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Billion over the ten years. but then mick mulvaney today saying on cnn state of the union, we need to he remove that, we'll do that. i mean, are we in game playing spaces?he remove that, we'll do that. i mean, are we in game playing spaces? >> the politics surrounding the individual mandate are very complicated. and i say they are complicated in the sense that most persons don't like this, be it's actually one of the few provisions from the affordable care act that is unpopular. almost everything else in the bill is quite popular. so the mandate itself is unpop y unpopular. but if you remove t...

And the mandate. helping balance the book adding some $330 billion over the next years back on the revenue side. would you go with the senate plan right now as it stands? >> well, no. actually, the senate bill while it has some good elements in it, both versions have, house and senate side, have good components to it. the senate bill brings back the medical expense deduction, for example. it has a higher mortgage interest deduction cap. that's good. but the senate side proposes to fully eliminate state and local tax deduction. while there are good elements in both, i don't support either bill ...

A lot of noise during the health care who clearly wanted to be courted and have his concerns addressed in leadership. i think my sense from talking to leaders and their aides, they feel as though he's somebody at the end of the day who will be there. lisa murkowski, senator collins, for slightly different reasons, because of the health care inclusion, bob corker on deficit-related reasons. it was the house that had a problem with raising enough revenue to pay for this. they had to keep it under $1.5 trillion and now as the senate has tried to sort through all of the special interest groups and...

Are you spice -- surprised by senator johnson's opinion? >> not really. ron has been very clear about the changes he wants in the bill. he wants to make sure that pass-throughs or people that pay business income on an individual tax are treated in rough parody or at least fairly compared to corporations. we've made some improvements in that direction. obviously we still have work to do. we're sort of in the middle of the ball game now. my hope is we can get him back. >> neil: this struck some as a bit surprising because the thought that it was risky to start looking at maybe taking out the ind...

>> bret: many questions throughout the reform. tonight we are putting the power of the questions in the hands of the american people. in moments, this room full of voters will be face-to-face with one of the leaders at the forefront of this tax reform effort, house speaker paul ryan. first, let's take a look at where the two g.o.p. tax plant stand tonight. >> martha: as of this moment. it keeps changing. on the house side, lawmakers are working on the details but they hope to get a full house bill as early as thursday. on the senate side, the obamacare appeal we talked about with the huge twis...