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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 ....
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 ....