Carter. A call to action his new book. Abuse of females is the worst and most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on earth. Discussions were overshadowed. Russia is threatening some of its immediate neighbors not out of strength, but out of weakness. A prominent politician removed from parliament. Threatened to charge her with trees son. Rain is complicating efforts to search through the debris field. More than 170 still unaccounted for. I believe in miracles and believe people was not survive these events. We begin with a call to action from former president jimmy carter to counter what he calls the most serious unaddressed challenge in the world, the deprivation and abuse have young women and girls. The lower senate at us are women and girls pro claimed by leaders. He pointed the finger at u. S. Right in the tolerance, following the examples has played a role as violence encourages more violence. I am going to talk to president carter about that and other issues facing the world. For that, im honored to welcome the 39th president of the United States from the 2002 peace prize winner, jim. I carter. His latest book is a call to action. Such an honor to have you with us. Delighted. You have redefined what it means to be a former president of the United States. Youre the only one who won the Nobel Peace Prize after leaving the white house, traveled with mrs. Carter doing all kinds of humanitarian efforts. Youve now written almost two dozen books. How in the world do you find the energy to do all of that . This is my 28th book. My count was wrong, i apologize. The Carter Center has had programs of an active nature in 79 different countries. Weve gotten to know the people in all kinds of nations, particularly the third world countries where women and girls are especially abused, but the people that can do something about it and i have 23 recommendations in the book that can involve some of these problems are in the rich world, particular lit United States. A lot of the problems that occur in the poorest countries, the backward countries of the world we might call them also extend here in the United States. For instance, slavery. The slavery that exists now is much greater than it ever was in the 19th century when black people were brought out of africa into england and the United States. There is 200 billion worth of Human Trafficking every year. The state department is required to report on this annually, and they reported last year that 800,000 people were solid across International Borders per year. 80 of those sold into slavery are girls for sex purposes. And thousands of them into the United States. 100,000 in the United States, not all of them were set across borders, but the number one place in america for this humannativery traffic is in atlanta, because we have the largest airport on earth and also because a lot of our passengers on the airplanes come from a third world, from the southern part of the world where the girls can be bought cheaper. You can buy, a pump can buy a girl through the Atlanta Airport for about a thousand dollars if she comes from africa or asia or southern america. We got all sorts of media response from people who want to ask you success. You saw in houston, more than 100 like lie illegal i am grants locked up in a house. It was a terrible situation there. We have a viewer who asked, i believe her name was heather and she asked how can we fight trafficking in the u. S. . Well, i think the United States has to take the leadership on the entire word basis. Im talking about girls and women, because as i say, girls comprise 80 of the people sold into slavery. Theres an International Convention of the United States called a convention on the end of discrimination against women, cedaw and the United States has refused to ratify this treaty, this convention that exists because we dont want to have anything to do with the United Nations in the very conservative senate. The other is called violence against women. The International Version requires that every country tabulate not only their own crimes, but also try to decrease the criminality of actions against women, girls and all prisoners and all slaves, whether men or women. These are the things that happen, and another thing that is very terrible in the United States is that the worst places for sexual abuse in america are two of our greatest institutions, one is universities. Where we see an epidemic of Sexual Assault. One out of four girls is raped or had sexual abuse while shes in college, and only 4 of those rapes are reported. About 1 6 as much reported in the civilian environment. The other institution is the military. The military. You were commanderinchief. Its a parallel problem, because the Commanding Officer doesnt want to admit that in his cline of command, in his company or battalion that a lot of sexual abuse takes place, so discourages the women from reporting when they are assaulted. The same thing happens with College President s and deans who dont want to bring a bad name to their university, Harvard University or the university of chicago or so fort. Are you unhappy in the Senate Rejecting a bill that would have taken Sexual Assault out of the chain of command. I am disappointed. They made slight improvements about how much you can harass a woman who is raped in court. There was a horrible case which i attended and the Washington Post reported that for three days she was interrogated by the Football Players defender, lawyer, 21 hours and three days. She asked to be let off for the next day