bloomberg news reporter cliff edwards joining us. a quick programming note. emily chang will be speaking with eric schmidt and google ideas director jared cohen. you can catch the full conversation tomorrow on "bloomberg west." 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. ♪ >> welcome back. i'm jon erlichman. elon musk to make a push to enter the pentagon satellite launch market while sitting next to his biggest competitor, who joins us now. any sparks fly between the two rocket chiefs? >> yeah. we had elon musk of spacex making the point that he wants to join military and spy satellites launch programs. right now it is dominated by united launch alliance. today musk said that he was vying for a table, sitting next to u.l.a.'s ceo. he said that using spacex would save the federal government $1 billion in tax savings for taxpayers every year, and he did that while sitting next to a competitor and said the current state of the market is unsustainable. >> the air force and other agencies are paying too high a price for lunch. the impact was protectable. space launch innovat

pat edwards and her husband, cliff.and in fact, pat lives in texas. >> so, the sign is true. >> the sign is in fact true. i don't remember this, but i assume, i've got some pictures. >> and they may have some, too. >> of my parents and pat and cliff back in like the early '60s. they were having parties, back then, little smoke, little drinking, playing cards. that was back in the day when your parents would get together with friends on a friday night. play cards, have a house party. everybody's dancing. >> and you're rolling around in your diaper. >> i always remember, when the edwards would come over, my mom got out this big jar of brach's chocolate stars. i kept eating them. my mother said, if you eat one more of those, you're going to turn into a chocolate star. of course, i forgot, and i ate it and was afraid to fall asleep that night, but as it turns out, i am a chocolate star. >> she was right. >> pat edwards, if you're wat watching, they're on central time -- >> so, the sign is real. flagged it and al confirmed i