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my guest tonight, annie jacobsen. she's author of the bookary" 51."know what you're getting a little bit of tonight, ladies and gentlemen? truth. [laughter] now, obviously over the past couple of weeks, there have been a lot of very important issues that we've had to discuss here on the program, issues that may have been waylaid by perhaps more pressing issues that we've had to discuss, like the death of bin laden, the hard-core porn in bin laden's house. [laughter] hard-core poets, rhyming in the people's house, and finally the distractions are over. we here at "the daily show" can get back to our core mission, discussing the important issues of the day, such as immigration policy in a respectful, sober manner. you're welcome. [laughter] to the debate. >> in a bombshell announcement, former california governor arnold schwarzenegger now admits to fathering a child with a longtime household staffer. >> jon: oh, for [bleeped]. [laughter] this close. damn you nearly irresistible comic possibilities. funny accent, built-in movie poster fun. sure, yes, obv

. >> reporter: journalist annie jacobsen wrote "area 5" it chronicles what happened on the base in thehey're a fraternity of formerly secret spies and scientists and spy pilots and engineers all of whom know one another. >> reporter: they spent most of their lives hiding what they did at work every day. now these veterans are finally able to talk about what went on inside the base. >> we went with code names. i was thunder. we were dealing with navy, air force, tactical air command, we had one common goal, we had an urgency of doing our job because lives in our military depended on what we were doing there. >> reporter: on this dry lakebed, the cia and later the air force developed ground-breaking technologies for espionage and warfare, still used by the military today. >> when you look at the drones that fight the war on terror, you can see the lineage goes directly back to the early spy platforms at area 51, the u2 was developed there, the a12 oxcart has developed there. >> reporter: scientists from the base were involved in the u.s. nuclear weapons program. >> there was over 100 atm