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As Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was discussing gay marriage on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Monday, members of the studio audience began to boo. But Colbert cut them off.

“Guys, however you feel, he’s my guest, so please don’t boo him,” Colbert said, allowing Cruz to continue.

“I don’t think we should entrust governing our society to five unelected lawyers in Washington,” the Republican hopeful said of the Supreme Court’s historic decision on same-sex marriage. “Why would you possibly hand over the rights of 320 million Americans to five lawyers in Washington to say, ‘We’re going to decide the rules that govern you.’ If you want to win an issue, go to the ballot box and win at the ballot box. That’s the way the Constitution was designed.”

Cruz was among those who rushed to the defense of Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who was jailed earlier this month after she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because it violated her religious beliefs.

“Judicial lawlessness crossed into judicial tyranny,” Cruz said in a statement after Davis’ arrest. “Today, for the first time ever, the government arrested a Christian woman for living according to her faith. This is wrong. This is not America.”

Earlier in the interview, Colbert challenged Cruz’s frequent evocation of former President Ronald Reagan on the campaign trail.

“Reagan raised taxes. Reagan actually had an amnesty program for illegal immigrants. Neither of those things would allow Reagan to be elected today. So to what level can you truly emulate Ronald Reagan?” Colbert asked. “Could you agree with Reagan on those two things?”

“No, of course not,” Cruz replied. “But Ronald Reagan also signed the largest tax cut in history. He reduced government regulations from Washington. And economic growth exploded.”

Cruz was the third presidential candidate to appear on “The Late Show” since Colbert’s Sept. 8 debut. (Jeb Bush was Colbert’s second guest, and Bernie Sanders appeared on the show last week.) And that’s not counting Vice President Joe Biden, whose emotional, intimate conversation with Colbert on Sept. 10 drew raves from critics.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is scheduled to appear on the show Tuesday. And Colbert asked Cruz if there was anything he should ask Trump on his behalf.

“I don’t know if you know this, but I’m told he’s rich,” Cruz joked. “I like Donald a lot, and if you could ask him if he could possibly consider donating $1 billion to our campaign.”

Clinton plans to issue a response plan after hearing the story of Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who, overnight, jacked up the price for the medication Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750. (Photo: Getty Images)

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday will propose a $250 monthly cap on prescription drugs for patients with chronic or serious medical conditions in a drive against what she calls “excessive profiteering” by pharmaceutical companies.

At a campaign stop in Iowa, Clinton will outline a plan to encourage the development and use of generic drugs and also would end drug companies’ ability to write off consumer-directed advertising as a business expense.

Under Clinton’s plan the monthly cap would limit what insurance companies could ask patients to pay for drugs.

On Monday, Clinton vowed during a campaign stop in Little Rock, Arkansas that, “It is time to deal with sky-rocketing out-of-pocket costs.”

Shares of biotech companies such as Immunogen and Gilead Sciences on Monday dropped after Clinton tweeted that steep prices for specialty drugs were “outrageous.”

Critics of marketing drugs to consumers say it encourages the use of costly brand names over generics and can be confusing or misleading. A series of court decisions has determined the practice cannot be banned outright because it is a form of commercial speech protected by the U.S. Constitution.

Clinton says the government could save billions of dollars by no longer allowing pharmaceutical companies to deduct what they spend marketing drugs to consumers and those funds could be redirected into encouraging research and development.

The largest pharmaceutical companies are collectively earning $80 billion to $90 billion per year at higher margins than other industries, while average Americans struggle to pay for medicine, Clinton’s campaign said.

While Clinton has maintained her front-runner status, she has been under pressure to take more populist stances to widen her lead over U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, her second-place rival for the Democratic nomination.

Clinton’s plan would encourage the development and use of generic drugs. Her plan would redirect funds to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration office with a backlog of generic drugs awaiting approval.

She would also prohibit what the campaign called “pay-for-delay agreements,” in which the company of a brand-name drug pays a generic competitor to keep its product off the market for a period of time, usually as part of a litigation settlement.

Clinton wants Medicare, the U.S. government’s health insurance program for the elderly, to be able to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies over drug prices and require more generous rebates, driving down overall costs.

