boone pickens to stop his takeover bid.. >> it is no secret thatoff made about $500 million through losing on your attempted takeovers. do you go into it anticipating the loss is still going to stand you very well? >> you never like to lose, but if you lose and make money, well, it makes it a little easier. >> i remember someplace, the guy got up and said, i have a question. he said, you're making a lot of money out of this. and i said, the shareholders are too. he said, yes, but you're a fast buck artist. fast buck artist? i said, who in the hell would want to be known as a slow buck artist? >> i see it as a free enterprise system working at its best. >> pickens was really the first major investor to realize how undervalued american companies were and what you could buy there. and it was his early tilt at gulf city services, all these famous deals that brought this new reality to the attention of other investors who followed in his wake and sought to imitate what he did. >> i freely admit, i am an investor and i want to ma

pickens we'll get recertified we need the staff. to save lives. i want to say thank you for appreciating that and recognizing the challenge that our staff faces. and we provide the support service ee ap. wee have regular town hall meet and we have our departmental meetings. to provide support for the staff. ultimately, we know the chfrmgs ahead of us. and being at laguna honda my mom was a nurse there for 30 years, i grew up there and it is heart breaking. as i physician and we are of the strongest advocates for our patients and we do our best to do our patient assessments. and do our best to examine whether than i go this day or the next day. we know that we are being mandated to follow the closure plan. because if the closure plan is in the followed as directed, there is a chance that reimbursement will be pulled. laguna honda will close. it is a balance. and some day its is easy some day its is not. the is to save laguna honda to provide the services and continue to for the people of san francisco. thank you. i appreciate that answer. i wanted

pickens to come up. i do apologize my cosponsor supervisor peskin got late in the day he is in the able to join us we will go into the hearing. mr. pickens if you could come up and make your presentation. >> before mr. pickens begins supervisor mandelman? >> i want to thank supervisor melgar for calling for this hearing. i have been following the news from laguna honda with great concern. to me in the thick of the fight over the a creditation and potential closure of city college, this is reminiscent where it feels to me like a crediting body is forcing really bad out come at the local level without taking responsibility. for those out come. i think this what is -- happening to folk who is are being turned out of laguna honda in some cases to die in other cases to be sent it homeless shelters is an embarrassment to the biden administration. i am i say this as a generally supporter. supporter of the biden administration laguna honda is the upon count rope's largest skilled nursing facility. san francisco

i'm seeing on youtube right now. susanna, the legal peakins alonda must be up rooted, illegal. pickens can you explain what a legal beacons are very quickly does all it, it is illegal. yeah, he shows describing about the borderlines, but the government has the actual on seventy's gazetted again, continually they call it politics. why are we saying it is illegal? ok, it is illegal because it was med without consulting doubt or what it is and the village people i have little is i want to do one more quick, quick, quick point here from one to 2. people can talk to you as well. j shat. he says, shame on the tanzanian government for forcing the indigenous mass sy, from the land. this will in sight civil war. i want to get one more thought in here . joseph. and this is from roland abolla from amnesty international. how do you solve this impasse? this is what role and said earlier, we want bill tory cheese intern vanya, to old, the ongoing, the migration process, and the security operation in leandro. and we want the government to begin gin consultation with the massive community such as if,

that of a european union developing capabilities in the field of nuclear weapons. nuclear often and pickens lighter effectively germany could thus become a nuclear power. if france as a nuclear power were also involved previous survey showed that 7 out of every 10 germans were against their country, having nuclear weapons. but that could change russia's escandone missiles could also be provided with nuclear warheads, armed with non nuclear warheads. since the invasion, many missiles of this type have probably been launched at targets in ukraine. so what does putin hope to achieve with his nuclear threats? i think it's more generic on rhetoric at this stage, but um, but of course if it came to a potential use of this then, and then it's quite clear to me at least that they would start with some tactical nuclear weapons shoes. you can imagine that, or maybe one of 3 things, one is they were set off an underground nuclear test as a signal they would be picked up by a seismic monitors around the world. there be no, no doubt that they had done this, and there would be a signal that we have enter

but nancy reagan had to fundraise for this internal veronald reagan and she task boone pickens. who's the oil and gas entrepreneur from amarillo, texas, you know. don't reagan booster to find a hundred million dollars to fundraise for the the opening. you know, they're the centennial fundraising drive. well, he called what he thought was good news of the date of the was getting close. the thermometer was near the top and he said well, we're gonna wear a good shape and this is reagan civil, right? what do you mean? where were we at? he's well, i've got 95 million years already and she said we're like that's not the hopeful a mark. what do you know? but what are you doing what he was calling thinking he'd get praise for the 95 and he bones said i went and found that other five millions so quickly and i got to call her and tell her i hit it. we got a hundred and she said i knew you would do it and boom picking sue also recently passed with such a great help for the reagan library and foundation all and when i worked the diaries of reagan he was a big help on getting the word out ab

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pickens? >> mr. pickens is out. >> we have wilma hathaway?>> i am not [indiscernible] but i am [indiscernible] i at the chief operating officer of the health network and i come before you this evening for the commander for the laguna honda efforts. with me is our chief operating officer and we have terry, acting chief nursing officer for laguna honda and [indiscernible] chief quality officer. i'll kick it off to dr. hathaway. >> thank you. good evening commissioner. president bernal and dr. colfax. as you are aware, centers for medicaid services entered laguna hondas participation. this is nearly $550,000 per peay day. after our participation was terminated, we worked with cms and cdph on the closurer and transfer relocation plan. this plan had to adhere to comments of both cdph and cms to get approved. it took place may 13th, 2022. this approval of the closure plan oo allowed reimbursement through mid-september. implementing this plan is required by cms. laguna honda must show progress in transferring and discharging of the residents. while