Toobin announced the move in a tweet, saying he was happy to spend his last day on the air with friends Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon. “I love all my former colleagues,” he wrote. Toobin was fired from The New Yorker magazine in 2020 after news broke that he was spotted masturbating on a Zoom call with magazine employees. Toobin said he didn’t realize his camera was on and apologized for the incident. CNN brought him back on the air eight months after the incident. Toobin has been with CNN since 2002 and is the author of several books, most recently True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Donald Trump Investigationpublished in August 2020. The 1996 book, The Run of His Life: The People v. OJ Simpsonadapted to FX series. The Morning Update and Afternoon Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines. Sign up today.
