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 ukrain
i don t know where the fundamental transformation and leveling the playing field comes from but we get bigger, more aggress of more authoritarian government which spreads more misery. neil: you argue presidents of both stripes have played on and expanded what they believe is the message of the constitution, including roosevelt and wilson. clearly, in the case of rebound, taken to another level. what is your big fear? what happens to us? guest: my fear is we cannot get out of this. my fear is, if this sort of post constitutional environment when we go to vote next november, so much of what the government does is not affected by us voting we have a massive fourth branch of government, the administration, that is absolutely smother, we have so many departments and agencies and regulations issued we cannot name them and we do not know who is issuing them or where what will get hit.