NEW YORK (AP), 12/5/25 — Turning Point USA leader Erika Kirk will speak about the aftermath of her husband Charlie’s killing in a prime-time “town hall” event televised by CBS News on Dec. 13, the network said on Thursday.
The event will be moderated by Bari Weiss, the network’s new editor-in-chief and founder of the Free Press website.
Charlie Kirk, a conservative political activist and founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated by gunshot while speaking to college students in at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
Kirk will take questions from evangelicals and religious and political leaders at the event, which will be pretaped at a New York studio. It will be shown at 8 p.m. Eastern, preempting the Family Film and TV Awards, which will be delayed a week.
“Like so many people around the world, I will never forget the moment that Erika Kirk forgave her husband’s killer,” Weiss said. “I am eager to speak to her — and thrilled to be doing so in front of a group of Americans who I know will elevate the conversation.”
Weiss was hired by CBS News’ new corporate owners, Skydance Media, in what has been seen as an effort to bring more political balance to a news division long criticized by conservatives for having a liberal bent.
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Wow. She’s going to take questions from evangelicals. In other words, softball questions which will add nothing. I am sure tears e we I’ll be on tap too.
I would be more impressed if she were taking questions from media and critics, who would have questions which could shed new light on issues.
I wonder when CBS News will be interviewing the families of the late Melissa Hortman and the still living John Hoffman, the two Minnesota legislators shot by a conservative? Or is this just payback for the administration’s approval of Skydance Media’s merger?
Boooooorrrrrriiiiinnnng.
News stations today are worse than in the 80’s and the 80’s absolutely sucked.
“Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
Ya know the boys in the newsroom
Got a running bet
Get the widow on the set
We need dirty laundry”