Jeffrey Toobin returns as CNN legal analyst apologizes for exposing

Let friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutLongtime CNN legal correspondent Jeffrey Toobin apologized for exposing himself on a Zoom call when he returned to work after a seven-month leave. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. The New Yorker has fired writer Jeffrey Toobin after it was reported that he exposed himself on a Zoom call. USA TODAYDisgraced CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin Thursday made an abrupt and unannounced return to the cable network, and acknowledged masturbating while on a Zoom call with colleagues from The New Yorker last year. Toobin, 61, who became the butt of jokes by late-night comics after the October incident and was fired a month later by The New Yorker, where he was a staff writer, apologized for his actions in a segment with CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota, who described the incident in which Toobin "was caught masturbating on camera. ""I'm trying now to say how sorry I am, sincerely. Above all, I am sorry to my wife and to my family, but I'm also sorry to the people on the Zoom call. I'm sorry to my former colleagues at The New Yorker. I'm sorry to my current, fortunately, still colleagues at CNN. And I'm sorry to the people who read my work and watched me on CNN who thought I was a better person than this, " said Toobin, seated next to Camerota at he CNN anchor desk. "I've got a lot to rebuild, but I feel very privileged and very lucky that I'm going to be able to try to do that. "CNN confirmed Toobin's reinstatement as chief legal analyst but made no further comment. The New Yorker declined comment. More: Jeffrey Toobin is fired by The New Yorker magazine after his naked Zoom debacleJeffrey Toobin returned as a CNN's chief legal analyst, apologizing for a Zoom call transgression that lead to a leave of more than six months from the cable news network and his dismissal from The New Yorker magazine. (Photo: Evan Agostini, Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)In confirming Camerota's description, he added a slight qualification, explaining he wasn't aware that he was on camera while masturbating."I didn't think other people could see me, " he said. "I thought that I had turned off the Zoom call. Now, that's not a defense. This was deeply moronic and indefensible. "Toobin said he started apologizing to New Yorker colleagues the same day."They were shocked and appalled. I think they realized that this was not intended for them. I think they realized that this was something that I would immediately regret, as I certainly did, " he said. "And it was then it was that day that I began apologizing. And that is something that I have tried to continue to do, both publicly and privately. "Vice first reported on the incident in October. At the time, Toobin issued a less-detailed statement.“I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers, " he told Vice.

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