Thomas Perez in Fox News Sunday interviews during 2017

On Civil Rights: Respect John Lewis' stature as icon of civil rights movement

PENCE: When someone of John Lewis' stature, someone who is not only an icon in the civil rights movement, but also someone who by virtue of his sacrifice on that day that we know as Bloody Sunday, he crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and he suffered that abuse [for the sake of] voting rights--for someone to use his stature to use terms like this is not a legitimate president, it's just deeply disappointing to me, and I hope he reconsiders it. But what Donald Trump was talking about their was literally generations of failed policies coming out of Washington, D.C., that have failed too many families and too many cities across this country. I will tell you, Donald Trump is a man who is profoundly impatient with failure.

On Homeland Security: ObamaCare has failed; repeal will lift the burden

TRUMP: (VIDEO CLIP) It will be repealed and replaced. It will be essentially simultaneously. It will be various segments, but will most likely be on the same day or the same week. (END VIDEO CLIP)

Q: Replacing is a lot more complicated than repealing, especially how do you pay for some of the provisions of ObamaCare you want to keep, like the pre-existing conditions? Can you really do the two at the same time?

PENCE: The short answer is yes. We can do it at the same time.

Q: So, realistically, when could you do that?

PENCE: Lifting the enormous burden--you are seeing an incredible increase in premiums on Americans. ObamaCare has failed. We are going to repeal it. But at the same time, we're going to pass the kind of legislation that will lower the cost of health coverage without growing the size of debt. I would anticipate in the first 100 days that we'll deliver on that promise.