Full Episode: Friday, October 17, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

News, Daily News

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Mary Bruce has the latest on Pres. Trump commuting the prison sentence of former New York Congressman George Santos, who was convicted of wire fraud and identity theft, and reports on Pres. Zelenskyy’s face-to-face meeting with Trump at the White House, Martha Raddatz has new details on the Navy rescuing and detaining two survivors; the grieving parents of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was taken by Hamas on October 7th and died in captivity, sat down with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm John Quignores. Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old soldier,
0:05.0	vanishes while on duty at an army base in Texas.
0:09.0	Her family demands answers.
0:12.0	How can she go missing on a military base?
0:14.0	That's too ridiculous.
0:16.0	The search goes on for months.
0:19.0	Where is Vanessa? And a dark story. Search goes on for months.
0:25.6	And a dark story starts to unfold.
0:29.6	She told her family that she was being sexually harassed and wasn't reporting it out of fear of retribution and retaliation.
0:34.6	What investigators finally uncover is horrifying.
0:40.0	Find out how one soldier, a beloved sister and daughter, ignited a movement and sparked
0:46.5	a reckoning in the U.S. military.
0:50.0	Listen to Vanished.
0:51.7	What happened to Vanessa?
0:53.6	A new series from ABC Audio in 2020. Listen now Vanished. What happened to Vanessa? A new series from ABC Audio in 2020.
0:57.0	Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
1:02.6	Tonight breaking news just in.
1:04.5	President Trump commutes George Santos' sentence.
1:06.9	We learned just moments ago, President Trump now commuting the sentence of former
1:10.8	Congressman George Santos, who authorities had lied about his personal life, his professional
1:15.4	life, and got elected to Congress. He was convicted of wire fraud and identity theft. Now
1:21.0	he'll go free. We'll go live to Mary Bruce. President Trump and President Zelensky at the White
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