NOW: Sec. Rubio Reveals New Justification For War: Israel

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Hey there folks, it is Monday March 2nd and

Robes, I don't know if Rubio was supposed to say what he just said

And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ

We have heard from the principles today, have we not hexa?

Then Trump, now Rubio, all of them made headlines

Rubio certainly just did

He certainly did. In fact, we were actually watching something else

Had news on in the background and saw Marco Rubio talking to reporters outside of Capitol Hill

And his arm started flailing and he was getting very animated

So we turned up the volume and honestly my jaw kind of dropped when I heard what he had to say

Because he gave us another justification for the U.S. being involved in this war now

This is not what Hegseth in an hour in front of reporters

And an opportunity to say and did not say is not what President Trump when he wasn't live

In front of a room full of people

He also in making prepare for Marx did not let us know robes

That we acted because Israel was going to act

I was actually shocked and you immediately looked at me and said

Like what you just said here

Was he supposed to say that?

Was he allowed to say that?

Because yes, he said that Israel was going to attack Iran period

And that Israel attacked Iran

Then the U.S. and its assets, its people there in the region would all be targeted in retaliation

So in Marco Rubio's I'll just sum it up, we'll give the verbatim

But he basically said we had to pre-eminently or preventively attack them

Before they caused more damage and caused more casualties for Americans

We rather would be on the proactive side than the reactive side

That's not the first time we're hearing it

Maybe robes and we should say he's there on Capitol Hill

Because he's briefing the gang of eight the top leaders on the Senate and the House

So maybe he was going to have to tell them this, he knew it was going to get out

And he decided he needed to be him, does that make sense?

That would make the most sense

Marco Rubio is a seasoned politician

He knows what to do, he knows what not to do

He is risen to this level and is certainly a statesman

Like we haven't seen in a while, he has been a busy, busy secretary of state

He has the president's ear and I believe is someone who knows what he's saying

It was shocking to us, but I think you make a very good point

This was likely going to have to be told to members of Congress periods

So he went ahead and told the American public

And he got authorized, I'm sure to get ahead of it

But to the rest of us robes who for, I guess this started overnight, what?

overnight Friday, so on Saturday, it's Monday

We've been told pretty a steady stream of reasons for why this had to happen

For why this needed to happen

They left out a pretty big detail robes

If Israel had not decided that they were going to attack, we would not have

That's what it sounded like

They said this was going to happen no matter what

Marco Rubio definitely said that multiple times

He danced around on that one

In terms of it needing to happen right now

And look, that has been the question from the beginning

We've been asking that question

And frankly, the president hadn't been in front of reporters

And neither had Hegseth who might be asking those very specific questions

We talked about the folks who they allow into these rooms to ask questions

Aren't the mainstream press that were used to seeing in previous administrations

And they would have tended to be, you would think, demanding the answer to why now?

Why this attack now?

And they were never specifically asked that until Marco Rubio stood in front of that gag over reporters

And he was specifically asked about what was the imminent threat?

Why did we have to attack now?

You know, reporters in the room, aside

They had an opportunity to tell folks why

And I don't know, robes, that sounds like even an easier sell if you will

That we think we were about to be in danger based on something

Versus what they had been telling the public up until Rubio

At least was there was this threat of missiles

They were trying to, it didn't, it wasn't imminent, it was eventual

But he has shaken things up

So let's let you hear

And again, as we let you hear now the verbatim of exactly what Marco Rubio said

We do want to let you know

We're just getting word of an additional two service members

That have been killed in this war in Iran bringing the number to six

We don't have all the details they also mentioned

Rogue over a dozen were seriously is that they put it seriously wounded as well

So we are following that

But all of that emits to Marco Rubio given us now with I guess is the actual justification

I mean this look when things don't make sense and we were all scratching our heads

47 years ago wait what?

This makes a lot more sense

So here is what Marco Rubio told reporters moments ago

The imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked

And we believed they would be attacked

They would immediately come after us

We were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded

If we waited for them to hit us first

After they were attacked by someone else

We would suffer more casualties and more deaths

We went proactively to prevent them from inflicting more damage

Had we not done so

There would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we knew that this was going to happen

And we didn't act preemptively to prevent more casualties and loss of life

If that is there look these are the professionals

And these are the folks we pay good taxpayer money to make these decisions

Who are any of us to say that this was not a legitimate threat assessment that they did

And they felt they needed to make this move

We were discussing as well

Netanyahu, if Trump said don't attack

Would he have listened?

Was Israel going to do this no matter what the U.S. said?

A lot of people have already weighed in

Again, these comments from Rubio just came out

But a lot of folks are already jumping in and weighing in on that

And saying there's no way Israel would have done this

Would have attacked Iran in this way without our support

Without our blessing at the very least

And so look I don't know what goes on between Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump

But it would that would make a lot of sense that Israel would want

And some would even argue need our blessing to pursue this because we would be then vulnerable to Iran's retaliation

With our troops and our assets in the Middle East

But Rome's how do Americans feel?

