alex gibney and alexis bloom, welcome to the program. >> thank you.to be here. >> so, alexis, let me ask you. the trial is underway for the first time since this trial actually began in 2020. netanyahu is in the courtroom, so to speak. it's pretty good timing for this film yes, it is pretty good timing. >> i mean, we've been saying that for a year. every time you think something's going to happen or that he's going to say something substantive or have to face the charges, it turns out that he sort of, um, sort of shirks them the first day of the court hearing was a little disappointing in that he used it mainly for grandstanding. i would say he was saying that there's an attempted coup against him. the media is out to get him, that the judicial system is biased, and he used it very much to sort of attack what he calls the deep state. >> well, look, you say the deep state, it obviously all sounds very trumpian as well when he talks about the media against him, his domestic enemies against him, and he uses those terms. but here's the thing, alexis and a