there are millions of votes in my opinion. >> reporter: but in fact election records indicate two members of mr. trump's own team, steve bannon and treasury secretary nominee steven mnuchin, were registered in more than one state on election day. white house press secretary sean spicer says the probe will not focus solely on the 2016 election. >> there's a lot of states that we didn't compete in where that's not necessarily the case. look at california and new york. >> back in december, the president's legal team argued that voter fraud did not affect the final results of the election and their attempts to block recount efforts by green party candidate jill stein. white house counsel don mcgahn wrote an illegal brief at the time, all available evidence suggesting the 2016 election was not tainted by fraud. >> it exists. it's rare. >> reporter: ohio's republican secretary of state says he wishes the president would take a more constructive view of the discussi discussion. >> over the coming days, bear the responsibility of sharing exactly where their concerns are, providing evidence of that. >> reporter: while top democrats express alarm. >> i frankly feel very sad about