and also wire tapps from a gang investigation. in the middle of the investigation there was the mayor. the mayor rob ford spoke on a washington, dc sports radio show this morning. these irwire taps from gang members who say you offered $5,000, if not more, $150,000 and a car to confiscate the video of you doing crack on the tape. what do you say to that? number one, that is an outright lie, and you can talk to my lawyers about it but i m here to talk football guys, so if you want to talk football, talk football. rather talk about the other, mr. mayor, mayor ford a big football fan. says he used to be a high school coach. on sunday he chowed down on wings during the bills-falcons played up there in a stadium in his town. a fan tweeted that the mayor had stolen his seat. but he gave it back. meantime, the documents suggest mayor ford has close times with a violent street gang, and gang members ordered drugs for mayor
tax paying citizens. jenna. jenna: there is a lot happening behind the scenes, doug, but there was also a big immigration rally yesterday on capitol hill. tell us a little bit what was that. reporter: big crowd on very warm day with cherry blossoms out, thousands of people on the west front of the capitol and visited offices and visited the offices of jeff sessions opponent ever immigration reform as it is being crafted right now. they dropped off hundreds of red footballs. as the daughter of a nfl quarterback you might appreciate that. don t drop the ball. pass immigration reform right now. jenna? back to you. jenna: i wish i could catch that. a pretty good throw. not a bad arm from our doug mckelway. big football fan he is is. doug, thank you very much. reporter: you bet. rick: new jobs numbers giving a grim outlook for
longtime nfl fans, but knowing what we know now, we re not going to let our son play football. when i first posed that question to goodell nearly three years ago, people looked at me like i had two heads. and then here you have the president. this is what he said in an interview with new republic. i m a big football fan. but if i had a son, i d think long and hard to see if i would let him play football. there s one study that found that an 11% decline in youth football participation. i can tell you, i have a 5-year-old son. every gathering of fathers we have this conversation. and a lot of present players, including players like bernard pollard of the ravens and bart scott of the jets among the hardest hitters in the league. ed reed this week said he agreed with the president. and this is a guy that gets fined all the time. exactly. thomas jones recently retired. one of the toughest players in the league. he told me this past week that when his bears played the colts
generation and future generation of parents saying, look, we re longtime nfl fans, but knowing what we know now, we re not going to let our son play football. when i first posed that question to goodell nearly three years ago, people looked at me like i had two heads. and then here you have the president. this is what he said in an interview with new republic. i m a big football fan. but if i had a son, i d think long and hard to see if i would let him play football. there s one study that found that an 11% decline in youth football participation. i can tell you, i have a 5-year-old son. every gathering of fathers we have this conversation. and a lot of present players, including players like bernard pollard of the ravens and bart scott of the jets among the hardest hitters in the league. ed reed this week said he agreed with the president. and this is a guy that gets fined all the time. exactly. thomas jones recently retired. one of the toughest players in the league.
quote, i m a big football fan but if i had a son i would have to think long and hard before i would let him play football. we re back with the panel. james, was the president right here to maybe not let his son play. think long and hard about anything your kids want to do. something that should be injected is relative risks. judging from his vacation photos i think he likes to ride a bicycle, it kills more than 700 people a year. if he thinks long and hard. but the issue is whether you want young kids with growing brains whacking each around in the head and undergoing concussion risks. are those concussion risks severe of any, play something else? this is big question. we have seen a bunch of n.f.l. players develop problems after playing, guys who played a long