for his portrayal of christopher darden. now sterling k. brown has another smash hit on his hands. everybody's talking about it. the show is call the "this is us." about his wife who he says rocks his chain. we're going to talk about them. we have our everyone has a story. today's story proves the true meaning of family. >> oh, can't wait to see that. >> and they're all here. >> awesome. all right, tonight is the night the stars of thursday night football. >> on nbc. >> on nbc. >> this is a new thing and we're all excited about it. >> the new orleans saints are playing the panthers. >> carolina panther. because the panthers are 3-6 and the saints are 4-5. >> i wasn't going to put on the jersey because you know, i only wear a giants jersey. but look at the back, that's frank's middle name and cody's middle name. so it's just fine. >> cam newton, baby. the game -- what's on the back of my jersey? brees. >> brees. love him. >> coverage tonight at 7:30 on nbc. it's going to be a fun game. >> so mandy moore was on james corden's "late late show" this we adore our mandy. she talked about

what about darden?he restaurants going to get a new life after being -- we talked about a restaurant recession. >> if you build a lot of infrastructure, you need carbs. no way around it, scott. believe me. >> ross stores? halliburton? >> ross stores nailed it. their comp store sales were 200 basis points than tjx. they did a good job. they have more u.s. exposure than tj which has more exposure in europe. this is the one. i don't know if you chase it here. but it is one that if it pulls back one you buy. >> halliburton, we talked about the permian basis, where they have a trillion dollars worth of crude down there and that's at today's prices. you project that out, i think baker hughes, chevron, halliburton all work. >> is foot locker now the premiere way to play athletics? >> it is the -- >> footwear, apparel? >> it is the way that gives you the least amount of risk in terms of who is going to be the hot player or what is going to be the must have product because to john's point, they sell it all. i th

>> it really is. >> well, you came off that emmy win playing christopher darden, which was amazing. just reliving you up on the stage receiving your award and what you said in the end about your wife and how she -- what did you say, rocks your chain? >> hottest chick in the game. >> something like that. >> am i close? >> the hottest chick in the game >> and then every other person who came up started to say the same thing. >> that night, do you feel like it's one of those life. changing nights for you? >> yeah. it was an out of body experience. >> yeah, inbet it was. >> when i walked up on stage. first of all, they said my name, which you don't know if that's going to happen or not. my cast mates who are all fantastic who are nominated as well. other people from fx. applauding me. >> they don't do that unless it's deserved. we're so happy to have you. glad bless. >> "this is us" beatbo, what do you know about rabbits? i don't know anything about rabbits, but i do know that when you get your coupon and spend $75 at toys"r"us, you get a $10 gift card to use in december. cool. it's not

hear michael darden say that, does your expected rate of return come down?we do is look at all kinds of factors and we are bottom-up value investors so we look at what we believe can grow. we have to incorporate that macro economic forecast, but there are so many factors that go into earnings growth that that is just one of them. the big overlay, the gdp growth figure is just one of them. some companies could do far better, some need just a little bit of a tailwind, and some cannot do well or fly in a low growth environment. analystshat our job as has to be, to determine what impact the macro environment has on the bottom line. francine: is there a common mistake that ceos are doing? are they not investing enough or too much? do,hen we look at what ceos this is one of the key questions. they could get good returns on additional investment, by all means invest it. if they cannot and there is a lot of debt, pay off debt and if not, perhaps make an acquisition . if you are going to overpay we do not want you doing that. if that does not work, give it back to th

[ cheers and applause ] plays chris -- chris darden. and we got great new music from macklemore -- >> steve: yeah! >> jimmy: featuring ariana deboo! [ cheers and applause ] big show tonight. and the last two nights i've been -- i can't get this out of my head, because i've been watching a lot of "gilmore girls." gearing up. gearing up the choo-choo train for the netflix special that's coming on, after thanksgiving, it's just, i'm freaking out. anyways, i picked my top four characters on the show besides rory and lorelai. >> steve: right. >> jimmy: of course, they were taylor, you know, the town mayor guy, whatever. >> steve: yes. >> jimmy: yeah. he just makes me laugh. luke, of course. kirk. and then paris geller. my number one, love her. but anyway, so anyways, i talked about it last night on the show, they tweeted me today, and they said they were psyched, they were like joking around. they were -- that was cool. an just 'cause people, they just want to know, those trending #top4, no, "gilmoregirlstop4." yeah, so anyways, that was tre

