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Vice President Mike Pence addressedPresident Trump's visit earlier this week to St. John's Episcopal Churchwhile appearing on Saturday's "Watters' World" for an exclusive interview, and he also slammed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Bidenfor not addressing the victims of the looting and rioting.

"We see in Joe Biden a willingness to align himself with people that are rioting on the streets, destroying the property and livelihoods, claiming the lives of innocent civilians and law enforcement officers, and yet not speaking a word on behalf of those that have been victims," Pence told host Jesse Watters. "It's all a part of the predictable, divisive politics of the American left."

Pence said Trump's church visitshowed that America would not tolerate violence during peaceful protests.

"What that said to me was that here in America, we will not tolerate burning churches, rioting and looting or taking advantage of what would otherwise be peaceful protests to pursue criminal aims," Pence said of the symbolism of the event.

The president and Attorney General William Barr received backlash for ordering law enforcement to forcefully move peaceful protesters in Lafayette Park for what critics called a "photo-op," using smoke canisters and pepper balls. It was later reported that it was Barr who ordered the protesters removed.Trump was also criticized for using the Bible as a "prop." The church's leaders had also spoken out against the president.

Pence also defended Trump against the criticism offormer Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who blasted the president in a statement to The Atlantic this week,accusing him of dividing the country in the wake of George Floyd's death.

"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people -- does not even pretend to try," Mattis had said. "Instead he tries to divide us."

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The vice president said he hasn't spoken to Mattis but that the former defense secretaryis "wrong.""What this president has done in recent days is what every American expects a president to do in times of crisis," Pence told Watters. "And that is put the lives and the property and the liberty of every American first."

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1-on-1: VP Mike Pence thinks president's visit to church was important

Police cleared protesters so the president could make the walk.

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THE OFFICER SEEN ON VIDEO HOLDING HIS KNEE TO FLOYDS NECK FOR SEVERAL MINUTES HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH THIRD-DEGREE MURDER AND SECOND-DEGREE MANSLAUGHTER. THE THREE OTHER OFFICERS HAVE NOT BEEN CHARGED. TOYA: ONLY ON 12, A ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW WITH VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE. CHANCES ARE YOUVE SEEN THE VIDEO OF THE PRESIDENT WALKING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH I D.C., AND STOPPING TO HOLD UP A BIBLE. POLICE CLEARED PROTESTORS SO THE PRESIDENT COULD MAKE THE WALK. ADRIENNE PEDERSEN SPOKE WITH TO THE VICE PRESIDENT TODAY AND ASKED ABOUT THAT MOMENT. >> WHAT DID YOU THINK OF IT? >> THE NIGHT BEFORE LAST WHERE LITERALLY ONE OF THE OLDEST CHURCHES IN AMERICA WAS SET ABLAZE BY VIOLENT PROTESTORS W A REAL DISGRACE. IN FACT, WE HAD GRAFFITI SPRAY-PAINTED ON LINCOLN MEMORIAL AND OTHER NATIONAL MONUMENTS. THATS THE REASON WHY THE PRESIDENT DEPLOYED OUR NATIONAL GUARD AND OUR MILITARY TO SECURE NATIONS CAPITAL. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE EXPECT NOTHING LESS. THE PRESIDENT THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO WALK OVER AND PAY HIS RESPECTS. >> THE BISHOP WAS UPSET HE DIDNT -- DIDNT STOP TO PRAY AND CLEARED PEACEFUL PROTESTORS WITH A PLIABLE. WOULD YOU HAVE DONE ANYTHII THI SINCE THEN I THOUGHT THE POL

1-on-1: VP Mike Pence thinks president's visit to church was important

Police cleared protesters so the president could make the walk.

Updated: 5:50 PM CDT Jun 2, 2020

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US Vice-President Mike Pence on Thursday, June 4, extended "sympathies and prayers" to the family and friends of George Floyd over his death. Calling Floyd's death as a "tragedy", the US Vice-President took to Twitter and stated that as the US President Donald Trump has assured, "Justice will be served".

George Floyds Memorial was held in Minneapolis on June 4 and wasthe first of a series of memorials that will take place in three cities over the span of six days. It was attended bycelebrities, musicians, and political leaders. Further, all those who hadparticipated stood in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds-- the length of the time the ex-police officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on Floyd's neck--in order to honor his memory.

Read:'Cannot use Bible as prop': Reverend Sharpton slams Donald Trump at George Floyd memorial

George Floyd's tragic death hasnot only angered millions across the world but it has also fueled a fresh wave of protests in various US states. Several protestors also converged outside the White Houseshouting "Black Lives Matter" and "I can't breathe". The focus of the protests is the alleged institutional bigotry and consequent brutalityin American police forces. Meanwhile, severalpolice squadsalso joined the protestors in order to express their stand against police brutality and racism.

Last week, as many as40 cities across the United States imposed curfews in response to the mass protests. According to international media reports, around 5,000 National Guard soldiers have been activated in 15 states, as well as in Washington DC, along with 2,000 other personnelwho are prepared to activate if needed. Meanwhile, over4,000 people across the US States have been arrested during the protests.

