From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrelev. This is the Daily.

Mr. President, did Israel force your hand to launch these strikes against Iran? Did Netanyahu

pull the United States into this war?

No, I might have forced their hands.

Six days into the war, the role that Israel has played in driving President Trump to attack

Iran has become a major point of political

tension.

Based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first.

And I didn't want that to happen.

So if anything, I might have forced Israel's hand.

The key questions have been, to what extent is a foreign country shaping the actions of

the U.S. commander-in-chief?

We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.

We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.

And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks,

we would suffer higher casualties.

And how did Trump get on board with something no American president had ever agreed to, waging a joint war with Israel against Iran?

Have we now delegated the most solemn decision that can be made in our society,

the decision to go to war to another country.

Today, my colleagues Mark Mazetti and Ronan Bergman

on what we know about the extraordinarily close cooperation

between the U.S. and Israel

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