CNN Special Reports on Clinton and Trump.
CAMEROTA: Tonight, CNN will air two documentaries on the presidential nominees. And you will get to see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump like you have never seen them before. For instance, here's a sneak peek at Hillary Clinton talking candidly about the Monica Lewinsky scandal.</s>PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: How difficult was it to go through something so private, so personal, under the glare of the spotlight as the first lady?</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: It was really hard. It was painful. And I was so supported by my friends. My friends just rallied around. They would come. They would try and make me laugh. They would recommend books to read. We'd go for long walks. We'd hang out. You know, eat bad food. I mean just the kind of things you do with your friends. And it -- it was something that you just had to get up every day and try to deal with, while still carrying on a public set of responsibilities. So it was very, very challenging.</s>CAMEROTA: All right. Joining us now, CNN justice correspondent Pamela Brown and CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger. They're hosts of these two special reports. Great to have you both here with this sneak preview.</s>GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST: Thank you.</s>PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Good to be here.</s>CAMEROTA: Pamela, I have never heard her talk about that before in public. I know she wrote about some of it. But I have never heard her address it. That was completely new.</s>BROWN: Yes.</s>CAMEROTA: Tell me what that interaction was like with her.</s>BROWN: This was a side of Hillary Clinton that I -- I haven't personally seen. She was very open, very candid, engaging and accessible on some pretty difficult topics, talking about, of course, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, as you point out, she really hasn't touched on that much. And so we really talked about a range of topics from her, you know, her parents, to meeting Bill Clinton, what was holder her back at first, her hardest moments in the White House, which, by the way, didn't have to do with Monica Lewinsky or her husband's impeachment proceedings or the failed health care initiative or White Water, which was pretty surprising.</s>CAMEROTA: Oooh, that's a good tease.</s>BROWN: I know. But, you know, it's really -- it's important, I think, for people to see this side of her beyond policy, beyond politics, beyond the rhetoric on the campaign trail. We're really peeling back the layers, getting to know her on the human level.</s>BERMAN: I've got to say, you know, having your pain laid bare for the entire national to see, which it did, you know, in 1998, I can't imagine going through that. That said, Gloria, I mean every time there's a convention speech, you know, people are wondering, would Hillary Clinton bring it up in her convention speech. How would she address it? Bill Clinton, you know, how does he address it? Yo know -- you know, he says in 1972 I met a girl. But then, of course, you know, glosses over all the pain there.</s>BORGER: Right.</s>BERMAN: It is so remarkable to hear her talk about it at all.</s>BORGER: Well, I think -- look, I think it really is. I think she does herself some good because, as Pamela says, she kind of -- she humanizes herself to a great degree by doing that. She wrote about it in her book. But, look, nobody wants to publicly talk about this. It's -- I think it's still very difficult. I think Donald Trump actually refers to it much more than she does in his -- in -- you know, when he speaks and he talked about Bill Clinton, right?</s>CAMEROTA: I mean and this is the point of these documentaries is --</s>BORGER: Well --</s>CAMEROTA: That you guys tried to get a different side --</s>BORGER: Well --</s>CAMEROTA: Than what we've been seeing.</s>BORGER: We did. And Donald Trump, after, you know, repeated requests, did not sit down with us for this documentary. We spoke with members of his family, his three oldest children, his friends who have known him for 30 years, people he has done business with, both with -- in success and in failure. So we went through the whole part of his life that a lot of people may not know about, including "The Apprentice," including Atlantic City.</s>BERMAN: But including his -- you know, his divorce from his first wife --</s>BORGER: Including his divorce from his -- right.</s>BERMAN: Which was an episode that a lot of people don't know about and how painful it was --</s>BORGER: Right.</s>BERMAN: For his kids. And this is his son, I think, Eric talking about this.</s>BORGER: Uh-huh.</s>BORGER: You didn't talk to your dad for a year or so. Can you talk a little bit about why that was and how you felt as a teenager.</s>ERIC TRUMP, DONALD TRUMP'S SON: Well, listen, I think, for me, I was 12, right, so --</s>BORGER: Oh, 12.</s>E. TRUMP: I was 12. You know, you think you're a man. You're starting to feel like you are, but you don't really understand the way everything else works. It was a difficult time. I mean it was certainly difficult reading about it in the papers every day on the way to school.</s>BORGER: I read this story about you that when you heard about it, you asked your mom whether you were still going to be Ivanka Trump. Is that a -- is that a true story?</s>IVANKA TRUMP, DONALD TRUMP'S DAUGHTER: Yes. You know, I think I was digesting things and trying to understand as, you know, a 10 or 11 year old would, the implications.</s>CAMEROTA: Again, fascinating, I mean, to hear the kids talk about something that they never addressed on the trail.</s>BORGER: Well, and they were the targets of the tabloids, or their folks were, for months and months. I mean a lot of us who don't live in New York and aren't of that era don't remember the daily news of "The New York Post" and the gossip columnists every day and, you know, the drum beat of this. I think it's kind of akin to what it might be on the Internet today if it were just constant. And so you had these -- these children that they really tried to shield from it to a -- to a great degree, but it -- it was hard. I mean you hear them talk about how -- how difficult it was. And I think to this day they're close to both parents and I -- it's not easy for kids that age to go through a divorce that public.</s>BERMAN: I think it's amazing to hear Donald Trump Jr. saying he didn't talk to his father for a year, given now how he's so out there on the campaign trail.</s>BORGER: Yes.</s>BERMAN: You talked to Chelsea Clinton also at length about her mother and she's sort of the designated, you know, humanize Hillary Clinton person.</s>BROWN: Right. She's -- she is. She's the best character witness because she's so close to her mother. And, you know, Chelsea Clinton was born into the spotlight. I mean, you know, her father was governor of Arkansas and so she -- she told me that she cannot remember a time when her mother hasn't been attacked. And I thought that was interesting because imagine, I mean, this is her mother and she said, you know, this has just been my life. I mean I don't know anything else other than my mom being attacked. And so her -- her role here in this documentary, as you'll see tonight, is really to show Hillary Clinton as a human, as a mother, as a grandmother. She talks about how she Facetimes every day with her, you know, with her grandchildren, changes diapers. She's really trying to bring that human side to Hillary Clinton that we haven't seen very much.</s>BORGER: And the difference I would say in the Trump family is when these now young adults were growing up, they used to go to their dad's office to play. It was all about business and it still is. They're now his business partners and very important not only to the Trump organization but to the campaign.</s>CAMEROTA: Definitely.</s>BERMAN: All right, guys, sounds fascinating. Can't wait to see them in full tonight.</s>CAMEROTA: Thanks so much for sharing that.</s>BERMAN: Be sure and join us. It is beginning at 8:00 p.m. tonight beginning with "Unfinished Business: The Essential Hillary Clinton," followed at 10:00 by "All Business: The Essential Donald Trump" right here on</s>CNN. CAMEROTA: All right, thanks so much for watching us today. We'll see you tomorrow. "Newsroom" with Carol Costello picks up right after this very quick break.