VIDEO: Oracle CEO Talks Steve Jobs on CBS

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison discussed his relationship with Apple founder Steve Jobs, the future of Apple without Jobs,  his thoughts on the NSA's data monitoring system and his lawsuit against Google in an interview that was broadcast today, August 13, 2013, on CBS THIS MORNING (7:00-9:00 AM) on the CBS Television Network.

Ellison told Rose that companies have been monitoring data for years and the NSA's surveillance is important to maintain safety. "It's great.  I wish - you know, it's great.  It's essential. By the way, President Obama thinks it's essential," Ellison said.  "It's essential if want to minimize the kind of strikes that we just had in Boston. It's absolutely essential."

Ellison also shared his experience with Steve Jobs in the final days of his life, telling Rose, "You just watched him getting weaker. And this is the strongest guy I knew.  This was absolutely the strongest, most willful person I have ever met.  And after seven years, the cancer even wore him out.  And that's was what it was.  He was just tired of fighting."

And on Oracle's copyright infringement suit against Google, Ellison told Rose what Google did was "absolutely evil."