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Well, the trump administration today announced it's withdrawing from the united nations human rights council. claiming in part that the body's biased against israel. the announcement was made early this evening by secretary of state mike pom pompeo and nikki haley. here's haley. >> for too long, the human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and cesspool of political bias. regrettably it is now clear that our call for reform was not heeded. i want to make it crystal clear that this step is not a retreat from the human rights commitments. on the contrary, we take this ste...

He's relocated, he's reunited with his family, which is very significant. whether he'll have the chance to study law. we're going to see -- there will be a lot of back and forth over this, because this is contrary to what we've always seen in the past. usually the united states is negotiating for an activist to be able to leave china. now, at least, for the most, it's negotiating for an activist to be able to stay in china. >> my concern is what i read in the papers this afternoon, sophie, which is his family were threatened. they were going to take them back to the village and beat them to de...