How will we feel now about this war?

I don't know if for some folks it's a tough sell

Nobody wants the country bogged down in this again

Nobody wants to see lives at risk

But Rose, does this this is the problem?

Is it not every single time?

What do you believe?

We have the three most important people probably in this war in the administration

Spoke today and we don't have a clear picture of what happened

I mean maybe Marco Rubio finally just let that out

But there were that was 12 hours during the day to day in live events

Why they didn't I don't know

It erodes some trustworthiness to have three different press conferences

With three different headlines

And each time you're learning a little bit more

And I think a lot of folks are saying hey here in America

We are now targeted as Americans around the world

And certainly we could have isolated retaliatory attacks as well

That we're all now subjected to

And certainly so many people in this country are sending their husbands and wives

And brothers and sisters and children to go fight this war

Don't we deserve a transparent honest reason as to why

And when we heard Marco Rubio just a moment ago

It was the first time at least for me as an American citizen where I was like

Oh, now that makes sense

I'm not saying what I feel about the justification of it all

But at least that what he said made more sense in terms of the timing

Nothing that President Trump or Pete Hexeth said made sense about the immediate need to go in now

Ah, so you're actually saying even though we got it late

It makes the most sense

It does, it makes the most sense

And I do think though

The United States obviously had their own motivations for wanting to support Israel

Or at least combine efforts with Israel

Maybe President Trump saw Israel's decision or their desire to do this now

As an opportunity to take out a threat that they felt like was in fact building

And look, Marco Rubio and President Trump both said this the hardest hits are yet to come

They say they have a significant amount of attacks happening now and in the future

So this is far from over and I don't understand that part of it

I would think when you go into war and you go in and you're trying to take out leaders

And you're trying to create chaos and destroy infrastructure and military capabilities

You would put your biggest and boldest foot forward

But apparently the hardest hits are yet to come

What do we know about military?

Certainly I know nothing

But yeah, stay here folks

This meeting is happening now

Officials on Capitol Hill are being briefed

Maybe they are getting updated about the information he gave before he went into that briefing

Marco Rubio, he's meeting with the so-called gang of eight

Exactly who's in that crew will tell you stay here

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All right, we continue here on Amy and TJ after hearing what

Like you say, Robes might make the most sense

As to a justification for this war, Mark Rubio telling reporters a short time ago that in fact the US had intelligence that Israel was going to attack Iran

The US made the determination that Iran would then turn around and target US interests so they joined in for this attack

This gang of eight interesting name but it goes to most of these at this point are household names

Robes put the gang of eights made up of four house members and four members of the US Senate

That is great, so we can start with the House

You've got the Rick Crawford who's a Republican who's the chair, Jim Hines who's the Democrat

They're from the House Committee on Intelligence

And then you have Tom Cotton, Republican, very familiar name, should be a household name

Arkansas

Another one, Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia

And then on the House side we've got...

The Speaker and the Minor Leader of course, Mike Johnson and Kim Jeffries, they are absolutely our household names

And then John Thun and Chuck Schumer, the majority of Minor Leader in the Senate

Having that meeting right now, I assume they're getting the information that we just got about Israel

I don't know how this is going to be straight, go ahead

No, I was just saying right now they're saying it's Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe

And General Dan Cain who we saw at the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with Hegseth earlier today

They are going to brief the full membership of Congress as well but apparently this gang of eight knew about the attack shortly before it happened

So they were made aware, they weren't asked what they thought about it necessarily or allowed to weigh in on it but they were at least notified

We did find that out, they knew it was happening shortly before it happened

Yeah, just a heads up

Oh yeah, we didn't expect this from Rubio but Rubio just got our attention certainly and we had to get it confirmed

We were actually watching a network at the time when we heard it and for whatever reason it wasn't the headline when the next show started

And we thought okay maybe we were wrong, maybe we didn't hear this right and sure enough the anchor of that show

Soon as she tossed to the correspondent at the White House

She tossed to her asking one question and the reporter ignored it

She was like actually can we go back to what Marco Rubio just said?

And so we were both like thank you because our jaws were dropped

Wait, this is the first time we are hearing that the Secretary of State is telling reporters that our decision to attack Iran was influenced by Israel

That's a massive headline that we had not heard, certainly we're not told that before just now

That is a different justification and reasoning for this war and for why those stories

I mean those that back and forth will continue but right now folks we are at war

And there are six American servicemen who have been killed at least 18 injured seriously

And this continues, we appreciate you spending some time with us, we'll always hop on and update you when those updates come not

So we appreciate you as always I'm TJ Holmes on behalf of Amy Robot Group

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