controversial new bill and party line vote which could fundamentally reshape the way public institutions deal with transgender athletes in sports. the protection of women and girls in sports act aims to amend title 9 definition of gender, making the criteria based solely on a person s biological sex at the time of birth. that new definition would effectiv bar transgender women from come beating in ufrnts across america. while it is a win for female athletes, the white house says it will be dead on arrival. if it hits the president s desk, he will sri tow it. at a time transgender youth face a nationwide mental health crisis, a national law that further stigmatizes these children is completely unnecessary. hurts families and students and only puts students at greater risk. the president presented with hr734 said he would veto it. house speaker kevin mccarthy speaking on the bill s passing on the capitol steps moments ago. there s a reason title 9 was created, there s a reaso
ice, wind chill alerts. plus, the january 6th committee just released the final report recommending donald trump be barred from ever holding office again. and for the first time in public, vladimir putin says what the world has known all along, he s wagging war on ukraine. it is friday. welcome to our viewers in the you states and around the world. i m christine romans. let s begin with this. a christmas gut punch from mother nature as a once in a generation storm blasts across the country with the worst yet to come. more than half the u.s. population is under some kind of weather alert. from florida west to washington state. more than 200 million people are under wind chill alerts. more than 80 million under winter weather alerts. more than 40 million other bracing for high winds. needles to say it is a mess for holiday travelers. thousands of flights were canceled thursday. nearly 2700 flights already canceled today with hundreds more delayed. and look at power outage
reporter: incoming congressman george santos finally acknowledging the growing scrutiny surrounding many apparent discrepancies in his biography tweeting, quote, i have my story to tell and it will be told next week. one part of his background his family history. my grandparents survived the hollow cost. my grand father fled ukraine. marrying my grandmother, then fleeing hitler. going to brazil. reporter: those claims are contradicted by sources reviewed by cnn s k file including family trees, records on jewish refugees and interviews with multiple genealogists. i m jew-ish.
month at the end of their money than money at the end of their month because we have stripped the dignity from work in this country. we have got to get back to the nation we were. my grand father was a union worker on an assembly line during the depression in world war ii. he stood side by side with white workers joined together in the cause of a union and the idea that in this nation if you work hard, if you play by the rules, you can have your american dream. it is time [cheers] it is time that this generation restores the very idea of this country, that this generation restores the american dream, and that s not going to be easy. to achieve that, we ve got to not turn against each other, but turn towards each other. to do that, we ve got to get rid of leaders that try to demean and degrade and pit americans against each other. it is time to have leaders that speak to that revival, to speak
something as a reasonable standard which has been an bhused. for those officers not to be ap need greater accountability. and your family was involved in being followers and leaders of the gandhi movement which inspired you. how do you like at the rise of hate crimes and hate groups in this country from the perspective of one who has been involved in human rights and it is in the lineage of who you are as a congressman and person? that is kind of you to say. my grand father was my hero, he spent four years in jail during gandhi s independent ce movemen and john lewis told me how dr. king was influenced by gandhi as was he. and james lawson helped bring