boone pickens.are you? >> good morning, harry. >> let's go ahead and head into the trophy room, if you don't mind. >> sure. >> t. boone pickens was a texas oilman who became the original corporate raider. he would buy a bunch of stock into company, talk about how the executives needed to be tossed out and make a play for the company. >> pickens company, which is only 1/20th of the size of phillips, buys 5.8% of the stock privately. now he wants to buy another 15% from the shareholders and gain a seat on the corporate board. >> there's one thing i want to put in place is that stockholders own companies and management is employees. >> phillips agreed to buy back its stock from t. boone pickens. the profit to pickens and partners, $89 million. >> you've made about $500 billion dollars through losing on your attempted takeovers. do you go into it anticipating a loss is still going to stand you really well. >> you never like to lose, but if you lose and make money, well, it makes it a little easier. >> i

pickens joins us now on the phone. mr.ickens, thank you for taking the time, my first question to you is have you been in touch for rex tillerson, the campaign or do they have the company said he will be named secretary of state? >> i know wrecks and i am not a touch with this decision on secretary of state. other than through the tv and other news media. but i know rex tillerson. a great addition to the cabinet. >> mr. pickens, as you mentioned, many of the hottest jail little -- geopolitical spots are oil nations. from that perspective, rex tillerson would have great insight. on the other hand, wraps the interest of the energy industry is different than what the interests would be overall as a pretense to security, human rights and other things like that. i you confident that rex able ton would be separate the interests of oil from the interest of the country? >> yes, i would. rex tillerson is a major all company guy. he has had so much experience and he is a good man. scouts anded boy different organizations. no, i woul

boone pickens. thanks for joining me from the middle of a snowstorm in texas. >> sure, thank you. >> tillerson's nomination has drawn comparisons to dwight eisenhower picking the ceo of general motors for his defense secretary. when asked about conflicts of interest, the man known as engine charlie wilson famously said, for years i thought what was good for our country was good for general motors and vice-versa. do you think rex tillerson subscribes to the same philosophy that what's good for exxonmobil is good for america or do you think he can and will truly separate the interests of big oil and business from the interests of the country? >> first, poppy, i was there, i remember engine charlie. so i do remember. rex tillerson, you know, he's winding up his career with exxon. and this is a fabulous opportunity for him to serve the country. and he is highly qualified. but he isn't just, you know, secretary of state for russia. i mean, he's secretary of state for the united states and the world. so t

it's not just slim pickens. there's a lot to chew on and i'm looking forward to that. >> host: you mention mitt romney appeared here is jasper in the 2012 republican convention. do you know that romney and what we should think about him being part of a trump administration? s. to the picture you're holding up as the first ever photoshop has poor talking about the mystery speaker from the 2012 election and no one knew who that was going to be an event that being clint eastwood. i met mitt romney. yes i'm a fan. i give credit to donald trump for listening to people who are very much against him, but also to that romney for being able to go in may. i felt adrift at the end of october. i'm willing to wait for a second because perhaps it's bigger than we thought. >> host: next call for dana perino comes from zachary at long beach, california. go ahead, we're listening. >> guest: -- >> caller: you said a moment ago you thought the next two years to be good for the republican party but what about the masses as a whole?

the cross workers but i've a pair of vans that is pickens made she's 100 years old.they are amazed. you feel a lot of love when you go there. >> nice. i could go on and ask about your question we can follow up later. this was very informative. thank you. okay. before we finish with a few more items, no? >> the next order of business is item 6 of the comment on non-agenda items. mdm. chair spears any speaker cards >> oscar james is our speaker >> mr. james. >> commissioners, i know you're [inaudible] i just can appear to wish you a happy holidays merry christmas. i know we hope we have a challenge this year with trump coming into office. but i think the city of county of the san francisco and the state with brown in office, i think we can deal with it. and kerry our this program forward to benefit the city of san francisco. but you guys have done a tremendous job and i think and i love each and every one of you and have a merry merry christmas and and staff. who's done a determines job. thank you guys very much >> thank you. have a good holiday. happy new year. that w

it's not just slim pickens. there's a lot to chew on and i'm looking forward to that. >> you mentioned mitt romney. here's jasper at the 2012 convention. do you know met romney and what would you think about him being part of the trump administration? was the firstee ever photoshop that the artistto did because on the five we were talking about the mystery speaker from the 2012 election and no one knew who it was going to be and it ended up being clint eastward. yes, i've met mitt romney. yes, i'm at the end. i give credit to donald trumpai for being able to listen to people who are very much against him, but also to mitt romney for being able to go and meet. that's why i'm saying, i felt adrift at the end of october, i'm willing to wait for second because perhaps this tent is bigger than we thought. >> host: next call comes from zachary in long beach california. go ahead. bea. listening >> caller: two quick questions. you said a moment ago that you felt the next two or three or a few years would be good for the

