But by Tuesday, Trump had effectively rewritten the narrative. Appearing in the Oval Office, the President rejected the idea that Israel had pressured him. “If anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand,” he said, adding that he believes it was Iran that was about to strike. “It was my opinion that they were going to attack first… They were going to attack if we didn’t do it.” Rubio further walked back his own statement that afternoon, as he headed into classified briefings before Congress that were focused in part on the Administration’s conflicting rationales.