Ted Cruz

The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria. It's also in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.

America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist.

Though he is not dominating the polls is still very much in this race.

This is a man who knows what he believes.

Ted understands the constitutional liberties that - our country.

He told (INAUDIBLE) for the million - he would work with every breath in his body to defund Obamacare, and it's exactly what he did.

Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button? Now that's a question of strength, but it's also a question of judgment.

Welcome to climate science.

I would also like, Senator, just to say a word about this whole national security thing because I have never heard anything quite so ridiculous.

Are those two statements somehow compatible, that you can have academic freedom and robust debate when you have got politicians saying we will criminally prosecute you as a racketeer if you dispute our political orthodoxy?

It is completely preposterous and complete waste of time.

Policy should be driven by facts, and as John Adams said, 'Facts are stubborn things.'

How does that noble sentiment comport with the call from our colleague Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse that anyone who dares dispute the global warming alarmist orthodoxy should face criminal prosecution under RICO?

And anytime you hear people saying scientists should not question the conventional wisdom, you are hearing someone advocating essentially for the abolition of science.

This is a hell of a risk.

But the biggest--climate change is irrelevant to the long-term patterns.

If we look to the satellite data, we see for 18 years no significant recorded warming.

What that chart shows is why the public is moving to a new position now where it doesn't even trust these Federal agencies to tell them what the climate was like in 1950 or 1920 or 1900.

The history with markedly more CO2 predated the Industrial Revolution.

I think that is very well said.

The pause is very interesting.

I would note this chart on the right, which shows for the last 18 years that there has been no significant warming whatsoever.

CO2 is not a pollutant. That CO2 is good for the planet. That CO2 is good for plant life in particular.

And not a single Democratic Senator had any response to the satellite data that demonstrates their entire theory of global warming for 18 years hasn't been happening?

It was an absolutely disgraceful letter, and it represents the next stage of big climate enforcement.