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An african american american advocacy group and hired black americans to further their cause. cnn senior investigative correspondent drew griffin reports, drew. >> reporter: cnn learned a group associated with russia tricked personal trainers, boxing instructors, and paid them to hold free self-defense classes, the classes aimed at african american activists. in january of this year, well after the presidential election, new york marshal arts instructor says he was contacted bay group called bla...

Their roop, out of five rooms maybe all living in one. three and four families living in the same home. its really, really bad. a need for water, a need for medical attention and food. >> go to water and then medical attention. the water issue, one of the most disturbing stories this week, bottled water wasted and thrown away and using sewer water. have you seen that? is anything being done about that? >> i just got to tell you, look, joy. people are desperate, and people want to survive. its a ...

Theyre with neighbors or friends just barely surviving. three and four families living in the same home. >> lets go to water and the medical attention. one of the most disturbing stories we heard this week is not only bottled water being wasted and thrown away but also people using super fund water. >> look, joy, people are desperate and people want to survive. its a basic human instinct.e w mountainside and theyre drinking it. everywhere we went people said where is fema. they have not seen any...

>> they paid me $320 for the month, four classes. >> reporter: theyre taking advantage of people who really care about the community? >> right. its very sneaky. its very sneaky. its very underhanded. >> and, in fact, brian, the attorney general jeff sessions was asked today on capitol hill if he believes the u.s. is prepared for what the russians continue to do. >> reporter: yes, david. he had a stark answer. probably not, he said. were not, he said. the midterm elections are just over a year aw...

Election metdsling. the daily beast reports retweeted messages from a russian troll account, most notably don jr. and kellyanne conway, up to a week before the election. next hour we will speak with one of the reporters who broke that story. and this comes as cnn has learned some of the intricate plotses that the russians used, the tactics that they used to try to disrupt the united states population. drew griffin explains. >> reporter: in january of this year, well after the presidential elec...

Was contact bid a group called black fist, saying it would pay him to host self-defense class for members of the african-american community. >> particularly, but not exclusively for black people. >> did you ever think this was weird? >> a lot of times i thought it was weird. >> reporter: weird, but the money was good. $320 a month paid directly through pay pal and google wallet. and black fist would promote it. what was also weird, no one from black fist showed up to meet him. his only communica...

Good. $320 a month paid direct through papal and google wallet to teach just four classes, and black fist would promote it. what was also weird, no one from black fist ever showed up to meet him. his only communication was in text and far away sounding phone calls from this man named taylor. >> hello. this is taylor. >> reporter: the digital trail suggested the context on the phone was part of a russia propaganda arm seeking to stroke racism. the accounts connected to black fist are among the pa...

About what it would otherwise be without immigration. that is roughly -- -- >> tucker: 100 million? >> roughly equal to the population of great britain and canada together. all of the projections show it. everyone agrees about 100 million. >> tucker: out of a country of 320, that is a totally different country. >> its adding a whole third to the population of what we currently have. that has implications for the environment and traffic and a congestion and pollution and sprawl. very little discu...

What it would otherwise be without immigration. so, thats roughly equal. >> tucker: 100 million. >> a little over 100 million. thats roughly equal to the population of great britain and canada together. all the projections show it. census, pew, my own, everybody kind of agrees about 100 million. >> tucker: out of a country of 320, thats a totally different country. >> right. its adding a whole third to the population of what we currently have. and that has implications for the environment and tr...

So, thats roughly equal. >> tucker: 100 million. >> a little over 100 million. thats roughly equal to the population of great britain and canada together. all the projections show it. census, pew, my own, everybody kind of agrees about 100 million. >> tucker: out of a country of 320, thats a totally different country. >> right. its adding a whole third to the population of what we currently have. and that has implications for the environment and traffic and congestion and pollution. but, again, ...