Consumers would also be allowed to purchase drugs from other countries, where medicine is often less expensive, so long as there are sufficient safety standards in place, Clinton’s campaign said.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination Monday, ending a brief bid for the White House by encouraging other Republicans to also suspend their campaigns for the “good” of the party.

Walker took a not-so-veiled shot at current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump in his brief remarks from Madison, Wis., and used Trump’s traction with base voters as a reason why other struggling GOP candidates should help clear the way for “positive conservative” candidates who can defeat the reality TV star-turned-political juggernaut.

“Today I believe I’m being called to lead by helping to clear the field in this race so that a positive conservative message can rise to the top of the field. With this in mind, I will suspend my campaign immediately,” Walker said. “I encourage other Republican presidential candidates to do the same so that voters can focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive, conservative alternative to the current frontrunner. This is fundamentally important to the future of the party — more importantly, to the future of our country.”

The New York Times was the first to report the imminent end of Walker’s campaign.

But Walker’s focus on Trump on Monday obscured the more significant reasons for him to end his campaign, chiefly his plummeting in recent polls and inability to take consistent stands on a number of important issues, like immigration.

Walker’s decision to end his bid for the Republican nomination comes just two months after he launched an official campaign and brings to a close a brief but well-documented fight to win the most rightward base of the GOP while also struggling to raise the money necessary to contend for the White House amid a sprawling field of candidates. As recently as June, Walker led the crowded Republican field in Iowa, where he was expected to lay the foundation for his candidacy with the state’s powerful social conservatives. But surges from outsider candidates Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina — none of whom have formal government experience — completely drowned out Walker’s antiestablishment campaign.

A CNN/ORC poll released Sunday found that Walker, who was once leading the crowded GOP field, registered less than half a percentage point of support among Republican voters.

Ironically, the once-winning focus of Walker’s campaign — his biography as a conservative firebrand who prevailed in three gubernatorial campaigns over five years against immense pressure from Democrats — would become a stumbling block.

Recent polling suggests that more than half of the Republican base supports a candidate with no government experience at all. And unlike another conservative governor running for the presidency, former Florida chief executive Jeb Bush, Walker did not have a huge war chest to keep him afloat while as many as 17 candidates in the still-early primary contest vied for the base’s affection.

Over the months he was formally running, it became clear that Republican voters’ enthusiasm for Walker would not match the enthusiasm his candidacy generated in the Washington chattering class before he got in the race.

A large part of the problem was Walker’s inability to simultaneously please the establishment Republicans he needed to donate big dollars to his campaign and energize a conservative base often at odds with those donors.

No single issue illustrated that tension more than immigration.

Walker had once been the favorite of the well-financed and extremely powerful Koch brothers, among the most significant donors in a political system overrun with cash. But his waffling on immigration reform, which the Kochs support and Walker himself once backed, was widely reported to have been the source of his fall from their favor.

Walker had supported reform and in a telling July New York Times story had assured an official from a preeminent conservative think tank in Washington that “I’m not going nativist, I’m pro-immigration.” The official later recanted that story after days of pressure from the Walker campaign.

Later, in August, Walker flipped his position on birthright citizenship three times in seven days, first saying he believed birthright citizenship should be ended, then saying he wouldn’t take a position on the issue — only to change his stance again by week’s end, denouncing frontrunner Trump’s calls to eliminate birthright citizenship in a nationally televised Sunday morning interview.

As Yahoo News pointed out during Walker’s July announcement, the governor already had been struggling to find footing on immigration questions even before becoming a formal candidate. At the time, an aide indicated to the National Journal that Walker could make a “more easy” pivot from being a conservative primary candidate to a more moderate general election one, even though his record did not back that claim up and such a sentiment dogged the campaign of the 2012 GOP presidential nominee.

The Wisconsin governor is the second GOP candidate to bow out of the 2016 race. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ended his presidential bid earlier this month.

At an event in Washington sponsored by the National Review, Google and YouTube — which coincidentally was ongoing as the Walker news broke — top aides to many other GOP campaigns commented on the Wisconsin governor’s departure from the race.

While those operatives’ reactions mostly centered around surprise, one political operative offered an even more generous take: that perhaps Walker was bowing out too soon.

