Gayle King is responding to backlash over a controversial question.
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She added that she talked to Leslie Wednesday night and"believes was OK with the interview" before pointing fingers at the network again. "The last thing I would want to do is disparage him at this particular time," she added."I hope people understand that.""I understand why people are upset seeing that clip out of context," she said."I hope they will now watch the entire wide-ranging interview. We asked a longtime friend of Kobe Bryant’s to talk to us about his legacy and their friendship and Lisa Leslie did exactly that.
Bryant died on Jan. 26 in a helicopter crash along with eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna,. In heavy fog and with no radio connection to the controller, likely blocked by the mountains in low altitude, the helicopter crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, California.
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