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facebook, instagram. twitter. >> social media postings? >> or something else. i think it was facebook. >> reporter: also admitted he didn't "have the time" to investigate the claims himself. alyssa ferret griffin was white house communications director when these lies were fed to then president trump. you're saying in november there seemed to be a tacit acknowledgement by the president he lost. but then something changed? >> yes. something did change. i think this was when the -- the more conspiracy theorists individuals started getting access to the president. the sidney powells, mike lendells, michael flynns and steve bannon in his ear. had did take a turn. i think he believes it. >> this election was a fraud. >> the former president believes that he won the election. that's scary. and the other thing, though, that your viewers need to know is the people around the president, the same ones, know