restaurants that are basically -- have -- >> that's darden. or cracker barrel. >> comp. great for domino's, great for papa john's. so they have a high benchmark to meet going forward. so as great as these stocks have been, the hurdle is getting higher and higher for the ones that have been successful. >> bk, to your point about restaurants exposed here, how about a yum c, the china operations of yum. >> right. well, i wouldn't want to own that. >> you wouldn't want to own it. >> no. >> but there is growth in china. and if the -- they're there. >> let's look at what's going on in china. if we have a trade war, it's not necessarily going to be great for the chinese economy. you're soog the chinese you want weaken quite a bit to the levels we haven't seen since the 2008 crisis. something else is going on there, as well. it's not a place i would be very excited about. >> some sort of a turn going on? keith meister said you want to be in both, yum and yum c. the reasoning, he thinks in china, it's going to be extremely volatile, but the possibilities there to grow and the exp

darden restaurants you're showing right there, owns not only the olive garden and longhorn steakhousen the mid scale side. they've also got capital grill. check out the chart, a huge move. 11% higher in one week. similar charts happen for chili's, also cracker barrel, as well. >> country fried steak and country gravy on there. it comes down to whether or not consumers feel good about spending, sentiment plays in. and we have seen a near-term trend of lower fuel prices. and that helps the consumer, as well. more extra money to spend. >> he likes to sit in the rocking chairs. >> i like the rocking chairs. good food. oh, man. we were talking on another broadcast some time ago with tillman fer teata, owns a lot of stuff. he was saying people were staying home because they were nesting, they were not confident. so this -- the uncertainty has risen. how -- what needs to take place for this rally to continue? >> it's going to come down to whether or not we do see the economy keep up. and that's going to be a real big driver of what's going to happen. if fuel prices still remain low, and they

it's not like they're going to darden because they're going to wendy's, they're just not going.ut that was a call about america and what's happened in america the last 90 days. >> i guess i have a little harder time understanding exactly how behavior is impacted by the election in terms of people making a decision not to go out to olive garden. >> like domino's had double digit. i mean that's stay at home. >> why, though? what is it? what are people -- >> what i was postulating, they're not staying home and watching football. the numbers aren't that good. i think that they're transfixed -- i think people are watching coverage. >> really? you think they're staying home because they're watching election coverage? >> look, i'm stuck. >> yeah. some of the sunday news -- sports was impacted by coverage of comey over the weekend, we saw that. >> yeah. look, i'm kind of staggered. >> wow. >> what else? what else was coincident -- >> maybe you take a look at darden was starting to go up yesterday. maybe you make a restaurant bet, cheesecake was one of the few. but i thought the sysco ca

of those for african-american women christine darden comment dorothy vaughan, catherine johnson and mary jackson. [applause] i am so pleased also to let you know that many of the family members of mary jackson and dorothy vaughan and mrs. johnson are here as well. in any been that worked with them with the langley research center. if you see them in the crowd tonight home i am so thrilled that these women who actually lived in the history so i could write to our here. we knew the minute we were raised by them and worship with them and were taught by them or work with them my insurer me that there is the tremendous amount. and having a list of unfilled with another book of life down when researching their lives but one of the most timely and to emphasize is the following. maher never allow fear to get the best of curiosity. had high it takes a powerful imagination to land humans on the moon to bring them back safely and then to have their roots right here in hampton virginia and then to do uh rose calculations for this to come to fruition the tappan better known catherine johnson for the

. >> and then from his role as chris darden in the hit tv series "this is us," actor sterling k. brown is here. >> i really hate this. >> and ambush makeovers. >> in time for thanksgiving to -- everyone has a story for you. >> and before we say good-bye we want to say a separate good-bye, a special good-bye to a member of our team who we love. >> kyle michael miller. >> oh, no. >> whyre >> kyle's leaving us. >> i am. >> come here. we need to say good-bye. come here. in a proper way. can we have -- oh! >> oh, my -- >> thank you, gary. >> new york to ohio. >> all right. >> thank you, gerard. >> kyle michael miller, we love you, sweetie. >> i love you guys. thank you so much. >> we love our kyle and we're going to miss him. >> we are. i still have not accepted it. i refuse to accept it. >> i don't accept it. >> cheers. love you guys. >> morecans watch nbc news >>> my mission is simple, to make you money. i'm here to level the playing field for all investors. there's always a bull market somewhere, and i promise to help you find it. "mad money" starts now. >>> hey, i'm cramer. welcom

