Good evening. We begin tonight with the CNN exclusive audio recorded by investigative reporter

and author Bob Woodward of the former president. Now 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, some of which went into a second-best

cellar on the subject rage. He'll be releasing all 20 of these conversations on the 25th

of this month as an audiobook 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 were 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 safeguarding some of the country's deepest secrets. And that's why

these conversations, which have never been heard before, are so significant. CNN Special

correspondent Jimmy Gangell has the CNN exclusive on this night. She joins us now with some

of the audio. What stands out to you the most?

Well, I think, as you said, it's hearing Trump say these words, and you're in the room

with Bob Woodward. It is Trump unvarnished, blunt, profane. It will not surprise you that

he attacks people he doesn't like, and he boasts about himself over and over and over.

But what's also revealing Anderson is how Trump seems to need to try to impress Bob Woodward,

including at times telling him about classified information.

I have built a weapon system that nobody's ever had in this country before. We have stuff

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