the students did the right thing, pence like trump is a pathological liar and nobody believes they say.  it is all false and bluster.  pence lied about not knowing about Flynn's problems because he knew but wanted to make it appear that Flynn was fired for lying to him rather than for his problems with Russia and turkey.  they tried to cover up the reason, this is such a dirty trick, they should be ashamed of themselves trying to fool the people, which many were not.