but now people aren t so sure. they are being told a woman is pretty much anyone who feels like they are a woman. they put their hand up and go i am a woman. there is an increasingly weird hysterical campaign to make you believe the sky is green and the grass is blue and anyone who disagrees is instantly a bigot. ironically, it is the leading feminists. people like u.s. women s soccer superstar megan rapinoe. she says excluding trans athletes from women s sports is taking away people for humanity. really? megan rapinoe would welcome a transgender woman replacing a biological female on the u.s. national team. conveniently she said that just as she is retired. it wouldn t be her place that would be taken. we already know what result of rapinoe s demands would look like. a few years ago the women s team played fc dallas under 15 boys team. the boys won 5-2. the women s team is probably the best it has ever played the game. there is the evidence. it s just a biological fact. the
one! well, those aussies, they know how to do their fireworks. they do. too right, as they say. beautiful. yeah, sydney harbour there with the glow. kind of looks like my neighbor s house. i m sure. here s another plus, down there in australia, they are just kicking off summer, so ga-day. welcome to 2023. do you have any big plans tonight? no. it s 12:01, quick cheers and good night, everybody. us, too. cnn this morning continues now. and good morning. it is saturday, december 31st, here in the u.s. we ve still got a bit of time left in this year, happy new year s eve. thanks for waking up with us. i m martin savidge in for boris sanchez. glad to be with you, martin. i m amara walker. thank you so much for joining us. we began this morning with breaking news and sad news to end the year. pope emeritus benedict has died. his health had deteriorated over the last several days prompting pope francis to ask for prayers. for the
and everything it took to make it an official federal holiday. the person you hear talking, you may see her dancing later. i got the video. nischelle turner is here, cnn contributor and host of entertainment tonight. also sara joins us from the hollywood bowl as well. sara, i m going to get to nischelle. she was dancing the whole time on the show. i can t even watch. were you dancing in the crowd? how could you not move your body even if you didn t have rhythm? i don t think anyone in the crowd didn t have rhythm, but your body just moves. you couldn t not do it. it was powerful. it was powerful. the poem from jill scott hit me like a lightning bolt. it was incredible. there was a beautiful saying, you are somebody s ancestor, act accordingly from another poet. some of the things i m going to leave with, and i think the audience is going to leave with, we re going to stay with them, but the music, first of all, let me tell you who brought down the house, because as we men
president s direct involvement? i would love the president s direct involvement and he has been directly involved. he s passed executive orders. the president is not a king. the president cannot just by fiat claim something to be the case. the system starts with congress to pass laws. the house of representatives has passed, in my time in congress, we have passed most of this major legislation. it goes to the senate to die like most things do but we re going to do it again. we re going to go and go back next week and we re going to pass it again because that s what the american people deserve and we re going to send it back over to the senate and people should vote and go back to their constituents and have to justify their vote and stand by their vote. we re going to make them vote. that s their job. we need to continue to push hard and have the american people m push with us to put pressure on those who are not willing to come to the table. do you think americans should
guns since i was 12 years old, and i became a army ranger and i am a gun owner now and never wwas was it an issue. ar-15 until last couple years when the gun lobby wanted to sell more gungs that s when it became part of the dialogue. we need to stop the insanity and get back to reasonable discussions how to save peoples lives. the president is leaving it up to you, the white house is staying out of the capital negotiations on guns, is this speech a sign that s going to change the president s involvement, would you welcome the president s direct involvement? i would love the president s involve. he has been directly involved. he s pass the executive orders. the president is not a king, he cannot just fiat claim something to be the case. we have a system and it starts with congress to pass laws, house of representative ins in my time in congress we ve passed most of the major legislation and goes to the senate to die like most things do but we re going to go back next week