Christ. Im chuck todd. Joining me to provide insight and analysis are david brooks of the new york times. Andrea mitchell and Steven Henderson of the detroit free press. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good morning. Its been a weekend of tense diplomacy. We will bring you my exclusive interview with secretary of state john kerry in a minute. The fate of Kayla Mueller remains unknown. Isis still has offered no proof and state Department Says it has been unable to verify the claims. Meanwhile, peace talks have been taking place at the Munich Security Conference in an effort to end the intensifying fighting between russia and ukraine. France and germanys leaders are warning that the conflict could develop into a total war that could spill into Eastern Europe unless a peace deal is reached. On friday president obama revealed his updated National Security strategy a document criticized by republicans for outlining to
Good morning, everyone, im scott mcgrew. One of the key drivers in Silicon Valley is Venture Capital, money to help grow your company in exchange for a piece of the pie. If the value were a living breathing thing then Venture Capital is its blood and sand hill road is its heart, which is what makes the company, appster, so mysterious started by two teenaged australians who havent taken a cent of outside money. The Company Growing so fast it will hire 150 people in San Francisco by the end of the month. The young men who share the title of ceo started their company in melbourne with 3,000. Last year, appster made 10 million in revenue. Josiah humphrey is one half of that team at appster, joined by Quentin Hardee the New York Times and alice trond of quartz. You started the company with 3,000 of your own money. I suppose if we are talking about this littlement amount of money, get specific australian or u. S. . Australian dollars. So 2300 u. S. There you go. And turned it into a company
Who wants to erase the state from u. S. Maps he is a serious invest here is dabbling in a reality show, a welldressed man who we are about to show in his underwear. Here take mine. Thats tim draper there, taking a break from his day job a few years ago to play a part in his sisters tv show naked brothers banned on fwhik loadian. Whenever anybody says you cant, i always think, well how would you . This too, is tim draper in pants discussing his plan to split california into six separate states. Just one of his many interesting ideas. So many ideas and projects venture beef calls it the draper ecosystem. His latest effort to pass on his knowledge to a new generation of entrepreneurs through an intense and Residential School called Draper University. Tim draper is the son and grandson of venture capitalists, one of the very few oldstyle dynasties you will find in Silicon Valley. His firm is invested in tesla and space x and jaromir, among others joined by andrew tang who runs the school D
With a sunday exclusive. Good sunday morning. The latest now out of israel appear gaza where the latest hour brings more fighting or temporary ceasefire. Despite diplomatic efforts that include the u. S. , there is yet to be a lasting agreement. Todays development hamas started firing more rockets at israel after rejecting extension of israeli imposed ceasefire. Israel is now reviewing a hamas call for a 24hour humanitarian truce. Israeli troops resumed military offensive in gaza this morning. Our Richard Engel joins me now with the very latest from gaza. Richard, good morning. Reporter good morning, david. Yet again there is another attempt to put a humanitarian ceasefire in place. But weve seen these come and go. A lasting deal here still remains elusive. Israelis and palestinians are both paying a heavy price for this. As we saw for ourselves during a lull in the fighting, parts of gaza are being devastated. Hes lost everything, his home, his possessions. But in this rare moment of
Lights again. Its the whole point of new devices like the nest thermostat. It learns what you like, ideally, you never adjust it again, you just forget about it and the computer handles it. Its kind of like hall in the movie 2001 a space odyssey, at least before he kills everybody. Hall runs the space ship from steering, to climate to communications while the astronauts eat their breakfast and read their ipads. Mark papermaster is one of the worlds top expert necessary chips. He is chief technical officer at advanced microdevices admd before that cisco, a former Senior Vice President of apple, spent 26 years at ibm. Joined by Quentin Hardee of the New York Times and Christina Farr for reuters. Apple, sis coker ibm, amd, you have made the tour. I mean, those are some of the bilgsz, most Important Companies Silicon Valley that the hardware space has to offer. I have been very fortunate a chance to work with Great Companies and really great people driving innovation. All right. So let me