Secret Service Leak Investigation, Meta’s $18B Settlement, Deadly Flooding in Nepal: AM Update 8/27

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Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Drushinsky, host of After Party and The Megyn Kelly Wrap Up Show on SiriusXM Channel 111 It's Thursday, August 27th, 2026, and this is your AM Update. The Secret Service's top spokesman reportedly escorted from headquarters and stripped of his security clearance as the FBI and CIA joined an investigation into leaks involving President Trump's movements.

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Meta agreeing to pay $18 billion and fundamentally changed the social media experience for young users, settling claims its platforms were deliberately designed to keep them addicted.

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The prosecution resting its rebuttal in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, after its final expert points to the phone call he says, revealed she knew exactly what she was doing.
A wall of water, mud, and rock tearing through the Himalayan border between Nepal and Tibet, killing at least 160 people as dozens of Americans remain missing. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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Three employees in the US. Secret Service Communications Office reportedly escorted from the agency's Washington headquarters Monday, amid an investigation into the possible disclosure of classified or sensitive information to the press. RealClearPolitics reported the employees were removed from their positions, stripped of their security clearances, and designated, quote, do not admit, barring them from Secret Service facilities. The group reportedly including Anthony Guglielmi, the agency's top spokesman since 2022, and public face throughout the fallout from the attempted assassination of President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. The Secret Service only confirming that three non-law enforcement employees have been placed on administrative leave while its Office of Professional Responsibility conducts a review.
The agency not identifying the employees or revealing the focus of the investigation. RealClearPolitics reporting the FBI and CIA are also involved. Administrative leave and the suspension of security clearances are standard during an investigation and do not establish that any of the employees engaged in wrongdoing. We spoke with RealClearPolitics National Political Correspondent Susan Crabtree, who broke this story.
Crabtree reporting what the investigators are likely trying to uncover.

**Susan Crabtree** (3:54)
My sources are telling me that it is, has everything to do with the media leak investigation into the reports about Donald Trump using the decoy plane to leave Turkey and not using the Qatari gifted Air Force One because the Qatari gifted Air Force One did not have some of the highest security protocols that could counter a service-to-air missile that was part of the intelligence that based around threat, that it was, that the Secret Service got that intelligence from what I understand and what's been reported as Israeli sources.

**Emily Drushinsky** (4:36)
That remarkable operation unfolding earlier this year, President Trump reportedly hiding inside a catering truck before sneaking aboard a decoy aircraft and slipping out of Turkey. The covert switch keeping him off Air Force One to commit intelligence warning of a possible Iranian surface to air missile threat.
The reported involvement of the FBI and CIA separating this investigation from the agency's typical internal disciplinary process.

**Susan Crabtree** (5:02)
Usually the invest, either Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security is investigating after the Secret Service itself, its Office of Professional Responsibility investigates. But now it's coming from what I understand is the White House generated, wanted to get to the bottom of who talked to these reporters. The Washington Post first reported about the decoy plane, the event leaving Turkey, how the President Trump was escorted in a different plane than Air Force One.