Welcome to the MacArthur Report, the podcast where I, Rich Lowry, discuss with Andy MacArthur

the latest legal and national security issues this week, what else?

The latest on the attack on Israel, by the way, for some reason you're not already following

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on iTunes and now, without further ado, I welcome to this very podcast through the Miracle

Riverside, none other than Andy MacArthur.

Hey Rich, how are you?

Good Andy, how are you?

Okay, very somber days for us, but especially for our friends and loved ones in Israel who

are having such a halacious time and even as we speak, it gets worse.

So it's hard to be bouncy the last few days, but...

Yeah, no, it's been grim, so let's just hear your initial reaction to the attack, what

Israel's response has been so far and then we'll dig in and go real deep on the sources

of Hamas and where this might be going, but what were your initial thoughts on Saturday?

I guess I'll go first.

I thought, you know, my wife, most Saturdays, family stuff, TV's not on and my wife, you

know, I saw some email and texting, traffic, my wife turned on Fox and it looked like

a big rocket barrage, that's because that's all the video of, you know, okay, we've seen

this before, it's bigger than other rocket barrages and then the true enormity and horror

of it began to sink in.

Yeah, I feel like I want to say every time something like this happens and I realize

...