JUST IN: Erika Kirk to Sit Down With Fox’s Jesse Watters for First Interview Since Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

Sean JamesOct 27th, 2025, 10:56 am

Erika Kirk

Erika Kirk is doing her first TV sit-down interview since the killing of her husband, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, with Jesse Watters on Fox News.

The channel announced the big interview with Kirk on Monday morning; it will air on Jesse Watters Primetime a week from Wednesday, on Nov. 5 at 8:00 p.m. ET.

“Watters will go behind the scenes with Mrs. Kirk at Turning Point USA’s Arizona headquarters, as well as the ‘This is the Turning Point’ tour stop at the University of Mississippi in Oxford on Wednesday, Oct. 29,” Fox News said in its announcement. “Jesse Watters Primetime will be live on the Ole Miss campus for the event which includes Mrs. Kirk introducing Vice President JD Vance who will debate and take student questions throughout the night.”

That event will be streamed live on FOX Nation, and it will be followed by the premiere of a multi-part documentary series on Friday, Nov. 7 that features “extensive behind-the-scenes footage with Mrs. Kirk.”

Kirk will discuss her husband’s legacy and the timeline of what happened the day he was murdered, among other topics, with Watters.

Selecting Watters for the first TV sit-down is not a big surprise. Fox News is obviously the most likely of the three major cable channels to score an interview with a prominent conservative, and Jesse Watters Primetime was the top primetime cable show during the third quarter, averaging 3.30 million viewers and 323,000 viewers in the 25-54 age demographic.

Her interview will come a little under two months after her husband was shot and killed at a TP USA event in Utah on Sept. 10. Later that month, on Sept. 21, Kirk announced at her husband’s memorial in Arizona that she had forgiven his suspected killer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson.

“That young man, that young man…” Kirk said at the podium, before quoting from the Bible. “On the cross, our savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’

After another pause, she said: “That man, that young man, I forgive him.”

Those words led to an immediate response from the stadium crowd, with many people getting on their feet to cheer her on.

And earlier this month, Kirk was at the White House when President Donald Trump posthumously honored the Turning Point USA founder with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

The president, at the ceremony, said he considered asking Erika Kirk if she could bump the event back, considering he was flying back from Israel. But once Trump heard the ceremony fell on the same day that would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday, he said there was no chance he would push it back.

“I would not have missed this moment for anything in the world. Nothing,” Trump said.