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Welcome, everybody to this edition of The Untold Story. We're joined today by a frequent guest and friend of ours, Alex Berenson, who has covered in a really in-depth way the reality of COVID-19 and the vaccine structure and the data behind

all of it. And we want to talk to him about that. But we want to start today by asking him about

his new book because I always knew Alex as a former New York Times reporter, but he's also a prolific

novelist who's written a new book called The Power Couple. So hi, Alex. How are you doing

today? Martha, great to talk to you. Great to have you with us. So tell me a little bit about

this other side of your life. You do a lot of writing and a lot of reporting. I don't know when

you find time to sleep, frankly, but you've written a new book called The Power Couple. What drives you to write novels when the rest of your work is so based in facts?

So I started writing novels, actually, when I worked for the New York Times,

and the first one was called The Faithful Spy. It came out in 2006, and it drew a little bit

about my experience as a reporter for the Times in Iraq,

although it's not really about Iraq. And the great thing about being a novelist when you're a

reporter is that you can get inside people's heads and you can sort of ascribe the motive and

you can live in them. And, you know, journalists aren't supposed to do that, although these

days I think there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of motive ascribing in journalism that there

didn't used to be. But my joke, which is not really a joke, is that, you know, you know,

when you're writing a novel, the characters can lie to each other and they can lie to themselves even, but they can

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