. >> keith darden, american university. i wanted to pick up on the be issue of propaganda and where you might distinguish between what we conventionally call propaganda and propagating a set of ideas is the factual basis of what's being propagated. several of us on the u.s. side have the sense that there are deliberate falsehoods being put out in russian state media that are known by the state media to be false. i am wondering if you could comment on that rho you brought up the mh-17 and the crucifix stories. some of these things were objectively not true. that's different from putting out a different version of events. >>> if i may say like this, some of these things were objectively shameful for us. when i saw the report with the crucifix in ukraine, oh, boy, it was shameful. it was not true. the government called the first channel and asked to remove this report, because it was shameful. this is the point -- this is the theme with us and the ukraine. this news is so quickly absorbed by the population so we have this myth

. >> and then from his role as chris darden in the hit tv series "this is us," actor sterling k. brown is here. >> i really hate this. >> and ambush makeovers. >> in time for thanksgiving to -- everyone has a story for you. >> and before we say good-bye we want to say a separate good-bye, a special good-bye to a member of our team who we love. >> kyle michael miller. >> oh, no. >> why are you leaving us? >> kyle's leaving us. >> i am. >> come here. we need to say good-bye. come here. in a proper way. can we have -- oh! >> oh, my -- >> thank you, gary. >> new york to ohio. >> all right. >> thank you, gerard. >> kyle michael miller, we love you, sweetie. >> i love you guys. thank you so much. >> we love our kyle and we're going to miss him. >> we are. i refuse to accept it. like the wine bot. >> we'll see you. >> i don't accept it. >> cheers. love you guys. >> announcer: the following is a paid presentation for derm exclusive instant anti-aging, brought to you by beachbody. >> hi, everybody. i'm deborah norville. and i've got breaking news from the world of skincare. this time, the

up first, we have a tweet from @will kelly 3 who says am i diversified, bristol myers, darden restaurants, matador resources, general electric and scotts miracle grow. let me just do a quick check of something. excellent. okay. so scotts miracle grow, we know lawn care. i don't know. i mean home improvement, how about that? oil and gas, drug, restaurant, and diversified industrial. wow, okay. industrial, restaurant, that is perfect. that is complete and utter diversification with a little bit of yield. i like it. i say well played. not bad. not bad. let's go to douglas in connecticut, douglas. >> caller: cramer. >> yo. >> caller: hey, my companies are car aisles, exxon mobil, dover corp., 3m and g.e. >> interesting. i'm going to show you a twist here. dover has energy exposure, exxon has energy exposure, and ge has it. i don't like -- dovyou're going get a health care company. we're going to add johnson & johnson and take out dover. a drug company, another diversified industrial, and oil and gas. why am i okay with these? because they're in all different verticals, and that's what matters

it really took, let's say, darden was good and cheesecake factory was good, but that's really about it. and cracker barrel was one i expected to be really good because gasoline prices are low it didn't happen. i'm going to say not yet. i'm going to say penalty box for cracker barrel. the secret is potatoes. skip out on the troubled consumer business of conagra and take a look at the menu for lambweston. much more "mad money" ahead. is clorox looking washed out? i'm eyeing the company after today's earnings miss although i still like it. let's get the full story from the ceo. then what's your annual teeth cleaning got in common with i'll reveal and tell you how it could impact your portfolio. and all your calls rapid fire on tonight's edition of the lightning round. >>> ouch. this latest quarter from color exsent its stock tumbling. the maker of glad bags, kingsford charcoal, burt's bees personal care products and plain cl lower than i would have preferred earnings guidance for 2017. what is going on? within the company, the results pretty wildly varied. clorox's cleaning products saw 1

