The most recently released audio recordings of Gov. Robert Bentley reveal a man seemingly trying to convince a lawmaker - and perhaps even himself - that talk of an affair was nothing more than rumors coming from his enemies.

It's a far cry from comments the governor made less than eight months later, when other audio tapes - these recorded by Dianne Bentley, the governor's wife of 50 years before she filed for divorce - revealed an intimate conversation with his married female adviser, Rebekah Caldwell Mason. The release of those tapes, in which the governor discussed touching Mason's breasts and kissing her, led to an apology from the governor who maintains he did not have an affair with his now-resigned adviser.

The latest tapes were released by Rep. Allen Farley this week but made in 2015 just after Dianne Bentley filed for divorce. Farley is a member of the Alabama House committee investigating impeachment allegations against the governor.

Here are 8 new things we've learned from the tapes: