Watching Snowden’s pivotal moments in ‘Citizenfour’

JUDY WOODRUFF: President Obama went to Silicon Valley today to call for more cooperation between private companies and the government when it comes to defending against cyber-attacks.

In the wake of major hacks against health insurer Anthem and Sony Pictures, the president told executives they need to share more information.

But todays summit also comes amid growing tensions between tech companies and the administration over privacy and civil liberties, a point the president acknowledged.

BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States: In all our work, we have to make sure we are protecting the privacy and civil liberty of the American people. Now, we grapple with these issues in government.

We have pursued important reforms to make sure we are respecting peoples privacy, as well as ensuring our national security. And the private sector wrestles with this as well.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Several CEOs of top tech companies, including Google, Facebook and Yahoo!, didnt attend, reportedly over anger and disappointment about a lack of reform in the governments broad surveillance programs.

The revelations about the governments reach are the subject of a documentary nominated for an Academy Award.

Jeffrey Brown picks it up from there, part of our series the NewsHour Goes to the Movies.

EDWARD SNOWDEN, Leaked Details of U.S. Surveillance: My name is Edward Snowden. I go by Ed. Edward Joseph Snowden is the full name.

JEFFREY BROWN: The documentary Citizenfour brings us into a Hong Kong hotel room as former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden reveals secrets that would make for blockbuster headlines beginning in June 2013: the large-scale collection of phone and Internet data by the U.S. government.

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Watching Snowden’s pivotal moments in ‘Citizenfour’