Jeffrey Toobin is back at CNN eight months after exposing himself on Zoom - CNN

She summarized the situation and said, "To quote Jay Leno, 'What the hell were you thinking?'"

Toobin described himself as a "flawed human being who makes mistakes" and said his conduct was "deeply moronic and indefensible."

He added, "I didn't think other people could see me," but he admitted that was no defense.

In the interview, Toobin expressed apologies to his wife and family, to the people who were on the Zoom call that day, and to his colleagues.

"And I'm sorry to the people who read my work and who watched me on CNN who thought I was a better person than this.

The people said that they did not believe he intended his colleagues to witness it.

When Vice heard about the incident and reported it, Toobin admitted that he made an "embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera."

The New Yorker suspended Toobin and fired him a month later, after its internal investigation had been completed.

Toobin said that The New Yorker did not find any other forms of misconduct by him during its probe of his 27 years at the magazine.