'The next thing we knew, we were talking to Robert De Niro': How new TV show 'Zero Day' happened

0 Day Zero Day tells the story of a former American president named George Mullen , played by Robert De Niro , who is pulled out of retirement in the wake of a cyber terrorist attack to investigate what happened and who carried out that attack on American soil.

The new political thriller series is out right now on Netflix .

The series stars Bob Weir Weir , who plays George Mullen , who is put in charge of an investigation into a terrorist attack.

Weir: "We're trying to say, dear America , you know, there are real dangers out there" Weir: We can't begin to confront those things unless we can all agree on a common reality, a common set of facts. And without that, all those other challenges are going to go unaddressed. And this show allows us to see what would happen. How would the United States react if there was a catastrophic attack?.

There are people, they see a crisis like this, right? They don't want to resolve it, they want to weaponize it. They're going to make you head of the Commission . So they're saying, OK, you hold the gun, you pull the trigger. So let's say that this whole thing turns out to be very simple. That is Moscow or the Revolutionary Guard or did a bunch of neo Nazis who figured out how to use a computer. It almost doesn't even matter. Because not everybody wants an answer. It would be simple if it was just it's incredible.