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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: CNN Republican Debate: Trump on Shutting Down the Internet [Watch (HLS stream): CNN Republican Debate: Trump on Shutting Down the Internet](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8t6kpUOF.m3u8) (1:12)  _Published 2015-12-16. Nine Republican presidential candidates faced off for the fifth Republican debate on CNN_ --- Jul 27, 2023 7:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Watch the Fifth Republican Debate In Four Minutes](/video/mQUMUx2k/) ### Watch the Fifth Republican Debate In Four Minutes [CNN Republican Debate: Trump and Bush on Killing ISIS families](/video/eU44Jphz/) ### CNN Republican Debate: Trump and Bush on Killing ISIS families [CNN Republican Debate: Chris Christie and His Experience with Terrorism](/video/oC8zr54b/) ### CNN Republican Debate: Chris Christie and His Experience with Terrorism --- ## Transcript ISIS is recruiting through the Internet. ISIS is using the Internet better than we are using the Internet, and it was our idea. What I wanted to do is I wanted to get our brilliant people from Silicon Valley and other places, and figure out a way that ISIS cannot do what they're doing. You talk freedom of speech, you talk freedom of anything you want. I don't want them using our internet to take our young, impressionable youth. And watching the media talking about how they're masterminds. These are masterminds. They shouldn't be using the word mastermind. These are thugs, these are terrible people in ISIS. Not masterminds. And we have to change it from every standpoint. But we should be using our brilliant people, our most brilliant minds, what a twerp. To figure a way that ISIS cannot use the Internet and then on second, we should be able to penetrate the Internet and find out exactly where ISIS is and everything about ISIS and we can do that, if we use our good people. I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don't wanna let people that wanna kill us and kill our nation use our Internet. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"CNN Republican Debate: Trump on Shutting Down the Internet","description":"Nine Republican presidential candidates faced off for the fifth Republican debate on CNN","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/8t6kpUOF/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-12-16T03:11:55.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8t6kpUOF.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/8t6kpUOF/","duration":"PT1M12S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/8t6kpUOF/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```