. >> edmund lee and our senior west coast correspondent, jon erlichman.ll continue our special coverage after this break. 107 lobbyists, that is the size of the lobbying effort pushing this deal through. that is next. ♪ you are watching a special edition of "bloomberg west." we are covering the potential impact of a comcast time warner merger. comcast is no stranger to the pearly white halls of washington. do they have enough friends to push through a megamerger with time warner cable? our editor at large cory johnson is looking at comcast's government connections. the extent of them are astounding. but wasn't born last night neither were comcast lobbying efforts. they have been on it for a long time. it has been quite a while. comcast is spent over $79 million in lobbying these last five years. look at the intrigue from "house of cards." it pales in comparison to comcast's working of the system. >> in washington, there is lobbying and then there is lobbying. the $40 billion proposed merger is an exercise in lobbying. comcast has spent $18 million in lobb

bloomberg news reporter admittedly joins us from -- edmund lee joins us from new york and we are alsod by jon erlichman and cory johnson. edmund, i will start with you. what impact do you see on the media players out there -- apple, google, amazon, facebook echo -- facebook? sellsknow that comcast video around the country, but they are also broadband service providers. that means netflix, facebook, google, all of the companies delivering broadband data through these feeds, their relationship to time warner cable-comcast, this new behemoth, is in question. there could be new charges for better access to these broadband pipes. that could have implications for all of the big content companies out of silicon valley, how they do business with this new combined company. >> i don't really understand how disney tries to get an increase on what they get hate to espn and how that might change. espn is the most valuable property in all of cable. >> i don't think it is going to change. the disney ceo when this yield was first announced and how it would affect him -- this deal was first announced