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CNN Transcripts for October 12, 2025

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CNN Newsroom
• Trump Heads To Mideast As Israel Awaits Hostage Release; Interview With Founder Of "The Jerusalem Journal" Avi Mayer; Interview With Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD); Official: Hostage Release Expected To Start Early Monday; V.P. Vance Defends Trump Admin's Firing Of Federal Workers; Palestinians Scramble For Food As Aid Trucks Arrive In Gaza. Aired 2-3p ET
• Donald Trump Heads To Mideast As Israel Awaits Hostage Release; Four People Killed, 20 Injured In South Carolina Bar Shooting; Tidal Flooding Hits Norfolk, Virginia As Nor'easter Strengthens. Aired 3-4p ET
• Netanyahu Calls For Unity On Eve Of Hostage Return; Trump Heads To Middle East As Israel Awaits Hostage Release; U.S. Citizen Detained By ICE Despite Carrying Passport; Pope Leo: Ceasefire Gives "A Spark Of Hope In the Holy Land"; Smithsonian Museums, National Zoo Close As Funding Dries Up. Aired 4-5p ET
• President Trump Heads To The Middle East, Israel Awaits Hostage Release; Nor'easter Bringing Heavy Rains And Winds To The East Coast; United Nations Slash 25 Percent Of Peacekeeping Force And Operations Worldwide; Fragile Ceasefire Holds; Gaza Rebuilds. Aired 5-6p ET
• Trump Declares War Over Between Israel And Hamas, Hostage Release Expected To Start Within Hours. Aired 6-7p ET
• Hostage Release Expected To Start Within Hours; Trump Declares "War Is Over" Between Israel And Hamas; One Father's Enduring Hope; Trump Heads To Middle East As Israel Awaits Hostage Release; Government Shutdown About To Enter Third Week; No One Found Alive As Painstaking Blast Investigation Begins. Aired 7-8p ET
• Trump Head to the Middle East as Israel Awaits Hostage Release; Trucks Carrying Humanitarian Aid Moving into Gaza; Trump Declares War is Over Between Hamas and Israel; The Emotional Journey of Returning Home; As Shutdown Drags on Many Military Families Face Added Stress Over Pay; Hostage Release Expected to Start within Hours. Aired 8-9p ET
• Hostage Released Expected To Start Within Hours; Trump Heads To Middle East As Israel Awaits Hostage Release; 20+ Countries To Join Trump For Summit On Gaza's Future. Aired 9-10p ET
• Hostage Release Expected to Begin in Coming Hours; Hamas Reasserts Control in Parts of Gaza; U.N. Says, Real Progress in Humanitarian Operations in Gaza. Aired 10-11p ET
• Hostages Release Expected to Begin in Coming Hours; CNN Visits Israeli Hospital Preparing for Hostage Arrivals; Hostage Families on Their Way to Re'im to Await Release. Aired 11p-12a ET
• Thousands Attend Rally in Tel Aviv Ahead of Hostage Release; Palestinians Return Home to Rubble in Gaza; U.S. Military to Have Role in Ceasefire Coordination; Zelenskyy Sees Hope for Ukraine After Gaza Ceasefire; Massive Blast at Tennessee Explosives Plant Kills 16 People. Aired 12-1a ET
• Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal. A Hollywood Original. Aired 1-2a ET
• Middle East Peace Plan; US Government Shutdown; A Hollywood Original. Aired 2-3a ET
• Official Says, Hostage Release Expected to Start Monday Morning; Aid Shipments Begin to Flow into Gaza; Thousands Booed Netanyahu's Name During Witkoff Speech. Aired 3-4a ET
• Hostage Release Expected to Start Monday Morning; Hundreds of Aid Trucks Moving Toward Gaza; Witkoff and Kushner Toured Gaza; Next Stages of Gaza Ceasefire; Trump and Sisi to Co-Chair Gaza Summit; Zelenskyy Sees Hope for Ukraine After Gaza Ceasefire; Diane Keaton Dies at 79'. Aired 4-5a ET
• Thousands Attend Rally In Tel Aviv Ahead Of Hostage Release; Israel's Hostage Coordinator Tells Families Release Expected To Begin Monday Morning; Israel Expected To Released Palestinian Prisoners; Aid Convoy Moves Through Southern Gaza City Of Khan Younis; Zelenskyy Sees Hope For Ukraine After Gaza Ceasefire. Aired 5-6 am ET


CNN This Morning
• Hundreds Of Aid Trucks Move Into Gaza Ahead Of Hostage Release; Trump To Leave For Israel Ahead Of Planned Hostage Release Monday; Palestinians Returning Home To Rubble In Gaza; Nearly 500,000 People Attend Rally In Hostage Square; Israelis Await Hostage Release Ahead Of Major Gaza Summit In Egypt; Families Notified After Tennessee Explosives Plant Blast Kills 16; Chicago Marathon Begins Amid Immigration Enforcement Concerns; Fifteen Arrested At Protest Outside Illinois ICE Facility; Appeals Court Rules National Guard Troops In Illinois Can Be Federalized But Cannot Be Deployed. Stalemate Continues As Shutdown Enters Its Third Week; Beloved Actress Diane Keaton Dies At 79; Nor'easter Threatens Major Coastal Flooding And Damaging Winds; CNN Reporters Tests Their Chemical Exposure, Find Dire Results; Study: Teens Having Friendship & "Romantic Relationships" With AI; "New Orleans: Souls Of A City" Airs Tonight At 10P (ET/PT). Aired 6-7a ET
• Hundreds Of Aid Trucks Move Into Gaza Ahead Of Hostage Release; Three Qatari Diplomats Killed In Car Accident Ahead Of Gaza Summit; Families Notified After Tennessee Explosives Plant Blast Kills 16; Joe Biden Begins Radiation Treatment For Prostate Cancer; Nor'easter Bringing Tropical Wind, Rain To NYC And Northeast. 4K Plus Federal Workers Fired; Black People Rally Around Bad Bunny; Tyra Banks' "Hot Ice Cream" Flavors. Aired 7-8a ET


Fareed Zakaria GPS
• U.S.-Brokered Deal Brings Hope for peace in the Middle East; Gaza in Ruins After Two Years of Brutal War. Interview With Award- Winning Historian William Dalrymple; Interview With Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber. Aired 10-11a ET


Inside Politics
• Official: Hostage Released Expected To Start Monday Morning; Today: Trump Heads To Mideast As Israel Awaits Hostage Release; As Shutdown Pain Grows, Is GOP Feeling Pressure To Talk? Interview with Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA); GOP Has no Plans to Negotiation with Dems Despite Pressure; On the Political Radar. Aired 8-9a ET


State of the Union
• Interview With Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ); Interview With Former U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan; Interview With Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). Aired 9-10a ET


The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper
• Did Not Air 8-9p ET