Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said he disagrees with the Pentagon’s assessment that climate change is an urgent and growing national security threat.

Cruz, confronted by a climate activist while he was talking to people at a New Hampshire campaign stop, was asked if he agreed with a 2004 Pentagon assessment of climate change during the Bush administration. The climate change doubter said he did not.

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