goodell claiming in on the colin kaepernick workout, saying that the nfl created an opportunity for kaepernick and he chose not to take it, adding, quote, we moved on here. >>> kawhi leonard getting a hero's welcome when he returned to toronto. the fans cha s chanting mvp att wye. he won a championship in his one season before moving to l.a. kawhi and the clippers beating the raptors, 112-92. >>> another huge deal in baseball. anthony rendon off the market, as he signs a $245 million deal with the los angeles angels. the all-star third baseman was instrumental in helping the nationals win their first-ever title this past season. big week for scott morris, between rendon, stevphen strasburg and scott cole, he has three deals. not bad. >>> college football awards show will take place tonight in atlanta. minnesota's casey o'brien will be honored with the high school spirit award. he was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. he spent more than 200 days in the hospital. has undergone numerous rounds of chemotherapy and beaten 14 surgeries. made his debut for the golden gophers as the place holder. it

. >> i was with oprah winfrey, colin kaepernick, i was with reese witherspoon, i was with ava duvernay and the real korey wise. it was pretty much all of us at a stable with other guests but -- >> jimmy: where is this, a tgi friday's? cabo wabo? >> it was at the wendy's up on -- no. it was at array. ava's building. she has a huge campus. >> jimmy: i see. was there a moment at all where somebody -- like okay, who's going to pay for this? did people just assume oprah would pay for it? >> i'm pretty sure. >> jimmy: yeah, that's how it's got to go. >> i didn't even eat my food. i swear. my food was sitting there and i'm like -- like looking around terrified. it was incredible. >> jimmy: well, congratulations on all your success. if you haven't seen "when they see us," it's terrific. it's on netflix now. and jharrel jerome, everybody. thank you, jharrel. we'll be right back with the black keys. ♪ >> dicky: the "jimmy kimmel live" concert series is presented by the 2019 a class. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. >> dicky: the "jimmy kimmel live" concert series is presentebyer mces-debe t

kaepernick shoes just flew off the shelves, they immediately sold out but it's also the fact that nike has been really strong across-the-board in delivering benefits for investors, consumer discretionary by the way was winning sector of the week and i just want to mention disney here it's important, john fabro just tweeting that the mandelorean season 2 coming in fall 2020 but you look at disney it's barely higher not news of more baby yoda putting the stock on fire, so big news for the markets generally and stocks on fire, back to you. >> gerri thanks for that the s&p still shaking out we'll watch it closely. not sure if it made that record. connell: either way its been some week, some year at a year in many ways of abundance average american workers are now seeing their paychecks growing, faster this year, wall street journal story pointing that out this morning with wages for the typical worker, the non- supervisory employees, who do account for 82% of the workforce, rising at the fastest rate in more than a decade. steve forbes of forbes media chairman is here, and this is obviousl

so fast—forward to 2016, colin kaepernick is kneeling and watching and hearing everything that is happening, immediately, i‘m like, i can help, i have got your back, i don‘t know exactly what it is like to be you, but i believe you in what you are saying and i understand that, in order for it to change, it will have to be more than the person taking on the responsibility, it has to be other people, people like me who had the privilege that i do. that was an easy decision for me. going through all of the backlash and craziness and hatred, from that only solidified my understanding of myself and the power in my voice. and ijust think everyone has a responsibility to do whatever it is they can in the most impactful way that they can to make the world a better place. so i am semi—famous person on a very famous team on a very successful that has media access every single day and we are a growing platform all the time. it is like, this is the most impactful way i can run in. to me, everything is connected, whether it‘s fighting for equal pay, equal access to sport, racial inequalities, po

on another note colin kaepernick workout leads to another. one of the wide receivers who georgia just signed to the washington redskins practice squad. george breezy has now spent parts of the last two years with six different teams got a job. emily, steve? emily: president trump has been pushing to lower the number of people on food stamps since the beginning of his administration. take a look. >> 45 million americans are living right now on food stamps. hard to believe this is our country. >> nearly 7 million people have been lifted off, very importantly, food stamps. 7 million people off of food stamps. and we are getting americans off of welfare and back into the workforce. emily: his administration is announcing now new regulations to make it harder for able-bodied people without jobs to get benefits. the crackdown is expected to impact about 688,000 people, saving the government more than $5 billion over five years. steve: that's substantial. here with reaction is the founder and president of the center for urban renewal and education a

. >>> colin kaepernick remains unemployed nearly three weeks after his nfl workout but one of the guys he was throwing to has been signed. wide receiver jordan vesey is now with washington. he joined the team's practice squad on wednesday. vesey caught a 50-yard pass that sparked thousands of retweets on twitter. >>> when we come back, the so-called peloton husband hits back at a so-called growing social media outrage. >>> the brand-new song from taylor swift coming up in "the skinny." ck at a so-called growing social media outrage. >>> the brand-new song from taylor swift coming up in "the skinny." taylor swift coming up in "the skinny." ♪ skinny just gimme t ♪ skinny just gimme the skinny >>> time now for "the skinny." starting with a growing controversy over a man who wanted his wife skinny no. apparently over this viral christmas commercial we've been talking about about peloton. >> this guy is being called the peloton husband. actor sean hunter playing the part of a husband who gives his wife a peloton bike for christmas because apparently she wanted to get in better shape or

