. >> joining me now is gail le mond, author and senior fellow. is not first time our eyes have been directed to girls education under a crisis like this. there was the case of mala lala this is going on around the world in places we don't pay attention to every day. >> for so long the conversation about america's national security tended to treat half of the population as a special interest group. if we talk about what's happening to women and girls in fragile parts of the world it was definitely seen as per riveral and not central. what we're seeing now, what's happening to these girls, in pakistan, girls in west africa, girls in afghanistan, is that they are on the front lines of the battle against extremism and the battle to decide what our world is going to look like. i think it's time for all of us to recalibrate the way we see these issues because a world in which all of these children can get education, boys and girls, is a world that is safer, and richer and stable and more prosperous. that is in everyone's best interest. i think we're fi