“You know, actually I’m not surprised he’s back on the air,” The View co-host and CNN commentator Ana Navarro said after Whoopi Goldberg asked her about CNN bringing back its chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin seven months after being caught exposing himself during a Zoom call.
As first reported by Vice in October, Toobin was participating in a Zoom call with colleagues from The New Yorker when several participants reportedly caught him masturbating. “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera,” Toobin said in a statement at the time. “I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers. I believed I was not visible on Zoom. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.”
While he has since been terminated from The New Yorker, Toobin returned to CNN last Thursday where he addressed both fallout from the incident and his continued employment at the network.
In response, Navarro defended Toobin on Monday as she stated, “I think some instances of sexual harassment are black and white. Some instances are more nuanced. In this case he was not sexually harassing anybody. He didn’t have the intent to sexually harass somebody. He was sexually harassing himself maybe, OK?”
“It was not a CNN Zoom call. It was with The New Yorker, from where he has been terminated and faced consequences,” she added.
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