was ehud olmert prime minister of israel from 2006 2000.son in 2016 for 16 months for bribery and obstruction of justice. he's now with a new book this year called -- will come to you. i don't want him to do both. we're now with a book called searching for peace, which he says he wrote almost utterly from inside his prison cell. ehud olmert, thank you so much for coming on the show. i want to talk about your book in a moment. let's start with the news. >> i was convicted for accepting illegal contributions to my political campaigns. i denied it would've happened, i did at it since then. this was accusation. for the record. thank you. >> got it. thank you for clarifying. let's talk about the news. israel has faced horrific terror attacks in recent weeks, more than a dozen people killed. do you accept some israeli generals, as -- as long as there's an occupation, and there's palestine in the spare, and there's no solution, no two state solution, there will be horrible violence. the kind we keep seeing. it won't end. >> first of all, there is