and kd, for one, doesn't think it's exactly going to be easy pickens. >> a better team than their record, in a lot of games, but when you're young and inexperienced, it's kind of hard to figure those games out, but they're playing extremely hard every night. they've got good pieces. that represents a tough challenge. >>> christmas day against lebron and the rest of the cavs, that's going to be a trip. meantime, the raiders, the news set in yesterday. they had 7 players named to the pro bowl, and no other team in the nfl can top that. today working out again, back in alameda, getting ready coming to oakland this weekend. saturday night, christmas eve. the 7 pro bowlers, derek carr, amare cooper, but the big guy on the frontline. the guy we call car insurance up there. ronald hudson and here is the coaches talking a little about those big guys up front. >> proud of our guys. you know, well deserving. thought it was awesome that all four of our captains were selected. three of our offensive linemen. the line is so crucial to what we do. >> the o-line is the engine to our vehicle. they've me

in the region, i met many times separately with prime minister netanyahu and with president abbas pickens and i and secretary clinton with only two persons present when the two of the met on four occasions in september 2010. and i argued the following to each. my argument to buy metronet yahoo! was that interest out any position of unparalleled strength, politically, economically, militarily. this is a good time to get involved in negotiations and be prepared to make the case of concessions that inevitably are required to reach an agreement between two sides so bitterly divided. two president abbas and before him, to arafat, i made the argument that in 1947, the united nations proposed the partition -- the petition of the reason to create two states. israel accepted it, the arabs rejected it and the first of several wars begin each of which has one with increasing military dominance. i don't think there is a reasonable arab leader today who would not welcome the partition which was rejected in 1948. but it doesn't exist anymore and it's not coming back. you haven't accepted other offer se

joe: we talked to boone pickens on this show not long after rex tillerson's name was put out there forry of state. he made the point that labor markets are really tight. a lot of people had been working in the oil patch have gone on to construction already and found different jobs. how do you think about the labor aspect of that, and in general, labor market tightening. how big of a story will that be for 2017, given expectations of more infrastructure spending and lots of different areas of the economy needing work here. >> there are selected set errors where there are some supply shortages of labor. certainly in the construction area, the energy area could be one of those where there could be supply constraints. don't forget we came from a rate count in the u.s. over 1400 and now back to about 650 or something like that. you would think there are some rigs that could be operated efficiently that could be brought online pretty quickly. if her going to have another surge in production in the u.s. like we had in the last 10 years, i think that is a problem. are a lot of these wells dog

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you bring in anybody from texas whether it's rick perry or personally i'd like to see boone pickens asrgy secretary, but i don't know if boone would take that job. but i just love the fact that president-elect trump even with rex tillerson as secretary of state potentially, he's bringing in people that are going to change washington, change the departments for the better. they're business people, they're not bureaucrats -- neil: all right. you're not of that mind, you think this is in some cases the fox guarding the henhouse, right? >> well, yes. [laughter] but i actually have a question on rick perry in that regards because is he really, trump really trying to make some of these appointments to actually, as he says, quote-unquote drain the swamp when rick perry is the former governor of texas? that's a state that has really benefited from the shale gas revolution that happened in the early 2000s, something which the department of energy researched and supported and funded. so would he come in there, rick perry, and be a big advocate of many of those policies and projects which actuall

the cross workers but i've a pair of vans that is pickens made she's 100 years old.azed. you feel a lot of love when you go there. >> nice. i could go on and ask about your question we can follow up later. this was very informative. thank you. okay. before we finish with a few more items, no? >> the next order of business is item 6 of the comment on non-agenda items. mdm. chair spears any speaker cards >> oscar james is our speaker >> mr. james. >> commissioners, i know you're [inaudible] i just can appear to wish you a happy holidays merry christmas. i know we hope we have a challenge this year with trump coming into office. but i think the city of county of the san francisco and the state with brown in office, i think we can deal with it. and kerry our this program forward to benefit the city of san francisco. but you guys have done a tremendous job and i think and i love each and every one of you and have a merry merry christmas and and staff. who's done a determines job. thank you guys very much >> thank you. have a good holiday. happy new year. that was my repor

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