hear live music. charlie: i am sure they do. how many gigs do you do a year? gary: you know, that is a good question. i think maybe we are doing around -- not so much this year. i was getting to a point where i was, you know, i could not remember what day it was or where i was. i need to go home for a charlie: second.

it is terrible when you say hello, sacramento, and you are in fact in san francisco. gary: there are times i have not said anything because i was not sure. charlie: i think some of the best have done that, too. i have heard some, names i will not mention. jon: good night, y'all. charlie: it is been great to be here in your lovely city. ♪ she left me soon this morning like she did the night before ♪ charlie: where do you live? gary: out in texas, outside austin. charlie: outside of austin? gary: yes, sir. charlie: it is a great place. gary: it is a great place. i moved around i lived in new , york for a couple of years, i started getting cold. it scared me away. charlie: like today. it is windy.

gary: out in california a little bit, but austin, i love to be at home. i love being able to see my family. charlie: where do you think you are going? where is the journey leading -- what is the next step? is it just to get better? is it explore new experiences? is it to open people's ears to a variety of music? or all of the above? gary: all of it. you express that better than i could. charlie: maybe i should be writing songs. gary: there you go. charlie: certainly better for me sing them.em than gary: collaborative. charlie: all right, you sing. what is the hat about? gary: my dad bought me this had -- hat a long time ago.

i loved seeing michael jackson wearing a hat. i remember him singing "who is loving you" with the jackson 5. i thought he was so cool with that purple hat, afro. from stevie ray vaugn to hendrix to albert king, john lee poker, -- it is just a thing. i never put it on. i had one, my dad bought me one, i didn't feel it was right. i put it on one day, and it took me a while. i did not feel comfortable. and then i just stepped out and got a couple of compliments and people said, it is a good look on you. charlie: then it did not feel comfortable not to have it. gary: so i sleep in mind. charlie: no you don't. [laughter] let me remind everybody, gary clark junior, live north america

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fast connections everywhere. that's how you outmaneuver. charlie: john mayer is here. the seven-time grammy award winner has sold more than 30 million records worldwide. he has shared the stage with bb king, carlos santana, and eric clapton. clapton called him a master guitar player. he returns with his first album in four years.

it is called "the search for everything." i am pleased to have a john mayer at this table for the first time. welcome. john: thank you very much. charlie: you had to release this in stages? john: i believe in the songs so much i deserved they should be seen without distraction from either the barrier of entry with so many songs all at once, or other music coming in and sort of -- or there being so many songs -- songs that are not that great, of -- a couple that are. the boldest thing i could do is say, i think i did it. take a look at these four at a time. and the response has not only been positive for the work but positive for the format of releasing music that way, so i was not alone. i am one half consumer and one half artist. positive for the format of i remember seeing some really great records from great artists come up on my spotify or apple, and i go, 12? this is a deep dive. maybe i will just go for the singles right now.

i wanted to put music out the way i myself would want to hear it. charlie: is it hard to get acceptance for albums? i have had musician say, what has happened to albums? it is disgraceful. john: i think i have been known traditionally now as an artist, as an album artist, so it has engendered more trust with my audience about making records than maybe other artists have. i am ok being a dinosaur at this time, being a guy who makes records. even then, i have sort of broken up the concept. i want to ultimately have a record, but i think what this was was about making it small enough for people to -- it was just an easier point of entry but ultimately ends up with a record that has an arc. we think about sequencing. we think about the power of serializing one song before the next and the next. that still matters.

it may not matter now, but it may matter again. and what you want to do is future-proof it so if and when people go back to albums, you never looked frightened. charlie: the writing, i assume you have in eight ability beyond learned process, clearly. did you have the same thing as a guitarist? the same thing with music that adapted to qatar -- guitar? a p&lyes, my father is player. that was my first introduction to music. interval instrument, it is a calculator, a keyboard, and abacus. it is still where i would go to show them how music works. i would not show them a qatar. -- a guitar.

it is a graphical representation. charlie: what kind of pn oh player are you? jon: i am great in the key of c. guitar has a transposable -- but a p&l is relative to the sharps and flatss. best thing i can do is use a digital pn oh and play it in a different key. so i grew up very quickly going, boom.oes boom, it is a calculator. i knew early enough what that was. charlie: self learned? john: for the most part, sitting at a p&l -- sitting at a piano

and working it out. my teacher stopped teaching me how to play music. of book do 15 minutes stuff. you would bring him a song and ok, i got it. there is a curriculum gathered very quickly on this blues thing. my parents at one point said, i think they were on to it. they said, play this. they put the book in front of me. charlie: where did you think you were going? ray vaughan, eric clapton, that was my calling. when i was 13 years old i went, got it. i remember the first night i had a guitar. when parents ask i say, give

them a qatar for two months -- guitar for two months to do their own thing with it and then give them theory. i would play in the middle of the night and immediately figured out chords. i will never forget this -- it is not revisionist history. i looked at it and went, ok. that ok was so vertical it went through everything in my life and went, this is what i am. touring with what is left of the grateful dead, what have you learned from that? is such a part of the american culture for certain people. john: for a lot of people. i think they are a lot more accessible than their fans would like. accessiblelot more

than the barrier to entry. if it is presented to you in the right sequence of songs it is incredible, phenomenal stuff. i seem to see this fraternal, loving thing that seems off, people not understanding it. charlie: when he left for four years in montana, where were you going and what was the point? john: it is a bit reductionist. it is not your fault for putting it into those words. charlie: put it into the right words for me. go, i am at the end of this idea, popstar, flat here, leather jacket. charlie: tired of it? john: nobody dreams past their third record. when you were a kid in high school you are not dreaming of your fourth record and do not know how to say, i do not have a plan for this.

