Rubio contradicts himself on remarks about starting Iran war over Israel

Yesterday you told us that Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. Today the president said that Iran was going to get...

Yeah, your statement is false. So that's not what... I was asked very specifically. Were you there yesterday? Yes, I asked the question. Were you the one that... because somebody asked me a question yesterday. Did we go in because of Israel? And I said... no, I told you this had to happen anyway. 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, And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.