are you maddie? glg i'm not maddie. there are a few differences. she was a tiny little ballerina, i'm not. she spent 15 years in the counterterror center, and i was only there for the last four years of my career. >> host: so why did you leave the cia in 2004? this. >> guest: there were a lot of reasons. i was tired, i had a lot of stress-related health problems, i was completely disgusted with our decision to go into iraq and what played out in the agency after and in the government after 9/11. and my husband was retiring, and so he could retire, and i would still have health coverage, so i decided it was time to live. time to leave. >> host: now, this is a novel about the cia. >> guest: right. >> host: if people read this, how much reality will they get in this book? >> guest: they'll get a pretty good idea of what it's like to be a counterterrorist analyst or what people do. people mainly know about the operational side of the cia, the direct rate of operations, and this is on the analytical side. and these are about people who spend their lives

maddy grinned thinking about what katherine might say. she would say, maddy did you do this? he would say, yes , i did. as they got closer to home, he saw smoke blazing into the sky where the saudi would be. they had built the fire she and his brother mark. saddy was walking ahead. madison looked at the drunken line of stitches on her sleeve the crook ed seam and the knot of material that rode her shoulder like a hump much the air began to feel thick like water. wait. he grabbed her arm and picked at the stitches he had made. saddy tried to wrench away but he picked frantically at her sleeve and the dark fur

. >> host: does maddie return? >> guest: maddie returns, but she's not the lead character. il to the national book festival. [applause] >> thank you and welcome, and certainly on a day like this, i know that the executive editor of the "washington post" has a million and one things he could be doing, so i'm touched he took time to come out here and introduce me. somebody just asked me a few minutes ago if i grew up fighting in a gym boxing. i've been trying to tell ladies from the second grade on that i consider myself much more of a lover than a fighter. [laughter] but there was one experience i had in the boxing ring in my hometown in columbus, ohio. i was in the 6th grade, and somebody talked me into stepping into the boxing ring. i might make the team if i were fast enough in the ring. the other person hit me very hard and i went down and the pain went in one ear down my back, down the back of my legs, over to the other side of my body, and i'm still feeling that pain today, so no, i never became a boxer, but i had a lot of admiration for somebody who had a life as fasc

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so finally, my mom called me down and she said maddie ross, there's somebody on the phone for you.my: that is so fun. that was the character you are playing? >> yep. >> jimmy: that is so super cute. man, that's awesome. i would get excited like that, too. but i was 23 when i got "saturday night live." but i still was -- [ laughter ] but you -- so, you get through that and you're -- you're going toe-to-toe with big stars. >> yeah. >> jimmy: jeff bridges. matt damon, josh brolin, coen brothers. it's a western and you, man, do you hold your own. you're phenomenal. >> thank you. >> jimmy: a lot of people say you steal the movie. that's huge. >> thank you. >> jimmy: did you get excited? [ applause ] yeah, absolutely. give it up. do you get excited going to premieres and all that stuff -- and red carpet. do you like getting dressed up, and doing all that stuff? >> yeah, absolutely. it's like, pretty much my favorite part. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. did you meet anybody that you wanted to meet? like, do you got bieber fever or anything? [ laughter ] >> of course. >> jimmy: yeah, y

. >> but maddie was very tough on me. very tough questions. >>> fog, fog, fog. there will be plenty an also some drizzle. it's mild to warm. upper 50s already. so drizzle gives way to partly sunny/mostly cloudy skies. it will be warm along the coast. if inland areas can get the fog to burn off, it will be warm. rain, not this weekend, unless you found drizzle. tuesday night into wednesday, it look like the pattern will cool down. high pressure is building in and sending the moisture northward. we still have -- we still have the points north. so some low clouds, fog, mix of clouds. 60s on the temperatures. and a little bit of sun. a little bit could give us upper 60s. half moon bay. 68 to start. we can do a little better than that. for next, we'll go a high of 64 degrees. we'll-- we're getting above average. livermore hand con ordinary are at 59 -- livermore and concord are at 59. there's the 46 in tahoe. 53 eureka to 54 in palm springs. even los angeles and san diego. look at the moisture streaming up from the hawaiian islands. a lot of rain embedded with t hat.

maddy, a democrat in georgia. caller >> it is very sad that our country has come to this -- caller: it is very sad that our country has come to this point. the start treaty was great in the 1980's and 1990's and the republican leaders. we even have military people that support this treaty, but now that this has become a treaty that -- in so many words -- that our current president, mr. obama, as negotiated, it is now -- the country has decided it is not good. if this is a bad treaty today, then it certainly has been a bad treaty all the time that the republicans have supported it. i think it is very sad that our country has come to this. we are jeopardized in social security -- jeopardize thing -- jeopardizing the social to disagree -- the social security of this country and of the world. it is a sad day for this country. host: north korea backed down, holds its fire, as the south proceeds with fire drills. pyongyang sees no need to retaliate. cbs news is reporting on its web site that the homeland security depart