Pence: 'I think we'll have better choices in the future' than Trump - CNN

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Former Vice President Mike Pence said successful a newly released interrogation clip that helium and his household are giving “prayerful consideration” to whether helium should tally for president successful 2024 and that the US volition person “better choices successful the future” than erstwhile President Donald Trump.

Asked by ABC News’ David Muir if helium believes helium tin decision Trump, who is expected to announce a 2024 run for the White House connected Tuesday, Pence replied: “Well, that would beryllium for others to say, and it’d beryllium for america to determine whether oregon not we’d privation to trial that.”

And asked whether helium believes his erstwhile brag should service again arsenic president, Pence said: “I deliberation that’s up to the American people. But I deliberation we’ll person amended choices successful the future. People successful this state really get on beauteous good erstwhile you get retired of politics. And I deliberation they privation to spot their nationalist leaders commencement to bespeak that same, that aforesaid compassion and generosity of spirit. And I think, truthful successful the days ahead, I deliberation determination volition beryllium amended choices.”

“And for maine and my family, we volition beryllium reflecting astir what our relation is successful that,” helium added.

The erstwhile vice president has been coy astir his plans for 2024, but helium has agelong been viewed arsenic a imaginable aspirant for the Republican statesmanlike nomination. Any formally declared bid, though, would astir surely look beardown absorption from Trump, whose supporters helium would request successful a superior fight.

When pressed by Muir arsenic to wherefore Trump didn’t instrumentality enactment sooner to halt the unit astatine the US Capitol connected January 6, 2021, Pence said helium “can’t relationship for what the president was doing” that day, and told ABC that helium ne'er heard from Trump oregon the White House connected January 6.

The erstwhile vice president, who was astatine the Capitol connected January 6 arsenic the unit unfolded, said helium “felt nary fear. I was filled with indignation astir what I saw.”

Pence, echoing an excerpt of his publication published past week successful The Wall Street Journal, described however helium disagreed with his Secret Service pb agent, who initially wanted the vice president to permission the Capitol building. As a compromise, Pence was taken to the loading dock, which helium was told was much secure, but recovered the motorcade positioned to permission the Capitol.

“They were walking america for the motorcade with the doors connected our Suburban unfastened connected either side. And I saw that they had positioned vehicles connected the ramp. And I conscionable turned to my Secret Service pb and said, ‘I’m not getting successful that car’ … I conscionable assumed that if we got successful the car and adjacent those 200-pound doors that not my squad successful the loading dock, but that idiosyncratic possibly backmost astatine Secret Service office would simply springiness the operator an bid to go,” Pence recalled.

“I conscionable didn’t privation those rioters to spot the vice president’s motorcade speeding distant from Capitol Hill. I didn’t privation to springiness them that satisfaction,” helium added.

Pence is acceptable to enactment successful a CNN municipality hall connected Wednesday, the time aft the merchandise of his forthcoming autobiography “So Help Me God.” The municipality hall, moderated by CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper, volition instrumentality spot successful New York City and is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET.