Full Episode: Thursday, December 4, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

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3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Martha Raddatz has new details on the closed door briefing from Adm. Mitch Bradley to lawmakers on the Sept. 2 strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea that killed both survivors; after a nearly five-year investigation, Pierre Thomas reports on the arrest in connection with the pipe bombs planted outside DNC and RNC headquarters before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol; David Muir looks back on the life and legacy of Steve Cropper, a guitarist, songwriter and producer who helped shape the sound of Memphis soul music; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's Most Watched Newscast,
0:35.5	now streaming same day with all the breaking news of the day on Disney Plus,
0:40.5	most watched, most trusted. Now on Disney Plus every night. Tonight we have breaking news as we come on
0:47.4	what the video shows the controversial second strike killing survivors. Lawmakers have now seen it.
0:53.0	The video, the military strikes played for
0:55.3	members of Congress, one lawmaker tonight saying it was one of the most troubling things he has
0:59.8	seen in public service. Another saying, what he saw was entirely lawful. So Martha Radd's standing
1:05.6	by on what the video shows. Also breaking tonight the surveillance, the alleged suspect placing multiple
1:11.5	pipe bombs, unleashing fear in Washington. There's been a major break in this case. The
1:16.6	disturbing video federal agents summoned masks, dragging a woman from her car as she screams,
1:22.0	I'm a U.S. citizen.
1:23.1	I'm a U.S. citizen! Please help me! Put in handcuffs, what Homeland Security is now saying tonight.
1:31.0	This evening is scared during takeoff, a bird strike,
1:33.8	as the Delta passenger jet takes off in the air, the flames shooting from the engine.
1:38.2	You will hear the pilots.
1:40.2	Just in tonight for the first time we hear the 911 call in the Luigi Mangione case,
1:45.0	the person calling authorities from another state saying we believe he's here and what was allegedly found.
1:52.0	Tonight the bone chilling cold and it's about to get even worse. Records will be set so Lee Goldberg in the forecast what you'll face first thing in the morning.
2:04.9	Outside Boston tonight, the husband on trial and the murder of his wife.
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