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Vice President Mike Pence gave Attorney General Jeff Sessions the White House's vote of confidence Wednesday after a few weeks of turmoil and questions about the relationship between President Trump and Sessions.

"Thank you to this attorney general for your leadership at the Department of Justice," Pence told a crowd at the National Summit on Crime Reduction and Public Safety just outside of Washington.

Pence praised Sessions as a "law and order attorney general" and said both he and President Trump "are proud and honored to have him at our side."

The words come roughly a week after Sessions fended off lawmakers at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing who pressed him on his alleged contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign when he was advising Trump on foreign policy.

Sessions defended his actions including his failure to originally disclose two meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at one point calling the idea of collusion "an appalling and detestable lie."

There have been reports of turmoil between Sessions and Trump, the New York Times reported earlier this month. Following the report, Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Trump has "confidence" in Sessions after multiple attempts to avoid the question.

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