John Sifton: “President Clinton ripped up the Executive order that linked human rights with trade and that was an absolute pivot point…”

Unfortunately, if the U.S. is not going to be in Geneva to do that, it'll fall to other countries, and that is a terrible indictment of this administration's commitment to promoting human rights.

I hope one thing that can come out of this hearing is that Members of Congress can press Ambassador Haley on why she made the disastrous, shortsighted and, frankly, childish decision to withdraw from the Human Rights Council yesterday.

I think it's good to pivot here to talk about how the U.S. can voice its displeasure with this situation.

The U.S. played a huge role in convincing the government to engage with the U.N.