CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil grilled author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates over whether he believed Israel had 'a right to exist' in a tense interview on Monday. Coates defended the book, saying he sought to give a voice to the Palestinian people, whose views he argued were underrepresented in the American media. Coates also said the 260-page book was not meant to be a 'treatise on the entirety of the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis.' Dokoupil continued to press the far-left author, claiming his book would leave readers questioning why Israel even existed. Coates rejected the question, saying that countries are established by force, not rights, and that Israel already exists.