John Thune: “Senator Cornyn is a principled conservative. He is a very effective senator for the state of Texas.”

Well, that's nice of him. I guess. I don't know, what do you say on that? That's a decision that's made by my colleagues.

I hope this will encourage my colleagues to stop blocking reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

If he can change the facts and start moving some of those senators from nos to yeses, then we’ll have a different conversation. It’s just the reality.

I mean I can't defend anything that guy says or does.