exclusive contract between reebok and ufc for reebok to provide the sportswear.eebok and president of ufc. matt o'toole and dana white. i'm not an expert, matt, but i'm pretty sure that the fighters in ufc don't wear shoes and wear very little clothing. outline how this is going to work. >> you are correct. fighters in the octagon are not wearing a lot of clothes but they are training in a lot of product that is really important to them. and ultimately this is how they spend most of their time. fights are limited as an event but the real life as an athlete as a person training and creating the right body and ability for the sport. >> clearly dana, matt wants to get to your community describe whose watching. >> 18-34-year-old males when it started but now it is changing. this season of the ultimate fighter is our first ever 115 champion also crowned on december 12th. like he was saying, they might walk in and fight with not a lot of clothing but these guys are the beth conditibest conditione athletes. they train in and have do their cardiovascular, the weight trai

she's also been on the board of nike and reebok as well. nike is one of the seven companies that have been targeted not to buy from because not because of their human rights protocols or how far you come in that direction but because coca-cola is another one but because of overconsumption excessive consumption of various products is creating the situation that you're talking about. along with population. but as far as changes in temperature and changes in water are coming from carbon emissions. so i would like you to tell us a little bit about what you were on the inside of these companies. aveda is a little bit more conscious, i would think than nike. but if you would just tell us a little bit from the consumption side of this. >> thank you. it's a great way to start by saying i've been in the hot seat. that's great. [laughter] because i have good answers and that's the relief. i was at nike less than two years. philosophically, we have differences. subsequent to that i had my own company, and i went to reebok. the thing i did with reebok

she's also been on the board of nike and reebok as well. one of the seven companies that have been tarted not to buy from because not because of their human rights protocols or how far you come in in that direction but because coca-cola is another one but because of overconsumption excessive consumption of various products is creating the situation that you're talking about. along with population. but as far as changes in temperature and changes in water are coming from carbon emissions. so i would like you to tell us a little bit about what you were on the inside of these companies . aveda is a little bit more conscious, i would think than nike. but if you would just tell us a little bit from the consumption side of this. >> thank you. >> thank you. it's a great way to start by saying, okay, i've been in the hot seat. that's great. [laughter] >> because i have good answers and that's what's a relief. when i was at nike a little less than two years, and philosophically we had a lot of differences but i won't go into those now. subsequent to

it's ultimately us as consumer bus also responsible for their it reebok, aveda, nike how it is that they tell you what you need. so go back to the source of raw material and i'm using aveda where we went back to the amazon, to brazil and to there -- where we worked with indigenous people to go back to growing indigenous plants so that we can have what we in the western world want which is cossmicts, hair color but from plants and organically is not easy. once when runner tapping game in, rubber growing and then synthetics became much more important. so that became -- they got displaced on that again. and then more land got clear cut for calt growing for hamburgers. so going back and working these people to reclaim some identity, to grow back indigenous class takes education, takes patience, takes money and takes fortitude for us as manufactures and you can support that whole process if you get educated at who is doing this kind of work because ultimately it's not just for them. it's for us. you also want or gaining and healthy products to put in your body and to ingest inside your body.

seth then called out the worst brands of floss, most of which were not floss brands, including reebok and jet blue. at one point, seth said, "you can't spell 'floss' without 'loss,'" which is accurate. however he also said, "and you can't spell 'reborn' without 'boner.'" [ laughter ] he then called the audience sheeple and pointed out that whitening toothpaste is racist. seth went on to say that despite not flossing, he can eat anything and then attempted to eat a book. upon seeing this, fred yelled, "flossing is good for your heart." and then left "late night" for another six months. [ laughter ] after failing to eat the book, seth then stood up and said, "mommy wants flossy? daddy no lucky." no one knew what he meant by this. finally, seth marched up to the camera, asked, "would these eyes lie to you?" and then stared unblinkingly into the camera for an indeterminable amount of time. [ cheers and applause ] seth then took a swig from his flask and wandered back to his desk. [ laughter ] nbc would like viewers to disregard seth's opinions about flossing, as they do not reflect the ne

