you mentioned pickens. explain the fund or the firm's relationship with t. boone pickens? active is he in the fund and in this particular etf? toby: i have had the privilege of being with him since 2010, been alongside him, a lot of learning experiences. his role as chairman of the organization and really the pickens oil response index is built on the same principles as the plan. so his guiding thoughts, his thought leadership underpins it. eric: let me ask you -- if you could put your own ticker aside for a second and talk about oil and energy. every time a oil goes up, i get messages from everybody, how can i play this? they want to go into uso, they don't understand contango. and you have xle, which has a lot of broad market, and xop, which gundlach recommended. what would be your recommendation for someone looking to play a rebound in oil that is a safe retail weight? toby: glad you asked. if boone were on set with us he would say guys, it is hard to pick the tops and bottoms. that is what a lot of the xip, oih, other energy related etf's are, trading vehicles. you hav

military expert i am not an expert in satellite analysis or video analysis but neither is out here pickens the founder of telling us we wouldn't accept the medical claims of somebody who hasn't been to medical school another problem is that elegant and it's colleagues that are not on the ground in syria which means they lack contacts they lack direct witnesses they lack impartiality they lack physical evidence and one thing i will say i mean when it comes to the use of open source material. it doesn't some way. a greater ability for the public to understand the evidence if the use of chemical weapons has been documented in a large body of real time evidence is not something that you as a citizen and you can go of march. you can ask yourself what happened. however online investigations i don't see as accurate only as credible as the material they are based on a lot of what he gains and others rely on has been provided by the syrian civil defense a group better known as the white helmets they call themselves a neutral humanitarian group of volunteers rescuing people from the rubble of buildi

military expert i am not an expert in satellite analysis or video analysis but neither is out here pickens the founder of telling us that we wouldn't accept the medical claims of somebody who hasn't been to medical school another problem is that they didn't and it's colleagues that are not on the ground in syria which means they lack contacts they lack direct witnesses they lack impartiality they lack physical evidence and one thing i will say i mean when it comes to the use of open source material. it doesn't some way. a greater ability for the public to understand the evidence if the use of chemical weapons has been documented in a large body of real time evidence is not something that you as a citizen and you can go of march. you can ask yourself what happened. however online investigations i don't we as accurate only as credible as the material they are based on a lot of what he gains and others rely on has been provided by the syrian civil defense a group better known as the white helmets they call themselves a neutral humanitarian group of volunteers rescuing people from the rubble o

. >> after serving 22 years alice marie johnson who is now a great grandmother walked out of a pickens

reporter: after serving 22 years alice marie johnson who is now a great grandmother walked out of the pickensy alabama prison today, greeted by her family and supporters and says she feels she was resurrected from the dead and has her life back. listen. >> i'm feeling no handcuffs, nothing on me. i'm free to my family. i'm free to live life, free to start over. i cannot -- the greatest day of my life. >> johnson was convicted in 1996 of drug conspiracy and money laundering for her involvement in a cocaine trafficking operation, she claims she didn't sell drugs or make deals but she has acknowledged wrongdoing. appellate judges in the supreme court rejected her appeals and former pres. obama said no to her request for clemency but her supporters including kim kardashian west continued pushing for her release and last week kardashian west met with donald trump at the white house asking him to grant clemency. here's kardashian right after the oval office meeting. >> she has done her time, almost 22 years. everyone makes mistakes and she deserves a second chance. >> reporter: kim kardashian west

pickens if -- that's just a thought. maybe we have sort of a built-in, you know, test here. >> a double blind study? >> president chow: it's not quite double blind but one -- you know, several clients are using one process to try to meet your measurements and others are, you know, not using that process. i'm just wondering if there's any possibility of trying to understand the difference that might occur because one is using lean and one is not? >> thank you for that question. i apologize for not being at that presentation earlier. i was in another meeting so i wasn't there to hear about these different cohorts. so all the clinics within primary care are using the same metrics and they have gone through the lean training so i need to find out more about what this is about the different scheduling of the cohorts because to my knowledge all of them have gone through their lean training so i need to delve into that a little bit more to understand how that got reported to you. >> president chow: okay. maybe i'm misunderstand

after serving almost 22 years, alice marie johnson, a great grandmother, walked out of the pickens countyrison. she was granted by her family and supporters and said she feels like she was resurrected from the dead, and has her life back. listen. >> i'm feeling no handcuffs, nothing on me. i'm free to hook my family agai again. i'm free to live life. i am free to start over. i cannot -- this is the greatest day of my life. >> johnson was convicted in 1996 of drug conspiracy and money laundering for her involvement in a can of my tennessee-based cocaine trafficking operation. the 63-year-old still claims she didn't sell drugs or make deals, but she has acknowledged wrongdoing. appellate judges in the supreme court all rejected her appeals, and former president obama said no to her request for clemency. but her supporters including reality star kim kardashian west continued pushing for her release. and last week, kardashian west match with president trump at the white house. asking him to grant clemency. here is kardashian right after that oval office meeting. watch. >> she's done her time.

. >> after serving 22 years alice marie johnson who is now a great grandmother walked out of a pickens county alabama prison. >> i want to thank president donald john trump. [cheers] ♪ ♪ >> and the of the year goes to blake shelton "i'll name the dog." >> thank you, cmt. i love the fans. ♪ over and over again ♪ steve: from the big town of new york city you are looking at little big town last night at the cmt awards summer fever. abby: i love country music. i covered the cmas for this show a couple years ago. they don't pull up in limos, they drive their own pickup trucks. american flag in the bag. they park it themselves and walk in. brian: is that true? abby: true. brian: they do have money for a limo. abby: that's not the way they live. steve: brian does. abby: we all know that though. brian: especially if you have to run out and get milk. i have the chauffeur pick me up and bring me there often he or she will run and get the stuff for me. steve: show you highlights all night long. abby is in for ainsley. good to have you back again. abby: almost to the end of the week. steve: meanwh

boone pickens comments alec baldwin tweeted this is a diversion from the mueller investigation. i saw that tweet, too. i wonder if that's true. >> i'm sure trump is looking at this as he probably does most everything, how is this going to play with the base at home how will this position him and the republican party for the midterm elections. and certainly the fact that he h has media along with him, including sean hannity suggests that he will put a lot of emphases on spinning this in a way that plays well with his bas base >>ything is political, fred >> you can't separate any of this from all the rest of it whether it's a diversion in his own mind from the mueller investigation -- >> i was just -- i could cite any tweet i felt like citing when i did that. >> here's the thing that's interesting. i was in south korea a few days ago. recently and one of the south korean officials said to me president trump needs to be served a cup of tea, open the door for him, that's contrary to who president trump is that's not the way he treated justin trudeau for example, but here he did. he