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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. it's 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 three firms plus microsoft and amazon signed on to the effort. president trump granting pardons to t...

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 foundation. the other a little more controversial pardon went to conrad black, a media mogul convicted of ...

Disouza, sheriff joe, they raise personal connections to trump that he's 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, he's been a great leader in the criminal justice reform movement. on the republican side, he's 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 can be on that list, but again, it looks like it's all coming through family and friends, cel...

He wants to whomever he wants, but there is a process that should be and traditionally has been followed and there's no process in the trump administration. it's kind of like the friends and family celebrity plan. there's 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, that's why we have laws. so many examples of where the process has been thrown out the window wit...

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 prison. chris cillizza is our editor at large. how do these two pardons fit into the larger pattern f...