NOW: Sec. Rubio Reveals New Justification For War: Israel
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio made headlines today offering a new explanation for the timing of the war with Iran. Talking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Rubio says Israel was going to attack Iran and that created an imminent threat, saying “we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, they would immediately come after us.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:14.2 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:15.2 | It is Monday, March 2nd, and Robes, I don't know if Rubio was supposed to say what he just said. And with that, |
| 0:23.9 | welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. We have heard from the principles today. Have we not? |
| 0:28.6 | Hexa, then Trump. Now Rubio. All of them made headlines. Rubio certainly just did. |
| 0:34.9 | He certainly did. In fact, we were actually watching something else, had news on in the background and saw Marco |
| 0:41.7 | Rubio talking to reporters outside of Capitol Hill, and his arms started flailing, and he was |
| 0:46.7 | getting very animated. |
| 0:48.2 | So we turned up the volume. |
| 0:49.4 | And honestly, my jaw kind of dropped when I heard what he had to say. |
| 0:53.0 | Because he gave us another justification for the U.S. being involved in this war now. |
| 1:02.6 | This is not what Hexeth in an hour in front of reporters had an opportunity to say and did not say. |
| 1:09.1 | It's not what President Trump, when he was alive in front of a room full of people. |
| 1:13.4 | He also, in making prepare for Marx, did not let us know, robes, that we acted because Israel was going to act. |
| 1:25.4 | I was actually shocked, and you immediately looked at me and said, like what you just said |
| 1:32.7 | here, was he supposed to say that? Was he allowed to say that? Because yes, he said that Israel was |
| 1:41.7 | going to attack Iran, period. |
| 1:44.4 | And that if Israel attacked Iran, then the U.S. and its assets, its people there and the region would all be targeted in retaliation. |
| 1:54.4 | So in Marco Rubio's, I'll just sum it up, we'll give the verbatim. |
| 1:57.9 | But he basically said, we had to preeminently or preventively |
| 2:01.2 | attack them before they caused more damage and caused more casualties for Americans. We rather |
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