Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Monday, March second, and Robes,
Speaker 1: I don't know if Rubio was supposed to say what
Speaker 1: he just said. And with that, welcome to this episode
Speaker 1: of Amy and TJ. We have heard from the principles today,
Speaker 1: have we not heath than Trump? Now Rubio? All of
Speaker 1: them made headlines. Rubio certainly just did.
Speaker 2: He certainly did.
Speaker 3: In fact, we were actually watching something else, had news
Speaker 3: on in the background and saw Marco Rubio talking to
Speaker 3: reporters outside of Capitol Hill and his arms started flailing
Speaker 3: and he was getting very animated.
Speaker 2: So we turned up the volume and honestly, my jaw
Speaker 2: kind of dropped when I heard what he had to say.
Speaker 1: Because he gave us another justification for the US being
Speaker 1: involved in this war. Now, this is not what heg
Speaker 1: seth in an hour in front of reporters, had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to say and did not say. Is not what
Speaker 1: President Trump when he was alive in front of a
Speaker 1: room full of people. He also in making prepare for marks,
Speaker 1: did not let us know Robes, that we acted because
Speaker 1: Israel was going to act.
Speaker 3: I was actually shocked, and you immediately looked at me
Speaker 3: and said, like, what you just said?
Speaker 2: Here was he supposed to say that? Was he allowed
Speaker 2: to say that?
Speaker 3: Because yes, he said that Israel was going to attack Iran, period,
Speaker 3: and that if Israel attacked Iran, then the US and
Speaker 3: its assets, its people there in the region would all
Speaker 3: be targeted in retaliation. So in Marco Rubio's I'll just
Speaker 3: sum it up, We'll give the verbatim, but he basically
Speaker 3: said we had to pre eminently or preventively attack them
Speaker 3: before they caused more damna and caused more casualties for Americans.
Speaker 3: We rather would be on the proactive side than the
Speaker 3: reactive side.
Speaker 1: That's the first time we're hearing it. Maybe robes and
Speaker 1: we should say he's there on Capitol Hill because he's
Speaker 1: briefing the Gang of Eight, the top leaders on the
Speaker 1: Senate and the House. So maybe he was going to
Speaker 1: have to tell them this. He knew it was going
Speaker 1: to get out, and he decided it needed to be him.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense, That would make the most sense,
Speaker 2: That would make the most sense.
Speaker 3: Marco Rubio is a seasoned politician.
Speaker 2: He knows what to do, he knows what not to do.
Speaker 3: He has risen to this level and is certainly a
Speaker 3: statesman like we haven't seen in a while. He has
Speaker 3: been a busy, busy Secretary of State. He has the
Speaker 3: president's ear, and he, I believe, is someone who knows
Speaker 3: what he's saying. It was shocking to us, but I
Speaker 3: think you make a very good point. This was likely
Speaker 3: going to have to be told to members of Congress, period.
Speaker 2: So he went ahead and told the American.
Speaker 1: Public authorized, I'm sure to get ahead of it. But
Speaker 1: to the rest of us, Robes who for I guess
Speaker 1: the started overnight overnight Friday, so on Saturday, it's Monday.
Speaker 1: We've been told pretty a steady stream of reasons for
Speaker 1: why this had to happen, for why this needed to happen.
Speaker 1: They left out a pretty big detail, Robes, if Israel
Speaker 1: had not decided they were going to attack, we would
Speaker 1: not have.
Speaker 3: That's what it sounded like. They said this was going
Speaker 3: to happen no matter what. Marco Rubio definitely said that
Speaker 3: multiple times. He danced around that in terms of it
Speaker 3: needing to happen now, right now.
Speaker 2: And look, that has been the question from the beginning.
Speaker 3: We've been asking that question, and frankly, the president hadn't
Speaker 3: been in front of reporters, and neither had hegsath who
Speaker 3: might be asking those very specific questions. We talked about
Speaker 3: the folks who they allow into these rooms to ask questions.
Speaker 3: Aren't the mainstream press that we're used to seeing in
Speaker 3: previous administrations, And they would have tended to be, you
Speaker 3: would think, demanding the answer to why now?
Speaker 2: Why this attack now? And they were.
Speaker 3: Never specifically asked that until Marco Rubio stood in front
Speaker 3: of that gaggle reporters and he was specifically asked about.
Speaker 2: What was the imminent threat? Why did we have to
Speaker 2: attack now?
Speaker 1: You know, reporters in the room aside, they had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to tell folks why and I don't know, Robes,
Speaker 1: that sounds like a even an easier sell, if you will,
Speaker 1: that we think we were about to be in danger
Speaker 1: based on something versus what they had been telling the
Speaker 1: public up until Rubio at least, was there was this
Speaker 1: threat of missiles they were trying to it didn't It
Speaker 1: wasn't imminent, it was eventual. But he is shaking things up.
