CBS Defends Gayle King for Sharing Topics with Ta-Nehisi Coates

CBS News strongly defended CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King on Thursday for her role in the now-infamous Sept. 30 interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates, saying her tipping off the author to certain lines of inquiry was part of doing her job.

King was largely silent during the tense exchange, which saw co-host Tony Dokoupil grill Coates on the latter’s passages in his latest book The Message regarding Palestine. She tried to interject during the six-minute segment and move the topic along, and only got to ask one full question at the very end.

Coates addressed the kerfuffle on What Now? with Trevor Noah on Thursday, saying he was frustrated King never got to speak during the segment.

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