I think this is one of the most horrific stories you will read anyway, and unbelievably revealing of kind of the agenda of the new left, of the modern left, of the wacky left, but the wacky left as institutionalized all over this country. And that is the story of what is today still I think ranked as the number one high school in the United States. Number one high school in the United States is the Thomas Jefferson appropriately named I think high school for science and technology in Virginia. This is a high school that many, many parents move to Virginia in order for their kids to attend. It is a high school that places in the top universities in the United States, really in the world. It's a high school that is in the state of Virginia, as you might know, so it's in somewhere northern Virginia, not exactly where, but in northern Virginia. It also happens to be a public high school. So this is a high school run by the government. So it's a public high school run by the state of Virginia, and yet it is managed over many, many years to establish itself as one of the top high schools in the country if not the top high school in the country. I guess it's in Fairfax County. Okay, Fairfax County really is suburbs of DC, northern Virginia. The Virginia Attorney General has just launched an investigation into practices at the school, and let me just say right in advance, appropriately so, absolutely so, and here are two big issues that are going to be investigated. I think the one which says it all is the fact that the school has been withholding, not telling its students, when they have achieved awards. In particular, let's see what's the award called. This is the, God, where is it? Yes, the National Merit Scholarship, I guess, they give awards, they commend students. National Merit Honours, I think they call, these National Merit Honours are available to students to score very high in standardized tests. And they are important in some colleges and universities' decisions about accepting students, the top universities, top colleges use this in accepting. It's also crucial to receiving scholarships. So there are, let's see, something like 800 special scholarships from evil corporate sponsors, of course, from those businessmen, 800 special scholarships for extraordinary students, for students of ability, for students who score very high in these tests, the students who get the National Merit Honours. Well, it turns out that for years now, the administration at the Thomas Jefferson School has been withholding these awards the notice that students had received the awards from the students and their parents. They've often not let them know at all, they've let them know late, they've sat on these announcements so that the students could not use this information in their applications for early admittance into colleges, so a lot of these students have missed opportunity. Haven't heard about it until after they've already been turned down or accepted by certain universities, and only then do they know that they've got this award. This has been going on now for several years. Interestingly enough, this is, of course, a school dominated by Asian students, a significant number of its student body is Asian. I read the story of one kid who is an Arab American, Shawana Yasso, that's the name of the parent, not the student, but her son studied hard, took the most advanced classes, and actually won a National Merit Honours scholarship and didn't hear about it. Applied to the university, he's not knowing he had won and didn't get into his top choices partially because he hadn't, they didn't let him know. I mean, these are people who are running, not just some random high school, but they're running what everybody knows and they know is the top high school in the country, where a significant number of the students over the last five years, this sitting in this information has affected the lives of 1,200 students, 1,200 students. One former student said he learned he won the award through a random email from the school to a school district email account that students rarely check. The principal neither told his parents nor made any kind of public announcement. Now, just so you understand, the principal and the, this guy is what, this guy is a, ooh, I thought I, yeah, there he is, the Director of Student Services, Brandon Costaca. He's the, he's the Director of Student Services. The principal is, anyway, whatever the name of the principal is, they know exactly what they're doing. This is not accidental. This is not a consequence of, well, they just, they're just incompetent. The mail got lost. They have a bad address. It sat on a secretary's desk for a while. They were busy. Other things going on. No, this was a purposeful attempt not to recognize achievement, not to recognize students knowing that such an attempt jeopardizes the success of these students. Um, Costaca admitted that the decision to withhold the information from parents and inform the students in a low key way, low key way, like late and maybe never, was intentional. Quote, I mean, think about what this says. Um, think about what this says about the, what this man's view of the world is. Quote, we want to recognize students for what they are as individuals, not focus on their achievements. I didn't read that five times. We want to recognize students for what they are as individuals, not focus on their achievements.  