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
1,332 nuclear warheads. the relationships i have, the better i goat along with him. maybe it s not a bad thing. the easy ones are maybe the ones you don t get along with as much. woodward says he was never able to verify the weapon system anderson but he uses it as an example of just how casual, dangerous, cavalier, those are quotes from woodward, that trump is about classified information. the audio also has another recurring theme. trump, over and over and over tells woodward just how tough he is. there s nobody there s tougher than me. nobody s tougher than me. i m under impeachment and you said, you know, you just act like you just won. nixon was in a corner with his thumb in his mouth. bill clinton took it very, very hard.