The CBN News Daily Rundown - Audio Podcast

If you had the opportunity to pray for a group of ISIS fighters, could you do it? What about after they'd killed more than a dozen of your friends? Chuck Holton recently witnessed a prayer like that while in Syria working with a Christian group called the Free Burma Rangers. He's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

Lawmakers are lining up behind a border security compromise negotiated by a bi-partisan committee in an effort to keep the government funded. President Trump has not publicly endorsed the agreement, but the shutdown deadline is Friday at midnight and a House vote could come as soon as this evening. Capitol Hill correspondent Abigail Robertson is on today's CBN News Daily Rundown with what we know.

This is a week when people traditionally pay a lot of attention to romance. Valentines Day is on Thursday--but this is also National Marriage Week. Washington correspondent Paul Strand has been looking into the state of the marriage union in the US. He's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

*This episode contains graphic descriptions of children injured in war*

President Trump predicted that by this week ISIS will have lost all land in Syria. But CBN News contributor Chuck Holton just returned from the area where ISIS insurgents are making their final stand and he says there's more to it. 

"ISIS is defeated as a military force so to speak; ISIS is defeated in Syria as a government or a caliphate but ISIS is not defeated as an idea," Holton says that will take a generation. He's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

Pastor Andrew Brunson is in Washington this week, only four months after being freed from a Turkish prison. He attended the President's State of the Union speech Tuesday as a guest of North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis and then Thursday he attended the National Prayer Breakfast. Washington correspondent Jennifer Wishon caught up with him at an event earlier in the week at the capitol. She's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

Thousands of people from all over the world gathered today for the National Prayer Breakfast. During the event, the president, lawmakers, and leaders from all areas of government come together to pray. If you don't think there's a place for prayer in politics, think again. Capitol Hill correspondent Abigail Robertson spoke with this year's National Prayer Breakfast Co-Chairs Democrat Sen. Chris Coons and Republican Sen. James Lankford, who say they have powerful prayer moments on a regular basis. Abigail is on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

Capitol Hill correspondent Abigail Robertson reported live from the House Chamber Tuesday night, following President Trump's State of the Union speech. She's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown with some behind the scenes "God winks," that she says made all the difference in her coverage.

President Trump is taking his case to the American people tonight in his second State of the Union speech. Chief political analyst David Brody is on today's CBN News Daily Rundown with predictions on what aspects of Trump's speech will be in the headlines tomorrow.

Today on the CBN News Daily Rundown, the national implications of the racist photo on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page. "Sadly the cynic in me wants to say by 1984 you should know that that's racist, even if you didn't know the blackface was racist, you probably know you shouldn't be taking smiley pictures with someone dressed as a Klansman, right? That's what the cynic in me wants to say," says Washington Correspondent Amber C. Strong. Find out what "the reporter" in Amber has to say today on the podcast.

A TV show aimed at igniting revival in America debuts this weekend. It combines the two passions of host Barry Meguiar, cars and Christ. CBN News anchor John Jessup got to visit the set--and says he walked away with a changed view on evangelism. He's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.