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With the world looking for reassurance from President Donald Trumps administration about the United States role in international organizations and its place on the world stage, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) said Sunday that U.S. allies feel better on that front after Vice President Mike Pences speech in Munich.

A lot of people over here believe its going back to 20s and 30s isolationism where America sort of retreats from the region, Graham said of the presidents America first rhetoric. Vice President Pences speech was terrific. Were going to be more involved in NATO, not less. Were going to have more troops supporting our friends in Europe against aggression by Russia, so I think they feel much better after hearing Vice President Pence and Mattis.

Graham, speaking to Face the Nation from Munich, was in Germany for the annual Munich Security Conference. On Saturday, Pence told the gathering of foreign leaders and security experts that the U.S. strongly supports NATO and will hold Russia accountable for its actions.

Graham said accountability for Russia should begin with strong sanctions, and also includes helping U.S. allies -- particularly in the Baltics -- to resist moves of aggression from Russia.

Hit Russia hard for trying to break the backbone of democracy and be more supportive of our friends, Graham said. Thats what Im -- thats what Im looking for.

Russia has become more aggressive toward the rest of the world since the U.S. election in November, Graham added.

Russia has interfered in every democracy in their backyard. Theyre coming after the French and the Germans, he said. They tried to interfere in our election even though they didnt change the outcome. The bottom line is it is now time to punish Russia for trying to break the backbone of democracy for interfering in our election and my goal is to put sanctions on Russia based on interfering in our election on President Trumps desk.

He criticized Mr. Trumps response to Russia, saying he has never shown any real willingness to condemn Russias election interference.

If we forgive and forget about what Russia did in our own election, well invite aggression in the next election by Chinese and the Iranians, he said. It was Democrats this time. It could be Republicans next time.

One month into the Trump presidency, Graham said the administration has done some good things -- like approving the Keystone XL pipeline -- and some things that did not go very well, like the rollout of the travel ban. But ultimately, Graham said, he is feeling better about the strong team Mr. Trump has surrounded himself with.

Heres what Im feeling better about: the people around President Trump. His Cabinet is terrific in terms of quality: Mattis, Tillerson, General Kelly, he said. We need to get a good national security advisor. Reince Priebus, Ive known him for years, he has a good relationship with the Hill. So hes got a good team around him, they have stumbled. But lets just wait and see what this year holds.

Graham also criticized Mr. Trump for calling the media enemies of the American people, but said the media overplays its hand when it comes to covering the Trump White House.

The backbone of democracy is a free press and and independent judiciary and theyre worth fighting and dying for, he said.

But I would say this to the American press corps: When it comes to Trump, youre over the top, he continued. Youre acting more like an opposition party. Every president has had problems with the press. You need to do your job but from a Republican point of view, I think the coverage against President Trump has been almost to the point of being hysterical.

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Mike Pence (center), his wife Karen (right), and his daughter Charlotte commemorate the victims of the Nazi terror during a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau.AP

Vice President Mike Pence paid his respects Sunday at the Dachau concentration camp near Munich, Germany, where he met with a survivor of the Nazi death camp.

Traveling with his wife, Karen, and daughter Charlotte, Pence was greeted by Abba Naor, who made it out of the camp, where where tens of thousands of people were exterminated in the Holocaust.

Naor described the camp work, a typical meal (a slice of bread), and the eventual liberation.

If it was a miracle that we survived. I dont know, Naor said.

Pence passed through the wrought-iron gate bearing the infamous inscription Arbeit macht frei, German for Work makes you free.

Pence laid a wreath, toured the barracks, a crematorium and gas chamber. He ended his visit with prayer at a church service.

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Vice President Mike Pence, along with second lady Karen Pence and their eldest daughter Charlotte, visited a Nazi concentration camp Sunday near Munich, Germany.

They were met by Karl Freller, the director of the Foundation of Bavarian Memorial Sites. They were also joined by a survivor of the camp, Abba Naor, a Jewish Lithuanian who today lives in Israel.

The Pences walked around the camp, touring various areas, including the prison yard. They also spent time in a building which contains exhibits about the Nazis. They stood before a large map showing the network of camps around Germany and Nazi-occupied countries elsewhere in Europe.

Naor spoke to the vice president about conditions at Dachau, which opened in March 1933 and was liberated by American forces in April 1945.

Of the camp's liberation by American troops, he said, "One morning, they came," he said. "Strange faces."

The Pences visited another room that housed examples of Nazi propaganda.

Outside, the Pences spent time looking at the International Monument, a sculpture made of dark bronze designed by Nandor Glid in 1997. It features short strands of barbed wire on which skeletons are hanging with their heads dangling sharply. On either side of the sculpture are concrete fence posts which closely resemble the ones actually used to support the barbed wire fence around the camp.

Below the monument on a stone wall are bronze numbers denoting the dates the camp operated, 1933-1945.

The vice president and second lady placed a wreath of white flowers in front of the wall. They stood for a moment in silence and then walked back toward the center of the yard.

They also visited the Jewish Memorial, situated near the prison fence. The structure is built from basalt lava and features a sloping ramp down to an underground prayer room. The roof is also sloped upward and a stone menorah sits on the building's apex.

Pence spoke for a while with Charlotte Knobloch and Karin Offmann from the Bavarian Jewish Council. The group descended the ramp down to the prayer room -- which was lit with candles -- and observed a moment of silence. They later visited the camp's crematorium.

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the number of prisoners incarcerated in Dachau between 1933 and 1945 exceeded 188,000. The number of prisoners who died in the camp and the subcamps between January 1940 and May 1945 was at least 28,000, to which must be added those who perished there between 1933 and the end of 1939, as well as an uncounted number of unregistered prisoners.

It is unlikely that the total number of victims who died in Dachau will ever be known, according to the museum.

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