Tuesday at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), TMZ caught up with CNN’s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin who said President Donald Trump questioning the intelligence of African-Americans were “certainly racist acts.” When asked about Trump’s criticism of LeBron James and
Friday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” network legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said President Donald Trump calling Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) a “low IQ” individual was “racist.” Thursday night at a rally in Great Falls, MT, Trump said, “She is a low
Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” network legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said President Donald Trump was “in favor” of Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt “destroying the environment.” Toobin said, “The two people who can do no wrong in the Trump
Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” network legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said abortion would soon be “illegal” in 20 states in light of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement. Toobin said “Let’s talk about facts. Let’s talk about what America is like that is
On Tuesday’s “CNN Tonight,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst and New Yorker Staff Writer Jeffrey Toobin stated that the Supreme Court upholding President Trump’s travel ban is a “shameful moment” for the court, and they are the final word on what
CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin reacted Friday to President Donald Trump recent spree of pardons, which includes some African-Americans. Toobin called it “great theater” during his ongoing “fight with black people.” “There wasn’t this great theater, there weren’t a
While discussing Barbara Bush’s legacy on Tuesday evening, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Jeffrey Toobin could not resist using the opportunity to slam President Donald Trump.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Chief Legal Analyst and New Yorker Staff Writer Jeffrey Toobin reacted to the departure of Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn by stating Cohn “managed to stomach the racism, what he couldn’t take
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst and New Yorker Staff Writer Jeffrey Toobin reacted to President Trump’s tweet about Huma Abedin and the DOJ by stating that the leader punishing their political enemies is what happens
Tuesday, on “OutFront,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin said President Trump “has succeeded in politicizing” Robert Mueller’s investigation. Toobin said, “I actually think the president has been more effective than we’re giving him credit for here. If you look
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst and New Yorker Staff Writer Jeffrey Toobin argued that President Trump should worship the ground former FBI Director James Comey walks on because Comey did “probably more than anyone” to
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst and New Yorker Staff Writer Jeffrey Toobin stated that he thinks there is “a real chance” Democrats will try to impeach President Trump if they re-take the House in
Left-leaning CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin told Jake Tapper on The Lead on Monday that Roy Moore’s fate was in the hands of Alabama voters — and no one else.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin reacted to the news that the first charges have been filed in Robert Mueller’s investigation by saying the decision “pretty much guarantees” that the investigation will run “well
None other than CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said on Tuesday evening that former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama should not get a “pass” on Harvey Weinstein.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin stated the records of the Obama family and Clinton family are tarnished because they were “willfully blind” to Harvey Weinstein’s behavior. Toobin said, “You know, this was widely
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst and New Yorker Staff Writer Jeffrey Toobin stated that climate change is a part of the story of Hurricane Harvey. Toobin said, “I think one question we should ask,
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst and New Yorker Staff Writer Jeffrey Toobin floated the possibility that people think it’s a good thing that the president is defending Nazis and the KKK. Toobin said, “I
CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin reminded his fellow panelists on the network this week that they all needed to have “a lot of humility” when making predictions about President Donald Trump given the legacy media’s disastrous performance in the 2016 election cycle.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin cautioned that Donald Trump Jr.’s emails are a small piece of information and aren’t proof of any crimes by themselves. Toobin said that, from a legal perspective, the
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin stated the lawsuit filed by the District of Columbia and Maryland against President Trump “is a political attempt to interfere and damage the presidency.” Toobin said, “I’m extremely
Thursday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh reacted to commentary that aired on CNN following former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. In that segment, CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin declared
Thursday on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” immediately following a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing featuring testimony from former FBI Director James Comey, network senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin emphasized what he thought were the highlights of the hearing. However, at the end
Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz called into question the purpose of the Department of Justice naming Robert Mueller as a special counsel to investigate Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Dershowitz argued Mueller’s
Democrats and the mainstream media could not decide whether President Donald Trump’s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey was “unprecedented,” or the second coming of Watergate. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer called it “an extraordinary moment in American history” — and he did not mean that in a good way.
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told CNN’s Don Lemon on Tuesday night that President Donald Trump was well within his rights to fire former FBI director James Comey, and that there was no need for a special prosecutor in the investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” reacting to President Donald Trump firing FBI Director James Comey, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said it was “grotesque abuse of power,” and that reminded him of former President Richard Nixon’s firing of Watergate special
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin stated that while there wasn’t anything “outrageous” or “wrong” with the FBI re-opening its investigation into Hillary Clinton, it was “bizarre” and “inappropriate” for FBI Director James
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin argued that while Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email conduct wasn’t prosecutable, Clinton “seems like a clueless Baby Boomer who is at sea with technology,
Wednesday on CNN, network legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin criticized Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s remarks criticizing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. According to Toobin, the remarks were “unprecedented” in that Supreme Court justices have traditionally avoided offering their
Thursday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” with the New York presidential primaries a little over a week away, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin was asked to comment on Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz’s remarks regarding “New York values.” Cruz
On Tuesday’s “AC360” on CNN, host Anderson Cooper asked network legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin about the merits of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Univision after the network withdrew its Spanish-language coverage of Trump’s Miss USA pageant on July
CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin said that it wasn’t legal “to talk about gay people the way Justice Scalia used to talk about gay people” while recounting Scalia’s prior dissent in Lawrence v. Texas on Friday’s “CNN Newsroom.” Toobin said
