Chuck Hagel: “I support efforts to reduce the military's energy needs and diversify supplies in order to increase military…”

That administration really laid out in 1991 and 1992 the threats of climate change, especially for national security.

Planning for climate change is not some frivolous waste of time, a waste of money. It is essential to our troops and to their wellbeing, and the national security of this country.

Because I had the responsibility and I play my own game here. And that is because by law, I am the one official in government charged with certification with release of detainees. I take that responsibility very seriously.

American military power alone cannot and will not eradicate the threats posed by ISIL to the United States, our allies, and our friends and partners in the region.