https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4043872-pence-calls-for-garland-to-publicly-justify-trump-indictment/
Transcript of Pence Speech today in North Carolina
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5074087/mike-pence-trump-indictment-classified-documents
MR. PENCE
WE GATHER HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA AFTER A SAD DAY FOR AMERICA. A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FACING AN UNPRECEDENTED INDICTMENT BY A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT RUN BY THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. AND A POTENTIAL POLITICAL RIVAL. WE KNOW NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. AFTER YEARS OF POLITICIZATION THAT I LIVED THROUGH WHEN I WAS YOUR VICE PRESIDENT, THE CAMPAIGN IN 2016 WHEN HILLARY CLINTON WAS EXONERATED BY THE FBI IN THE LEAD UP TO THE ELECTION, 2.5 YEARS OF A RUSSIA HOAX THANKS TO THE DURHAM REPORT, WE KNOW IT'S AN INVESTIGATION THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEGUN. THE DISGRACEFUL COLLUSION THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN BIG TECH, BIG MEDIA, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO COVER UP THE DISCLOSURE OF A LAPTOP OWNED BY THE PRESIDENT'S SON IN THE DAYS LEADING UP TO THE 2020 CAMPAIGN THEN THE SLOW WALK OF INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY. HAVE UNDERMINED THE CONFIDENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. AND OUR SYSTEM OF JUSTICE. I HAD HOPED THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WOULD SEE ITS WAY CLEAR TO RESOLVE THE ISSUES INVOLVING THE FORMER PRESIDENT WITHOUT AN INDICTMENT AND I AM DEEPLY TROUBLED TO SEE THIS INDICTMENT MOVE FORWARD. THE CAPACITY TO FURTHER DIVIDE OUR COUNTRY AT A TIME WHEN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING AS NEVER BEFORE. AT A TIME WHEN THE WORLD IS BECOMING ALMOST MORE DANGEROUS BY THE HOUR. AS MUCH OF THE MEDIA BEGINS ITS LATEST RUSH TO JUDGMENT, A FEW WORDS TO MY FELLOW REPUBLICANS. I THINK LEADERS AND THOSE WHO ASPIRE TO LEADERSHIP DO WELL TO RETURN TO FIRST PRINCIPLES IN TIMES LIKE THIS. FIRST ONE IS THIS. IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER IN AMERICA, YOU ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. [APPLAUSE] THE FORMER PRESIDENT LIKE EVERY OTHER AMERICAN IS ENTITLED TO A PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE. SECOND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW THE BASIS OF THIS DECISION. YESTERDAY MORNING I THINK I WAS THE FIRST IN THE COUNTRY TO CALL ON THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO UNSEALED INDICTMENT AND RELEASE IT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. TODAY, I AM CALLING ON THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO STAND BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND EXPLAIN WHY THIS WAS NECESSARY IN HIS WORDS. MERRICK GARLAND, STOP HIDING BEHIND THE SPECIAL COUNSEL AND STAND BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND EXPLAIN WHY THIS INDICTMENT WENT FORWARD. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE TO KNOW THE REASONS FOR THIS UNPRECEDENTED ACTION AND WE ALSO NEED TO HEAR THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S DEFENSE. IN EACH OF US CAN MAKE OUR OWN JUDGMENT ON WHETHER THIS IS THE LATEST EXAMPLE OF A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WORKING AN INJUSTICE OR OTHERWISE. AS I SAID, IT WAS A SAD DAY FOR AMERICA. AS REPUBLICANS, WE STAND ON THE RULE OF LAW. I WOULD ENCOURAGE EVERYONE HERE AND THOSE WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE TO BE PATIENT. KNOW THAT WE WILL SOON KNOW THE FACTS. I ALSO ENCOURAGE YOU TO PRAY. PRAY FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY. PRAY FOR ALL OF THOSE IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY. PRAY FOR THIS DIVIDED NATION. [APPLAUSE] MR. PENCE: FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY. AS YOUR PRESIDENT, IF YOU GIVE ME THAT GREAT HONOR TO SERVE, I PROMISE YOU I WILL UPHOLD THE RULE OF LAW, WE WILL CLEAN HOUSE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND WE WILL RESTORE THE CONFIDENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN EQUAL TREATMENT UNDER THE LAW SO HELP ME GOD