Pence says debate moderator mischaracterized him by reading the exact words he said

Indiana Gov. and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence is working hard to downplay his policy differences with his running mate.

Trump and Pence have appeared to diverge on Syria over the past week. During last week’s vice presidential debate, Pence said he supported confronting Russian aggression against civilians in Syria, a policy that many Syrians also support. But at the second presidential debate on Sunday, in response to a question from debate moderator Martha Raddatz, Trump blatantly denied that would be his policy in Syria.

“He and I haven’t spoken and we don’t agree,” Trump said, following up by saying that Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime are killing ISIS (they aren’t).

According to Pence, however, there is no disagreement....
https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-vp-candidate-says-syria-comments-were-mischaracterized-by-moderator-they-weren-t-31c6f0b1d684#.g31zzfcxw