What they are as individuals is, no, this is not double talk. This is serious stuff. This is deep philosophy, right? Look, we're all determined by our genes and our environment. Our achievements are not our achievements. They are just the consequence of random occurrences in the universe. They are the consequence of being born to the right parents at the right time, with the right genes in the right place and having loving family. And you get no credit for your achievements. And in the sense, you don't have any free will, you don't get any credit for it really, most things, but you know, your emotions, the kind of person you are, you know, you're nice and friendly and the, the, the, that that is what you are as an individual. Your achievements, that's your genes. This is a consequence of the God, of the determinism that dominates today's academia. This is a consequence of the, the Wallsian view that we are the Wallsian political scientists. The wall just determined political scientists and philosophy. The wall just determined mystic nothings. This is the consequence of the evolutionary psychological view that you don't determine your fate, therefore you are not responsible for your achievement. This is that, this is the same as I think the worst presidential speech in all human history, which was Obama's, you didn't build that speech. Well, you didn't achieve that. You don't deserve that. You don't get the award because you didn't do it.  It has everything to do with, I don't know, your emotions, because this is how Cospacca continues. He said that he and his principal, they just didn't want to hurt the feelings of the students who didn't get the award.  I mean, these people shouldn't be in charge of anything, not even their own life, but who put them in charge of the number one school in America? How did they get that position? Yeah, I mean, this is what the superintendents, maybe this is these the people, the superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, said, he said, you know, this was a mistake to be honest, right? We, you know, we have to do something special, commendations, sends a very strong message to kid, right? Your work is meaningful. If you work hard in life, there are good benefits from that. It's just so mild. This isn't a mistake. This is pure evil. And it was over and over and over again over time. So Kostaka sent an email after it was caught. This, this all came out in December. And December 12th after it was caught, Kostaka sent an email to parents of the commended students notifying them the important recognition and saying, we're deeply sorry for not sharing the news earlier. This is, this is part of the war on merit. This is part of the war on achievement. This is part of the war on free will. But it doesn't end there, folks. It doesn't end there. The principle of the school, the guy in charge of the school who was appointed in charge of the school, this is the top school in the United States, has been lobbying incessantly to make the school not the best school in the United States, to eliminate the merit-based acceptance standards to the school. The principle has been lobbying that basically there are too many Asians in the school and that they need to stop the merit-based admissions test to get into Thomas Jefferson. I mean, it's not an accident. The school is the best school in the country. It admits the best students and what they need to do is increase diversity. And indeed the process has become over the last couple of years of changing the admitting standards to the school, eliminating or reducing the emphasis put on merit-based and highlighting diversity. Now we'll see with the Supreme Court decision about Harvard whether this will stand that decision. It looks likely that the Supreme Court will decide that race-based admissions are against the law, against the Constitution, but we'll see. So good for the Virginia Attorney General, good for the Governor of Virginia. They are looking into this. They are unleashing the Office of Civil Rights on Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology for their failure to timely notify students of the commendation. By the way, this story was broken by the City Journal in New York City, so it's important to give credit that City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute in Manhattan. But also they're going to look at the overall of the admissions policies. So, you know, there is a backlash. Yonkins was voted in, I think, to Governor of Virginia to a large extent over the horror of many, you know, relatively Democratic voters, people who typically vote Democratic, the horrors over the Democratic parties shift against merit and achievements and anti-Asian attitudes and anti-success attitudes. And I think a lot of people who typically vote Democratic voted for Yonkins because he was committed to schools being accountable to parents.  Whereas I think the Democratic Governor's attitude was parents shouldn't intervene in education, shouldn't butt in. It's none of their business. So maybe they'll fix this. Maybe they'll fix this. Yonkins has been mentioned as a potential candidate, a Republican candidate running in the primaries for, you know, for presidents. So, but this is a good cause. This is a great cause to champion. Champion merit, champion achievement, champion excellence, champion parent involvement in their kids' education. That's a great cause. 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Mr. Jordan for five minutes. