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The trump administration refusing to back an effort led by new zealand to combat online extremism. 18 governments and 5 u.s. tech giants support the measure. its in response to the live streamed shootings at two mosques that killed 51 people. white house officials claim free speech concerns prevented them from getting on born. the new zealand initiative was nonbinding but expressed the global frustration with facebook, google and twitter for their inability to restrain hateful content. those thr...

Political risk. up next, two more states move forward with anti-abortion bills. a mayor from one of the states will join me on what the voters there actually think of these plans. before we go, this is a story you may have missed yesterday. president trump issued two more pardons. one to former republican legislator patrick nolan who spent 29 months in prison for racketeering and once released became director for the center of criminal justice reform at the american conservative union founda...

Disouza, sheriff joe, they raise personal connections to trump that hes pardoning his friends or people he likes. the one difference i would pak with mat nolan is pat nolan, i have known him since 2010, 2011, hes been a great leader in the criminal justice reform movement. on the republican side, hes done a lot of public service. my issue is the president never said what the process is. if he came out and said people who provided a lot of service to the country can get pardons, i would say, yes,...

He wants to whomever he wants, but there is a process that should be and traditionally has been followed and theres no process in the trump administration. its kind of like the friends and family celebrity plan. theres a real problem and a question of fairness when you rightly point out there are millions of convicted individuals in the united states of america, millions of people in jail today, and how that works should be equitably done. there should be some sense of fairness. >> the process, ...

President trump granting full pardons to a pair of allies. the white house announcing today trump offers clemency to patrick nolan, a former republican lawmaker who joined forces with his son-in-law jared kushner on prison reform and he pleaded guilty to racketeering and spent two years in federal prison. the president also pardoning this man, his former news publisher conrad black who wrote a flattering book about president trump. black was convicted of fraud in 2007 and served 3 1/2 years in p...

Celebrities, military, lets run through them but they all fit into a pattern. okay, so, trump allies, nolan and conrad black booked in -- the book came out may 14th which was tuesday. donald trump pardoned him this week. right on time. joe arpaio, you know him and ran for the senate and very controversial and hes one of the early supporters on the hardline immigration policy. and mentioned military. michaelba henna and christian saucy and henna was convicted of a murder of a iraqi interrogating ...

time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] . .  >> "washington journal" continues. host: jane oates with the department of labor, assistant secretary for employment and training. talk with us about unemployment benefits. guest: thanks. i am delighted to be here. host: president obama will turn up pressure on the senate to pass an extension of unemployment benefits monday morning, according to a white house off...