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Gesture last week, continued making strong statements on the field. among them, davin joseph, tweeted a picture of his warm-up cleats with the words emblazoned, i cant breathe. reggie bush did the same, this time on t-shirts honoring the unarmed black man in july in a confrontation with staten island police. nba superstar lebron james pledged to follow suit. youre riveted by pictures this like in berkeley, california, and students protesting what many see as a pattern of police brutality. you sh...

The oscars will stream on line, joining us now, special preview from nbc news.com supervising entertaining editor. how are you? >> im so excited. >> youre pumped for the oscars? >> totally pumped. >> as you know, number one nonsponsored trending topic on twitter right now, whats a tv oscar segment without reading off tweets? the category, which is tongue in cheek, is "new oscar categories." im going to read you a couple of these tweets to give you a sense of whats happening out there. this is fr...

And everybody knows they are all cheating so the question is when do you test these people? >> not now. >> although the shame is they are not really cheating because there is really no policy in the nfl which is why the whole thing is so outrageous. >> two great games coming up this weekend. one of them involves peyton manning and denver may not be actually peyton manning favorite city if you listen to this. >> omaha! omaha! omaha! >> so has that is one of his calls. peyton manning omaha. he bar...

Slated for release next summer. julie banderas here now with the "fox 411" on it. what are you hearing? >> mixed reviews here. the internet going bat crazy over the news ben affleck is new batman. from franchise fiancee famous friend. richard dreyfuss had fun. you read for a part, feel good about it. you feel confident and then they cast ben affleck. will wheaton, looking forward to seeing affleck bring the depth and gravitas that he brought to daredevil and geli. trending topic, call better bat...

Take look at twitter activity the last 4 hours. 1.5 million tweets that are election election related. peaking yesterday around 4:00 p.m. more than 1800 tweets per minute. picking up speed going into the election. thetics the first being energy and environment. one are the reason is because of the gas lines after superstorm sandia. that is one of the reasons it is a top trending topic. the economy a close second. the big jobs report on friday. something big to do with the election, of course. th...

The fact of the matter is, the president was clear. >> conservative radio host laura ingraham wrote last night, terrible miss calculation for gop to agree that the final debate would be on foreign policy. whose bright idea was that when this is a jobs economy. hopefully he wont lose ground. that means well go out to grinding it out before this election. much more still to come on this post debate edition of "the daily rundown." robert gibbs will be here next. plus, well talk to the undecided v...

coverage of the olympic. especially after complaints to twitter led to retaliation against the british newspaper critic. what were these companies thinking? a freelance reporter exposes new yorker writer joan elyra as a serial fabricator who made up quotes from bob dylan. and lara stonewalled him the whole time. >> he lied to me in that conversation, actually. he lied to me in his confession. >> well talk to michael moynihan about how he feels about costing lehrer his job. talk abo...

Big disadvantage in getting your message out? >> no, i think whats missing in this debate is an idea, a real idea. people think they can throw money at this problem and solve it. i think thats exactly whats wrong. we need to be building consensus, focus on congress, not the courts. and we need to reform the tax code so that non-profits donating to super pacs have to disclose their donors and reform the financial system to get candidates to play by the rules. >> robert lucas, thank you so much fo...

a lot of fond memories to share. >> i would watch "american bandstand" and i would also watch every new years eve. dick clark was the one. >> oh, its the main memory of watching the new years eve, "new years rockin eve" and watching the ball drop and seeing him. even in the last couple of years post stroke, just his strength. i think that was really an amazing representation. >> it was like a ritual every year. "new years rockin eve," it made new years what it is. you know? he will cer...

>> i would watch "american bandstand" and i would also watch every new years eve. dick clark was the one. >> oh, its the main memory of watching the new years eve, "new years rockin eve" and watching the ball drop and seeing him. even in the last couple of years post stroke, just his strength. i think that was really an amazing representation. >> it was like a ritual every year. "new years rockin eve," it made new years what it is. he will certainly be missed. >> well, on twitter immed...