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increasingly under scrutiny for his past statements on islam and other issues, stephen bannon whospower is writing within the new white house, andrea mitchell reports. reporter: he s at the president s side at nearly every photo op. chief white house strategist steve bannon aside from the family, first among equals in president trump s power circle. what bannon wants? nothing short of a revolution. a pop lift revolution in the united states. republican in name but trump in style. reporter: his influence stretching from politics to foreign policy. now on the national security council principles committee. he s got a tremendous understanding of the world and the geopolitical landscape. surprisingly a retired general who served both president bush and obama. how unusual is it that steve bannon has a seat at the table? i think it s unprecedented. bannon described as brilliant but his power alarming critics. his warning to the media to keep its mouth shut. that extr ....
spoke with sergey kislyak last july. it was during these conversations, i m told by j.d. gordon, they talked about improving relations between the u.s. and russia. it was dur thag time, erin, that j.d. gordon says he went to the convention, advocating on behalf of the campaign for language in the gop platform that advocated against the arming of the ukrainians in their fights against the prorussian rebels. that is something the trump campaign denied they were doing at the time. it denied it was advocating for that language in the gop platform. flash forward to december and according to a senior administration official, the president s son-in-law, jared kushner and the former security adviser, michael flynn, wret with the ambassador during a previously undisclosed meeting. james comey was making the rounds with house members. democrats were not happy when the top democrat, adam schiff, who believes comey was not forthcoming on key details in the investigation into russia and th ....
because australia is the one, they don t want those. that s why they made the deal with obama. obviously they are being hypocrites, okay. but when i heard tough phone call, let me tell you about some tough phone calls i ve made. if you had to call a girl and say it s burning down there. look, at the end of the day, i think that trump is hilarious, watching him every time he speaks, it s a very entertaining endeavor. but to be honest with you, i feel like he is the only guy who has a prank answering machine on his cell phone. you call and you get his answering machine and he does that hello, hello, hello. just kidding, you got the president. that s all it got say about tha that. tom: kristin, what do you think, do you think we should have to honor every deal, this thing was assigned just before trump took office. most politicians say we have to honor all of our agreements. these people are not our problem. australia doesn t want them, the days are over of us being pushove ....
assumption that there is a price somehow for which kim jong-un and his predecessor, his father and his grandfather, would give up this nuclear program. i m not sure that s right because the nuclear program, to their mind, is the one thing that guarantees their survival. and the moment that they give it up, they re in the position that mow mar qaddafi was in when he gave up his nas entitle nuclear program in 2003. and he got a lot of promises of integration with the west and of course as soon as his people turned on him, the united states and europe and the arab states all joined in to drive him from power. the koreans were very, very aware of this and i would doubt that there is a price out there for which they would give up everything. and therein lies the big problem. let me go to you, ambassador. we tend to look at this through our own eyes, thinking like, why in the world would anyone want to risk being even using the artillery on the southern border north korea. as ot ....
too small. reporter: now that sense of ownership is gone. the trump organization which no longer runs the building says it had no hand in vetting the people who financed, sold or bought it. now that president trump is in the white house. uh-huh. reporter: do you think the trump organization and the trump family are trying to distance themselves from you? i wouldn t say that they re trying, because i don t think that i can harm them. reporter: it took months to track alexander ventura down and persuade limb to shim to sit wi interview. he asked we disguise his appearance, he s on the run in panama wanted for fraud saying he sold hundreds of united nations in the trump club to hide their identities. banks weren t asking questions where the money was coming from? no. never. reporter: sounds like nobody was asking questions. not you, not the trump organization, not the banks, not the developers? nobody. nobody. reporte nobody checked anybody out. people were ....