jack bauer was very practice efficient in that. the one thing they do have in common this is commitment to serve publicly. >> this is the nuclear football. the nuclear football. you say, what's the code? >> do i have an eye scan? >> do you need my fingerprints or eye scan or something? >> no, sir. it's not like the movies. >> the guy laughs and says, yeah, we don't do that. >> reporter: the show going to great lengths to keep things realistic. >> we're here on the toronto set of "designated survivor." the cast and crew hard at work. all of this is the stand-in for a swanky neighborhood in alexandra, virginia. every detail well thought out. all the washington news van. the president's speechwriter, veteran actor with real-life white house cred. >> mr. president, maybe the country's not ready yet. >> reporter: kal penn, everyone's favorite stoner from "harold and kumar." even played a terrorist on "24." then famously left hollywood to serve in the office of public engagement in the obama administration. >> compare and contrast the wo

. >> reporter: sutherland is agent jack bauer. his bad-ass alter ego for nee nearly a decade on "24." your character is not a hard-core political operative. he's also not jack bauer. >> not by a long shot. i'm looking behind me. all of these weapons. my character wouldn't know how to hold that, let alone fire it. jack bauer was very practice efficient in that. the one thing they do have in common this is commitment to serve publicly. >> in the pilot they bring out the nuclear football. you say, what's the code? >> do i have an eye scan? >> do you need my fingerprints or eye scan or something? >> no, sir. it's not like the movies. >> the guy laughs and says, yeah, we don't do that. >> reporter: the show going to great lengths to keep things realistic. >> we're here on the toronto set of "designated survivor." the cast and crew hard at work. all of this is the stand-in for a swanky neighborhood in alexandra, virgin all the way down to the washington news van. the president's speechwriter, veteran actor with real-life white house cre

but unlike the original --- kiefer sutherland's character "jack bauer" won't be saving the hawkins is now the hero of the show. "24: legacy" will premiere after the breaking news from kenosha where a pedestrian was hit and killed by a car overnight. where witnesses say

i've been around the world talking to these officers and i never met jack bauer.there's truth in fiction as you know. i wanted to show a little bit of reality. taking that and now moving into the realm of fiction the best written piece on cia i think is the first article agents of innocence. it was reviewed on cia website. i still remember one of the lines. it's a novel but it's not fiction. and no relationship to the other. in the furthest thing possible. he was a remarkable officer in station and i think knew him slightly when he was killed this is not exactly a biography but it's close and it really does have a feel for what it's like to be an officer. i signed the book. in the no more visual medium. one is homeland. there is my short summary. that's never can happen. but the background is right. obsession, focus mission. it brings really true. let me pull out zero dark 30. and there is many things in the that are artistically correct but are not factually correct. a say look. they say for example there is a straight line in the movie between enhanced interroga

. >> the jack bauer syndrome. do something, do anything. >> where there really was a pressure to get any capability out. so you could see that as a first draft and if we had continued to focus on this -- >> and the contractors who sold the equipment were only to happy to comply with that pressure, right? >> fair enough. but, you know, if you kept sustained -- more sustained focus and effort on that threat over time there's more opportunity to build on the science, i speak as a scientist in that. and to improve the technology over time so it would have worked better. >> but what stops the focus. ? if there's a bioattack tomorrow there will be a presidential commission and the presidential commission would say there were all these warnings, we knew this stuff didn't work, we knew it was deployed for 14 years and we were spending $80 million a year to pick up samples even though we pick up samples 36 hours after they've been dispersed so it doesn't help anyway and they don't work. and the presidential commission woul