Welcome to the National Day of Prayer, everybody.

Today's the day.

It is the first Thursday in May.

That is the day when Congress, President Truman, 1952,

Congress and President Truman established a National Day of Prayer as a yearly event.

And the reason that they did this as a yearly event is because it's something that presidents have done since our presidency.

We've prayed.

Presidents have called for a national day of prayer,

and a lot of times incorporated in that national day of prayer was a national day of fasting.

So we're going to go to history class today. We are going to discover the historical context of prayer in this country and why we even

have a national day of prayer. Why would we do that if we're not a praying people? Why would we have a national

day of prayer? So I hear the bell's chiming. We are going to dive into it right here at

the onset. The history classes, fire it up. Grab your, grab yourself a seat in the front row. After history class, fire it up. Grab yourself a seat in the front row.

After history class, I want to explore some recent cases, some recent activity by the DOJ in terms of, I guess let me say it this way. If we, we, we, we, we're a country that we, we have a

national day of prayer, but we kicked prayer out of our, out of our public school institutions.

Had we not done that, had prayer stuck around, the DOJ

probably wouldn't have to be doing some of the things that it's doing today that we're going

to talk about. We're going to tie it into history class, and we're going to talk about it

after history class. But first, let's do history class, the National Day of Prayer.

President Washington, I don't know if you're aware of this, but President Washington,

after the Whiskey Rebellion in 1796, January 1st, 1796, actually, he called for a National Day of Prayer.

And here's what he said in his National Day of Prayer request.

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