Boston Mayor Tiptoes Around Criminality? | DNI Gabbard Strips Clearances | 8/20/25

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

Politics, News, Daily News

4.9 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

President Trump’s Fox News comments on wanting to “stop the killing” in Ukraine, aiming for a trilateral meeting with Putin and Zelensky, potentially in Moscow. The White House reports 465 arrests in D.C. since the federal crime crackdown began, with robberies down 46%, carjackings down 83%, and violent crime down 22%, though concerns linger about D.C.’s corrupt system releasing arrestees. DNI Tulsi Gabbard strips security clearances from 37 intelligence officials, including James Clapper, for politicizing intel. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu defiantly refuses to comply with federal immigration laws, risking prosecution. California’s AB495, fast-tracked to Governor Newsom, alarms Pastor Jack Hibbs for enabling “medical kidnapping” of children. A UCSF speaker, Dante King, labels whiteness a “biologically transmitted proclivity” for psychopathy, exposing DEI’s deep roots. The IVF debate heats up as Orchid’s founder, Noor Siddiqui, equates embryo screening to parental love, prompting a chilling response to NYT’s Ross Douthat’s emotional plea about losing the human connection in procreation.

AM Update, Aaron McIntire, Trump Ukraine peace talks, Zelensky-Putin meeting, D.C. crime crackdown, Tulsi Gabbard, James Clapper, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, immigration defiance, California AB495, Jack Hibbs, medical kidnapping, Dante King, DEI wokeness, IVF moral debate, Noor Siddiqui, Ross Douthat

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0:28.5	love to use. It's Wednesday, August 20th, 2025. Trump says he wants to go to heaven. Did Boston's
0:35.3	mayor commit a crime on live television and the conversation
0:39.0	about IVF has started? Are we ready next on the AM update?
0:48.8	President Trump recapped his meeting with various European leaders on Monday.
0:59.8	Here he is on Fox News talking about how all he wants to do is get the killing to stop in Ukraine.
1:05.0	I just want to end it. I want to end it. You know, we're not losing American lives. We're not losing American soldiers. We're losing Russian and Ukrainian, mostly soldiers. Some people as missiles hit wrong spots or get lobbed into cities
1:12.9	like Kiev in towns. But, you know, if I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed,
1:21.2	I think that's a pretty, I want to try and get to heaven if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing
1:25.1	well. I hear really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons. Well, I think I saved a lot of lives with India. So there is President Trump saying all he wants to do is get the killing to stop in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and saying that if he makes it to heaven, this is going to be one of the reasons why I'm kind of torn by that statement there. Obviously, you can't earn your way into heaven. Yet at the same time, there is a little bit of humility there from the commander-in-chief. So still, some of the fallout from that meeting, good fallout, hopefully, still has yet to be determined. I saw reports yesterday that Vladimir Putin once again reiterated. He
2:01.3	wants the next meeting to be in Moscow, Russia. That would be something if Trump, Putin, and
2:06.4	Zelensky all met together in Moscow. But we'll keep an eye open for that. Back at the White
2:11.2	House, here's my secretary Caroline Levitt detailing some of the accomplishments since the
2:16.1	federalization of D.C. rolled out.
2:18.9	And other news on the home front, President Trump's efforts to make D.C. safe again are working.
2:23.8	There have been a total of 465 arrests since the start of this operation on Thursday, August 7th.
2:31.6	Last night, there were a total of 52 arrests, including the arrest of an illegal
2:36.2	alien MS-13 gang member with convictions for DWI and drug possession. Thanks to President
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