Created by americas top Cable Television companies and brought you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. And now we are live on book tv with author and legal analyst Jeffery Toobin. He joins us on our indepth program for the next three hours to talk about his book and to answer your questions. Mister Jeffery Toobin is the author of many books including the old too close to call in his most recent, american heiress area. Toobin, welcome to cspan2s in depth. The authors of seven books and counting including your most recent book american heiress, wild side of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of patty hearst and i want to begin where you end the book. Youwrote this without her cooperation. I did quite how was that . Guest there were several things different about this book then my other book. This is the first book ive written that was really atthe border of journalism in history. All the other books that i wrote, i had sort of covered the underlying story in real time
Welcome to cspan2 in depth. The author of seven books and counting. Including the most recent, the kidnapping crimes and the trial of patty hearst. I want to begin where you ended the book. End of the book. You wrote this without her cooperation. I didthat . Guest there were several things that were different. This was the first book that was at the border of journalism and history. All the other books that i wrote i had sort of covered the underlining story in real time and then wrote about it. This is something i was alive in the 1970s but i was a kid. I didnt follow the stuff so it was starting from scratch in terms of my research. In particular theres 150 about the army and its trials that bill harris one of the survivors had and i managed to obtain access to that so i knew i had a great deal of material no one had seen before but obviously to answer your question, i would have liked to have talked to patty. She made clear through intermediaries and then indirectly she wanted no pa
Is now an author, shows up on television. I just dont understand how people can think that trial was wrongly decided are embracing this clown who did more to sabotage it than anybody. Guest well, i think you make an interesting point, and i think it is worth remembering where he is now, a prominent analyst. Its fox. Fox news. It is a conservative news jutlet. He is a outlet. He is a figure who has become a prominent defender of police against black lives matter accusations. He is a prominent someone who is part of the backlash against the movement that Johnny Cochran reflected. So, he has become a conservative hero of sorts, not because he lied i think people sort of gloss over that but because he is seen as someone who was the adversary of the people who were playing the race card during the o. J. Simpson case. I think his political place in American Life as reflected in this role at fox, is what is worth remembering about fuhrman now. Host american heiress you say rarely is the my qu
They only had one suspect theyd in tell the American People the rose and others suspect and chairman dempsey and general clapper head of the director of National Intelligence had both told the president they couldnt be sure they had a case against him that it is not a slam dunk for what we know to be in the arsenal so i dont like not telling the truth the reason why what he may not have done i dont know why gsa the story is told by the white house is like liable you cannot get too close in Congress Today he is hated like hiller. I will take a second to say he is fighting a lifeanddeath more if those isis people get in power he and his wife and children will be hung up like mussolini in the square yes uses beryl bombs but i know a country that use that for seven years in which our National Security was not at stake. It was as. And no we use it because it is cheaper a barrel bob is 63 gallons and it is cheaper than to drop of 500pound bomb. At first we did i wonder about al gore morality