administration, getting himself a full seat on the national security council, leveraging the relationship he cultivated as the ceo of mr. trump s presidential campaign. bannon has been able to be the most influential trump adviser in the first two weeks of this white house. partly because he s got the president s ear and he operates as this sort of free-floating adviser without the entang entanglements of other aides. reporter: the 63-year-old former banker also headed the far right breitbart news website and is known for quotes like darkness is good and dick cheney, darth vader, satan, that s power. bannon now has the president s ear in a white house accused of a travel ban that discriminates against muslims, which the white house denies. bannon himself has made some combative statements about islam. in 2014 we re now i believe at the beginning stages of a global war against islamic fascism. reporter: and in a 2010 radio interview discovered by cnn s k
k-file. islam is a religion of submission. reporter: bannon s call eed breitbart a platform for the far right. bannon denies being anti-semitic and a white nationalist but he isn t afraid to take on his own party. what we need to do is bitch slap the republican party. reporter: bannon has loyal defenders. steve bannon is national hero. we re going to see supreme court appointments of individuals who will uphold the constitution and for that, america owes steve bannon a great debt of gratitude. he understands and fights for the working class americans out there who haven t had their voices heard. reporter: kurt quit his job at breitbart and is not critical of bannon, he calls bannon dilige diligent, intelligent and intimidating. his governing style is very much that of force, a lot of what you saw in how trump reacted to controversy or criticism is reflective of steve s style, all about confrontation, being a provocateur, never backing down,
president-elect s cab me picks, monica crowley has been picked for the detector of national communications. in her book what the bleep just happened found dozens of examples of plagiarism. that is almost identical senior editor of cnn s k-file andrew kaczynski. how many of incidents are we talking about of plagiarism? this is 60 incidents of plagiarism. it includes wikipedia, a lot of times we saw monica crowley taking, basically wholesale this work of other columnists,
dwight eisenhower. they both knew how to be humble. he is going to have to somehow find the humility and really almost plead for forgiveness in a way and talk from the heart in a way we ve never seen him do. remember when barack obama had the jeremiah wright issue and he got in front of it. nixon with the checkers speech. he s got to do something very special to bring women back into the republican fold. and clearly that s going to be a huge challenge at the debate tomorrow night, 24 hours from now. we ll see if he can do it. stand by with us. trump s offensive comments on the 2005 recording are not the only instance of him making disparaging remarks about women. cnn s k-file team reviewed hours and hours of newly uncovered audio conversations from howard stern s radio show. i want to bring in cnn s andrew kaczynski. andrew, tell our viewers here in the united states and around the world what you found on those audio tapes.
ideology sick. islam is a political ideology. it is a political ideology. it definitely hides behind this notion of it being a religion. reporter: cnn s k file found flynn routinely retweeted unfounded conspiracy theories and promotes users tweekt anti-semitic messages. he came under fire for quoting an anti-semitic message linked to a cnn video. the corrupt democratic machine will do and say anything to get #neverhillary into power. he retweeted a tweet that read not anymore, jews. he quickly apologized calling it a mistake. but after flynn s announcement, david duke cited the tweet as evidence flynn, quote, knows that the saudis, isis and the jewish neo cons are the real enemies. calling him a great pick. democrats are very concerned about flynn s choice. on a lot of policy matters,