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Jun 10, 2021, 7 tweets

#BREAKING: Jeffrey Toobin RETURNS to CNN and will continue as their chief legal analyst despite having masturbated on a Zoom call. Speaking to Alisyn Camerota, he explains that he "wasn't thinking very well or very much, and it was something that was inexplicable to me."

Jeffrey Toobin on whether he's spoken to those who were on the Zoom call: "They were shocked and appalled. I think they realized that this was not intended for them."

Despite NOT losing his job at CNN, he says he's "privileged" that he will be able to "rebuild" his life.

Alisyn Camerota asks Toobin why he didn't "have better judgment" after having covered the stories of Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Donald Trump, and Anthony Weiner and Toobin's reply?

"Because I didn't have better judgment. Because I'm a flawed human being who makes mistakes."

This interview was already weird as ever, but it got weirder when Camerota asked Toobin whether there will be any new "surprises."

With a chuckle, Toobin says "[t]here are no surprises" out there, adding he's "incredibly grateful to CNN for taking me back"

Before moving on and to Toobin's far-left legal analysis on a California judge's gun comments, the pressure for Justice Steven Breyer to retire from Democrats, and the remaining SCOTUS decisions, Camerota brings up the fact that even O.J. Simpson made fun of him.

After a segment on the day's news, Camerota wrapped by telling him: "Many of us have really missed having your legal analysis to guide us on our programs, so let me be the first to welcome you back."

Toobin: "I hope to be a better person off camera as well as on camera." (/END)

P.S. Here's my full @NewsBusters write-up and analysis of this interview from hell. At the bottom, I included the full transcript of the portions that discussed his Zooms scandal. newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curti…

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