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>> not just tweets but also i'm told private calls agitateing for the inclusion of this to several top gop leaders on capitol hill. it doesn't exist in the house bill and it didn't exist in the senate bill until now. and that's because they are very wary of what occurred over the nine months when they were debating health care. they don't want that to get co-mingled with a tax reform process when you talk to aides in both chambers, they feel like it's going very well so far. here's what's changed, basically the political risk was outweighed by the policy risk of not having the money to actuall...

Describe it. revenue. that's the primary issue, brooke. no question about it, republicans are opposed to the individual mandate and obamacare altogether, but republican leaders despite president trump calling for this, despite several rank and file members of the senate calling for this have been very wary of including this in the tax proposal for one primary reason, what happened to health care reform. they don't want a repeat of that. because in their view the tax reform process it's already moving through the house, it's moving through the senate committees right now has actually been going...

Orrin hatch putting in a repeal of the individual mandate of obamacare. this saves 338 billion over ten years. why is it not in the house plan? >> representative ryan: we didn't want to complicate tax form and make it harder. this senate was the issue. we are now seeing if the senate has the votes to repeal the individual mandate. the house to this already. they house passed our health care bill in may which repealed the individual mandate. we are on record in favor it. i think it's a bad mandate. cranking up health care prices. we are making people buy something they don't want or can't affor...

Tweeted out this morning from overseas and i want to quote this. we're getting close and how about ending the unfair mandate in obamacare and reducing taxes even further and cut the top rate with the rest going to middle income cuts. there's a lot to unpack there and let's look at primary things and reducing it further than it already is, and introducing the obama individual mandate, and those are two key policy items, brook, that are not in the senate version which as you noted is the committee today, and we're supposed to get a house floor vote this week. those are things that are attractive...

Of a ten-year period and that is a tough number to confront and the type of number that strangled republicans throughout the health care debate and one they've wanted to avoid up to this point. the revenue idea, brooke, it's very attractive and they're making tough choices and $338 billion would certainly be helpful and the big question now despite what the president tweets is do republican leaders really want to bring health care back into this debate that up to this point has been going somewhat smoothly. as of now the answer is no, but as i said, keep this -- bookmark this tweet and bookmar...