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World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Thursday, August 7, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

News, Daily News

3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Mary Bruce reports as American business owners and consumers prepare for the repercussions of Pres. Trump's tariffs, which impact nearly every U.S. trading partner and mark the highest tariff rates in nearly 100 years; Aaron Katersky has the latest on the two Pennsylvania state troopers who were shot and wounded in what officials called an ambush after responding to a domestic dispute; amid a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Ian Pannell reports on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying that Israel "intends" to take control of all Gaza temporarily, ending any short term hopes of a ceasefire; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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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

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0:58.1

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1:03.2

Tonight, President Trump's sweeping tariffs take effect. Americans now bracing for higher prices.

1:08.3

The president imposing the highest tariffs in nearly a century

1:11.7

on almost every U.S. trading partner. Dozens of countries now paying between 10 and 50% more

1:17.8

to ship their goods into the U.S. President Trump insisting it will boost American manufacturing.

1:23.8

But economists warning American buyers will likely pay the higher costs on everything from food to clothing to electronics.

1:30.3

Mary Bruce at the White House.

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