Full Episode: Sunday, October 12, 2025

This Week with George Stephanopoulos

ABC News

Politics, News

3.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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George Stephanopoulos speaks with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker about his efforts to push back on President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago; Vice President JD Vance joins George Stephanopoulos to discuss the latest developments in the Gaza peace deal, the administration’s National Guard deployments, and the criminal indictment of NY Attorney General Letitia James. 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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1:02.2	Two years after the October 7th attack in Israel is an end to the war in Gaza within reach.
1:08.3	This week starts right now.
1:10.8	This is a big day. We have to get the final
1:13.9	word down in concrete. Israel and Hamas backed President Trump's plan to free all remaining
1:21.5	hostages. Everybody was unified in wanting this war to end, and we're very close to achieving that.
1:29.3	But with key differences remaining, will the peace plan actually end the conflict?
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