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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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Vice President Mike Pence defended President Trump's decision to let stand an Obama-era order protecting the rights of some LGBT workers, noting that Trump made clear during his campaign that "discrimination would have no place in our administration."

ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Pence about the response of social conservatives to Trump's decision last week to keep intact President Obama's 2014 executive order barring discrimination against LGBT employees of federal contractors.

Stephanopoulos referred to the reaction of Bob Vander Plaats of the conservative group The Family Leader, who said, "Our base would want to know who is responsible for what we believe is an issue of religious liberty that would be of concern to us."

"What's the answer?," Stephanopoulos asked Pence.

The vice president responded that Trump's decision was in line with his message about the on the campaign trail.

I think throughout the campaign, President Trump made it clear that discrimination would have no place in our administration, Pence said in an interview on ABC's "This Week" that aired Sunday,. He was the very first Republican nominee to mention the LGBTQ community at our Republican National Convention and was applauded for it. And I was there applauding with him.

Pence continued, "I think the generosity of his spirit, recognizing that in the patriot's heart, there's no room for prejudice, is part of who this president is."

The vice president also reaffirmed Trumps stated plan to "destroy" the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits churches and other tax-exempt organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates.

The president said at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, "I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution."

Passed in 1954, the Johnson Amendment is a provision of the U.S. tax code that prevents tax-exempt organizations like churches and universities from engaging in political activities. Organizations that do so risk losing their tax-exempt status.

Pence told Stephanopoulos, The president's made it clear that he wants to take action on the Johnson Amendment. He's directed the administration to begin to look at ways, both legislatively and through executive action, to do that.

The vice president also left the door open to President Trump issuing executive orders to preserve what Pence described as other matters of religious liberty.

His reiterated commitment to religious liberty are all a part of the kind of leadership that people are going to welcome from President Trump, Pence said.

Stephanopoulos pressed the vice president, asking, Do you think a new executive order is necessary on religious liberty? Or is current law sufficient?

Pence responded that its the purview of the president to determine if further executive action would be necessary.

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