Hey this is Dylan. I'm currently in beautiful Joshua Tree National Park where I just

encountered fresh mountain lion prints. This podcast was recorded at 2.14 p.m. on Thursday,

February 6th. Things may have changed just to start this episode but what hopefully will not change

I will not have another close mountain lion encounter. Well here's the show.

Yeah I hope he made it out of that alright. That's why I don't hike.

He said wrong that I kind of want to see a mountain lion like I mean like yeah kitty.

Hey there it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis I cover Congress.

I'm Kelsey Snell. I also cover Congress. And I'm Aisha Roscoe. I cover the White House.

The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is over but the hard feelings in Washington

are sticking around. Today President Trump attended the National Prayer Breakfast which is

generally speaking one of these events where everyone in Washington comes together and has a really

unifying warm conversation about faith in public life. Because it's about prayer right? Yeah

prayer. Okay. They have breakfast. Okay. And they talk about prayer. It's a good speech not just

bipartisan but pretty much non-partisan in the past. Partisan. Yes it is it is a happiness room.

But this also comes the day after the President's acquittal and he came equipped with the headlines

literally holding up newspapers that had the big bold facing acquitted. And Aisha we were talking

about this earlier there's this sort of funny moment in the prayer breakfast where there was a

speaker who said if you love someone who you don't agree with politically raise your hand.

And you know what everybody in the room raises their hand. And at the I mean this is at the

lead table you see Trump with his hands not raised. Very pointedly not raised. And author I don't

know if I agree with you. But I don't know if author's gonna like what I'm gonna say. And then

he had this to say. I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they

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