Cabot Phillips

that Russia had taken satellite images of that base, Prince Sultan, in the days just before it was targeted by Iran.

Yeah, so back on March 9th, Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, not in the Middle East, this is here in the U.S., was temporarily put under a shelter-in-place order after reports of suspicious drone activity over the installation.

Keep in mind, this base houses long-range B-52 bombers and is also the headquarters of the Air Force Global Strike Command, which helps oversee our nuclear arsenal.

The shelter-in-place order was lifted within 12 hours, but we now know that those drone incursions not only continued over the next week, but expanded.

According to a Pentagon report obtained by ABC, throughout March 9th to 15th, sophisticated drones began to appear in swarms of 12 to 15 and operated in a way that implied an attempt to, quote, avoid the operators being located.

And these were not your run-of-the-mill hobbyist drones.

The Pentagon report says they possessed, quote, long-range control links and resistance to jamming.

And then after entering the base's airspace, quote, dispersed across sensitive locations on the base.

And to make this story even more concerning, the drones displayed blinking lights, meaning they were not trying to be subtle.

They wanted to be seen.

Officials say they could have been operated and deployed by an adversary looking to test our military and how they would respond, and that these drones are almost certainly beyond the capabilities of Iran.

So that leaves Russia and China as obvious potential culprits.

Right.

He suspended those potential strikes on Iranian power plants this past Saturday and gave a five-day window for peace talks to take place.

And in the last 24 hours, we've gotten new details on the offer that he's making, which again is going not directly to the Iranians, but through intermediaries like Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan.

From what we know, this is a 15-point plan that includes a number of major concessions from the Iranians.

For example, it requires they dismantle their three largest nuclear sites and remove all enriched uranium from the country while agreeing to cease all future enrichment.

It also places severe limits on their ballistic missile capabilities and demands a full opening of the Strait of Hormuz.

In exchange, the White House offered to let the regime keep a nuclear program for civilian use, albeit with very close oversight.

They also reportedly offered to lift a number of economic sanctions that have hampered the Iranian economy for years now.