Ep. 241 - Jeffrey Toobin

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Staff writer for the New Yorker Jeffrey Toobin joins David to talk about working as a prosector in the Oliver North trial, covering the O.J. trial as a journalist, the Mueller investigation, and more.

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:15.6	The first thing that one has to acknowledge about Jeffrey Tugan is that he is one prolific
0:21.0	person.
0:22.0	He began his career as a prosecutor, controversially wrote a book about his most celebrated early
0:27.9	case as a junior member on the team that tried Oliver North during the Iran Contra scandal.
0:36.1	He's written about the OJ case.
0:37.3	He's written two books about the Supreme Court.
0:40.2	He wrote about the Monika Lewinsky scandal and the 2000 recount, and he is a frequent
0:46.4	presence as a legal commentator for CNN.
0:49.2	Jeffrey is full of insights that are worth hearing and has a great story to boot.
0:55.3	I sat down with him this week when he visited the Institute of Politics, the University of
1:00.2	Chicago.
1:01.2	Jeff Tugan, it's great to welcome you to the Institute of Politics and here to the podcast.
1:09.8	The most beautiful part of the most beautiful city.
1:13.1	Hyde Park doesn't get any better than this.
1:15.7	Now we have tape of you at Northwestern saying something different.
1:18.8	It's because I've been around politics long enough to pander to wherever I am.
1:23.4	Yeah, you're going to go far in the business.
1:28.5	We all like to believe in self-determination that we have independent will and we can be
1:34.3	what we want to be.
1:38.2	I always tell the story.
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