laughter welcome everyone here in this cnn newsroom, i'm omar jimenez in washington. we're going to begin this hour with fierce fighting in eastern ukraine as ukrainian troops say they've successfully countered or they are successfully countering russian advances around the town near kharkiv, right along the russian border, which is turned the town itself into a front line in this war, you can see vovchansk highlighted on the map there. now the extent of the damage is pretty staggering, as you can see, there from ms drone footage over her head, much of the fighting in the last few weeks has reportedly centered around an aggregate plant, which usually produces materials for construction. now it's a combat zone we're ukrainian troops have tried to isolate russian units to cross the border as part of a recent offensive, one ukrainian commander referred to russian troops in the town as surrounded and one of the biggest this shifts on that eastern front is the us permitting ukraine to use some american weapons to strike targets across the russian border in russian territory it's allowed ukraine to counter some of russia's gains as of late now, it's indicative of how this administration, the biden white house, treat support for ukraine, especially as compared to biden's opponent in this year's election, donald trump. both candidates striking very different tones this week when it comes to this war we're going to stand with ukraine. i think he zelenskyy is maybe the greatest salesman of any politician that's ever lived. every time he comes to our country he walked away, it was $60 i will have that settled prior to taking the white house as president elect and that obviously has major implications for the war ahead. >> let's talk more about this with former defense secretary under president bill clinton and the ceo of the cohen group, william cohen now, i'll first, what do you make of these comments from trump yesterday on zelenskyy, let's start there oh, i'm sorry. >> what do i make them? i think that he's perhaps the greatest salesman and the history of political leadership or non leadership. of the factors that don't to linskey, i think has emerged as one of the strongest leaders in the world today, given the fact that he has been attacked by russia by vladimir putin, he's had thousands of people killed. you have potent who is sent missiles into hospitals in a maternity wards and two were school yards in schools themselves that killed thousands of people and cause millions to become migrants. and so for zelenskyy to stand up and say, i'm fighting for freedom. i'm fighting for my freedom as an independent country, and inviting for europe's freedom because because if putin is allowed to take ukraine, which former president trump has said, do whatever the hell you want, you can take ukraine, you can take anything else you want in europe, as long as they don't pay their bills. well, for someone who has filed bankruptcy multiple times are not paying bills that's pretty rich coming from the mother, former president. but in any event, you at the european stands strongly with ukraine and president of president, our president biden stands really strong with them saying we're with you for years and years to come. that's provided that president biden is still president and that's the danger that we face. that former president trump will take office again and sell out the ukrainians in a nanosecond that's what the europeans are worried about. that's what we, as believers and freedom should be worried about. >> well, that of course, those are the stakes. he added stakes that many, many see heading into this election. and to add into that discussion, obviously, president biden returning from g7 when summit in recent days where it's clear at least in some cases, us allies are worried that, that all of this progress that they may have made in solidarity, of course, in supporting ukraine may be undone if trump we're to win a second term. >> so just on the global stage what happens if some of the perspectives that trump is putting out right now actually make their way into policy. >> if you read it, takes the white house i think we'll see geo, political instability first of all, present president trump is should he be reelected? >> he will pull the money and the support from new all right that will help destabilized nadir, which he has also said he does not favor. so if nato justin have the united states, we are the biggest contributor. we are the backbone of the nato alliance. if you pull us out, the nato organization probably won't survive for any length of time that will destabilise europe and put potent in a very good position to dominate the european theater and such. secondly, it will undermine support by our asian allies because if we won't support ukraine, which is in europe what are we going to do if china's should ever move against taiwan? all of those asian allies will say, wait a minute person trump has threatened to paul support from salt, from south korea. is also pulled some once a pull support from japan, you pull our troops out of japan and south korea. what's right, what's the rest? of our alliances in the, in the asia-pacific or indo-pacific region, what do they say at that point? we live in the region united states. you don't, we'll make the best deal we can. and that will be with china so this has global implications for us in terms of our european allies. >> and if we don't have our european allies, when it comes time to challenging china economically, diplomatically, who's going to be with us, european sign, you jumped us went out with you and going after china would not with you should you ever have to go to a conflict and war with china over taiwan? >> you'll be all alone. you won't have us with you. so there are great implications for our security, for international stability. we believe in freedom, we believe in the rule of law and donald trump doesn't, he doesn't believe in the rule of law. he believes in the rule of power our power of rule. and so he wants to be more like vladimir putin inside of trump doll is a potent all he wants to be more like qishan paying. he wants a more like kim jong moon. he wants to be more like them so he can have an military that pays fealty to him, swears loyalty to him yeah when you and i pledge allegiance, it's not to a president is to the flag of the united states and the republic for which it stands to the constitution of the united states. that's what donald trump doesn't want to hear from anybody serving in public office come 2025 and you mentioned you mentioned putin, and we have seen at least this past friday, russian president putin outlined his terms for the end of the war in ukraine, which include the withdrawal of ukrainian troops from multiple territories, the abandonment of ukraine's application to nato, the lifting of western sanctions as well. >> these, these terms are obviously a shot in the dark based on where things stand right now, long-shot, i should say, without both parties coming to the table, but i guess the question is to take the premise of where those answers came from. how do you see this war ending i don't see it ending soon unless donald trump becomes president of united states. >> if that happens, then i think he will pull the rug out from ukraine. he will tell potent, you can have whatever you want to do with ukraine it's your territory and we're not going to support ukraine a longer. i don't support so linskey, i