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Vice President Mike Pence said President Trump was not drawing a moral equivalency between the United States and Russia, after Mr. Trumps recent comments that the U.S. has a lot of killers.

What President Trump is determined to do is reassert American leadership on the world stage and look for renewed relationships with countries around the world, including Russia, Mr. Pence said in an interview with Fox News posted Monday.

And the statements that he made were not in any way a moral equivalency between the high ideals and practices of the American people and the people of Russia, but rather what the president is seeking to do is begin anew a relationship with the people of Russia and with their leadership, he said.

To say, are there ways that we can begin to work together, he said.

We face very serious challenges in the world, Mr. Pence said. We have to develop new coalitions and new partnerships to confront radical Islamic terrorism and particularly Russia and the United States have a common enemy in ISIS.

In an interview with Fox News Bill OReilly that aired Sunday, Mr. Trump had said he respects Russian President Vladimir Putin but that hes not sure if hes going to get along with him.

Mr. OReilly called Mr. Putin a killer, referring to reports that the Russian leader has order the killings of dissidents and journalists.

There are a lot of killers. Weve got a lot of killers. What, you think our country is so innocent? Mr. Trump replied.

The Kremlin said Monday theyd like to hear an apology from Fox News for the assertion from Mr. OReilly.

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WASHINGTON Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday defended President Donald Trump's criticism of the federal judge who issued a ruling Friday night halting the new administration's travel ban.

"The president of the United States has every right to criticize the other two branches of government," Pence said on NBC's "Meet The Press."

"And we have a long tradition of that in this country," he said. "I think people find it very refreshing that they not only understand this president's mind but they understand how he feels about things. He expresses himself in a unique way."

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Trump lashed out in a series of tweets after a federal judge in Seattle blocked his executive order that restricted people from seven majority Muslim countries from traveling into the United States and indefinitely banned refugees from Syria. Since then, visas issued under the ban have again been declared valid.

Although a number of different lawsuits have been filed against the ban, Pence said he was "very confident" that the administration will prevail in the court system.

The vice president also defended the order's construction and rollout.

"It was not done hastily," Pence said. "There may have been some leaders on Capitol Hill that were not informed with usual niceties of Washington, D.C., but look, we live in a very dangerous world. The reality is there the people around the globe who have inspired violence here in the homeland."

In an interview with Fox News this weekend, Trump also maintained that he has "respect" for Russian President Vladimir Putin. When host Bill O'Reilly responded, "Putin's a killer," the president responded: "There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers. Well, you think our country is so innocent?"

Pence on "Meet The Press" dismissed the idea that the president was drawing a moral equivalency between the United States and Russia, saying Trump was interested in forging a relationship with Putin because it would "be a good thing for the world."

"Look, President Trump has been willing to be critical of our country's actions in the past. But what you're hearing there is a determination by the president of the United States to not let semantics or the arguments of the past get in the way of exploring the ability to work together with Russia and with President Putin in the days ahead," Pence said.

Host Chuck Todd brought up some of Putin's record including his time as a former KGB agent, his work to fund and promote separatists in Eastern Ukraine and the killing of passengers during the downing of a Malaysian Airlines flight believed to have been hit by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, in addition to a number of other mysterious deaths believed to have been Putin-related. But Pence rejected the idea that Trump was trying to say U.S. leaders have done anything similar.

"He has expressed himself in the campaign, an election that he won, that he was determined to go forward and see whether or not we might be able to start anew in a relationship with Russia," Pence said, indicating that if the United States is able to work with Russia in the fight against ISIS, "that would be a good thing."

"President Trump is someone who is not going to look in the rear-view mirror so much as looking out the windshield," he added.

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Vice President Mike Pence says it will be an honor to lead President Trumps commission on voter fraud.

At the very center of our democracy is the integrity of the vote the one person, one vote principle, Mr. Pence said in an interview with Fox News posted Monday. And itll be my honor to lead that commission on behalf of the president and to look into that and give the American people the facts.

Mr. Pence said Mr. Trump is committed to really looking into the errors and flaws in our voter logs the possibility of wide scale voter fraud thats [taken] place in the country.

Mr. Trump has said he believes between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes could have been cast in last years election, and that none of those votes would have benefited him.

The president announced in an interview with Fox News Bill OReilly that aired Sunday that Mr. Pence will head up a commission to look into things.

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WASHINGTONSaying he would surely rise to the occasion if tasked by the Almighty with the ultimate test of faith, Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that he was disappointed that God has never called upon him to kill one of his own children. Its just heartbreaking that the Lord hasnt summoned me once to show my dedication to Him by sacrificing one of my precious kids, said Pence, telling reporters that he has spent years waiting for any sign at all from the Heavenly Father that he should ritually slaughter one of his three children. Theyre grown now, so Im starting to think Ill never get the chance to offer the blood of any of them to prove my unshakable devotion. Heck, Id put all three on an altar if thats what He wanted. Pence added that he would nevertheless keep a sharp dagger at the ready in the unlikely event God someday asks him to kill one of his grandchildren.

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Vice President Mike Pence wouldn't say America is morally superior to Russia during an interview with Face the Nation .

When repeatedly asked by moderator John Dickerson about America's moral superiority to Russia, Pence talked about American ideals instead.

"I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind," he said.

"Shouldn't we able able to just say 'yes' to that question though?" Dickerson asked.

"I think it's without question," Pence responded.

"That America is morally superior to Russia," Dickerson said.

"That American ideas are superior to countries all across the world," Pence said.

Dickerson's question followed a comment by President Donald Trump's from an interview with Bill O'Reilly, in which he said he respects Russian President Vladimir Putin . After O'Reilly noted that Putin is "a killer," Trump said: "There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?"

The interview is set to air Sunday afternoon during the Super Bowl pregame show.

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