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This theres a real potential scandal of a lot of u.s. taxpayer money going to accompany that vice president bidens son was part of. >> first it was quid pro quo and that didnt work, its all the talking points they want to use. people are tired of it and there bored with it, its not even good television. at least give us something. at least get alyssa milano in their, please dont waste more alyssa milano. >> three is coming and we will see jack bauer. >> thank you very much. later on we will be t...

Scandal of a lot of u.s. taxpayer money going to accompany that vice president bidens son was part of. >> first it was quid pro quo and that didnt work, its all the talking points they want to use. people are tired of it and there bored with it, its not even good television. at least give us something. at least get alyssa milano in their, please dont waste more alyssa milano. >> three is coming and we will see jack bauer. >> thank you very much. later on we will be talking about immigration and ...

>> "24" was set to debut in november of 2001. the pilot climaxes with an assassin blowing up a passenger jet in midair. fox orders this. fox schedules it. 9/11 happens. suddenly the show which seemed like this goofy thing about keifer sutherland chasing after middle eastern terrorists becomes the most timely show on television because that is all that anyone in america can talk about after september 11th. >> the name for the series comes from the idea that its 24 episodes in a season. each episo...

So we started communicating to abc, were going to run out of flashback stories. >> call it, jack. >> you call it. >> and abc was adamant in saying, no, like the show is a hit show, people love the flashbacks, dont worry, you guys are great at it, just keep it up. >> you okay, freckles? >> at the beginning of the third season of the show, we had our characters locked in cages. and i think looking back on it now, damon and i are like, thats metaphorically how we felt, we felt we were locked in cag...

That the house democratic caucus doesnt think the president is good. they think he is bad. they think he is unfit. they think he may be dangerous, but they dont see it essentially as a kind of national emergency in which every day goes by, there is a sort of ticking clock towards some kind of long tail risk landing in all of our lives. my sense from the house democratic leadership is yes, hes bad. yes, were going to be thorough. were going to go through the process. the constitution is the const...

Because you couldnt revisit them. but theres almost no better hook. its like a book you cant turn down, you go, im going to watch a little bit more. >> "24" was set to debut in november of 2001. the pilot climaxes with an assassin blowing up a passenger jet in midair. fox orders this. fox schedules it. 9/11 happens. suddenly the show which seemed like this goofy thing about keifer sutherland chasing after middle eastern extremist terrorists becomes the most timely show on television because that...

Timely show on television because that is all anyone in america can talk about after september 11th. >> the name for the series comes from the idea that its 24 episodes in a season. each episode is one hour in a day, and jack bauer just has the worst days. >> we are running out of time, pull the trigger. >> please dont make me do this. >> do it! >> sorry, i cant. >> pull the trigger! >> damn you! >> the commercial breaks in that show were almost welcome so that you could catch your breath. >> 24...

Mysteries? personally i started feeling hamstrung story-wise almost instantly, because we had to do 25 hours of "lost" in the first season. so we started communicating to abc, were going to run out of flashback stories. >> call it, jack. >> you call it. >> and abc was adamant in saying, no, like the show is a hit show, people love the flashbacks, dont worry, you guys are great at it, just keep it up. >> you okay, freckles? >> at the beginning of the third season of the show, we had our character...

Right, this is just a survival drama. heres these people, their plane has crashed. how are they going to get by, how are they going to find food, et cetera. >> we hunt! >> on top of that, theres this whole mystery, where are we? why cant we get a rescue signal, why is there a polar bear? what is going on here? >> it averages 15.5 million viewers each week and spawned web locations where avid fans can obsess. >> the fan base is saying, when are you going to answer these mysteries. personally, i s...

Is that his son -- >> son-in-law. >> son-in-law got together with an american billionaire to profit from selling secrets of nuclear secrets to a murderous foreign government. >> in the most dangerous part of the world in possible violation -- possible circumvention of the guard rails that are supposed to be put in place. >> this is what jack bauer is supposed to stop. this is bond villain stuff. >> right. >> and it seems to be, to me, that he will stop at nothing. and if that means exploding rac...