PENCE: ... we delivered $400 million in cash as a ransom payment for Americans held by the radical mullahs in Tehran.
(CROSSTALK)
QUIJANO: Governor, yesterday, Mr. Trump said...
KAINE: And we stopped a nuclear weapons program without a shot.
QUIJANO: ... quote, "Putin has no respect for Hillary Clinton and no respect for Obama." Why do you think he'll respect a Trump- Pence administration?
PENCE: Strength. Plain and simple.
KAINE: Business dealings.
PENCE: Donald Trump -- that's nonsense. Donald Trump is a strong leader...
KAINE: Donald Trump's son says that the Trump organization...
PENCE: ... who is going to lead with American strength.
QUIJANO: Please, Senator, I'll give you a chance to respond.
PENCE: We're going to rebuild our military. And let me -- let me -- this whole Putin thing. Look, America is stronger than Russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the Russian economy. America's political system is superior to the crony, corrupt capitalist system in Russia in every way.
When Donald Trump and I observe that, as I've said in Syria, in Iran, in Ukraine, that the small and bullying leader of Russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, that's stating painful facts. That's not an endorsement of Vladimir Putin. That's an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership...
QUIJANO: Senator Kaine?
PENCE: ... of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
KAINE: Well, this is one where we can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor Pence said, inarguably, Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama.
PENCE: That is absolutely inaccurate.
KAINE: And -- and -- and I just think a guy who praises...
PENCE: He said he's stronger -- he's been stronger on the world stage.
KAINE: No, he said leader. And if -- and I'll just say this, Governor.
PENCE: You just said better.
KAINE: If you mistake leadership for dictatorship, and you can't tell the difference, a country that's running its economy into the ground...
PENCE: Yeah, here we go. This is the grade school thing again?
KAINE: ... persecuting journalists...
PENCE: Right, this is grade school.
KAINE: ... if you can't tell the difference, you shouldn't be commander-in-chief.
PENCE: Yeah. KAINE: And with Donald Trump -- Donald Trump's sons say that they have all these business dealings with Russia. Those could be disclosed with tax returns, but they refuse to do them. Americans need to worry about whether Donald Trump will be watching out for America's bottom line or his own bottom line.
QUIJANO: Senator Kaine, what went wrong with the Russia reset?
KAINE: Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin is a dictator.
QUIJANO: And what would do you differently?