and we've started seeing the us, uk, the european union of imposing a vast array of sanctions against iran as, as a response to their attack last week again. and so that was essentially a communication by those western countries by some of israel's closest friends who came to their defense on saturday night to say, listen, we're with you we are taking this action against iran. we are trying to weaken iran, but at the same time, please don't ratchet things up. and carry out a counter strike against iran. but we are told now, laura, that that communication was made by the israelis to the biden administration earlier today, that there was an imminent counter attack are retaliation coming by the israelis against the iranian sayyed, i'm told by one senior us official that the range of time i'm was actually quite large that came earlier today. and then of course tonight, we have seen this retaliation. i just want to point out that there were two significant calls between biden menstruation officials and israeli officials today the israeli defense minister spoke with his us counterpart, secr