Full Episode: Sunday, August 17, 2025

This Week with George Stephanopoulos

ABC News

Politics, News

3.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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ABC News’ Martha Raddatz interviews Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan, and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. on ABC's This Week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm John Quignores.
0:02.0	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 starts to unfold.
0:26.6	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?
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1:03.0	The much-anticipated summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin ends without a deal.
1:09.1	What will that mean for the war in Ukraine? This week starts right now. There's no deal until there without a deal. What will that mean for the war in Ukraine?
1:11.2	This week starts right now.
1:13.3	There's no deal until there's a deal.
1:15.5	President Trump rolls out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin in Alaska,
1:20.6	but their summit fails to produce a ceasefire.
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