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Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show and happy Friday.

COVID may no longer be affecting most of our daily lives. I mean, if you're sane, you've

moved on. You might be severely immunocompromised and having to deal with it. I understand that

there is that small strain of the population, but let's be honest, these morons riding around

with their masks on inside their cars alone. There's no helping them. They'll never move

on. Nonetheless, revelations keep coming out day after day about how governments around

the world lie to us, leaned into authoritarianism, and it's not just our own. It's really

disturbing and the deep dive and how they did it and how so many of us allowed it and

how some few heroes in my view fought back is educational, instructional and important

so that we never repeat these mistakes. During us ahead, journalist David Swag, he's

been so great. Hasn't he? You guys have seen him on the show and heard him on the show

many times, pushing back on the nonsense science. They were trying to shove on us over

mask mandates. He's one of the few who actually took a hard look at these studies. They were

saying justify those mandates and saw how flawed they were and pointed them out. This

is a guy writes for places like New York magazine and yet was willing to tell the truth. He

joins us today to discuss his latest investigation into how a California county began to spy on,

spy on a churchgoers who refused to stay home, who refused to obey what was later ruled

to be an unconstitutional edict that they not attend church. You will not believe what

these tiny little bureaucrats with the big egos and the small brains did to the church

goers. We're talking the infiltration of prayer groups. There have been a prayer group. It

can involve very private personal discussions about your struggles, your relationship with

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