Charlie and Erika Kirk on stage during the Turning Point USA Inaugural-Eve Ball at the Salamander Hotel in Washington on Jan. 19, 2025. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Erika Kirk, the newly appointed CEO of Turning Point USA, is set to give her first television interview next month, nearly two months after the assassination of her husband, Charlie Kirk.
The businesswoman and mother of two is scheduled to appear on the Fox News show “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Nov. 5 for a wide-ranging interview that will delve into her husband’s legacy and the importance that faith had in their lives, the network announced on Oct. 27.
During the sit-down, Erika Kirk, 36, will discuss the future of Turning Point USA—the nonprofit organization her husband co-founded in 2012, which she was unanimously elected to lead in the wake of the 31-year-old conservative commentator’s death on Sept. 10.
Erika Kirk is expected to share a timeline of what happened on the day her husband was fatally shot while speaking to college students at Utah Valley University in Orem during the first stop of his organization’s “American Comeback Tour.”
Ahead of the interview, Watters will visit Erika Kirk at Turning Point USA’s headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.
The television host will also join her on an Oct. 29 stop of the organization’s tour, which has been rebranded as the “This Is the Turning Point Tour,” scheduled to take place at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
“Jesse Watters Primetime” will air live from the Ole Miss campus during the event, which will see Erika Kirk introduce Vice President JD Vance to debate and field questions from university students.President Donald Trump posthumously awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to late conservative commentator Charlie Kirk as he presents the Medal to his wife, Erika Kirk, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House on Oct. 14, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)Following the launch of the interview, Fox News will present a multi-part limited-edition docuseries about the tour on Nov. 7, featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes footage with Erika Kirk.
On Oct. 14, which would have marked Charlie Kirk’s 32nd birthday, President Donald Trump posthumously awarded the slain influencer the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
While accepting the nation’s highest civilian honor on her husband’s behalf, Erika Kirk delivered a moving tribute about his life and legacy.
“To the Turning Point USA chapters that are watching all across America right now: You are the heartbeat of this future and of this movement,” she said in part.
“Everything that Charlie built—you guys are the legacy holders of that. You’re living proof that his mission did not die with him. It lives through you. And Charlie always said the next generation will decide whether freedom endures. And because of you, I know that freedom will endure. It will.”
Closing out her speech, she added, “Today, as we honor Charlie with this incredible Presidential Medal of Freedom on his birthday, I stand here with tears and just a humbled heart and spirit because his story reminds us all that to live free is the greatest gift, but to die free is the greatest victory. Happy birthday, my Charlie.”
