Erika Kirk and Candace Owens to meet Monday

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Erika Kirk said she and Candace Owens volition conscionable Monday, days aft Charlie Kirk's widow joined a CBS municipality hallway and said she wanted Owens to stop peddling conspiracy theories astir her precocious husband's assassination.

Kirk said connected X that she and Owens would person a "private, in-person meeting" Monday. She added that they "agreed that nationalist discussions, livestreams, and tweets are connected clasp until aft this meeting" and that she's looking guardant to a "productive discussion."

Owens wrote connected X that she's "very overmuch looking guardant to this discussion."

Erika Kirk sat down with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss past week for a municipality hallway that aired Saturday connected CBS. Weiss asked Erika Kirk what she would privation to accidental to Owens, who has been amplifying conspiracy theories astir Charlie Kirk's assassination.

"Stop," Erika Kirk said. "That's it. That's each I person to say. Stop."

Owens, a onetime person of Charlie Kirk's and a erstwhile worker of his blimpish nonprofit Turning Point USA, antecedently compared their narration to that of a "brother and sister."

The time aft his assassination, she posted a lengthy video, saying she wanted him to beryllium remembered for his vocation and ideas. In the months since, Owens has pushed conspiracy theories astir his execution and made unfounded fraud allegations astir the finances astatine Turning Point, which Erika Kirk present runs.

The Treasury Department has since confirmed that nary of the tax-exempt entities Erika Kirk oversees are nether probe by the IRS.

Watch Erika Kirk's afloat CBS News municipality hallway here.