Good evening. Im erin burnett. Out front tonight, breaking news, President Donald Trump signing an Executive Order launching an investigation into voter fraud as early as tomorrow. This is according to a Senior Administration official. It comes as trump is speaking out tonight, doubling down moments ago in an interview with abc news on his false claim of Massi Massive voter fraud. Its been called false. Look at the pew reports. I called the author last night and he said there was no evidence then why did he write the report . He said no evidence of voter fraud. Why did he write the report . Hes groveling again. I talk about the reporters that grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear but not necessarily millions of people want to hear or have to hear. Youve launched an investigation. We will to find out. And i will say this, of those votes cast, none of them come to me. Thun of them come to me. They would all be for the other
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reporter: cnn has confirmed employees at the epa and the department of interior are under a communication lockdown. an epa memo obtained by cnn says no press releases will go out to external audiences. no social media or blog posts either. digital strategists will oversee social media and employees list serves and scheduled speaking engagements will be subject to review. every president puts their own regulations in place and doesn t want to be doing the business of the previous president on big-ticket items. but we re seeing president trump going way beyond that with this political interference because we re talking about basic intimidation and censorship. reporter: this comes after the department of interior put a freeze on tweeting after the national park service retweeted messages that compared the crowd sizes at president obama s inauguration to donald trump s inauguration. on tuesday, south dakota s badlands national park official twitter account sent out a
stop making public comments since the inauguration. buzzfeed reports the department of agriculture told employees last night that an earlier e-mail barring some public communication was released without official guide apse and is hereby rescinded. reports of a communication lockdown now. this came from several media outlets, including nbc, after the interior department was temporarily banned from twitter friday after it retweeted a photo comparing the size of the 2009 and 2017 inauguration crowds. on monday, the epa and the department of agriculture sent an employee e-mail to employees about suspending pli information and told nbc it was temporary for the agencies to assess the communications process for a new administration. yesterday, if you are still following me, the badlands national park twitter account sent out several tweets about climate change, including one that said burning one gallon of
we hope that this time real reform will happen from within. reporter: this time around it s a lot different. the hero of the green movement is under house arrest. even the universities have been closed. tehran university is right behind me, one of the biggest in the country. the students were told by the government to, well, end the school year early, take an early holiday. everyone here says that s because they don t want the students involved in protests like in 2009. back then a lot of students were involved, some of them were jailed or even expelled. as a matter of fact there is nothing changed, because there is no democracy. reporter: the candidate rallies look very different from to 2009, and locals say they see a complete communication lockdown on the horizon. foreign news agencies have been blocked.
is under house arrest. even the universities have been closed. tehran university is right behind me, one of the biggest in the country. the students were told by the government to, well, end the school year early, take an early holiday. everyone here says that s because they don t want the students involved in protests like in 2009. back then a lot of students were involved, some of them were jailed or even expelled. as a matter of fact there is nothing changed, because there is no democracy. reporter: the candidate rallies look very different from to 2009, and locals say they see a complete communication lockdown on the horizon. foreign news agencies have been blocked. many internet cafes are closed. many here social media is being closely watched. an amazing thing to see how different things are. you know, they don t really want