congratulations on the paperback and that the success of "restrepo." up next, our conversation with actress jada pinkett smith. stay with us. pleased to welcome jada pinkett smith back to the program. the complete second season it is out on dvd, while the third season of "hawthorne" kicks off tuesday on tnt. i don't know how you doing it. >> i don't either. i will just keep it real. tavis: thank you and big willie. "fela!" is one of the best shows i have seen on broadway. am i am happy about that. -- >> i am happy about that. i have been a huge fan, and when we saw the piece, we said we have to invest and be part of this. to have so many talented black folks up there making it happen, you know what i mean? we had not seen anything like that on broadway. we were really proud to be part. tavis: i loved it, so thank you. at third season? it does it feel like three seasons? >> we do 10 episodes per seaso d season. it feels like we're coming to the end of the first season. you know? but i am really happy, i am really proud of this season. tavis: we did not

think most people having read your very powerful writing and seeing the movie you're involved in, "restrepoou would have been in favor of a more rapid withdraw. it seems you're saying not only do we have to deal with al qaeda, the stated first rational for our presence in afghanistan, but we need to be involved in nation building and the traditional sense of houses, the infrastructure of a nation. you're saying something even more subtle, you used the word the government is a criminal syndicate as though somehow we need to get the corruption out of the afghan government before we can leave. describe as i've seen you do it before, describe the actuality of the corruption, how granular it is from the bottom up to the top in afghanistan. >> well, it is from top to bottom. at the local level, policemen are demanding bribes from the afghan people on up to district governors and provincial governors, right on up to hamid karzai who i'm going from memory here, but there was a criminal -- a corruption investigation that was tracking down some very prominent people in the government, friends of karz