Pence says Trump often asks to start meetings off with prayer

Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump, and Mike Pence.
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Are you there, God? It's me, Donald.

In honor of the National Day of Prayer, Vice President Mike Pence sat for an interview with CBN News on Thursday, and while Pence is vocal about his Christian faith, he made a surprising revelation about who is driving prayer in the Trump administration. "There's prayer going on on a regular basis in this White House," he said. "And it's one of the most meaningful things to me, whether it's public meetings or not, I've lost count of the number of times that the president has nudged me, or nudged another member of the Cabinet, and said, 'Let's start this meeting with prayer.'"

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.