you mentioned a few months ago, hillary, what the tone is often states, but staca, some of ways that you believe the legislation is essential and answer if you can what are its prospects. >> i think legislation is essential because it defines the victimization and it has really been able to narrow the scope in terms of a topic a lot of people have trouble understanding this, the term of trafficking. so from the perspective of children, one of the most important things it has done was to clarify that children are victims, whether or not they have identified a third party trafficker, controller, that is involved in their victimization. >> can you explain that. i don't understand. >> absolutely. trafficking occurs if a child is involved in commercial sex. anything of value traded for sex, that could be a place to say, food, drugs, et cetera. so if that child encounters law enforcement or if that child encounters a service provider they're deemed a victim according to the federal law and there has been some debate and historically it has been more difficult if the child doesn't identify

what are some other ways, if i could start with you, staca, what are some other ways you believe the legislation is essential? i will ask you to answer if you can, what are its prospects? >> i think legislation is essential because it defines the victimization and it has really been able to narrow the scope in terms of a topic, some people have a lot of trouble understanding the term of trafficking. from the perspective of children, one of the most important things it has done was to clarify that children are victims, whether not they have identified a third party trafficker, controller involved in their victimization. >> can you explain that? i don't understand. >> absolutely. trafficking occurs if a child is involved in commercial sex. so anything of value traded for sex, that could be a place to stay, food, drugs, et cetera, so if that child encounters law enforcement or that child encounters a service provider they are deemed a victim according to the federal law, and there has been some debate, historically it is more difficult if the child does not identify a trafficker being v