Vice President Mike Pence said in an interview aired Friday that President Trump’s claim back in 2016 that he loves WikiLeaks was not an endorsement of the group.

“I think the president always, as you and the media do, always welcomes information,” Pence told CNN’s Dana Bash Friday. “But that was in no way an endorsement of an organization that we now understand was involved in disseminating classified information by the United States of America.”