Minutes away: How Trump opted against Iran strike

WASHINGTON -- The planes were ready -- their deadly cargo poised for delivery within a half-hour. U.S. President Donald Trump had been given a series of options Thursday night on how to respond to Iran's downing of an unmanned American surveillance drone. Senior military advisers zeroed in on a plan to launch strikes on a trio of sites within Iran, and it was up to Trump to give the final go-ahead. If the planes took off, Trump later recounted to NBC, they would soon be at "a point where you wou