Full Episode: Sunday, September 21, 2025

This Week with George Stephanopoulos

ABC News

Politics, News

3.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

As the Trump administration puts pressure on free speech, Sen. Chris Murphy (CT-D) joins ABC's Jon Karl on "This Week" to discuss the Democratic pushback – plus the latest on the prospect of a government shutdown; After RFK Jr’s newly appointed vaccine advisory panel voted to make the COVID-19 vaccine “a personal choice,” and postponed other key decisions, Dr. Rich Besser talks about the effects new vaccine guidance will have on public heal; Chris Christie and Stephen A. Smith discuss the Trump administration’s pressure on free speech and campaign against his critics, and pushback from some top Democrats over revelations in former Vice President Kamala Harris' new book. 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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1:02.7	Overnight a stunning development in Washington,
1:05.6	a message from President Trump attacking his own attorney general
1:09.5	and pressuring her to more aggressively prosecute
1:13.1	his political rivals. This week starts right now.
1:16.6	I just want people to act. They have to act. And we want to act fast.
1:21.6	President Trump nominates one of his former defense lawyers to take over one of the most important U.S. attorney's
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