and that s also more than double what it spent last year. the political action committee, which raises most of its funds through small-dollar donations through trump s supporters is expected to report to the fec this morning as the former president s legal battles continues to mount. cnn s kristen holmes is live in washington this morning. kristen, that s a big number, a huge number. it s easy to kind of get numb to that reality, but also the small donor element of it. they re the primary driver of save america pac s funds for the most part, at least as far as i understand. do they feel like inside the campaign this is going to have any impact on those supporters? well, when you talk to members of the campaign, phil, they believe that their donors know exactly what is going on in terms of trump s legal issues and the people who are donating to the former president are going to continue doing so, pause they support him. and there is no evidence that that is going to change. obviously,
of the french embassy. cnn s larry madowo joins us live. the most interesting development at least for me over the course of the weekend was the 15-nation bloc of western african states really condemning and actually threatening the potential use of force. what s actually happening right now on the ground? that s right, phil. the economic community of west military states says this junta has one week to restore president bazoum or they will use force. that s citing words from the regional bloc there. they ve isolated the country. it s a no-fly zone. they ve issued travel bans and all of that. but you see the military junta a while ago especially say that france is planning military strikes to free the president they deposed. they re claiming that france has been meeting with former officials of the government they deposed to get military and political power to remove them
fascinated by this for the last several years, which is, what happened to dmitry medvedev? he was the guy that the obama team was trying to work, thought they could undercut putin with a relationship. for the entirety of this war, he s been saying things like that, being very hyperbolic and very verbose with his comments. what happened? i think you kind of get and i miss those conversations, too, phil, i really do. i think you kind of get into criminology here, right? you re trying to read what s happening behind those high red brick walls in moscow. number one, there s this reallization, perhaps, on putin s part or those around him that he s not going to last forever and medvedev is much younger than putin. and let s not forget when the obama administration thought that there was a possibility here that medvedev could be a different kind of enjoy, this was in that this was in that switch out that medvedev did with putin. putin had had his two terms as president. he couldn t be p