Ben Carson adviser Barry Bennett told the crowd at the NR event that the lesson of Tim Pawlenty — the former Minnesota governor who dropped his bid early in the 2012 cycle amid a crowded field — was “don’t give up. you’re going to hit rough spots. But apparently [Walker’s] given up.”

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a campaign stop in Hooksett, N.H. (Photo:Jim Cole/AP)

Marco Rubio’s top campaign adviser couldn’t contain his glee at the prospect of discussing the presidential candidate’s Spartan spending habits on the day Scott Walker dropped out of the Republican primary, in part because of profligate spending.

“We’ve run such a lean campaign at times, taken knocks for it. But keeping control of the budget is such an important thing,” said Terry Sullivan, campaign manager for Rubio, the U.S. senator from Florida.

At an event hosted by Google and the National Review at Google’s Washington headquarters near Union Station, Sullivan boasted how every staffer has taken a pay cut to work for Rubio, how they sell bumper stickers and yard signs rather than giving them away, how Rubio flies commercial 95 percent of the time he travels (the other 5 percent is on a private jet) and how he, Sullivan, personally monitors every significant purchase.

“Every expense of over $500 in the entire campaign, I sign a piece of paper on. It is a giant pain in the ass,” he said, clearly pleased. Moments later, he said, “It’s working. It creates a culture and a mindset that’s very different.”

“It’s a state of mind. We’re all here for one person. It’s Marco. It’s not about us,” Sullivan said.

This fiscal discipline was a reason for bullishness on a day when Walker had to admit to his aides that the “finances just aren’t there,” having hired 90 staffers in a premature buildup. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry withdrew last week, also for money reasons. Perry’s campaign had hoped for $4 million and budgeted for around $2.5 million but ended up raising only a little bit more than $1 million from donors.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., meanwhile, has raised very little money and has barely registered in the polls but has been able to stay in the race so far because, as his campaign manager Christian Ferry said Monday at the Google event, “We’re running a small, disciplined, flexible mobile campaign that we can afford.”

Graham’s campaign staff numbers about a dozen, Ferry said. “That’s the campaign we’ve had planned from day one,” he said.

By contrast, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush raised the most money of any candidate in the first half of 2015 but also has a bigger campaign than Rubio and is now facing questions from restless donors about why he has been unable to stop current frontrunner Donald Trump. Bush’s campaign has said they are running a “lean” campaign, but recent reports have indicated some reductions in staff pay and an increase in Bush’s travel on commercial airlines instead of private jets.

Sullivan, a baldheaded, bearded political operative from South Carolina, stood in the back of a room as Bush’s campaign manager, Danny Diaz, was interviewed by National Review editor Rich Lowry. When Diaz tweaked him by name over Rubio’s political struggles with the issue of immigration reform, Sullivan couldn’t resist speaking out from the audience.

“Keep talking, Danny, you’re doing a great job,” he said, smiling daggers before looking back down at his phone.

Rubio is well positioned. He has been particularly impressive on the national stage through the first two debates. His strategy has been to hit singles and doubles in the early days of the campaign and to stay below the radar for as long as possible.

“He is not going to make headlines every day. He’s not going to be the guy at any debate that comes up with the best one-liner of the debate,” Sullivan told Lowry. “I believe that voters want to elect a president they can drink a beer with but they know is responsible enough not to drink too much so they can drive them home afterwards.”

Sullivan noted that in 2008 at this point in the race, Hillary Clinton led Barack Obama in the Democratic primary by 16 points and that four years ago Perry was the Republican frontrunner by 11 points.

“I’ve said a lot [that] early polls don’t mean anything. It turns out I was wrong. They mean if you are in first place in the second week of September, you are guaranteed to not be the nominee of your party,” Sullivan said. “There’d be nothing worse than being in first place right now. It’s terrible. We were there for a short while, and that was actually the time we were most concerned, because the New York Times writes stories about how big the windows are on your house.”

Chuck Woolery visits ‘The Voice’

Season 9 is to The Voice as Rumours is to Fleetwood Mac. What I mean by that is, this is the series’ “breakup season.” Just as the Blind Auditions were being taped earlier this year, the superstar marriages by superstar coaches Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani famously, shockingly imploded. Soon, bizarre tabloid rumors (or should I say rumours?) of a Blake/Gwen showmance circulated. So naturally, as The Voice returned to NBC this Monday – the day after its second Best Reality Competition Emmy win – viewers were looking for signs of drama on the set.

