What to learn about Biden’s historic single-day act of clemency

On Thursday, President Biden introduced the biggest variety of commutations and clemencies ever granted in a single day. In addition to pardoning 39 individuals convicted of nonviolent crimes, the president is commuting the sentences of practically 1,500 individuals who had been launched from jail and positioned in residence confinement in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes experiences.

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