Speaker 1: So let's let you hear and again as we let
Speaker 1: you hear now the verbatim exactly what Marco Rubio said,
Speaker 1: we do want to let you know is getting word
Speaker 1: of an additional two service members that have been killed
Speaker 1: in this war and Iran bringing the number to six.
Speaker 1: We don't have all the details. They also mentioned rope
Speaker 1: over a dozen or seriously is that they put it
Speaker 1: seriously wounded as well, So we are following that. But
Speaker 1: all of that in the midst of Marco Rubio given us. Now,
Speaker 1: what I guess is the actual justification.
Speaker 3: I mean this look when things don't make sense and
Speaker 3: we were all scratching our heads forty seven years ago.
Speaker 2: Wait what this makes a lot more sense.
Speaker 3: So here is what Marco Rubio told reporters moments ago.
Speaker 3: The imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran
Speaker 3: was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, they
Speaker 3: would immediately come after us. We were not going to
Speaker 3: sit there and absorb a blow before we responded.
Speaker 2: If we waited for them to hit us first.
Speaker 3: After they were attacked by someone else, we would suffer
Speaker 3: more casualties and more deaths. We went proactively to prevent
Speaker 3: them from inflicting more damage.
Speaker 2: Had we not done.
Speaker 3: So, there would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about
Speaker 3: how we knew that this was going to happen, and
Speaker 3: we didn't act preemptively to prevent more casualties and loss
Speaker 3: of life.
Speaker 1: If that is there, Look, these are the professionals, and
Speaker 1: these are the folks we pay good tax payer money
Speaker 1: right to make these decisions. Who are any of us
Speaker 1: to saying that this was not a legitimate threat assessment
Speaker 1: that they did and they felt they needed to make
Speaker 1: this move. We were discussing this well that in Yahoo.
Speaker 1: If Trump said don't attack, would he have listened? Was
Speaker 1: Israel going to do this no matter what the US said?
Speaker 2: A lot of people have already weighed in.
Speaker 3: Again, these comments from Rubio just came out, but a
Speaker 3: lot of folks are already jumping in and weighing in
Speaker 3: on that and saying, there's no way Israel would have
Speaker 3: done this, would have attacked Iran in this way without
Speaker 3: our without our blessing at the very least.
Speaker 2: And so look, I don't know what goes on between.
Speaker 3: Benjamin Nett Nyahou and President Trump, but it would that
Speaker 3: would make a lot of sense that Israel would want
Speaker 3: and some would even argue you need our blessing to
Speaker 3: pursue this, because we would be then vulnerable to Iran's
Speaker 3: retaliation with our troops and our assets in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: But rome's how do Americans feel? How will we feel
Speaker 1: now about this war? I don't know. For some folks,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tough sell. Nobody wants the country
Speaker 1: bogged down and this again, nobody wants to see lives
Speaker 1: at risk. But Rose does this. This is the problem?
Speaker 1: Is it not? Every single time? What do you believe?
Speaker 1: We have the three more most important people probably in
Speaker 1: this war in the administration spoke today and we don't
Speaker 1: have a clear picture of what happened. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio finally just let that out, but there that
Speaker 1: was twelve hours during the day to day and live events.
Speaker 1: Why they didn't I don't know.
Speaker 3: It erodes some trustworthiness to have three different press conferences
Speaker 3: with three different headlines, and each time you're learning a.
Speaker 2: Little bit more.
Speaker 3: And I think a lot of folks are saying, hey,
Speaker 3: here in America, we are now targeted as Americans around
Speaker 3: the world, and certainly we could have isolated retaliatory attacks
Speaker 3: as well that we're all now subjected to. And certainly
Speaker 3: so many people in this country are sending their husbands
Speaker 3: and wives and brothers and sisters and children to go
Speaker 3: fight this war. Don't we deserve a transparent, honest reason
Speaker 3: as to why. And when we heard Mark Rubio just
Speaker 3: a moment ago, it was the first time, at least
Speaker 3: for me as an American citizen where I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: now that makes sense.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying what.
Speaker 3: I feel about the justification of it all, but at
Speaker 3: least that what he said made more sense in terms
Speaker 3: of the timing. Nothing that President Trump or Pete Hexseth
Speaker 3: said made sense about the immediate, immediate need.
Speaker 2: To go in now.
Speaker 1: Ah, So you're actually saying, even though we got it late,
Speaker 1: it makes the most sense.
Speaker 2: It does. It makes the most sense. And I do
Speaker 2: think though the United.
Speaker 3: States obviously had their own motivations for wanting to support
Speaker 3: Israel or at least combine efforts with Israel, maybe maybe
Speaker 3: President Trump saw Israel's decision or their desire to do
Speaker 3: this now as an opportunity to take out a threat
Speaker 3: that they felt like was in fact building. And look,
Speaker 3: Marco Rubio and President Trump bo said this, the hardest
Speaker 3: hits are yet to come. They say they have a
Speaker 3: significant amount of attacks happening now and in the future.