because she was tired and the judge ruled against her and made her testify, as well. They asked her horrendous questions, how many times have you kissed a boy, what kind of underwear were you wearing, have you ever had sex relations before you came to the naval academy. How wide do you open when you give oral sex to a boy. Those questions were asked her. That sends a signal all over the military if youre a military and you get abused, dont make a charge officially against your rapist. So undudley, this is a tremendous issue across the world. It is. And you say that its the biggest worldwide issue, worldwide challenge. Its unaddressed. Un addressed. In a world where were facing wars, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, why do you think it is that biggest challenge . Lets look at the number of people that die because of this. We know that about 35 Million People were killed in the second world war, right . And during the war between the states or civil war in america, 600,000 people were killed. At this moment, there are 160 Million Girls who are missing because theyve been killed by their parents, either at birth, they strangled the baby because its a girl and they need to have boys or because they now have son know grams and they can detect the sex of a fetus while its still in the embryo stage and abort that child selectively because its female, so almost an entire generation of girls are missing from the face of the earth because theyve been killed. The shortest chapter is called genocide of girls and possibly the most powerful because you address that issue there. Its not known, people dont really care, because for instance, in china and india, limit the size of families, and if a family doesnt have social security, they want to have boys so they can support them in their old age. If they can have one or two children, they want to make darn sure they have a boy. There was a movie that came out called its a girl, and theres a woman from india who says not with any shame that she strangled eight daughters when they were born as infants. So this kind of thing goes on around the world, and the United States, i think, needs to take a leadership role in stopping this mandatory prostitution and to take action that can correct some of these problems. You are deeply religious but have iticcal of the role of religion when it comes to women and girls. Im a christian, and theres no place in the bible that detects anything, any actioners words of jesus christ that derogates women or puts them in a secondary position. As a matter of fact, jees was a champion of womens rights and he made women a high erstad at us than they ever had been in history before him, but there are verses you can extract from the bible, Old Testament or new testament, writings of paul you can interpret one way or the other if you want to have women inferior. You think it is men interpreting this. It is. Women played a strong role in all christian churches, including the Catholic Church, paul pointed poutth out there were 25 leaders he mentioned specifically and half of women at very high levels. Nowadays in the Catholic Church, a woman cant be a priest or deacon, Southern Baptist convention, same thing applies to women. The universities at a higher level in the southern bob activity convention, if a woman is a teacher in a seminary and there are few left, they cant teach boys in the classroom. You and mrs. Carter left the Southern Baptist convention because of positions on women. You have been critical with the Catholic Church but communicated with pope francis. I have. I think hes a great leader and i have great hopes for him. I met with pope john ii, i found almost complete inflexibility there. I wrote pope francis a letter describing issues in my book and asking him to help with them to prevent, minimize the abuse of women and girls. I didnt ask him to change the click position on women priests for instance. He wrote me a very nice letter back and he said that he was convinced that a future role of women in the Catholic Church needed to be strengthened and would be. He appointed a committee of eight people to decrease the abuse of women by priest and four of those eight were women, which is a very wonderful thing to do. I want to get to a couple of current affair questions that were seeing this terrible cant recovery in crimea. I dont think there was anything that would have prevented put tune from taking crimea. Most of the crimean people agreed with it and wanted to be part of russia. I think it needs to be stopped at this point. I dont think we need to equite a few indicate about the prohibition of putin moving into other parts of Eastern Ukraine. I had the same challenge to face when i was president. During christmas week of 1979, soviet moved massive numbers of troops into afghanistan and they occupied afghanistan. I had to stop them from going further. I did everything i could. I with drew my ambassador from moscow, declared a grain embargo against them. Agreed with the congress and American Olympic committee in not going to the olympics and i began to give weapons to the Freedom Fighters in afghanistan, secretly, and we used all russian made weapons so that they couldnt refuse. Should we support ukraine militarily . I think so, yes. I do believe we should. I also announced to brezhnev on Public Television that if he moved out of afghanistan to any adjacent country we would responsibility militarily and not spare any weapons we had at our disposal. He never did. The Freedom Fighters were ultimately successful and with