boone pickens joining us to talk about oil and gas, but boone, i don't know if you heard our previous conversation, i want the u.s. isn't losing influence, we're probably just getting tired of exerting our influence on other cunning or trying to, what say you? >> well, i did hear the last segment and found it to be very interesting, and you know, i just think the world has gotten used to war, and, you know, you're throwing up a new headline every day, iran is now producing a little more oil on the circumstance come venting the sanctions with the help of russia, and libya has now raised their production. so the market is clear on the price. the price isn't going to run up on the fear of something going off the market. now, when production goes down someplace, then watch out. the price, of course is going to move up, but if you look at the last three years, the market for oil has consistent. it's range bound between 105 and 120, and temperature -- you know, it stays right in there. >> isn't that great, that the fact that the u.s. energy boom is hoping to buffer us from the external ehav

live show tomorrow and i wrote a piece from a conversation with boone pickens on cnbc.com.as well. interesting things to say about crude and where he thinks it's going. >> jackie, we will. check out that article. >>> once again, show you a live picture from martha's vineyard where we expect the president to make a statement within the next five minutes or so. we'll take you there live as soon as we see mr. obama. >>> coming up, adam scott, world's number two golfer and the most valuable pitch man in the sport. he will join us next, right here on the "half time show." ♪ when the world moves, futures move first. learn futures from experienced pros with dedicated chats and daily live webinars. and trade with paper money to test-drive the market. all on thinkorswim from td ameritrade. in a we believe outshining the competition tomorrow requires challenging your business inside and out today. at cognizant, we help forward-looking companies run better and run different - to give your customers every reason to keep looking for you. so if you're ready to see opportunities and see t

boone pickens, nobody anticipated it. i keep going back to that theme. the experts keep getting it wrong and the oddballs, the unusual people, characters keep getting it right. those are the people that i write about in my book, "the frackers" and what we'll talk a little bit about today, the people that lead it. the first is a guy named george mitchell not relate to the senator. george mitchell was a texas guy. he was the son of an immigrant from greece. his father's name was paris go ballistic. he was born in a little town in greece. he didn't have much of a future. a little town. no business going on really they are, no future so they got on a boat and came to ellis island and they said go work building a rail system from arkansas to texas. he needed a job so we job so he wanted the data took the family. so he's working on the rail system one day and his paymaster came and looked really unhappy and said what's with this name of yours? i can't write it out. he said what is your name? he said my name is mike mitchell. he said okay i will be mike mitchel

boone pickens no one anticipated this revolution. a kind of come back to that theme.it's fascinating to me. the experts kept getting it wrong and the oddballs in unusual people, characters keep getting it right. those are the people that i write about in my book, those are the ones i want to talk a little bit about today. the people that lead this revolution. the first is a guy named george mitchell not related to the senator. george mitchell -- mitchell is a texas guide to a texas guy the son of an immigrant from greece. his father's name was -- and he was born in the little town in greece. he didn't have much of a future. a little town, no business going on really they are, no future. he got on the boat and came to ellis island. they said go work building the rail system from arkansas to texas. he did that and didn't have a family or anything. he is working on a rail system one day and his paymaster came and looked really unhappy and said what's with this name of yours? i can't spell it and i can't write it out. he said what's your name? he said my name is mike mitc

. >> are you a boone pickens fan? >> i do. we're testing natural gas trucks as we speak.ture. not sure when we'll get there but that's something that's coming our way. >> okay. come on again. we could have a longer conversation. >> absolutely. enjoyed it. >> you bet. >> all right. and for more on our collision course that series that andrew mentioned eamon javers did some excellent reporting on that. check out investigationsinc.cnbc.com and please do not text and drive. >> coming up we're continuing the auto conversation because sales data is out from autonation. mike jackson joins us with the latest numbers. he's going to talk some overall sector trends when we return. >>> tomorrow on "squawk box," california gubernatorial candidate and former pimco managing director kneel kashkari. the ceo of tenet health care on quarterly results. and how homeaway is taking on air bnb. squawk box starting at 6:00 a.m. eastern time right here on cnbc. on progressive direct s and other car insurance companies? yes. but you're progressive and they're them. -yes. -but they're here. -yes. -

boone pickens so i came back to that it was fascinating to me with the oddballs says those are the people who led the revolution. the son of an immigrant if he was born in a little town in greece with dough business going on and so he got on a boat and they pulled them off to say go work on the rail system so he is working on the rail system one day and said what is the name of yours? so he said what is your name? he said mike mitchell okay i will do so he took his name and he became mike mitchell. so i love the story because my great-grandfather got off the boats and he said we cannot spell that so instead it is zuckerman. so as the east coast reporter and he told me a story. so george mitchell plan the company with the mid-size producer they were making money and doing pretty well but 1932 mitchell could see the writing on the wall and see his company was running out of natural gas and there wasn't much he could do to have an acreage offshore like exxon or the big guys but it to tackle the shale formation. it is always been the source rock. and then to go to assess service and historica