you can find darden with a good yield. i thought panera was convoluted and find out more.ake factory with the biggest upside surprise. that may be the best one to buy. oh, and of course you can keep buying, yes, indeed, amazon. at least until it comes all the way back to where it was before it reported. because in this world, new habits, meaning ordering on-line die hard. last time we heard from brad jacobs, ceo, the company that dominates last mile deliveries for everything large in this country to your house, including shipments from amazon, he business is very strong. that's good enough for me. could i be wrong? could there be another reason for the sudden cooling off of the restaurant space? geez, what else could it be? a whole nation's behavior doesn't change in a single quarter. unless something happened that quarter. something that's the equivalent of a message that says, stay home. don't go out. focus on the election. something like a quarantine. now i didn't get that quarantine memo, did you? anyway, today that stay at home distraction maybe it ends. or at least i

brown took home an emmy this year for his portrayal of christopher darden in the hit mini series "the people v. o. o.j. simpson. now he is earning praise for his role in "this is us." while he can't wait for the whole family to be together on thanksgiving, he may be the only one. >> man, i am pumped. my mom and biological father how great is this? isn't this great? >> um-hm. okay, let me get that. be right back. >> what's with her? >> i have no idea. >> hey, sterling, good morning. nice to see you. >> thank you so much. >> when an actor takes on a role in a tv series, basically all they're hoping for is that somebody gets to sample the show. >> amen. >> anything above that is icing on the cake. >> gravy. >> how does the gravy taste? you're in the gravy people versus o.j." to now "this is us." i've been doing this for 15, 16 years. so all of a sudden things just kind of exploded and i've been able to pay the bills. but now people see me and will wave and say hi. like it is a whole new world. i am enjoying it. >> do you even try to asian-american lies why you end up in a juicy period li

he is saying bet on companies relative to darden or some of these kroger that have a lot bigger headis that the kind of thing you think makes sense in this environment? >> growth continues to work and higher growth kaech companies h been rewarded in this earnings season. if you think about fast food the wage gains are probably in that part of the market. i think minimum wage and lower priced and lower skilled workers are extracting a bigger price out of companies. i think it gets back to equity investors you have to be investing in companies who the cycle of the seconder is improving because there is secular change or cost discipline. you have to have valuations that make sense. we were all struggling and we remain there. airlines, rails, banks, these are things that worked in earnings season. banks have been defensive. they outperformed the market on the way down here. >> tim, constance, thank you guys for joining us this hour. catch much more of the fast money crew talking about michael moore. he will be on the show talking all things donald trump. you don't want to miss that all s

look at this, because on the consumer side of things, darden restaurants, olive garden, up 12% year to date. hit a record high today. m&t bank, financials very much a focus there. up 16% year to date. also a record high earlier today. u.p.s. has backed off in today's trade. transportation front, record high. general dynamics on the defense contractor side of things, up 24% year to date. they hit a record high. lastly here as a sampling, martin marietta materials, they make a lot of the construction aggregates, you think things like concrete, asphalt, that sort of thing, a lot of story lines developing, tyler. stock picking has seemed to work so far this year. back over to you. >> thank you very much. with stocks sittinger in records, bonding getting walloped, what should investors do here? let's bring in jim paulson, chief investment strategist with wells capital management. my notes say one of the things you begin with is that the election mostly removed uncertainty, which had lowered the stock market and it is now returned to its previous levels before the election. i remember last m

talking about o"hamilton" l's on the mid side, darden restaurants, appleby's, olive guard, that sortoint. dine equity, brinker, all of the guys here are seen perhaps as doing relatively well in this kind of environment as the uncertainty dissipates and people start to be able to open up their checkbooks a little more to see what they're going to spend on. >> the question here i guess in terms of field position, the day before and after thanksgiving historically very strong. >> yes. >> the question is did you kind of put some of those gains in the bank. >> you drew them forward to today. >> we'll see. >> it was funny because art cashin told us that the tuesday of thanksgiving week has seasonably been one of the weaker days of this thanksgiving week and we're not getting that today. is there a bit of that draw forward? is there a position squaring, like you said, power people positioning for this long weekend? it is not a long weekend. but a half day on friday. >> probably not, although i will be here if they decide to take on -- >> i will be as well. >> thank you very much. ringing th