WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: In the meantime, let's bring in our White House correspondent, Dana Bash. Dana, the president prayed today with many other distinguished Americans here at a prayer breakfast in Washington. Iraq wasn't very far away from his mind either, was it?</s>DANA BASH, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: It certainly wasn't. He didn't explicitly talk about the situation in Iraq, but he did allude to it, Wolf. He talked about the fact that these are very trying and decisive times.</s>GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This is a testing time for our country. At this hour we have troops that are assembling in the Middle East. There's oppressive regimes that seek terrible weapons. We face an ongoing threat of terror. One thing is for certain, we didn't ask for these challenges, but we will meet them.</s>BASH: And the White House is trying to capture momentum from the secretary of state's presentation at the U.N. yesterday. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, speaking with reporters just a few hours ago, said that this is the settling in period. This is the time that the White House is hoping that the presentation that the secretary gave yesterday will be heard and kind of absorbed by citizens around the world, and that world leaders will hear from them now that perhaps it is time to take military action. Fleischer says that this is a key period, that the consultation period, the diplomatic period will continue. He said we can certainly expect the president to be working the phones, just like he has over the past few weeks, and we can expect him to be meeting with some additional world leaders -- Wolf.</s>BLITZER: Dana Bash at the White House. Dana, thanks very much.
President Mentions Iraq at Prayer Breakfast