LOU: MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE QUESTION
GOOGLE CEO TODAY AND FOCUSED ON
THE ANTI- CONSERVATIVE BIAS THAT
IS GOOGLE'S AND CONCERNS OVER
DATA COLLECTION.
HE DENIED ANY BIAS AND CLAIMED
GOOGLE EMPLOYEES ARE UNABLE TO
MANIPULATE SEARCH RESULTS
INDIVIDUALLY.
HE DOWNPLAYED A CENSORED SEARCH
ENGINE THE GOOGLE IS BUILDING
FOR COMMUNIST CHINA.
>> I LEAVE THIS COMPANY WITHOUT
POLITICAL BIAS AND WORK TO
ENSURE THE PRODUCTS CONTINUE TO
OPERATE THAT WAY.
IT'S NOT POSSIBLE FOR AN
INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEE OR GROUPS OF
EMPLOYEE TO MANAGE OUR SEARCH
RESULTS.
WE HAVE NO PLANS TO LAUNCH IN
CHINA.
LOU: DURING THE TESTIMONY
DEMOCRAT ACCUSED GOOGLE OF AN
ANTI- LIBERAL BIAS.
>> THIS WEEKEND I WAS ON MSNBC
FOUR TIMES.
AND YET FIRST THING THAT COMES
UP IS THE DAILY CALLER, NOT A
LIBERAL, WELL-KNOWN GROUP.
THEN ROLLCALL AND BREITBART NEWS
AND MEMPHIS BUSINESS JOURNAL AND
BREITBART NEWS AND BREITBART.
LIKE YOU ARE OVERLY USING
CONSERVATIVE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS
ON YOUR NEWS.
LOU: YOU DON'T SUPPOSE THAT WAS
ORCHESTRATED IN ANY WAY DO YOU?
THERE'S A LEADING RADICAL DAM ON
THE COMMITTEE, JERRY NADLER
HIMSELF SOON TO BE CHAIRMAN.
BENDING OVER BACKWARDS TO DEFEND
HIS CORPORATE OVERLORD.
>> , FIRST DISPENSE WITH A
COMPLETELY ILLEGITIMATE ISSUE
WHICH IS THE FANTASY TURNED UP
BY SOME CONSERVATIVES THAT
GOOGLE AND OTHER ONLINE
PLATFORMS HAVE ANTI-
CONSERVATIVE BIAS.
AS I HAVE SAID REPEATEDLY NO
CREDIBLE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THIS
RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY THEORY.
LOU: HE LEFT OUT FAST.
IT WOULD BE A VAST RIGHT-WING -
ANYWAY, WITH JUST A FORGIVE THE
EXPRESSION GOOGLE SEARCH OF OUR
OWN WE DID FIND THAT LAST YEAR
PRESSMAN NADLER RECEIVED MORE
THAN $26,000 FROM GOOGLE'S
PARENT COMPANY.
NOW THAT SUPPORT AND OBVIOUSLY
THEY GOT WHAT THEY PAID FOR.
GOOGLE IS ALSO A MAJOR EMPLOYER
IN NADLER'S DISTRICT FIND AN
OFFICE BUILDING THIS YEAR IN NEW
YORK CITY WERE A TOTAL OF
2.4 BILLION, SMALL PRICE TO PAY,
FOR HIS SUPPORT IN CONGRESS.
JOINING US NOW A MAN WHO IS IN
TODAY'S HEARING, CONFERENCE JIM
JORDAN, SERVES ON JUDICIARY AND
OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES AND
COFOUNDER OF THE INFLUENTIAL
HOUSE FREEDOM CAUCUS.
CONGRESSMAN, AS ALWAYS, GREAT TO
SEE YOU.
JERRY NADLER WAS VERY ACTIVE IN
DEFENDING GOOGLE AND YOU DON'T
SUPPOSE THERE IS A DIRECT
CORRELATION BETWEEN THAT
CONTRIBUTION, DO YOU?
ALMOST TOO MUCH TO IMAGINE.
