I got a very important guest today, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Lauren.

He's a multiple New York Times bestseller historian. Couldn't be talking to a more important

guest, right? First of all, how are you doing?

I know you're in Tel Aviv.

How's it going over there? How are you feeling? Good to be with it, Donnie. It's quiet today. Last night was not quiet. We had about nine missiles back to back. And not in this room, but the adjacent room is our family bomb shelters who are running back and forth to that bomb shelter. and this night, of course, was a Jewish holiday Passover trying to actually have a satyr while every 10 minutes these bombs are coming in was rough but we've had a quiet day today now you know if you look aggregate compared

to the first days of the war we were getting about 30 rockets a day the numbers gone down

unless you're in the northern part of the country,

in which case you're getting hit by his Bolo rockets. And if you're in the southern part of the

country, you're getting hit by Hootie rockets. So welcome to our rather unique reality here in the

state of Israel. Yeah, you wrote a couple, I bet a couple of days ago that you were reminded of somebody saying to Pat and World War II, the British commander saying, you know, we've taken over the airspace and reminded you right now in this moment as you're sitting in Bob Shelters, Trump saying, oh, we've completely taken over the airspace.

Yeah, we say to ourselves that someone actually has not gotten that memo in Tehran.

But the number has gone down.

It's just, it's still a rocket that can take down not a building, but a neighborhood.

It's a neighborhood.

And it actually hits this building, being in my bomb shelter is not going to help very much.

Because this is a huge.

And they're packing, you know, almost a ton of tn t so all you don't need 30 of them

to ruin your day all you need them is one or two a day uh to ruin your day you need one or two to

close your airport so is what right now our airport is closed which is uh which is difficult i say

what was your reaction to trump speech last night last night? You've talked also in your

op-ed about how, well, the war might be ending for the U.S. at some point in a few weeks, but not for Israel.

Well, we had a procedure on the assumption that whether the president was saying two weeks,

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