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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