we actually had a young child in minnesota whose mom went out and bought a pair of reebok te reebs shoes and with the shoes came a charm and the child swallowed the charm. the child died over a period of days as the lead in the charm went into his system. that is just one example. and senator pryor was heading up at the time the consumer subcommittee, and we took on a major bill to change the standards of lead in children's products, including jewelry, toys. and it was a huge bipartisan vote, a very important bill, and what was called actually the most important consumer legislation in decades. and senator pryor got that done. not only that, later when in his capacity as head of that subcommittee we had a little girl in minnesota named abigail taylor who died in a swimming pool and all she was doing was playing in a kiddie pool and she happened to be sitting in the middle of the pool. the pool train malfunctioned and basically sucked her insides down. she survived for a year. and when mark pryor came to minnesota, he met with that little girl and her dad. she later died after a surgery t

their profits for 2014 are expected to be half of 10 years ago -- in some ways it is similar to the reebok, they have sponsored people like hussein bolt but cannot compete with the big boys like nike and adidas who can spend and have sponsorships and recoup it in sales. what do they do next? here is the pop quiz for you and mark -- over the weekend, are you more comfortable and gucci loafers or puma track shoes? mark, you go first. >> track shoes means marquess to run somewhere. >> uncomfortable wearing no shoes at all. i am so casual, less is more. >> hans, thank you very much. in london, countdown and 10 years in the next hour and we will hear soon from the bank of england that will release the results of the stress test on the u.k.'s eight biggest banks. manus cranny will be live outside bringing the details as they emerge. we will have the results of the stress test and the financial stability report at the top of the next hour. stay with us. ♪ >> russia ranks up its key interest rate to guarantee the ruble, the moscow currency crisis. makes its move, starting exclusive talks on a 12.5

i started at reebok and i love function. >> there is sturdiness. >> thank you for joining us.ar -- >> manolo is at 1.26. stay with us. ♪ >> the state of the american labor economy, there are millions of new jobs, but are they quality jobs? weekend the markets reacted and oil cannot find a bid. in cadillac is in search of cool. this is bloomberg "surveillance ." we are live from new york. it is jobs day, december 5. let's get right to the top headlines. making itnt obama official he is nominating ashton carter to be the next secretary of defense. or two years he was the number two civilian at the defense department and is also the chief pentagons weapons buyer. president obama will formally introduce them later on this morning. also in washington, congress is one step closer on a budget bill. thursday the symbolic vote at the house to protest the order that blocks deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants. john boehner spoke before the vote. >> the president thumb his nose at the american people. the house will make clear today that we are rejecting his unilateral acti

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. >> i'd say -- how about reebok. let's say you're correct. no. nike's correct.y saw it in the prompter, i think she probably knew about it. but nike has gained 26% since july 3rd. the best performing stock in the dow. let's turn our attention to the worst-performing stock in the dow since then. this is not in the prompter this time. >> no, but it is in i-news. >> this is not fair. i cannot play. >> i call shenanigans on becky right now. >> we don't do cheats. >> this is a game designed to make us look tupd. >> my guess was chevron. >> i didn't know -- >> i love the fact you still call it chevron texaco. i remember the texaco as well. >> see, i didn't know. cvx. i thought that was a drugstore. >> that's cvs. >> here's one more fact before we leave you guys, we know those are the biggest percentage gainers. but in terms of who the biggest point contributor to the dow's thousand-point gain between 17,000 and 18,000, now you have to adjust for things like price. who do you think has contributed the most in terms of points to the thousand-point gain that we could see

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brands like sony, dyson, reebok. happy holidays to me. ♪ happy holidays to me. hobbit. now the final film in the trilogy is one of the most anticipated movies of the holiday season. >> it has been over a decade since peter jackson's epic journey through middle earth first began and next week the saga reaches its climax with "the hobbit: the battle at the five army". >> at the center of it all is martin freeman. >> i'll go. >> don't be ridiculous. you'll never make it. >> why not? >> because they will see you coming and kill you. >> no, they won't. they won't see me. >> out of the question. i won't allow it. >> i'm not asking you to allow it. >> whoa. >> exactly the reaction i was hoping to are. >> we fell in love with you as you were watching -- we were watching the scene and you leaned over and you said you think that's going to -- >> can you believe it is the end of this? >> yes, i can. >> you can? >> the end of things -- >> things are supposed to be finite. you do a film or a record, you do a thing hoping the audience will share it and like it. and so the fac