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I think they realize this was something that I would immediately regret.” “I think they realize that this was not intended for them.

“They were shocked and appalled,” Toobin said, mentioning that he had spoken with several of his former co-workers at the publication about the incident. My interview with /OPmxut7emXĬamerota pressed Toobin on if he has thought about what it must have been like being on the other end of that Zoom call and seeing a colleague expose themselves. “In therapy, trying to do some public service, working in a food bank … I am trying to become the kind of person that people can trust again,” he said. Toobin told Camerota he has spent the last seven months, which he called “miserable,” trying to “be a better person.” This was deeply moronic and indefensible, but that is part of the story.” “I thought that I had turned off the Zoom call. “Well obviously I wasn’t thinking very well or very much,” he replied.

“I feel like we should address what’s happened in the months since we’ve seen you,” Camerota told Toobin, who joined her in-studio for the interview, before asking him, “To quote Jay Leno, ‘what the hell were you thinking?’ “ I thought I had muted the Zoom video.”ĬNN reported on Thursday that Toobin was back as chief legal analyst at the network, and was interviewed by anchor Alisyn Camerota on “CNN Newsroom.” I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers,” Toobin said at the time. “I believed I was not visible on Zoom. “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. Toobin, a longtime pundit on the network, had been on leave since October after he exposed himself on a Zoom call with fellow staffers at The New Yorker last year, a publication he had worked at for 27 years.Īfter being suspended from The New Yorker following the incident, Toobin apologized and said he unintentionally exposed himself to his coworkers during a break on the call. Love all my former colleagues.Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has returned to CNN. Was great to spend my last day on air with pals Wolf, Anderson and Don. But the departure still doesn’t spell the end of Toobin’s career, with his book about the Oklahoma City bombing due from Simon & Schuster in 2023.įriends, I’ve decided that, after 20 years, I’m leaving after my vacation. Per the Wrap, viewers were recently mad that, given the man’s own understanding of workplace norms, Toobin expressed outrage over the leaking of the Supreme Court opinion overturning abortion rights. How poetic that it ends with him getting himself off - the network, that is. Now, over a year later, Toobin announced on Twitter (where, curiously, he still has a New Yorker cartoon avatar) that he’s leaving his CNN job after 20 years. (And in case you forgot, that was a thing that happened during the hell-depths of 2020!) The New Yorker may have fired its longtime legal journalist after he masturbated on video during a work Zoom call, but Toobin was welcomed back to CNN after a nearly eight-month suspension to continue working as the network’s chief legal analyst. In case you forgot, Jeffrey Toobin still kept one of his jobs after his notorious “Zoom dick incident” in 2020.