Rob Weiss

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Rob Weiss was the Chief of Staff to President Allison Taylor during Day 8, replacing Ethan Kanin. Kanin stated that he recommended Weiss to Taylor because she needed someone that would stand up to her.

Day 8

Between 12:00 AM and 1:00 AM Weiss called Brian Hastings and chastised him for the botched operation with Vladimir Laitanan. He said that the operation needed someone to blame and that Hastings should make Renee Walker that person. Weiss said that having Hastings fired would make both of them look bad as Weiss suggested Hastings for the job.

Later, between 5:00AM and 6:00AM, President Taylor and her inner circle learn of a threat made by Samir Mehran - that they hand over Omar Hassan or face the detonation of a radiological bomb in the heart of Manhattan. However, President Taylor adamantly refuses to give into his demands. Rob Weiss, disagreeing with President Taylor's decision, is reluctant to take further action. However, he is eventually persuaded by David Brucker to take part in a plot that would involve Hassan being abducted without President Taylor's knowledge. Ethan Kanin inadvertently stumbles across Brucker and Weiss' intentions to undermine President Taylor's decision, and earnestly tells them to reconsider. However, he suddenly goes into cardiac arrest, and despite Weiss' urging for medical assistance, Brucker is apathetic and tells him that it will come once the plot is carried out.

Weiss and Brucker manage to obtain information regarding the route in which Jack Bauer, Renee Walker, and a team of Secret Service agents are escorting Hassan and his family. However, the operation to abduct Hassan fails, with the entirety of Brucker's mercenary unit dispatched, save for Adrion Bishop. Jack Bauer is able to obtain information of the plot from Bishop, and passes it on to President Taylor. President Taylor is shocked to discover the plot, and confronts Weiss and Brucker with the knowledge, in the process discovering Ethan Kanin, close to death from the heart attack. Livid with rage and disappointment, she sends in a team of agents to apprehend Weiss and Brucker. She angrily questions and chastises Weiss for his insubordination, yet Weiss continues to openly defy her, reminding her that they successfully carried out the deal, saving many American lives. Allison Taylor sentences him as a traitor to his country, and that she would personally execute Rob for the act. Along with Brucker, he is taken into custody by the Secret Service.