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.

Shari Redstone stood firmly behind CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil for a recent interview that his own network executives said did not meet editorial standards. "I frankly think Tony did a great job with that interview.

The media mogul, who cut a deal to sell Paramount — including CBS — to Skydance earlier this year, weighed in on the topic on Wednesday, calling the decision to reprimand Dokoupil a 'bad mistake.'