don't support sovereignty for the ukrainian and we have to remember putin has invaded a sovereign, independent handan country. we can't allow him to get away with it, so to speak, because he never pays a penalty for violating international rules of law. and so if he's not, he went after georgia, got a piece of georgia, he's gone after crime mirror taking crimea. he joined after the donbas. he wants laugh so he keeps taking a chunk at a time of an independent country and we say it's okay, you can have whatever you want. i don't think the american people should want that. i don't believe they do want that, but you have supporters on capitol hill who support putin who support whatever he is doing because they believed that he's a strong man. and they want a strong man in the white house, a strong man in the white house made you lose rights. it means you don't have the freedom to speak your peace of mind. you don't have the freedom to challenge of power. that's what i living with a strong man means i don't think in the americans should ever want that and we have seen as you bring up capitol hill, how increasingly difficult it has to pass funding for the defense in aid of you the crane, and it's a process that could be threatened, again, based on what donald trump has said to this point, william cohen, we got to leave it there, but i appreciate the time and perspective. >> thanks for all right. >> breaking news tonight in california, we're a wildfire in los angeles county has now burned 12,000 acres and strong winds are likely to keep stuff okay. and the fire with the national weather service predicting gusts of up to 70 miles an hour. camila bernal joins us now in gorman, california where the fire started about an hour north north of los angeles. so camille, i know you've been out out and about today. what are you seeing there hey, omar, i wanted to show you exactly right now. >> they are doing some of those water drops will have to wait and see exactly where the helicopter goes and where that water drop happens. but we're seeing a lot of the water drops. we're seeing the crews on the ground here behind me, you see some of them now, what they were doing was preventative work, trying to keep that fire away from the areas that it has get of course, are saying heavy machinery also buy right now and they're so a lot of hotspots, so a lot of the airdrops are targeting those hotspots were only at 2% containment at the moment, with 12,000 acres at least already burned. there are people under evacuation she orders 1,200 of them in fact, and others who were under evacuation warnings, people are being told to be extremely careful and to be ready to go. here behind me. my photographer was telling let me the airdropped, the water drop, excuse me, might be coming there you go. >> you see it there as they're targeting those specific areas. >> so very active if he know, there are firefighters working around the clock. >> so many crews out here trying to keep that containment. their biggest concern right now is the width because day throughout the day, we can see 45 to 55 mile per hour wind gusts, and then later on tonight, there's huge concern because we can see fit 60 to 70 mile per hour or wind gusts. so take a listen to what the forest service is saying about this concern everyone of us is concerned with the wind that's the single most driving factor of this fire. >> it does. it burns fairly frequently along this corridor, which keeps it from their phenyl very large brush component however, now we have more light flashy fuels to the fire can move quickly and then when the, when lines up with the drainages and research ribbon right through them. it's it's definitely concerns. so that's what we're looking at. if hopefully these winds that are forecasted tonight don't materialize to the extent they're supposed to, which is 60 mile an hour. and maybe tomorrow will be more common. okay. >> so you heard it there from the fire service. they're concerned about how quickly this fire can spread so far they've been able to keep it away from homes and structures only to have been destroyed. so far. so hopefully they're able to contain the fire around the areas that are specifically more populated. but again, they're very concerned about what could happen tonight. and they say it's the high temperatures, it's the low humidity, and again, that wind that is really making it difficult for all of these firefighters that are working around the clock to de omar gwynne, usually a complicating factor in these situations at an active scene as community for now just showed us i really appreciate stay safe out there. all right. still ahead, president biden doesn't hold back at a star-studded fundraiser in hollywood. we're going to tell you what he's saying about the sun prim court as he warns about a second trump presidency. plus police say a terrifying mass shooting in michigan was random. nine people were shot but out of splash pad park, including two children, we have new details next and juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the united states is coming on wednesday. we're going to bring you the story one man who says his father was born before slavery was officially abolished. how he went back to a small georgia town to find his room. you're in this cnn newsroom there's no war, so hateful war between kim no more war between tracks house 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its potentially it's possible that in the next four years are we openings on the supreme court? >> and what does that mean if donald trump? is in a second term during that period of time, he called it one of the scariest parts. take a listen the next president is likely to have two new supreme court nominees two more two molar. >> he's already appointed to that. >> have been very negative in terms of the rights of individuals the idea that if he's reelected, he's going to appoint two more foreign flags upside down is really, i'm i really mean it. this fee could this be the scariest part of all of it? >> well, i think it is one of the scariest parts of a look. the supreme court has never been as out of kilter as it is today after the decision that overrule roe v. wade the dobbs decision, you had clarence thomas talking about the fact that there are going to be other things we should reconsider including in vitro fertilization, including contraception, including all these things so two points there, he talks about the flag controversy surrounding alito and the flying set are flown outside of his homes, but he also talks about abortion and this has been a galvanizing issue for the biden campaign, one that they anticipate leaning into more especially ahead of the dobbs anniversary. and so you heard the president talk there about what could happen moving forward if more conservative justices are added to the supreme court, foreign president barack obama, who was seated next to president biden, also talks about the vowel i'll use of each candidate and that that should also be taken into consideration by voters. but this was also an opportunity to rake in more money and they certainly did that with a more than $30 million that were raised. that was the largest ever democratic fundraiser. so they are setting a record. there and clearly trying to build momentum going into november and look i mean, they are obviously in full campaign mode right now. >> you've got to raise 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