it wasn't as efficient as the one that peter thiel came up with or his company. need more efficiency in the government. you look alt the size, the sheer size of the government workers, almost 3 million people and i worry about this maybe bloating that more, this committee. >> i agree with you, david, we don't need a bigger government. we don't need more bureaucracy. ronald reagan didn't have somebody with this title and he really let the animal spirits of this country bloom. i think what you do, you cut discretionary spending and i think you cut the size of government and you'll get all the innovation you need. david: well, steve, you have personal experience. you've worked in the government in the reagan administration. here is what jared kushner says and you tell us if he's onto something. the government should be run like a great american company. our hope is had a we can achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers who are the citizens. what do you think? >> oh, there's badly needed reform in government. i used to head up the oversight agency for radi

there was some negative reaction to peter thiel's controversial and sometimes unconventional viewpointsthat changed in any way how many startups are able to get in front of you and how attractive you are as a vc? >> we are a collection of individuals. we don't always agree with each other. some of the most experience founders love that. a lot of experienced founders want to be challenged. we welcome entrepreneurs who want to experience all sorts of different viewpoints and be challenged while maintaining control. at the end of the day, it is the entrepreneurs' decision. if they want to be challenged, they should talk with us. caroline: geographical in nature, who is knocking on your door? is it silicon valley, u.s.-based startups? where is the excitement coming from? what about the rest of them? >> especially at the early stage, we are seeing them from all over the world which is very exciting. i think it makes a ton of sense to start a company elsewhere. people still may need to come to silicon valley to scale. we are fortunate to have a lot of the top-tier talent in the world in silic

henry, you were one of the peter thiel kids. you dropped out of college to come up with this idea. >> yes, i was waiting on line at a cafe and decided to drop out to work on it. it's important because productivity in food service is not very high. >> peter pays people, how does that work, he encouraged you to drop out of school, right? >> so i did actually drop out of college before receiving the thiel fellowship. obviously having that makes things easier. >> tell me, when you were looking at the roboticness of a barista, it occurred to you this something a robot could do. >> a lot of what baristas do is robotic, doing the same thing over and over again, spending a lot of time moving cups around. we use a robot arm to do that. we partner with local specialty coffee roasters to use their coffee and have them set our recipes. >> how long did it take to go from an idea to a working prototype to deploying it? >> we built the first prototype in less than a year. but it takes time to refine everything and make sure it works well. typi

peter thiel famously said we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. sorry, twitter.he now seems to be some real progress appeared more than a dozen startups are taking on this vision. hawk isge is kitty testing a flying car in northern california. we caught up with rob stone in los angeles and asked him why larry page is interested in flying vehicles. >> those companies are a little bit of a myth around silicon valley. of course we did write about them in our story last year, but today they kind of come out into the open with a story in the new york times. a company called kitty hawk, you should look at the video if you haven't seen it, shows an one person aircraft that for now hovers over water, looks like a device from star wars. but the exciting thing here is that this science fiction dream, this idea of a personal aircraft that we could use to commute to work, it is getting a little bit real. like ae: it almost looks motorbike rather than a flying car. larry page and sebastian from google are working together on kitty hawk. >> right. a couple of important things

peter thiele back in the government's good graces. the palo alto company that he founded doesn't hire enough asian workers despite the fact that 85 of the people who apply are of asian descent, according to labor. palantir has paid $1.7 million in the settlement but admitted no wrongdoing. by paying that fine, it can continue to be a federal contractor. >>> "consumer reports" says the tesla model-s is no longer one of the best luxury cars you can buy. the mag zone is tired of waiting for tesla to update the car's software to enable automatic emergency braking. that's something that tesla has promised for months and breakly it's something that's available on all kinds of other cars that cost far less. back to you. >> scott mcgrew, thank you. >>> sunnyvale employees could go on strike at any moment coming after a late-night vote last night. the decision means the union leadership can walk out any time. union wants a 14% raise over four years and the city is countering with 10%. >> we want to get this deal done, we really do but we need

interestingly, peter thiel, who is part of the sort of, you know, kushner new is this man, the new brigadethe business -- amy: spoke at the rnc. >> crony capitalism going on inside there. i is right and -- he when in there. there's the question, the kushners are even more of a tightknit family. amy: the reason why jared kushner was not there for the week of negotiations around repeal and replace, he was in aspen? >> you have to ask that question. the fact no one pointed out. redeem they cohn power, are both part of the kushner army. of people are raising eyebrows, most people when they go to work for the white house, don't decide to swan off on holiday during the president's first 100 days. amy: the most pivotal week he's had so far. kushner's self interest -- it has sort of been ignored. it has been covered, but it has been overcome by the noise of the other stories. i think increasingly now, we're going to see it really, really matter. it is outright corruption and not legal. nermeen: in addition to the three trademarks that ivanka trump was granted with china, last year, china granted f

. >> peter thiel back in the federal government's good graces. the palo alto company doesn't hire enough asian workers. this despite the fact that 85% of the people who applied were of asian descent. he paid a $1.7 million settlement, but admitting no wrong, and by paying the fine, it can continue to be a federal contractor. >> and tennis star serena williams says she did not mean to reveal to the world she was pregnant, but she hit the wrong button on snapchat. she made that admission at a tech talk. she also spoke about alexis ohanian, the founder of reddit. she said he's very loving and very kind. he's very considerate. she said she never considered marriage, but thinks this is just the right thing to do. >> that's good, once you find the right one. >> exactly. >> by the way, you want to talk about finding the right situation. a lot of people talking about police doing more to get involved in their community. a police party that has now become an internet sensation. a san antonio police officer showing off some moves there. he went to a house

. >> reporter: since the trial it's been revealed that paypal co-founder peter thiel bankrolled hogan'she matter. gawker declaring bankruptcy within months of the verdict. hogan now expected to get just 31 million of the $140 million. >> it was never about the money. it was never about winning or losing. i just wanted that jury to believe me. >> you did this also for a greater good. >> there are a lot of people that thanked me, you know, especially a lot of celebs to put an end to gawker and the stuff that they were doing to different people and to move on and make things better for everybody. >> reporter: hogan sharing his thoughts on gawker's founder. >> i got nothing but love for nick denton. i understand where he was at. hopefully he can raise up and get out of there. i mean, i don't hate anybody. it's that simple. >> reporter: as for getting back into the wwe hall of fame, hogan was removed from the organization after he was caught making racist comments on another secretly recorded tape, comments he apologized for publicly. >> if it's meant to be, it's meant to be. to make peace t