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World News Tonight with David Muir

Full Episode: Tuesday, December 16, 2025

World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC News

Daily News, News

3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Trevor Ault reports on officials announcing Nick Reiner – the son of director Rob Reiner – will be charged with the murders of his parents, who were found stabbed to death; Whit Johnson has the latest on the urgent manhunt underway for the gunman wanted in the mass shooting at Brown University as investigators piece together a timeline of a suspect’s movements before and after the attack; Mary Bruce has details on WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles telling Vanity Fair that Pres. Trump has "an alcoholic's personality" and sharing her thoughts on the Epstein files; 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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0:00.0

David Muir, ABC's World News Tonight, America's Most Watched Newscast, now streaming same day with all the breaking news of the day on Disney Plus, most watched, most trusted.

0:12.7

Now on Disney Plus every night.

0:16.4

Tonight breaking news as we come on the air here late today, the Los Angeles County DA Rob Reiner's son Nick Reiner will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents Rob and Michelle Reiner.

0:28.6

For the first time here, Emmett is showing the moment Nick Reiner is arrested and what we've now learned tonight about what played out in the hours before the murders. Also breaking just in tonight new surveillance of the person of interest,

0:41.3

considered armed and dangerous and still on the run tonight after the mass shooting at Brown University,

0:46.3

what the FBI wants you to focus on here.

0:49.3

Tonight, an MIT professor who taught nuclear science shot multiple times found in his Boston area home,

0:56.0

dying at the hospital, the search underway right now.

1:00.0

Tonight, the explosive interview from inside President Trump's inner circle.

1:04.0

His chief of staff, Susie Wiles, who prefers staying in the background,

1:08.0

gives nearly a dozen on-the the record interviews to Vanity Fair,

1:11.8

revealing she was the child of an alcoholic and saying President Trump has, quote,

1:16.2

an alcoholic's personality, what she says about Vice President J.D. Vance,

1:20.6

what she says about Jeffrey Epstein and the Attorney General's handling of the case.

1:25.5

Tonight, President Trump responding to Susie Wiles' comments about him, quote,

1:29.3

having an alcoholic's personality.

1:31.3

Dramatic new images tonight emerging of that horrific massacre on the first night of Hanukkah.

1:36.3

Dash cam video now showing that heroic couple in their 60s, and what they try to do, you'll see it, going after the gunman. Here in the U.S. tonight,

1:45.6

the flood emergency now turning deadly and a major change coming for much of the country.

1:50.5

Ginger Z is here. Police chasing a stolen car, the driver losing control, crashing, and the explosion.

1:57.5

The disappointing news tonight coming in on the Rolling Stones, we have it.

2:01.6

And nine days left until Christmas, our great Made in America Christmas on the hunt, opening doors,

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