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
united states and around the world. it is wednesday, october 19th. i m christine romans. we should hopefully know the winners of the mid-term election. the latest cnn polling shows the economy and inflation are the top issues for voters. later today president biden will announce the sale of 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. that will happen in december. mr. biden s aim is to ease gas prices. the move fulfills the administration s decision back in march to release a total of 180 million barrels from the reserve over a six-month period. we get more now from cnn s phil mattingly. reporter: president biden and his top economic officials have for several months made trying to do something, anything to dampen skyrocketing gas prices a central priority, if not the top priority both politically and economically for the administration. over the course of the summer they had a pretty good run, three months of consecutive drops. a run that was put into qu
and we ve just heard they re evacuating civilians from the line there. and russia continues to target critical infrastructure in ukraine, triggering power and water outages. overnight, central ukraine was hit, quote, all night long by russian attacks. also a new round of kamikaze drone strikes. ukraine claiming it shot down 13 drones in the mykolaiv region. clarissa ward is live with the latest. can you tell us what you re hearing happening near kherson? reporter: it s an interesting picture. one we didn t expect to see quite this quickly but what appears to be happening is the mass evacuation of civilians to the sort of left bank, if you will, on the dnipro river. to try to, in the words of russian authorities move these people to safety because there s a huge ukrainian attack anticipated. although ukrainian authorities are saying that s propaganda and they aren t planning any kind of attack, particularly not on civilian infrastructure or tarts. but nonetheless we do sta
Mr. Speaker mr. Speaker, you may agree with this, but we are back here 22 days into this republican manufactured chaos and House Republicans have brought us to the exact same position that we were back then. All of the infighting, all of the disarray, just to end up where we were three weeks ago. These past few weeks we have been left wondering if republicans were truly intent on solving our issues, reopening the house of representatives and rallying around someone to lead this chamber, or has this been about Something Else . Has this been about a focus of House Republicans to find the person who can pass their extreme litmus test to oppose marriage equality, enact a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions, gut Social Security and medicare, and support overturning a free and fair election. Its a fair question. Its a fair question. [ applause ] nowhere nowhere in that Candidate Questionnaire is it about growing the middle class, helping our communities, keeping the cost of Health Car
Voting for speaker. This time louisiana congressman mike johnson is the fourth nominee for republicans. Hello, and welcome. Im sandra smith in new york, a big welcome back to you, john. John good to be back, john roberts in washington, and this is america reports. Remains unclear whether mike johnson will have the support to win the job. Chad pergram, of course, has been watching this for what feels like weeks now, because it has been weeks. Chad, whats the latest . They are getting very close to taking yet another ballot here for Speaker Of The House. What they have been doing the past couple of minutes here is putting into nomination the candidate for this particular round, of course mike johnson, the new one here and pete aguilar, the chair of the Democratic Caucus is again nominating Hakeem Jeffries, the democratic leader. This feels different than some of the other chapters we have been through over the past couple of weeks. I talked to a couple members a few minutes ago, members