investigator reporter and bob woodward of the former president. some of it was played on cnn earlier today but what you ll hear tonight has never aired. from 2016 through 2020 woodward taped his conversations with the former president. he will be releasing all 20 of these conversations on the 25th of this month as an audio book titled the trump tapes which runs for more than eight hours. cnn has obtained a copy and what you ll hear tonight is striking. it speaks to who he was as president, who he is as a person and how completely intertwined the personal and presidential were for him and probably still are. something that s not just apparent in what he says but even more so in how he says it. something the printed word just can t fully convey. the conversations also speak directly to some of what the former president is now being investigated for. namely how he views classified material and a president s responsibility for safe guarding some of the countries deepest secrets a
of this month as an audio book titled the trump tapes, which runs for more than eight hours. cnn has obtained a copy. what you will hear tonight striking. it speaks to who he was as president, who he is as a person, and how completely intertwined the personal and presidential work for him. and probably still are. something that s not just apparent in what he says, but even more so and how he says it. something the printed were just cannot fully convey. the conversations also speak directly to some of what the former president is now being investigated for. namely how he views classified material. and a presidents responsibility for safeguarding some of the country s deepest secrets. that s why these conversations, which have never been heard before, are so significant. cnn special correspondent jamie gangel has an exclusive tonight. she joins us with some of the audio. what stands out to you the most? i think as you said is hearing trump say these words. and you re in the r
ahead 5 to 10 points. we have a poll up there that has him ahead 7 points. it s a red state. it s probably going to be a goodyear for republicans. so georgia record turn out. what does that indicate, anything? you know, we always talk about early voting. oh, these record numbers, yeah, turnout, interest is high, but the fact is is that the people who turn out to vote early, the people who vote by mail, are overwhelmingly democratic. republican voters are going to mostly or a lot of them, clearly more than democrats will wait until election day to count balance t los. there s not a lot in early voting other than perhaps interest is high. some polling that there had been a lot of hope among democrats that the pendulum is switching toward democrats that that may not be the case and it may be more toward republicans. yeah, so we look at the trend line. i think this is clear. look at the generic ballot trend
turnout, interest, is high. but the fact is is that the people who turned out to vote early, the people who vote by mail, are overwhelmingly democratic. republican voters are mostly, or a lot of them, clearly more than democrats, wait until election day to count ballots. we know this from the polling, we know through history. it is not a lot to read into early voting other than perhaps interest. which we knew already, because record primary turnout. i ve seen some polling that there had been some hope, a lot of hope among democrats that kind of the pendulum was shifting towards democrat. that may not be the, case in a maybe more towards republicans. if you look at a trend line, right. i think this is. clear look at the generic ballot trend line. if you go back to june, you sorry publicans were ahead in roe v. wade was overturned, and then by september, you saw the democrats had actually overtaken republicans on the generic ballot. look where it is. now the republicans have regained