I think one point-I wouldn’t exactly say in my defense, because nothing is really in my defense-I didn’t think I was on the call. And it was something that was inexplicable to me.
When Camerota asked him “What the hell were you thinking?” Toobin said, “Well, obviously, I wasn’t thinking very well or very much. Speaking to CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, Toobin apologized to his family and his former colleagues, calling his behavior “deeply moronic and indefensible.” Toobin got to announce his return by way of a friendly interview with his employer. Despite the excessive hand-wringing and dramatic lamenting we saw at the time, claiming Toobin was having his life destroyed over a moment of “poor judgment,” Toobin is now back at work in his high-profile position at CNN. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.It’s been just shy of eight months since legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin accidentally masturbated during a Zoom call with his New Yorker colleagues. Simpson,” was adapted into an FX series.Ĭopyright 2022 The Associated Press.
His 1996 book, “The Run of His Life: The People v. Toobin had been with CNN since 2002 and is the author of several books, most recently “True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump,” published in August 2020.
Toobin said he didn’t realize his camera was on, and apologized for the incident.ĬNN brought him back on the air eight months after the incident took place. Toobin was fired by The New Yorker magazine in 2020 after the news came out that he was spotted masturbating on a Zoom call with magazine employees. “Love all my former colleagues,” he wrote. Toobin announced the move in a tweet, saying he was glad to spend his last day on the air with friends Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon. NEW YORK (AP) - Jeffrey Toobin, who rejoined CNN as a legal analyst after stepping away in the wake of exposing himself to colleagues in a Zoom call, said Friday that he was leaving the network after 20 years.
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