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 Tuesday, November 11th, 2025. Happy Veterans Day. Here's what happened today in America.

Syrian president to the White House. Supreme Court denies case. Suing for a lot of money and the UN climate doom summit.

That's all coming up.

Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day.

But first, the president of Syria, Ahmed al-Shara, met with President Trump at the White

House yesterday.

He is the first Syrian leader to visit the White House since Syria became independent

from French colonial rule in 1946. Shara quietly entered the White House through a side

entrance, remained inside for about an hour and a half. Shara is a former Al-Qaeda and Iraq officer.

Now he's the president of Syria and he's trying to convince the Western

world that he can lead a democracy in Syria. Now, check this out. The House Foreign Affairs

Committee chairman, Brian Mast, is a congressman from Florida. He met with the president of Syria

on Sunday night. Now, the relevant thing about Brian Mast in this case is he is a decorated

army veteran who lost both of his legs while serving in Afghanistan as a bomb disposal expert.

So he met with this former Al-Qaeda terrorist. And Brian Mast said, I broke bread. He and I are

two former soldiers and two former enemies. I asked him directly, why are we no longer enemies?

His response was that he wishes to liberate from the past and have a noble pursuit for his people and his country and to be a great ally to the United States of America.

The Supreme Court denied a bid from a former Kentucky County clerk, Kim Davis, to appeal a $100,000 damages verdict and to get

the justices to revisit the 2015 same-sex marriage rights decision, O'Bergafel v. Hodges.

The court denied that and did not explain his decision.

Kim Davis, you remember, refused to issue a marriage license to this same-sex couple

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