you are not sure how to say, i should take a break. people say, he is a mastermind, drop to the top of the mountain, knows what he is doing. call -- i i would came to the end of an old idea. charlie: but you did not know where to go. did not want to go where you were going. john: i did not know where to go then. i like organization. you can have organization on your first record. you can state your case in the world can understand it. then you start throwing other things into it, personalized. the misrepresentation of who you are as a person. if you are a smart person you look at the misrepresentation of the you are as your job to sort out. i wish i had known that. but you want to get engaged. i am a people pleaser. if you were told me that one of the people in here that not like me i would get up on this table and shout, who is it?

walk into a room and knows the one person that does not approve or like them. they can see 99 people who love them but go to the one person because they want to figure it out. john: you want to make it ok because there is no possible way. we mean well. there is nothing more dangerous than being a person that means well. charlie: the time you took a break -- 2010 i come off the road, say i want to make a completely different record, so i make born and raised. but i am living in new york city and completely left alone. i did not move to montana until 2011. i made born and raised in l.a. to montana and had a vocal situation that prohibited me from singing on tour. i made another record out there because i just wanted to make records. this is what i do.

i love that guys like steven kean can write a short one or a big one. king can write a short one or a big one. flattened ands reduced so people -- charlie: what is a picture people have drawn that is not true? that is a big responsibility to be honest about because there is probably some stuff in there that should not be. wrote to montana and country songs, that is not off. womanizer, that bothers me. if you look into all of the dim for me it went and my mouth kept going and my brain was not there -- i have life.e my whole

you make decisions and do the right thing, give yourself a pat on the back. you get the sensor of your life that you did the right thing. but there is nothing like the hollywood machine getting your information wrong. and i give a lot of information. i would be better off with giving less information. it is less tnt to wire up. when they inevitably get it wrong, this idea of womanizer. it is i am bristling at an understatement. it is a complete distortion of who i am in braids this idea that if you have this so wrong, i will be as wrong as you think i am. i do not know where this came from. if you say i am this i will support this. his.ll parody t

does that make sense? charlie: if you are influenced by others, or i want to go to some extreme avoid you are saying just to say -- john: the intent is to make people go, he is not that, he is playing off of that. but that is asking a lot of people's intention span and intelligence to notice that. i am sure you have heard this before. if you have proper rotc on the way to a restaurant and sitting with someone not indoctrinated to this world, they say, you should take a picture of them. go outside and take a picture of them. it is everybody's first idea when they feel captured by something, is to fight back. part of it is intellectual. this idea, you cannot contain me. we are talking hyperextending myself way beyond what should be taking place because all i want

to do is get back to where it is clean. here is who i am coming here is what i do, i promise you i am this, not that. charlie: the reason they wanted to characterize you that way is simply because -- of timeere was a period when i was -- it is hard to explain. i am still unpacking it in my own mind. it is just a situation where you fall into -- i dated a lot of big names. dated a lot of big names. people get the name -- size of the name next up with the number of people i dated. biglie: so if you dated two names they think you are with a lot of women. john: people do not google search me or think about me all day. they take a glance at you and

that is the take away. they're not going to say, what did john do today? john: they are not completists. see the spikes. and because the music of his making did not entitle me to the type of press i was generating or involved in, just bigger google searches. what ends up happening, i go, i am not that. there was a correction that needed to happen, there is a correction. but what sent me into a tailspin and hurt me -- and i have never said hurt me because i would not admit to it, the best thing i can do is say, ouch. will lead you to the truth. charlie: the truth is, it hurts

me? john: same thing. this hurts, it makes me feel bad. i would not admit it. of a become more militaristic. -- i would become more militaristic. loudest isu yell the when you are about to cry. they say they can take anything, that is the second before they crumble. that is where i was, you can get me. charlie: how long ago was that? john: seven years ago. charlie: past all of it? john: past all of it. people are not john mayer completists. it may take a second to review a little bit. you may have to go over it again with people. expecting not everyone is on your mark every time.

i got a lot of music at of going deep into myself. this is a dive into being a certain age. there is always one relationship loss i feel like takes you with it. you are not just parting ways with somebody. there is always one that takes you down. this is this idea about being as beautiful as you can become a lead the rock outlets and light orts say it is bland, i will be as beautiful as i can be about being sad. listening back and saying, that is what this feels like. you go, we will get them next

time. there are songs on the circuit i listen to and i get it. i'm good enough a musician now to translate 100% have something felt. that is a possession as an artist more valuable than anything you can have. charlie: artist can expressed not only how they felt but say it in a way all of the fans -- it speaks to something they feel that cannot express. that is when people say i feel like i'm looking into a mirror, where you said something i was going through this exact time in my life. charlie: i hope you come back. ♪ charlie: chris stapleton is here, the grammy award-winning singer-songwriter has been country's called greatest outlaw.

