contention. i say enough right here, right now. we re going to sitting things and once and for la la la la la la la la la. this is the great christmas debated. [applause] tim tim i m tom shillue, your host. and we have two teams playing for bragging rights and a cashsw prize for charity. let s meet our contestants. we have the green team and thebg red team. for the green teamarit, fox news radio personality jimmy failla. [cheers] jimmy. there it is. journalist and fox business guru gerri willis. [cheers] and the co-host of fox & friends weekend, will cain. [cheers] [applause] tom: over here our red team is ready to rumba. have you seen him all over thes nation writer and comedian michael loftus. [cheers] i predict 100 percent sunshine out of this one. fox news meteorologist janice dean. [cheers] tom: you know her, you love her you can t get enough of her fox news own julie banderas. [applause] tom: janice, i was just going to say you were allowed to dress up.
let us declare our independence. when we think about america, post independence is very little chance that it s going to survive. washington was upset because we were calling ourselves the united states. he says, are we united or are we not? this ultimately leads to a call for a convention and talking about having 40 or 50 guys in this room and you re in the hot summer. you re arguing the framers have a new and radical idea, and that is popular sovereignty. as george washington said, never before in history have you seen this sort of people debating about their form of government without violence. he s not going to establish a monarchy. he s going to establish a democratic republic. and it wasn t about him as an individual. it was about the office. hello, i m bret baier. welcome to mt. vernon on the banks of the potomac river. this was george washington s home. his business and his most beloved place on earth. but his dedication to his country is best measured by the time he