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CNN Insiders React to Jeffrey Toobin’s ‘Awkward’ On-Air Return: ‘It’s Insane!’

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“Yeah, it’d be nice if occasionally CNN held itself to the same standards it correctly holds Fox to,” one source said.

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“Awkward.” “Insane.” “A bit inappropriate.”

Those were some of the reactions from CNN insiders following Jeffrey Toobin’s cringeworthy on-air return as CNN’s chief legal analyst after a masturbatory Zoom work call derailed his journalistic career.

Toobin’s return to CNN after a nearly eight-month absence came on the heels of an aggressive lobbying...

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