The mogul, who cut a deal to sell Paramount -- including CBS -- to Skydance earlier this year, weighed in on the topic on Wednesday.

CBS management took the unusual step of scolding Dokoupil before his colleagues for not living up to network standards.

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.