Ted Cruz and porn : a brief history . 
Ted Cruz
And yet , as just about everyone with internet access is now aware , Texas Sen. Ted Cruz , a Republican presidential candidate in 2016 , appeared to have liked a pornographic video on Twitter overnight . 
We do n't know for sure it was Cruz himself who did the "liking" -- as the senator explained this morning , "There are a number of people on the team that have access to the account and it appears that someone inadvertently hit the like button ." 
Below Cruz discusses the scene -LRB- that is , the one inside the court -RRB- with CNN 's Jake Tapper . 
JUST WATCHED Ted Cruz on watching porn with Justice O'Connor Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Ted Cruz on watching porn with Justice O'Connor 01:38 . 
But that conversation , and others surrounding his book , did n't come close to being the first time Cruz happily discussed pornography on camera . 
In February 2016 , during the Republican primary season , the Cruz campaign posted a web video featuring an actress who had appeared in erotic films . 
Asked by some unknown interviewer about his life 's ambitions , the young Cruz pauses for effect , then announces : "Well my aspiration is to , oh I do n't know , be in a teen tit film like that guy who played Horatio . 
-LRB- Politico guessed Cruz was referencing 1986 's The Malibu Bikini Shop . -RRB- 
"It happened that one of the actresses who was there had a more colorful film history than we were aware ," Cruz told reporters on the trail . 
Cruz 's talents would send him in other directions . 
Cruz did not appear in the scrubbed campaign clip , but he has spoken -- and written -- at some length about another unlikely run-in with the adult film industry . 
This was years ago , when Cruz was a clerk on the high court for the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist . 
As Cruz recalled it in his memoir , O'Connor , Rehnquist , and their respective clerks gathered for an exhibition -- as it related to a case they were considering on the regulation of online porn -- in a small room .
And yet , as just about everyone with internet access is now aware , Texas Sen. Ted Cruz , a Republican presidential candidate in 2016 , appeared to have liked a pornographic video on Twitter overnight . 
We do n't know for sure it was Cruz himself who did the "liking" -- as the senator explained this morning , "There are a number of people on the team that have access to the account and it appears that someone inadvertently hit the like button ." 
Below Cruz discusses the scene -LRB- that is , the one inside the court -RRB- with CNN 's Jake Tapper . 
JUST WATCHED [TGT] on watching porn with Justice O'Connor Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH [TGT] on watching porn with Justice O'Connor 01:38 . 
But that conversation , and others surrounding [TGT] book , did n't come close to being the first time [TGT] happily discussed pornography on camera . 
In February 2016 , during the Republican primary season , the [TGT] campaign posted a web video featuring an actress who had appeared in erotic films . 
Asked by some unknown interviewer about his life 's ambitions , [TGT] pauses for effect , then announces : "Well my aspiration is to , oh I do n't know , be in a teen tit film like that guy who played Horatio . 
-LRB- Politico guessed [TGT] was referencing 1986 's The Malibu Bikini Shop . -RRB- 
"It happened that one of the actresses who was there had a more colorful film history than we were aware ,[TGT] told reporters on the trail . 
[TGT] 's talents would send [TGT] in other directions . 
[TGT] did not appear in the scrubbed campaign clip , but [TGT] has spoken -- and written -- at some length about another unlikely run-in with the adult film industry . 
This was years ago , when [TGT] was a clerk on the high court for the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist . 
As [TGT] recalled it in [TGT] memoir , O'Connor , Rehnquist , and their respective clerks gathered for an exhibition -- as it related to a case they were considering on the regulation of online porn -- in a small room .