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.
our political correspondent jack fenwick reports. he d previously said he disliked the russian president but admired him as a political operator, and that the invasion of ukraine was a consequence of western expansion. the reform uk leader said he had predicted the war ten years ago. i stood up in the european parliament in 2014 and i said, and i quote, there will be a war in ukraine. why did i say that? it was obvious to me that the ever eastward expansion of nato and the european union was giving this man a reason, to his russian people, to say they re coming for us again, and to go to war. home secretary james cleverly accused him of echoing putin s vile justification for the invasion, and there was criticism too from labour. the only aggressor in ukraine is vladimir putin, and it is shocking that nigel farage chooses to align himself with putin. he s become a putin apologist. mr farage said last night that putin was wrong to invade, the eu was wrong to expand eastward