Exhibit 1140 · Congressional letter
Letter from Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (House Judiciary Committee Democrats) to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan
Yet this belated confession is impossible to square with the detailed testimony of 20 Alphabet employees, who all explained, under penalty of 18 U.S.C. § 1001 for False Statements to Congress, that the Biden Administration never sought to force YouTube to remove content.
The minority's response to the Alphabet letter. It says the committee interviewed 20 Alphabet employees and that 'not a single one' testified about coercion or undue pressure from the Biden administration, quotes a June 2025 exchange with a YouTube vice president of product management, and asks what Alphabet was 'promised or threatened with' before sending the letter. It lists 2025 settlements between the administration's targets and the president as context. The letter characterizes transcripts that are not public; the question about promises or threats is a question, not a finding.
- Source
- House Committee on the Judiciary, Democratic staff (Ranking Member Jamie Raskin)
- Date
- 30 October 2025
- Quoted from
- Letter, p. 1
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-10-30-raskin-to-mohan-youtube-re-coercion-1.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Reported as to the transcripts: the 20 interview transcripts were not opened. Replace with the transcripts if the Committee releases them.