Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.

Thank you, Bill. It is Wednesday, August 20th, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America.

In the coming weeks, clearance is yanked, can't speak English, and COVID vaccine for infants.

It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here

with the oral message of the day. But first, the White House has said that Russian President

Vladimir Putin promised to meet with Zelensky in the coming weeks. Location still to be determined.

Trump told Mark Levine on his radio show that he thinks just a meeting between the leaders of

Russia and Ukraine is the best for the next step in the peace negotiations.

So Trump not being there.

He said after that meeting, he'd be happy to join the two of them to get the deal officially

closed.

The director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced security clearances

have been pulled from 37 current and former officials who, quote, abused public trust by

politicizing and manipulating information. This includes several officials who were involved

in the Russian interference lie from the Obama administration.

Their access to classified systems, facilities, materials, and information is to be terminated

forthwith. Any contracts or employment with the U.S. government by these 37 individuals is

hereby terminated. Any credentials held by these individuals must be surrendered to the appropriate security

officers.

That illegal immigrant from India who came across the U.S. border back in 2018 and then

got his commercial driver's license in California and just recently tried to do a U-turn

on the highway, which resulted in three Americans being killed.

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