Rubio Muddies Trump's Message By Saying Iran Strikes Were Actually ‘Proactive'

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, about to step into a meeting with members of Congress, contradicted what some of those members had been told over the weekend about President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran.

Senator Mark Warner, one of the “Gang of Eight,” said on Sunday he was told there had been no intelligence indicating Iran was just about to strike US assets.

But on Monday, Rubio told reporters: “There absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked ...