Welcome to Off Message. I'm Isaac Dover. You're a Nobel Prize winner. We've talked about North Korea a little bit.

There is some talk already among the President's supporters that he should be getting the Nobel Prize for the North Korea communications that he's had so far.

How do you feel about that?

Well, not so far, but if President Trump is successful in getting a peace treaty,

it's acceptable to both sides with North Korea,

I think he certainly ought to be considered with a number of peace prize.

I think it would be a worthy and a momentous accomplishment

that no previous president has been able to realize.

Today's guest, Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States,

2002 Nobel Prize winner, author of 32 books, the new one is called Faith,

and 93-year-old cancer survivor, who still has a whole lot to say.

Everything about making this one happen was a little bit crazy.

I'd reached out to

Carter last year hoping to sit down with him, between his international experience, his approach to politics.

He said he voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries, for example, but he'd taken a more open approach

to Trump than most Democrats. He's been all over the world, working on all sorts of things.

But he has, as we talked about in this interview, not the best

reputation out in the country, and he's always the odd man out among the fraternity of ex-presidents.

Carter's staff said no, then, but it stayed in my mind. Then, just two weeks ago, we heard

from Liberty University, the Evangelical Christian College in Lynchburg, Virginia, that Carter was

going to be there and willing to do a few

interviews before delivering the commencement address. Within a few days, it was on the books.

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