platt campaign platform much less a campaign slogan until 2016. lock her up, that s right. (crowd chanting, lock her up) loud, stadium chant. lock her up. and trump loved it. his kids clapped along to it at the republican national convention. his future national security adviser was part of the chorus, even though he was the one who would actually be convicted of a real crime just a few years later. lock her up, over her emails, lock her up, she misused to serve, lock her up because she is trump s opponent. trump pushed the fantasy of hillary clinton s criminality to such an extreme that he made this threat on the debate stage a month before the election. i will tell you what. i did not think i would say this. but i m going to say that. and i hate to say it but if i win i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. since trump became president, he
19 hours, 59 minutes, and 41 seconds in counting until the first poll closing on election night. we are picking up our countdown to election night right where we left off last friday night, and where we will be every friday night between now and the midterms. that is after tonight, only one more friday night between now and the midterms. it is getting really close, we are inside of two weeks right now to go, and not only is it getting closer on the calendar, but voting is underway in all sorts of states, early voting nearly 20 million, they have already been cast in this midterm election, in the 2018 midterm election, all sorts of records were shattered when it came to turnout. about 116 million votes were cast in that midterm election when all was said and done. we may be over 120 million when this one is over. numbers that would have been unthinkable years ago, that is of course where politics are right now. so, the biggest campaign news tonight, the democrats, they are bri
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
and we are exactly ten, days 19, hours 59 minutes, and 41 seconds, and counting until the first poll closing on election night. we are picking up our countdown to election night, right where we left off last friday night, and where we will be everybody tonight, between now and the midterms. and that is after tonight, only one more friday night. between now and the midterms, it s getting really close, we are inside of two weeks right now to go. and not only is it getting closer on the calendar but voting is underway! and all sorts of states, early voting net now nearly 20 million, 18 million votes already been cast in this midterm election. in the 2018 midterm election, also it s a records were shattered when i came to turn out. about 116 million votes were cast in that midterm election when all was said and done. we may be over 120 million when this one is over. numbers that would have been unthinkable years ago. but that is of course where politics are right now. so,
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