Bari Weiss to Host Erika Kirk Discussion for CBS News; Audience Will Include 'Young Evangelicals,' Religious and Politic

[ificandream]

Source: Variety

By Todd Spangler

Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press who is now also editor-in-chief of CBS News, is hosting a "town hall" forum with Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk, for the news network.

"Three months after her husband was assassinated, Erika Kirk will open up about life, loss, the state of political discourse, and much more," CBS News said in announcing the special.

The one-hour "A Town Hall With Erika Kirk" moderated by Weiss will be broadcast Saturday, Dec. 13, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and will stream later on Paramount+ and CBS News 24/7. The special preempts the previously announced broadcast of the 28th annual Family Film and TV Awards, which will now air Saturday, Dec. 20 (8-9 p.m. ET/PT) on CBS and Paramount+.

The event, shot before an invitation-only studio audience in New York, will feature Kirk "fielding questions from young evangelicals, prominent religious leaders, and figures across the political spectrum," according to CBS News. The conversation will also "focus on our country's political divide -- and how we can find our way out."


Read more: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bari-weiss-erika-kirk-cbs-news-special-1236599868/

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Full headline: Bari Weiss to Host Erika Kirk Discussion for CBS News; Audience Will Include 'Young Evangelicals,' Religious and Political Leaders

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Invitation only, huh?

[bucolic_frolic]

1. This is like Televangelism but with all the power and money they need already there /nt

[Docreed2003]

2. They're trying to mainstream their Christian Nationalist bs

This type of platforming is alarming, but sadly, not surprising

[AZ8theist]

45. Can't wait to miss it!!

[eppur_se_muova]

3. The Charlie Kirk Memorial Circus of Freaks. nt

[ificandream]

4. I'm surprised it took them so long.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. that kinda shit belongs on Sunday AM Gospel Hour TV. What bullshit. Poor Walter Cronkite....he worked

so hard to have his legacy destroyed by this Weiss woman.

[Cheezoholic]

6. I predict lower ratings than a Pocket Fisherman ad...

[BidenRocks]

21. America's Team and

Da Bears!

[Deminpenn]

24. Special is the 13th, not 20th

Army-Navy game the 13th broadcast on CBS at 3PM.

CBS is probably hoping Army-Navy viewers will stay tuned to see this special, but I'd imagine they'll lose most of that audience.

[SamKnause]

8. Audience, including the hosts, will consist of evil scum of the earth,

Christian Nationalists, fascists, and all other enemies of the U.S.

[maxsolomon]

9. "figures across the political spectrum"

All the way from White Evangelical Christian Nationalists to White Catholic Nationalists to Extremist Zionist Nationalists!

[rurallib]

15. almost exactly was I was going to post

guess they didn't fool anybody, did they?

[Iggo]

18. From Nazis to Skinheads to The Klan.

[SunSeeker]

10. ...

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. Okay... and where is the episode with Melissa Hortman's husband?

Oh wait... he was killed along with her. Their dog was shot and had to be euthanized as well.

So, there won't be any such episode... will there?

Okay, what about the Hoffmans? Are they going to get a 'town hall' as well? No? Didn't think so.

Why doesn't CBS change their colors to orange and gold to commemorate the complete ability to kiss that gibbon's ass while also kissing his cronies asses to make sure they are safe?

Spineless animals.

[3Hotdogs]

12. They might as well put that shit on. Nobody watches whatever else they show.

It's been 50 years since I turned on CBS to watch Archie Bunker.

[travelingthrulife]

13. Gross.

[Midnight Writer]

14. I don't think Ericka is the rising conservative star they think she is.

I don't think MAGA is interested in anything beyond her good looks.

[rurallib]

16. It will have one viewer

and he will probably fall asleep right after it starts.

[Dr. T]

17. It's come to this? Nauseating.

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This does not belong on a public broadcast. Garbage like this belongs on a radical right wing fringe podcast. Once word gets out, I'm hoping for a groundswell of outrage that forces CBS/Paramount to reconsider the broadcast.

[NBachers]

19. I suggest that Erika shave her head to skin-bald for the foreseeable future to extend her mourning.

[Botany]

20. Does Bari know or even care that the Christo ..

.. Fascist Bible thumpers of Kirk's world don't like lesbians like her. She is just about the money.

[BidenRocks]

22. CBS is irrelevant

We have YouTube!

[czarjak]

23. Any room for a Senior Former Evangelical Pentacostal?

I'm here 4-U.

[Grins]

25. "... shot before an invitation-only studio audience."

She had made CBS into another Fox.

“Erika Kirk will open up about life, loss, the state of political discourse, and much more.”

And what qualifies her to speak on any of that?

[pfitz59]

26. I knew her appointment would be bad

but, ick. CBS News is dead.

[C_U_L8R]

27. The ratings will speak for themselves

And sooner than later, Weiss may be shown the door.

[Betty Boom]

28. Show that bullshit on Sunday morning

This is nauseating. Of course I remember when the networks showed Billy Graham Crusades in primetime. I guess that’s what we’re going back to the christo fascist era.

[Drum]

30. Is this the set-up for the White House wrasslin' match? CBS covering, or will it be all networks then?

[Paladin]

31. "...across the political spectrum" MY ASS. (nt)

[bronxiteforever]

32. Bari Weiss is a shill for Trump. CBS is Fox.

[Farmer-Rick]

33. Their viewership will be lower

Than a cooking show on YouTube.

That's a very specific and hate filled audience they are trying to grab at. They are trying to be Fox but without the spill over audience from the NFL games. Do they really think a lot of Americans want to see this Nazi BS with a hate filled Christian cruelty twist? They can go to their churches to see that.

[chouchou]

34. Erika Kirk ?? Are you kidding me? That female cockroach has the personality and brain..

...that goes right with the idiots that hate "Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat on December 1, 1955"

[Marthe48]

35. Why I don't have cable tv

GIGO

[maxsolomon]

41. CBS is broadcast TV

So, yeah...

[Marthe48]

42. I don't have any input

Around here, if you don't pay for a cable connection, you don't get any channels. Sometimes, I try to get on a network channel online, and the site asks me if I have cable. And that's that. I think the last time I tried, I was trying to watch the Preakness last summer.

[Borogove]

36. Should be riveting.

[Hotler]

37. Christian Taliban town hall. Hate for everyone else fest. nt

[Kid Berwyn]

39. Bari Weiss will be exposed as another MAGA fraud.

As a journalist, she is phony to her core.

[Dulcinea]

47. She's not a journalist.

She's an opportunistic charlatan. It baffles me that CBS thinks anyone gives a crap about Erika Kirk. I'd say her 15 minutes were up a while ago, but she wasn't & isn't anyone famous. Half the nation neither knew nor cared who her husband was before he was shot, so why would they watch this drivel?

[mdbl]

40. How disgusting.

CBS really sucks. I guess that's what they're going for.

[Katinfl]

43. I have not watched network news in years and would never start now.

Actually, I have not watched a network show in years. I get my news from here and a few other sites. Only other TV is streaming. Forgot about MS Now…….try to catch Nicolle, some of Lawrence. The bulk of my info is online. Would never watch CBS after all this crap.

[Duncan Grant]

44. Q: Erika, what are we to do about gun violence in our schools?

A: “We” need a return to “cultural normalcy”.

[twodogsbarking]

46. CBS can't say "President Trump" enough. It is like a horrible song.

A really bad Irish music, barbershop quartet that sings polka music; off key.

[valleyrogue]

48. Erika's eyes look like something

from “The Village of the Damned” films.