Read:Hundreds gather at George Floyd's memorial service; observe 8 minute-silence as tribute

George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, died in Minneapolis earlier last week. As per reports, Floyd was arrested by the local police for unspecified charges on May 26. A tussle is said to have broken out between George Floyd and the police officials, which resulted in Floyds death after being subdued for several minutes by an officer. In a video that went viral on the internet, the officer was seen pressing his knee against Floyd's neck who was seen gasping for air before turning motionless.

George Floyd's death has triggered mass unrest in various parts of the US. As per reports, police officer Derek Chauvin and three other officers - Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J Alexander Kueng - were later fired by the Minneapolis Police Department. Chauvin has been charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

Read:Protesters tear-gassed so Trump can walk to photo-op Church; outrage scorches Twitter

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Vice President Mike Pence celebrated the 76th anniversary of the D-Day landings with a note addressed to those who served in the fight against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers.

Writing on Twitter Saturday, Pence said the memory of U.S. and other Allied troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied France during World War II lives on in the freedom they secured for "decades to come."

"On the 76th Anniversary of #DDay, we pause to remember the more than 130,000 American and Allied troops whose selfless heroism on the beaches of Normandy secured freedom for decades to come," Pence wrote.

More than 150,000 Allied troops used amphibious carriers to land along the 50-mile French coastline on June 6, 1944, in what would mark the beginning of the end for Germany on the Western Front.

The battle, code-named Operation Neptune, is remembered through photos, including one shared in Pence's tweet, and grainy films of troops pushing through strong ocean currents and poor weather to reach the beaches before charging into Nazi machine gunfire. More than 10,000 troops died in the process of securing the strategic coastline.

Pence said the people of the United States will be "forever grateful" to the veterans who claimed victory in World War II.

"We will never forget or fail to honor the sacrifice of those who did not come home and our Nation will be forever grateful for the bravery and service of the Greatest Generation," added Pence in a follow-up tweet.

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President Donald Trump's "Make Space Great Again" campaign ad blazed new ground during its very brief life.

The president's reelection campaign released the 2.5-minute video on Wednesday (June 3) but pulled it just a day later, after widespread criticism that it improperly politicized NASA and violated the agency's advertising regulations on the depictions of astronauts.

But while the ad's burial was noteworthy, its birth was even more so, said space policy expert John Logsdon.

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"If that had run [long-term], a nearly three-minute video there certainly would have been nothing like that before," Logsdon, a professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, D.C., told Space.com.

"Space has never been a campaign issue," he said. "So, there's never been any reason for a candidate to advertise his or her support for the space program as a way to get elected."

(John F. Kennedy did campaign on the "missile gap" between the United States and the Soviet Union in the leadup to the 1960 presidential election, Logsdon noted. But space was just a tangential component of that appeal, which was concerned primarily with national defense.)

The short-lived video highlighted the Trump administration's push for a crewed moon landing by 2024, which NASA is working to achieve via its Artemis program. The ad also celebrated the successful May 30 launch of SpaceX's Demo-2 mission, the first orbital human spaceflight to depart from the United States since NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in July 2011.

Demo-2 sent NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. The two spaceflyers will live on the orbiting lab for one to four months; NASA has not yet announced how long their mission will last.

SpaceX developed Crew Dragon with funding help from NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which was established in 2010 to groom private spacecraft to fill the space shuttle's shoes. In 2014, SpaceX and Boeing won multibillion-dollar commercial crew contracts to finish work on their astronaut taxis (Boeing's is a capsule called CST-100 Starliner) and fly six operational missions to the ISS. SpaceX can start conducting those contracted missions if all continues to go well with Demo-2.

The "Make Space Great Again" video did not reference the 10-year history of commercial crew, which began during the presidency of Barack Obama.

"One of the things the ad reminded me of was Richard Nixon at the time of Apollo 11. Nixon had nothing to do with Apollo 11, but he wrapped himself in all the celebrations went out to the carrier and all of that and never once mentioned Kennedy," said Logsdon, who has written books about the space policies of both Nixon and Kennedy. (The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hornet fished the Apollo 11 astronauts out of the Pacific Ocean after their mission-ending splashdown on July 24, 1969, and ferried the trio back to shore.)

"And in the same way, Trump seemed to intimate that he was responsible for commercial crew, and that nothing that happened before had any impact," he added.

This is not to imply, however, that Trump's interest in space is feigned or insincere; all indications point to the president being "very positive on the space program," Logsdon said. For example, the White House's 2021 budget request allocates $25.2 billion to NASA, a 12% bump that would be the biggest year-over-year increase for the agency in decades. (A big chunk of the money would go toward making that 2024 moon landing happen.)

Logsdon also cited Trump's resurrection of the National Space Council and his appointment of Vice President Mike Pence and space policy expert Scott Pace as chairman and executive secretary, respectively, of the policy-steering body.

"He's got a good group of people that see space as an important national issue," Logsdon said.

The pulled campaign ad showed Demo-2 astronauts Behnken and Hurley, as well as the NASA logo. That appeared to violate NASA regulations, which prohibit using the agency's logo and the likenesses of current astronauts for marketing purposes.

Behnken is married to fellow NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, who was briefly visible in the video as well. Hurley's wife, retired NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, also appears in the ad. Nyberg said via Twitter that she did not consent to this depiction another apparent violation of NASA regulations. (The rules are slightly different for active versus retired astronauts.)

Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.

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