00:00But man, we haven't been able to stop talking about the CBS interview.
00:07Ta-Nehisi Coates is opening up about his much-talked-about CBS morning interview.
00:12Coates discussed the controversial interview in a trailer for the next episode of the What Now
00:16with Trevor Noah podcast, suggesting that host Tony DeCoppo commandeering the interview
00:21didn't serve his colleagues Gil King and Nate Burleson well.
00:25I don't think you understand the shockwave that interview created.
00:29Not because of what you said, but because of the way people felt like you were treated.
00:33Noah zeroed in on one particular moment from DeCoppo during the CBS interview.
00:37Imagine if I took your name out of it, took away the awards and the acclaim,
00:42took the cover off the book, the publishing house goes away.
00:44The content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist.
00:50Coates said, I love all of those awards and accolades, but they're not really me.
00:54So okay, you take them away, it's fine.
00:56You know what I mean?
00:57I'm still me.
00:58Coates added that he was prepared for the criticism he would face for the message.
01:02I knew this was coming.
01:03Okay.
01:04And I figured at some point it was going to be a fight.
01:06You know, I didn't know it was going to be right then, but I figured at some point
01:08it was going to be a fight.
01:09Coates also indicated that King was thoroughly prepared,
01:12though ultimately didn't get to ask any questions.
01:15While on the one hand, he probably did me a service, you know what I mean?
01:19By just kind of commandeering that interview.
01:22I don't think he did Nate and Gail a service, and I'm really, really sorry for them.
01:28The full Ta-Nehisi Coates episode of What Now with Trevor Noah drops on October 10th.
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