drew from afghanistan. I think we need to be very forceful in making sure that putin doesnt go into Eastern Ukraine militarily. Talking about president obama, all your other successors have consulted you in one way or another. I know you said that president obama has not. Other predecessors. Im not credittizing president obama, ive been out of office for 35 years and its natural for a president to cult other president s if they want to who have more recently been in the white house. I think george bush has been there recently before him. I dont think he should go back 35 years and resurrect an old democratic that was there. What if part of the problem is you dont take guidance well, dont play well with official washington. Im always careful to protect the integrity and respect for the president. I never have been to any sense active area nat world that i didnt get at least tacit approval from the president before i went. A few times the president s have asked me not to go and president obama has done this, president clinton and on occasion president george h. W. Bush asked me not to go to a place because it was dangerous or they had plans there about which i was not familiar. I would like very much to be involved, if i can be of help, the Carter Center has had a policy since i founded it of going into countries that were sensitive and we dont have any restraints or restriction on whom we meet, so we can meet with leaders with whom the u. S. Government has no relationships, even no communication and on occasion, the u. S. Government will call on me as i go into north korea, into cuba, meet with some of the palestinian factions, as i go into so dan and meet and as i go into they pap and meet with the maoists, they asked me to ask no question and bring back answers. You were critical of edward snowden, believe he broke the law, but at the same time, you think that it was important that some of this was brought to light. I do. You said that youre concerned that your emails are looked at by the n. S. A. And when youve had sensitive topics that you do handwritten letters. The head of the n. S. A. Today has said they are not looking at your emails. Thats a relief to know. I remember when the head of n. S. A. , one of them said that they didnt monitor americans, they didnt record american telephone calls and it turned out later that he didnt tell the congress the truth. I havent really worried about it, i dont have anything to conceal, but there are sometimes when i dont want my private messages to be read. There is no doubt the n. S. A. Has recorded every telephone call and every email sense in the United States. They dont actually read the text but know which message has occurred. They know which transmission has taken place and if they want to later on, they can get permission from a dominated fisa court to look at certain things. When i was president , i was in exactly the same problem. I was concerned after watergate and that sort of thing that the intelligence sometimes abuse people. I know that the f. B. I. Did abuse Martin Luther king, jr. And so fort and so we got a law passed in 1978 that absolutely prevented any American Intelligence Agency from spying on even one american communication unless they got a court order ahead of time certifying that it was a threat to american security. That prevailed until after 9 11, and then that law was liberalized and i think changed quite a lot, and in my opinion, when the congress changed it, the intelligence committees knew what was in the bill but the rest of the members of congress didnt have access to those secrets, so the laws were passed and then i think the n. S. A. As others emseeded the grant of freedom the Congress Gave them and exceeded their intrusions into the private affairs of americans, yes. A call to action, president carter, best of luck with your book, your humanitarian efforts and i hope you come back and visit us on your 29th book. I always like to be with you. Thank you again. Is postil the undisputed leader of the free world . His tough talk on russia while in the netherlands. Why were the deadly mudslides in washington so devastating if there were warnings over a decade ago that this could happen . Hermela aregawi is tracking the tap stories on the web. A little girls good deed is punished and sparks outrage on social media. Ill tell you more, coming up. While your watching, join our conversation by tweeting to us ajconsiderthis or share your thoughts on our facebook or google plus pages. President obama faced tougher questions tuesday about his leadership in the ukrainian cries. He was in the netherlands for the Third NuclearSecurity Summit aimed at preventing Nuclear Terrorism around the world. The questions turned to crimea and growing tensions with russia. Joining us is ambassador former president ial envoy to iraq and chairman of the bipartisan National Terrorism on terrorism. Its good to have you back. Nice to be with you. One of the president s goals is to shore up european support to get tougher sanctions against russia. With so many european interests tied to the russians, do you think the president will be able to convince them to a tough approach . It remains to be seen. I think its important to go back and say how did we get into this situation. I believe this Current Crisis over ukraine is a direct result of the central these of this administrations Foreign Policy, that thesis is that the world would be a safe irplace if america plays less of a leadership role, less than in the last 70 years. Whats happened in ukraine is sor