"I think we don’t shy away from hard conversations either. So, I think it’s been a learning thing for everybody,” she said.

CBS News executives said Tony Dokoupil's interview of Ta-Nehisi Coates did not meet the editorial standards of the network.

Shari Redstone stood firmly behind CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil for a recent interview that his own network executives said did not meet editorial standards.

Following an explosive “CBS Mornings” interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Gayle King says she and her co-hosts will not “shy away […]

On Tuesday, Gayle King and CBS Mornings executive producer Shawna Thomas appeared on a panel moderated by Lisa Ling. King and Thomas briefly addressed the controversial interview they had with Ta-Nehisi Coates earlier this month.

This led Dokoupil—who is Jewish—to compare Coates point of view to that of an “extremist.” Though co-host Gayle King was present during the interview, she was mostly silent during its most heated moments.