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Pichai is Google going to tailor its features to help Joe Biden in the 2020 election? Congressman, we approach our work, you know, we support both campaigns today. We think political ads is an important part of free speech in democratic societies and we engage with campaigns, you know, according to law and we approach our work in a nonpartisan way. It was a yes or no question. Can you assure Americans today you won't tailor your features to help Joe Biden in the upcoming election? You know, we support work that campaigns do. I just want to make sure I understand that. We all we all do all kinds of online social media every all kinds of that kind that that that outreach that communication. This is a simple question. Can you today assure Americans you will not tailor your features in any way to help? Specifically help one candidate over other and this this what I'm concerned about as you help and Joe Biden over President Trump. We won't do any work, you know, it's to politically tell anything one way or the other. It's against our core values. But you did it in 2016. There's an email in 2016 that was widely circulated amongst the executives at your company that got public where Ms. Eliana Marillo head of your multicultural marketing talks about the silent donation Google made to the Clinton campaign and You applauded her work. She points that out in the email. I'm just curious if you did it in 16 I want to make it, you know in spite of the fact you did it in 16 President Trump won I just want to make sure you're not going to do it again in 2020 Congressman I recall our conversation at that time and I appreciate your concern We didn't find any evidence of such activity and I took the opportunity after our conversation to reinforce To the company we realize even an appearance could be improper So we have clearly communicated to our employees any personal political activity while that's their right needs to happen on their own Time and resources and should avoid any use of course Everyone's got their first amendment rights to campaign for who they want What they can't do is configure your features to help one candidate over the other so you might have not have found any evidence But here's what she wrote to the email To a number of key executives in your company quote We pushed to get out the Latino vote with our features second quote We pushed to get out the Latino vote with our features in key states Seems to me those last three words are the real qualifier here That's election nearing when you're trying to increase the Latino vote in key in key states And she'd already communicated that she was supporting Clinton that she wanted Clinton to win So when she talks about increasing the Latino vote, which she assumed was going to help Canada Clinton and she's doing that in key states one thing if you're going to increase the Latino vote around the country If you're just a good corporate citizen, you're urging people to vote It's quite another when you're focusing on in key states And you know what those key states were? Nevada in Florida the swing states. So again, I want to make sure this isn't going to happen in 2020 I can assure you that we complied with laws in 2016 as a company any work we do around elections Is nonpartisan users do come to us for understanding where polling places are bad to vote Which is the date toward what the voting hours are We are committed to providing that information and I can assure you that we will approach a work So so mr. Pichai here's here's the question. I think it's on so many Americans minds They saw the list that we read here earlier on in our opening statements all the things Google has done Google is siding with the World Health Organization over over anyone who disagrees with them Even though the World Health Organization obviously lied to America obviously shills for China Google siding with them YouTube is siding with them We have the history of all the things Google has done and the history of what happened in 2016 in the election Where they obviously according to one of your your multicultural marketing? Executive try to help Clinton and here we are 97 days before the election and we want to make sure it's not going to happen again We want to make can you give us two assurances one? You're not going to try to tailor your features configure your Platform in a way to help Joe Biden and second that you're not going to use your search engine to silence conservatives Can you give us those two assurances today? Uh Congressman on our search engine Conservatives have more access to information than ever before we appreciate that. That's that wasn't the question Can you assure us today? You're not going to try to silence conservatives and can you assure us today? You're not going to try to configure your features as miss Marillo said you did for Clinton in 16 Can you assure today? You're not going to do the same thing for Joe Biden in 2020? You know you you have you have my commitment It's always been true and we'll continue to conduct ourselves in a neutral way appreciate you back The chair now recognizes a gentle lady from Pennsylvania miss Cameron Thank You gentlemen. I'd like to redirect your attention to antitrust law rather than fringe conspiracy theories Mr. Bezos our investigation mr. Chairman we have the email there is no Director mask on put your mask on mr. Jordan. Mr. Jordan. I want to talk about math mr. Jordan Is the guy with the deputy secretary of Treasury unmasked Michael Flynn's name mr. Raskin and what I want to know is Someone comes after my mode is for asking questions. I get a chance to the general lady is recognized Thank You, mr. Chairman