Cabot Phillips

Yeah, it's worth pointing out a lot of times people hear about these plots or these alleged plots and they think, oh, was this thing actually going to happen?

Was this actually serious or were these just a few guys sitting around a campfire spewing out stupid ideas and getting caught?

This one seems very, very serious and very credible.

So what we have here is about 20 plus individuals in a series of signal chats.

plotting out a plan to attack the UFC event this past Sunday at the White House.

One of those individuals, his mother became so concerned by what she was seeing from her son that she contacted federal authorities and they immediately came in and began investigating.

So it looks like there was not like an informant or a federal agent of some kind in these chats

spreading this plan.

This was actually something where the suspect's mother turned him in.

The plot itself, a number of individuals said that they were going to have explosive-laden drones that they were going to set off above the UFC event.

They then were going to have snipers posted with long rifles in elevated areas around the event.

They were going to try and herd the crowd, create evacuation, mass panic.

and began shooting people as they came out.

They had very specific plans.

The affidavit that we were just reading through, the Daily Wire obtained yesterday, it shows clear maps that they had.

They had direct routes and evacuation routes that they had.

They had all sorts of

very specific ideas of what they wanted to do here.

Also worth pointing out, these individuals had a plan allegedly to meet up in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to begin recon and training for this alleged operation in the days before the event.

And so there's all sorts of probable cause here, all sorts of evidence that this was a very real plot.