It's consider this where every day we go deep on one big news story. Today, the power of the Bible.

American presidents have long used scripture as a rhetorical resource to frame moments of

national crisis or purpose.

Tonight I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve.

Presidents like George W. Bush, who addressed the country after the September 11th terrorist

attacks in 2001. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us,

spoken through the ages in Psalm 23. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I fear no evil. And President Barack Obama, who spoke at an interfaith prayer vigil after the mass

shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012.

Scripture tells us, do not lose heart.

Though outwardly, we are wasting away. Inwardly, we are being renewed day by day.

But the Trump administration, in particular, has used the Bible in different ways to publicly

justify immigration raids and military action abroad. After the invasion of Venezuela,

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted from Psalm 144 at a Pentagon prayer service in January.

Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.

Consider this, what the biblical passages mean in their original context.

We ask Bible experts to weigh in.

From NPR, I'm Juana Summers.

It's consider this from NPR.

President Trump isn't much of a Bible quoter, but some members of his administration are,

and they've used scripture in different ways, to frame controversial policies, such as immigration enforcement raids and military actions as justified by the good book.

NPR religion correspondent Jason DeRose takes a closer look at some instances in which the Trump administration has used the Bible to justify the president's agenda. The Department of Homeland Security posted a video on social media January 13th that uses the singer Lord's Cover of the song Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

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