Shari Redstone, the chairwoman and CEO of CBS’ parent company Paramount Global, said Wednesday that CBS leadership made a “bad mistake” in how they handled the fallout over “CBS Mornings” co-anchor Tony Dokoupil’s contentious last week interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone has publicly condemned CBS News' handling of a terse interview "CBS Mornings" co-anchor Tony Dokoupil had with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about the Israel-Palestine conflict,

Paramount Global's non-executive chair Shari Redstone publicly broke with the CBS News management team over its handling of a controversial interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about Israel that has roiled the newsroom.