he uses a studio that houses the greats such as elvis presley and dolly parton. his album has been called equal parts otis redding and waylon jennings. here is chris stapleton performing "either way" in our studio. ♪ >> ♪ you don't feel it all i used to stay up all night and wonder what went wrong it has been hard to do that for so long

we can just go on like this say the word, we will call it baby, you can go you can stay -- but iove you away wanna love you either way we can't just go on like this

say the word, we'll call it quits baby, you can go or you can stay i wanna love you either way ♪ charlie: i am pleased to have chris stapleton at the table for the first time. welcome. country's reigning outlaw. what do you think they mean when they say country's reigning outlaw? chris: i am not much of an outlaw.

what about the music? chris: i certainly always have a tip of the hat and have in my mind waylon and willie and merle haggard and that era of music is a lot of my favorite things. there were a lot of things musically they were doing right. not that there is a right and wrong. charlie: what were they doing? chris: being themselves and doing what feels good to them versus trying to be what someone else was doing. charlie: when did the music thing happened for you? chris: i always played music and sang in church with my brother. my dad liked to play the radio a lot. my mom would sing in the house. i played guitar and sang. it was always there. i do not come from a musical family.

we were not touring, nobody went out and played. charlie: you were not singing in the choir. chris: no, not really. at some point i kind of fell into it, maybe for a lack of wanting to do anything else. or it found me. charlie: was it to sing or write? chris: to write initially, when i really got serious about it. when i found out you could get a job, that someone would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs. sounded like the greatest job in the world. charlie: what amazes me is they all say you have the greatest voice around today. it is not even about the songwriting skills, which are clear, but the voice. chris: i don't know about all that. there are a lot of great singers and great voices. but, you know, hopefully i have something that is recognizable and will possibly hold up over time.

charlie: 2 million albums says something. chris: it says we sold 2 million albums. charlie: 2 million people are willing to pay to hear you sing, that is when it said. when you are in nashville sitting in a room writing songs, tell me about that process. chris: it can be different on any given day. if it is just me alone, i am sitting with a guitar and strumming and humming and seeing -- and humming something and seeing where it leads. that is pretty much the process. i could hear conversation out walking around somewhere. a title or something somebody says sticks in my brain. sometimes it falls out of the sky into your lap. charlie: i know how you feel about this and i am not trying to push you -- but for whatever reason, people see you as a route back to waylon and others. you mentioned willie.

that somehow you are today an entry back to what made them -- chris: i don't know about an entry back but i would not mind being viewed as a bridge. somewhere in between. charlie: spoken of in the same breath. chris: i'm not going to put myself in any sentence with those guys. but yeah, i think it is important for me personally to always kind of have a tip of the hat to those guys, but also old r&b singers. ray charles, aretha franklin. i like all kinds of music. i hope some of that shows up. charlie: what happened at the 2015 cma awards? chris: a lot. eight minutes that can -- charlie: change your life. chris: yes. ♪

>> ♪ tennessee whiskey you are as sweet, so very wise ♪ charlie: did you know it at the moment? chris: i knew we were going to have a really fun time playing music in that eight minutes because we had spent two days rehearsing. charlie: it was the two of you coming together. chris: it was a collaboration in the truest sense. he is a remarkable, singular talent as far as musical people go. if you're going to do something with him, it is going to be something good. charlie: because his talent is so special. chris: he elevates.

he can elevate things. he is a great, positive energy and a great performer. he is not very old but he is a veteran performer. there are things he brings to a stage that not many people can. charlie: traveler sold how many -- it sold 2 million? originally, i am told, that you were prepared simply to cut the album and go on tour. chris: that was my request of the label and their request of me was, let us find other ways to market things. let's think about this and we will approach it that way. that is what we did. we did not have a lead up single or anything like that. we put the record out and whatever it was, we traveled. it came out the same week. i booked some dates. that is how i knew how to do it. showed my heart behind the

pocket of my shirt i just keep roaming i travel ♪ chris: sometimes travel is a hard thing. but that is part of it. we travel as comfortably as we possibly can. i make the joke all the time, i played music for free. you pay me to travel. music is free, you pay for the travel. charlie: that is what you are paying me for, because i love the music. chris: i did for many years. i would play for free or next to nothing just because i love it. charlie: this is an amazing album. good to see you. come back anytime. ♪ alisa: i'm alisa parenti in

washington, you are watching "bloomberg technology." let's start with a check of your first word news. harvey pushes through louisiana today, but the tropical storm still poses a continued statewide threat of flash floods and tornadoes. schools and government buildings reopened after being shot a day the day before as concerns increased about potential flooding. congress returns today with lawmakers under pressure to avert a government shutdown. they are also under pressure on tax reform from president trump, who spoke today in missouri. pres. trump: i am fully committed to working with congress to get this job done, and i don't want to be disappointed by congress, do you under