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This Week with George Stephanopoulos

Full Episode: Sunday, November 16, 2025

This Week with George Stephanopoulos

ABC News

Politics, News

3.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Jon Karl interviews NEC Director Kevin Hassett about how the White House will address the tax credits millions of Americans are set to lose next year; Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) who voted against the funding bill talks about the divide within his party; Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) joins Jon Karl to discuss his effort to get the Justice Department’s documents, and Trump’s new call to investigate political opponents over Epstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.9

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0:11.9

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0:16.7

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0:23.6

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0:28.5

Good morning. Welcome to this week.

0:31.2

The longest government shutdown in history is over, with no progress towards addressing the issue that triggered it all.

0:38.6

The massive increase in the price of health insurance set to hit millions of Americans

0:43.2

in January.

0:44.7

And millions more are being squeezed by higher prices at the grocery store, as well as the

0:49.9

lack of affordable housing and the rising price of electricity. How much prices are going up right now

0:56.4

is actually hard to say. Because of the shutdown, the government didn't gather the basic information

1:02.6

needed to calculate inflation since September. In a sign that the White House knows that the high

1:08.6

cost of living is a political liability for the

1:11.5

president, the administration announced late Friday that it is rolling back tariffs on several

1:17.4

consumer goods, including beef, bananas, tomatoes, and coffee. An acknowledgement perhaps of the obvious.

1:26.1

Higher tariffs almost always mean higher prices at home.

1:30.9

We'll get to all of that this morning with the president's top economic advisor, as well as a leading

1:35.5

Democrat in the Senate. But we begin with our Mary Bruce and the controversy that engulfed the

1:41.5

White House this week over the Jeffrey Epstein files.

1:45.4

This week, the release of thousands of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein

1:49.7

sparking renewed questions about the sex offenders' relationship with the president.

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