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I had not seen any support of hillary. we had seen a lot of anti-hillary, but this support of hillary, save american muslims, that could help or hurt her. the russians seem to be the divide any way they could, race, religion, political party and organized events, even duped americans into launching support groups. a new one, north carolina, the russians reached out and set up free legal help for immigrants in the state while also organizing anti-immigrant protests, free self-defense classes for african-americans. i talked to an instructor in new york who was paid by the russians to have these....

Arm, seeking to stoke racial tensions and disrupt the u.s. political system. cnn has confirmed the social media accounts connected to black fist are among the pages facebook identified as coming from russians, according to a source familiar with the matter. links to those accounts appear on the black fist website. and black first, which portrayed itself as an activist group seeking to empower black americans, was likely developed inside the russian factory in st. petersburg, russia. >> they convinced you. >> very easily, very, very easily. some of the things were sketchy. but at the end of the...

This report. >> reporter: in january of this year, well after the presidential election, new york martial arts instructor says he was contacted by a group called black first, saying it would pay him to hold free self-defense classes for members of the black community. did you ever think this was weird? >> yeah. a lot of times i thought it was weird. >> reporter: weird, but the money was good. $320 a month, paid direct through paypal 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 com...

Very easily. some of the things are stretchy. at the end of the day. training people. >> look at what black fist said about it's self-defense classes, they are by black, for black. let them gnome that black power matters. the contact also wanted these videos and photos of black's learning self-defense. wasn't the only one, personal trainers and classes promoted in other cities, los angeles, lansing, michigan, according to event bright and other pages where classes were being publicized, there were dozens in tampa, florida, jefferson says black fist found him through instagram, offered to pay h...

We now know the meddling in u.s. politics by russia continued after november's election. there is no reason to believe it's still not happening right now. pamela. >> fascinating, fascinating report. our thanks to drew griffin. i'm not going to bring in and ran the agencies operations in russia. he is also a cnn security analysts, steve, just to want get your reaction, the russians using social media to try make racial tensions worse, does this fit in with your experience dealing with russia. the lengths they would go to here. having the self-defense classes. >> sure, absolutely. it's consisten...