Gwen Stefani: ‘I’m in a Real Spiritual Phase in My Life’

Thankfully, the coaches’ personal lives didn’t totally upstage the actual contestants’ auditions. And Gwen and Blake seemed in good spirits. But interestingly, when the coaches sang each other’s songs during the premiere’s opening number, Blake did croon the Gwen-penned No Doubt breakup ballad “Don’t Speak,” which surely must’ve had some personal meaning for him, given his current situation. I gotta wonder what his ex Miranda Lambert thought of that. (And I have to wonder what Gavin Rossdale thought when Blake later likened Gwen’s fight over a teen contestant to a “custody battle” – maybe not the best choice of words, considering that Gwen is about to divorce the father of her three young children.)

Personally, I don’t believe there is a love connection, other than a platonic one, between Gwen and Blake. But speaking of Love Connection… Chuck Woolery’s son, Michael Woolery, auditioned this Monday! That’s not as much of a stretch as you might think. Music is in the Woolery blood: Back in the ‘60s, Chuck was actually part of a psychdelic pop duo called the Avant-Garde, who scored a top 40 one-hit wonder with a song called “Naturally Stoned.”

But alas, there was no love, and a missed connection, for the Love Connection progeny. No red chairs turned for poor Michael. Perhaps he can come back in “two and two,” and try out again. Or, maybe his dad can help the newly single Blake and Gwen find dates.

And now, on to the successful Blind Auditions of the night, about which there was much to love…

Mark Hood - In one way, I can understand why Voice producers kicked off the season with this guy. He had oodles of personality – I warmed to him before he even opened his mouth to sing – and he was a fun, vivacious performer. But vocally, singing Bill Withers’s “Use Me,” Mark wasn’t all that spectacular. I was kind of surprised that all four coaches, even the notoriously discerning Pharrell Williams, turned for Mark. Not surprising, however, was that this contestant who described his style as “John Legend meets Pharrell” chose… Pharrell, duh. Pharrell always seems to be the most popular coach during the audition rounds, and he was off to a running start. But I suspect that Mark might eventually end up being Team Pharrell fodder.
MEMBER OF: Team Pharrell

Kota Wade - This purple-haired twentysomething claimed to be some sort of rock chick – she fronts a metal-ish band promisingly called Bad Wolf – but she tried to “go soul” for her audition, and then her cover of Sam Cooke’s “Bring It on Home to Me” sounded more country than anything else. Kota seemed to be having a bit of an identity crisis, and I was disappointed, because I always think the talent-show space needs more badass rocker girls. Anyway, I almost thought Kota would pull a Cassadee Pope and go with Blake, but then she started fangirling all over Gwen, of whom she’s been a superfan since 5th grade. Gwen complimenting her fashion and saying, “I could see you in a band with me!!!” totally sealed the deal. Hopefully Gwen can help Kota get back to her (lavender) rock ‘n’ roll roots.

Holly Peers in yellow for Page 3

Holly Peers is looking quite stunning in her yellow lingerie, however she is looking equally impressive outside of said lingerie. I am fairly certain you will all also enjoy this.

Mel Mattos for Sexy Magazine Brazil

Mel Mattos with a sexy body and tattoos… Those who know me, knows that for me, that is a winning combination, and a turn on. Mel, you have a new fan in myself, and I’m glad I met you.

Abigail Ratchford is looking incredibly sexy here for her spread in Innocent, and while I hate the fact they airbrushed out certain things, the spread is still incredibly sexy, and amazing.

Lucy Collett sexy curves start the week for Page 3

Lucy Collett our curvalicious red headed babe is helping us jump start this week, and I can’t think of many better ways to start off the week.

Kylee Wardle is apparently a miner in Australia, and I must say, if I knew some miners were as sexy as Kylee, I think I would have spent some more times in the mines. Kylee, I think it’s safe to say you are the sexiest miner around, and all the men around you are lucky.

Taryn Maria for Innocent Magazine

Taryn Maria was on here once before actually, and at the time while I enjoyed the shoot, I was wishing, she had been wearing less. Well thanks to Innocent Magazine, we can now rejoice, and see Taryn with much less clothing.