Some CNN hosts and anchors have also expressed a desire to have Toobin back on their shows, as he has been a leading legal voice on television for decades. However, with the expected downsizing at Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN`s parent company, Toobin has apparently become dispensable, especially since the news network has no shortage of legal analysts who can go on the air. Jeffrey Toobin, a longtime legal analyst at CNN who was embroiled in a scandal for exposing himself to his New Yorker colleagues at a Zoom meeting, announced Friday that he was leaving the network. Jeffrey Toobin, who returned to CNN as a legal analyst after exposing himself to colleagues during a Zoom call, said Friday that he would leave the network after 20 years. The announcement comes just over a year after Toobin`s shameful return to CNN after an eight-month hiatus because the author masturbated at an online staff meeting in the New Yorker. The revered magazine fired the contributor and Emmy winner in November 2020, while CNN, then led by Jeff Zucker, did not officially suspend Toobin or slide pink at the time, but accepted his request for leave. Toobin was reportedly brought on air to discuss the legality of a California case in which a federal judge overturned a decades-old ban on assault weapons. But his appearance was largely devoted to an explanation of what he did last fall and the reactions that took place to it. Jeffrey Toobin announced Friday that he will be leaving CNN, where he most recently served as chief legal analyst, ending a 20-year run on the network during which he made unqualified comments and suffered a setback following a scandal in which he accidentally exposed himself to colleagues during a video call. On Thursday, before discussing a California judge`s decision to lift the assault weapons ban and other legal issues, Camerota asked Toobin to review the consequences. The October incident immediately turned Toobin`s long career in journalism upside down. The New Yorker suspended him.
The following month, a senior executive at the company that owns the magazine announced that Toobin would not return after an investigation into his behavior. On Twitter, Toobin said he had been “fired.” He apologized to CNN employees, former New Yorker colleagues and his family, acknowledging that he had become the object of ridicule during his airtime. “I`m incredibly grateful to CNN for taking me back,” he said. And eventually, he and Camerota turned to legal issues. Camerota said she was happy to have Toobin back. “Many of us really missed having your legal analysis to help us with our programs,” she told him in the segment. “So, let me be the first to welcome you again.” The New Yorker suspended Toobin and fired him a month later after the end of its internal investigation. CNN said it would reinstate legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin to its list of contributors after he was suspended from his main position for exposing himself during a Zoom call with colleagues. In the future, Toobin will be regularly on CNN in his role as chief legal analyst, a spokesman confirmed. Toobin said he was “incredibly grateful” to continue working within the network.
CNN`s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin returned to the air Thursday — for the first time since he exposed himself last fall in a virtual meeting with colleagues at New York magazine. The longtime legal director celebrated his resignation Friday in a letter to his colleagues and in a tweet: CNN`s chief attorney Jeffrey Toobin was “caught masturbating in front of the camera” in October and later suspended Normally, Toobin would be busy reporting on a controversial Supreme Court confirmation and an election that could end up being challenged on legal grounds. Toobin was interviewed by cnn Newsroom host Alisyn Camerota about the incident and the latest legal news. Jeffrey Toobin, CNN`s disgraced chief counsel, returned abruptly and unexpectedly to the cable network Thursday, admitting to masturbating during a Zoom call with colleagues at the New Yorker last year. Toobin made headlines in 2020 after accidentally exposing himself to colleagues at the New Yorker and WNYC during a Zoom call. He was suspended and eventually fired by The New Yorker and expelled from CNN at the time of the incident. The New Yorker said it suspended Toobin after the incident and was investigating the case. The suspension was first reported by Vice on Monday. Jeffrey Toobin returned to CNN on Thursday as the network`s general counsel, eight months after exposing himself during a Zoom call with colleagues at the New Yorker. Camerota mentioned how even O.J. Simpson, whose Toobin wrote a book about it that inspired an Emmy-winning FX miniseries, shot him.
She wondered whether such comments would influence her legal analysis. CNN confirmed Toobin`s reinstatement as chief legal analyst, but made no further comment. The New Yorker declined to comment. Jeffrey Toobin, CNN`s chief legal analyst and renowned reporter for The New Yorker, has been marginalized at a crucial time in the run-up to the presidential election. The zoom incident is not the first scandal of Toobin`s career. The expert has a son of fellow lawyer Casey Greenfield, with whom he had a long intermittent affair. She became pregnant in 2008, but he didn`t admit paternity until some time later, after a DNA test. “To quote Jay Leno, `What the hell were you thinking?` Camerota asked. When Camerota mentioned how the late-night comedians had a day on the field with Toobin`s transgression, he said, “How about two segments on `Saturday Night Live` about me?” suggesting that this was a sore point. CNN critics have echoed the network`s apparent leniency toward Toobin over the past seven months, especially after the decision to fire commentator Rick Santorum last month for derogatory comments about Native American culture.