Speaker 2: So this is far from over. And I don't understand
Speaker 2: that part of it.
Speaker 3: I would think when you go into war, and you
Speaker 3: go in and you're trying to take out leaders, and
Speaker 3: you're trying to create chaos and destroy infrastructure and military capabilities,
Speaker 3: you would put your biggest and boldest foot forward.
Speaker 2: But apparently the hardest hits are yet to come.
Speaker 1: What do we know about military?
Speaker 2: Certainly I know nothing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, stay here, folks, this meeting is happening now.
Speaker 1: Officials on Capitol Hill are being briefed. Maybe they are
Speaker 1: getting updated about the information he gave before he went
Speaker 1: into that briefing. Marco Rubio, he's meeting with the so
Speaker 1: called Gang of eight. Exactly who's in that crew? We'll
Speaker 1: tell you. Stay here, all right, We continue here on
Speaker 1: Amy and TJ. After hearing what like you say, rogues
Speaker 1: might make the most sense as to a justification for
Speaker 1: this war. Marco Rubio telling reporters a short time ago
Speaker 1: that in fact, the US had intelligence that Israel was
Speaker 1: going to attack Iran. The US made the determination that
Speaker 1: Iran would then turn around and target US interest, so
Speaker 1: they joined in for this attack. This gang of eight,
Speaker 1: interesting name, but it goes to most of these at
Speaker 1: this point are household names. Bro put the Gang of
Speaker 1: As made up of four House members and four members
Speaker 1: of the US Senate.
Speaker 2: That is great.
Speaker 3: So well to be concerned with the House, You've got
Speaker 3: the Rick Crawford who's a Republican, who's the chair, Jim
Speaker 3: Hines who's the Democrat. They're from the House Committee on Intelligence.
Speaker 3: And then you have Tom Cotton, Republican, very familiar name,
Speaker 3: should be a household name, another one, Mark Warner, a
Speaker 3: Democrat from Virginia.
Speaker 2: And then on yeah, in the House that we've.
Speaker 1: Got the Speaker and the Minority Leader of CHROs Mike
Speaker 1: Johnson and King Jefferies. They absolutely are household names. And
Speaker 1: then John Thune and Chuck Schumer the majority of minor
Speaker 1: leader Minorita leader in the Senate having that meeting right now.
Speaker 1: I assume they're getting the information that we just got
Speaker 1: about Israel. This is I don't know how this is
Speaker 1: going to be free You go ahead, Yeah, No, I'm.
Speaker 3: Just saying right now they're saying, it's Secretary of State
Speaker 3: Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe,
Speaker 3: and General Dan Kaine, who we saw the chairman of
Speaker 3: the Joint Chiefs of Staff with hegseeth earlier. Today they
Speaker 3: are going to brief the full membership of Congress as well.
Speaker 3: But apparently this gang of eight knew about the attack
Speaker 3: shortly before it happened, so they were made aware. They
Speaker 3: weren't asked what they thought about it necessarily or allowed
Speaker 3: to weigh in on it, but they were at least notified.
Speaker 2: We did find that out. They knew it was happening
Speaker 2: shortly before it happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a heads up. But folks, yeah, we didn't
Speaker 1: expect this from Rubio, but Rubio just got our attention certainly,
Speaker 1: and we had to get it confirmed.
Speaker 3: Rose.
Speaker 1: We were actually watching a network at the time when
Speaker 1: we heard it, and for whatever reason, it wasn't the
Speaker 1: headline when the next show started, and we thought, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe we were wrong, maybe we didn't hear this right.
Speaker 1: And sure enough, the anchor of that show as soon
Speaker 1: as she tossed to the correspondent at the White House wrope,
Speaker 1: she tossed to her asking one question and the reporter
Speaker 1: ignored it.
Speaker 3: She was like, actually, can we go back to what
Speaker 3: Marco Rubio just said because and so we were both
Speaker 3: like thank you, because our jaws were dropped weight this
Speaker 3: is the first time we are hearing that the Secretary
Speaker 3: of State is telling reporters that our decision to attack
Speaker 3: Iran was influenced by Israel. That's a massive headline that
Speaker 3: we had not heard certainly were not told that before.
Speaker 1: Just now. That is a different justification and reasoning for
Speaker 1: this war and for why those stories, I mean, those
Speaker 1: that back and forth will continue. But right now, folks,
Speaker 1: we are at war and there are six American service
Speaker 1: members who have been killed, at least eighteen injured seriously,
Speaker 1: and this continues. We appreciate you spending some time with us.
Speaker 1: Will always hop on and update you when those updates
Speaker 1: come to us, So we appreciate you as always.
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