>> HERE IS CREDIBLE EVIDENCE
THAT THERE IS BIAS.
HOW ABOUT - THE HEAD OF
MULTICULTURAL MARKETING AT
GOOGLE WHO THE DAY AFTER THE
2016 ELECTION WROTE A FOUR-PAGE
E-MAIL TO ALL THE TOP EXECUTIVE
AT GOOGLE WHERE SHE SAYS THIS.
WE WERE TRYING TO GET OUT THE
LATINO VOTE IN KEY STATES AND IN
ANOTHER SENTENCE SHE SAYS WE
TRIED TO GET OUT THE LATINO VOTE
BY PAYING FOR RIGHTS TO THE POLL
IN KEY STATES.
IN THAT E-MAIL THEY WERE IN KEY
STATES WHICH MEANS THEY WERE
TRYING TO INFLUENCE THE VOTE IN
COMPETITIVE STATES.
THEY WERE NOT DOING THIS IN
TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA WITH THE
LARGEST LATINO POPULATIONS
RESIDE BUT NO, IN WHAT STATES
DID SHE MENTION?
FLORIDA AND NEVADA.
LATER IN HER E-MAIL SHE SAYS WE
WANTED HILLARY TO WIN.
THAT IS AS STRONG A BIAS AS YOU
CAN GET IN YET SUNDAR PICHAI
WOULD NOT ADMIT TO THAT
BASICALLY SAID HE DISAGREED WITH
WHAT SHE WAS WRITING AND SAID IT
DID NOT HAPPEN EVEN THOUGH WE
HAVE THE E-MAIL THERE WHERE SHE
SAID THOSE THINGS.
LOU: QUITE A PERFORMANCE BY CEO
OF GOOGLE.
HE'S NOT LACKING IN CONFIDENCE,
IS HE?
AS HE SITS BEFORE THE CONGRESS
OF THE UNITED STATES AND SPENDS
UP PERSPECTIVE.
>> THREE POINTS, REMEMBER,
3.5 BILLION SEARCHES DONE A DAY
IN THE VAST MAJORITY OF THOSE
ARE DONE ON GOOGLE PLATFORM.
IF THERE IS THE BIAS THAT IS WHY
THIS IS IMPORTANT AND WHY THIS
MATTERS.
WHEN YOU HAVE THE HEAD OF
MULTICULTURAL SAYING WE ARE
TRYING TO IMPACT THE ELECTIONS
AND GET OUT THE LATINO VOTE AND
PAPER RIGHTS TO THE BOWL IN KEY
STATES AND CREDIT OF STATES THAT
MEANS SOMETHING AND THAT'S WHAT
WE HAD THIS HEARING AND THAT'S
WHY YOU BEEN TALKING ABOUT AND
OTHER SEMATECH ABOUT AND IT'S
WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT.
LOU: ISSUE OF POLITICAL BIAS ON
THE PART OF ALL PLATFORMS,
SOCIAL MEDIA, SEARCH, YOU NAME
IT IS AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
ISSUE.
FAR TOO LITTLE HAS BEEN DONE
ABOUT IT AND IT'S GREAT TO SEE
YOU ALL FOCUSING ON IT.
LET ME ASK FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND
YOUR COLLEAGUE MARK MEADOWS
MAKING IT CLEAR HE WOULD BE
HONORED TO SERVE, AS HE PUT IT,
ACCIDENT AS CHIEF OF STAFF.
YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT.
>> NO FINER GENTLEMAN THAN MARK
MEADOWS.
SUPER GUY, RESPECTED, WE DO AN
OUTSTANDING JOB AND I HOPE THAT
IS WHO THE PRESIDENT SELECTS THE
ONLY CONCERN I HAVE?
IS MY BEST FRIEND ON
D-UPPERCASE-LETTER TO SEE THEM
LEAVE CAPITOL HILL BUT FOR THE
GOOD OF THE COUNTRY AND ADAPT TO
THE PRESIDENT WANTS, HE WOULD DO
AN OUTSTANDING JOB IN MY