Trying to get to the bottom of this. Section of the crowd starts waving what appeared to be Russian flags at the Trump speech …

Crowd at CPAC waving these little pro-Trump flags that look exactly like the Russian flag. Staffers quickly come around to confiscate them. pic.twitter.com/YhPpkwFCNc — Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) February 24, 2017

Putin faction? Trolling?

A section of people in the back of #CPAC2017 waving Russian flags — a staffer just came and demanded they all be handed over. pic.twitter.com/mZVoVUqudn — Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) February 24, 2017

Here’s a rush transcript of what MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt just said on air … “In the room there was back and forth about a section of the crowd that appeared to be waving Russian flags. I just want to clear that up. It seems that people who were waving them may have been unwitting. They appeared to be people who were celebrate being president trump here. They were participating in chants of ‘USA, USA’.”

Here’s what appears to be a CPAC staffers confiscating the Russian flags …