Obama Discusses Surveillance With Tech Execs

President Obama meets this morning with executives from Google, Twitter, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix, Comcast, LinkedIn, Etsy and AT&T.

The executives are asking the president to restrict government surveillance programs, now that it's become known how much information the National Security Agency collects through their systems.

The meeting comes as the White House is preparing to release a report that recommends a sweeping overhaul of surveillance programs, and Congress debates whether to rein in surveillance.

Also today, former NSA security analyst Edward Snowden, who six months ago made public the NSA's phone call "metadata" surveillance program, appealed to Brazil for political asylum to avoid prosecution in the U.S.

Wall Street Journal intelligence reporter Siobhan Gorman speaks with Here & Now's Robin Young to discuss the purpose of the meeting and other stories surrounding the NSA.