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nike came out with colin kaepernick and got backlash and kendall jenner with-- >> and. neil: as a woman were you offended? >> and that-- >> i was more bother by the woman in the ad than the dad, husband because she was so nervous to get on this bike. she was like, i'm so scared. i'm-- that's a slap in the face to anyone who has had a real problem. if you're in your living room and sit on something that costs, and i'm pretty sure you're okay. that's what kind of weirded me out. neil: he's been called a chauvinist because he's pushing her. >> standing behind her get going! >> i did not get that feeling when i watched it, he was being abusive in any way. the person who came up with this commercial deserves some credit here because we're talking about it and peleton is getting a lot more-- >> their stock was getting shellacked during the week. and was it an overdone reaction, do you think? >> are a he going to get a knee jerk reaction with these things and this happens plenty of times, but i think that any press is good press and we're talking about the ad and we know mo mo

been vociferous in her defense of colin kaepernick and speaks up for marginalized communities, and she wants seismic change in this country and believes elizabeth warren is the person to deliver that. but my question is, who is going to play her on snl? because kate mckinnon is already playing elizabeth warren so beautifully. who's going to play megan? >> that's a great question, now thinking about it. >> not to be outdone, basil g, bernie sanders got endorsed by cardi b. the youth of america? >> the short answer is yes. they don't count a lot for on the ground support but helps in terms of fund raising and in terms of bringing a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and a certain type of voter to big events. so, you know, make these big splashes. it does help and particularly, someone like elizabeth warren who had withbeen dipping in the polls a little bit, so hopefully this will give her a bump but all the other endorsements we'll surely see throughout the rest of the cycle, very useful for a little bit of buzz and a lot of fund raising. >> all right, basil, lola, thank you so much. joy re

the company selling out almost immediately on colin kaepernick's shoes. you will remember him take a knee. meanwhile, boeing helping as it has all week to propel the dow. dennis muilenburg is out. we have a new ceo in, david calhoun, impressing investors by immediately reaching out to the faa to assure them he was going to try to work with them to get this plane, 737 max jet, into the air. just to show you how broad this rally is, the s&p 500 leaders, just a real range of stocks here. amcor, international flavors and fragrances, century link, networking services, amcor packaging, so across the board, lots of interesting stories there. one you have to hear about is michael's. the arts and crafts retailer up last i looked, oh, my goodness gracious, up even more now, up 19.5%. they have a new ceo, they have hired a top walmart executive to come in and run the joint. you are seeing a picture of him here. he's a rising star at walmart, led e-commerce as a chief merchandising officer. as you know, that unit at walmart did very, very well. he's succeeding a fell

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. >> pretty sure colin kaepernick won't be returning to the 49ers are you okay with that? >> yes. >> or any nfl team. >> we took on richard sherman though. >> all right, prediction? >> i think we see double-digit equity returns in 2020, to the positive. i think that it's going to be a very good year, with little more volatility than 2019 but i think 2020 is going to go back and say this is a really good year economically for the united states. >> but looking forward, i think the only risk that i kind of see that gets the possibility is a risk of inflation for 2020 because the recession, take the recession talk off the table that's just not happening right now. inflation though could push the fed. that could hurt us. >> i just, when interest rates are this low you almost take inflation off the table because banks deciding to lend kind of goes away so without the velocity of money increasing substantially i don't think it's a big risk. at some point it's going to happen but i don't share that concern. fiscal policy is in there and increases the money supply. >> not to the sp

we started this in july because we are fed up, colin, who is colin kaepernick to tell that american is rotten, the flag is somehow political and people were fed up as well, one way to push back, so we started with one t-shirt, stand up for betsy ross t-shirt and 27-dollar item and within 3 months we had generated through the sales $4 million to tunnel to towers and i wanted to come here today because it has continued and we will continue all the way through christmas, $5 million in total, we will add another million that we are able to donate because of purchases at the rush limbaugh.com store and it's not a profit for these items, the proceeds go right to them, $5 million, you guys. brian: good job. >> twenty-five-dollar item, it's amazing, just since july, the american people have made this happen and you haven't heard about it because that kind of good news the media is not interested in at all. but i'm happy that fox gives us the opportunity to come here and make the case. ainsley: rush, i was telling somebody at work before the show, i've shopped for my mom and i shopped for my si

colin kaepernick. you move in mysterious ways. >> thank you for the super bowl halftime show. >> amen. >> amen. >> awoman. rachel: what did they say? ed: awoman that is pretty awesome. >> they're poking fun at political correctness that ruined people to have conversations with those who they disagree. used to be in america even in a family you had people you didn't agree with but when it came to holiday time, look at each other and have a prayer that didn't defend anybody. the prayer was not focus of controversy. it was a focus of coming together. i think "saturday night live" amazingly did a good job saying political correctness is silly. ed: families whether black, white, left, right, they all said in the end they think president trump gets reelected. that was a interesting message from "saturday night live." rachel: speaking of prayer, look at video clip of all the prayerfulness going around the democrat side around impeachment. >> yesterday, it was a very somber, prayerful stay. article ii -- so ag

colin kaepernick, not because he was protesting but because of the way he was representing the men and women trying to serve this country and keep us safe. and so here on the football field today, i'm reminded there are men and women outside this gate, keeping us safe, checking cars. making sure everyone here is safe. and those are the men and women that people at starbucks are disrespecting for no good reason. and so, the juxtaposition of keeping us safe today in this story really shows you what these men and women go through. rachel: i think i remember there was a racial incident. i think starbucks shut all the starbucks down for some sort of training. ed: they did after an incident in philadelphia. rachel: starbucks did give a statement to abc news. they say there is simply no excuse for how two deputies were ignored. we are deeply sorry for that. ed: joey, we will be checking in with you all morning long. we appreciate you being there. we look forward to hearing from roger sta staubach and all the rest. ed: attacked by a gunman as he responded to a call about a potentially suicidal