Regarding national security, we need to restore the defense cuts of Barack Obama to rebuild our military, to destroy ISIS before it destroys us. Regarding economic security, we need to take power and money away from Washington D.C. and empower American families so that they can rise up again.

We need to focus on building a military that is second-to-none ... so that we can destroy Islamic terrorism.

We need a serious leader to deal with this. And I believe I'm that guy.

We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.

To me, Jeb Bush is hitting his stride. He was the most composed, the most endpoint, the most in control, I've seen him in an interview yet. And it's not because I wasn't asking him tough questions

[ Marco Rubio] overly ambitious, too young, and I have better hair than he does.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.