congresswoman and appreciate an appropriations member that was talked about covid-19 in legislation and jeff miller's the gas price hikes, and the oil supply in the u.s. and watch washington journal, live at seven eastern tuesday morning hunt c-span, or cspan now, our new mobile app and join the discussion with your phone call and thank you for your calls and text messages and tweets. >> tonight center patrick lahey has the heel retire from the senate and great terms were selected in 1974, temporary longest-serving senator and he announced his retirement this morning the remarks capitol. [inaudible]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. [inaudible]. the state is very special i think you all for being here not just because i used to - kelly salzman actually did a long time ago. [laughter] is one of the rules that i broke. having grown up right across the street to my sister mary had just south of my brother and and they decided together here, back in the 1934, parents including catherine who is here in my sister mary, and i announce my candidacy for the united states senate. at that time i was 33

>> host: i want to let jeff miller come in. >> guest: what the government does is they lease out lots on that land to oil companies who paid for those lots. then cthose companies had a right e.to drill their and produce that oil but they are royalties that are, that they pay. that is companies pay back to thegovernment . for instance louisiana has the offshore industry so they get a lot of money from oil companies that aredrilling . people have proposed we should raise royalties. maybe not what would get to where you're arguing or get a little closer to your argument there is a big i think it's interesting a big lease sale coming uptomorrow . there's been a lease sale on the golf. i remember when biden first came into office one of the things he was able to halt oil and gas lease sales for review. it went to court and the court said you need to hold this lease sale so they're going to be holding on one tomorrow. it's like 15,000 barrels. the golf has barrels of recoverable oil and it will be an interesting lease sale to watch because it may give you some indication on how oil companie

jeff: next question. >> zeke miller, ap. reporter: a couple of questions -- jeff, could you help us parse the share of the workforce that is vaccinated, versus the ones that have requested exemptions? what is the vaccine uptake? what is the vaccine uptake at the white house? do you have that data? over the weekend, the secretary of transportation suggested that the domestic vaccine mandate for domestic travel was off the table -- is that the case? is it no longer under consideration and why not? jeff: let me see if i can go one by one. as i said, 95% of federal workers are in compliance. 90% are already vaccinated. this is continuing to build. the deadline is this evening. even once the deadline passes, it's not a cliff. it's not an endpoint. we will continue to work with people and answer their questions and provide counseling and education to get more people vaccinated. the full agency by agency report will come out this wednesday. as to the exhibit of office of the president, which i believe was your second question, we ha

next year we are joined by two special guests, former time warner chairman jeff bewkes and the author of the book james andrew millerit's great to see you. i have so many questions jeff, i want to start with you what's fascinating is the number of recriminations on both sides about this transaction you described what at&t ultimately did with the deal to be malpractice so i'd ask whether ultimately you regret selling them the company? >> we had to make a merger with somebody basically we needed to get, hbo was already like netflix it already had you could thin the sopranos, but couldn't watch friends on nbc. you couldn't watch the office on nbc or usa we needed to get addressability so you can watch your favorite shows on the networks that you are used to seeing them on and it was moving over to these digital companies. so we needed a platform, whether it was amazon or an alliance with disney or something with apple, where all the networks on the table dial could come alive in your living room and when we saw that wasn't happening, we looked for some company that could give us direct consumer capabilities like netfli

marc bell, and an investor, jeff ransdell, about what the influx of cash means for the company's future. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: this is bloomberg markets. i'm matt millerrran orbital, which built satellites for nasa as well as the u.s. defense department, is merging with a spac with plans to go public in the first quarter of 2022. the deal will value the company at $1.6 billion. here to discuss is terran orbital ceo marc bell, as well as jeff ransdell, founding partner of fuels venture, which invested in terran. let me ask you about your business, what kind of growth plans you have, and why you have decided to merge with a spac in order to raise the funds. marc: we looked at all the ways of going public. a spac had the most likelihood of closing, which is important because we needed capital. we will be building out a new facility in florida. the state is putting in $300 million to build the world's largest satellite assembly facility. additional facilities in california. matt: are you competing with the likes of elon musk and jeff bezos, or are you building stop for them to put into space? marc: we build stuff for them to put into space. everyone talks

congresswoman and appreciate an appropriations member that was talked about covid-19 in legislation and jeff miller's the gas price hikes, and the oil supply in the u.s. and watch washington journal, live at seven eastern tuesday morning hunt c-span, or cspan now, our new mobile app and join the discussion with your phone call and thank you for your calls and text messages and tweets. >> tonight center patrick lahey has the heel retire from the senate and great terms were