Bill Owens, the show’s executive producer, addressed his staff as CBS’s parent company, Paramount, pursues a legal settlement with the president.

CBS News executives had said that Tony Dokoupil’s interview with the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates fell short of editorial standards.

Executives said the interview, conducted by the morning show anchor Tony Dokoupil, had fallen short of network editorial standards.

The change is the first major programming shift under CNN’s new leader, Mark Thompson.