the people of brazil offering to help investigate u.s. surveillance against them and reminding the world that he's still looking for political asylum. now, the tech firms invited to the white house today released a joint statement a few minutes ago reading quote, we appreciated the opportunity to share directly with the president our principles on government surveillance that we released last week and we urge him to move aggressively on reform. i want to bring in our senior white house correspondent brianna keilar. the president's meeting with all these tech gurus was a closed meeting but what details can you give us about what the executives were pushing for? >> reporter: well, jake, it was a long meeting, obviously, and they covered a lot of ground on it. a participant in the meeting telling cnn they talked about a number of things, including collection so broad blanket collection of metadata, internet usage, phone calls, as well as the privacy law that governs this type of surveillance. they talked about the secret court that grants the warrants for this type of surveillance and they also talked about