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Now. see it on lts sidelines. for example, there was a new opec deal for a production lowering, down to 33.5 million barrels a day. this is going down a million barrels a day from where they were. what has happened is not that this has been the first time opec has brought down production. this is the first time in history that russia over the last weekend has come onboard to that production decline. russia is saying, opec, we ve had this glut and low prices for a really long time and we re all bleeding. right. let s stop the bleeding together. we re going to cut production, you guys cut production, let s get the oil price back up. exactly. what you have in this new trump administration, you have really the connective tissue of all of this seems to be oil. you have, for example, wilbur ross, supposedly the commerce secretary, he s a major shareholder in xco. you have harold hamm who was being named as the energy secretary before rick perry was named, he s the ceo of continental. ....
Shareholder in xco. you have harold hamm who was being named as the energy secretary before rick perry was named, he s the ceo of continental. you have rick perry who s clearly a, you know, a texas governor. right. an oil state. you have pruitt who is going into the epa. he s from oklahoma. that s an oil state. right. in many ways you look at this and you have a number of oil guys who are going to be running the government in trump s cabinet. you have a number of bankers, you got three guys from goldman sachs who are coming in. right. and you ve got three or four generals. to me that s a tremendous you have generals, bankers and oil. when we talk about oil, it s important i think folks when they think about tillerson and tillerson s role, i mean, this is a guy who s zboesnegotiated all over the world. if you want to talk about is this someone qualified for this job in a technical sense, sure, right? exactly. he s done deals. trump is right, he s a player, he s sat ....