Vice President Pence speaks at Congress Hall in Philadelphia. (David Swanson/Philadelphia Inquirer via Associated Press)Vice President Pence seemed to break slightly with President Trump over the question of Russia on Sunday, taking a harder line than the president on how to handle Russia’s incursion into Ukraine. “We’re watching,” Pence said, when asked on ABC’s “This Week” whether the White House plans to put Russia on notice, as it has Iran, over violating the cease-fire in Ukraine. Our country’s so innocent?”[GOP senators blanch at Trump’s latest defense of Putin]On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Pence rejected the notion that Trump had equated Russia and the United States. “I simply don’t accept that there was any moral equivalency in the president’s comments,” Pence said.

Source: Washington Post February 05, 2017 16:20 UTC