Welcome, you have made it to episode one of season five of Meet the Press reports.

Thanks for being here.

Feeocracy.

It isn't a word you often hear in American politics these days, but given the religious

rhetoric coming from some Republican candidates this year, it doesn't feel as far fetched

her hyperbolic is it would have been in the past.

Frankly, it feels possible.

There are candidates embracing the idea that whatever the First Amendment actually says

about the free exercise or establishment of religion, that this wall between church

and state should actually come down.

And not only that, these folks argue the wall was actually never supposed to be there

in the first place.

In fact, here's Lauren Bober.

She's a freshman member of Congress from Colorado.

She was speaking this summer to congregants.

Here's what she said.

The church is supposed to direct the government.

The government is not supposed to direct the church.

That is not how our founding fathers intended it.

And I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk.

She's not alone.

The Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, the nation's fifth most populous

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