At NY1, he covered New York City
politics and the Sept. 11 attacks. With the Iraq War percolating,
Kelly began marketing his military and broadcast experience as an asset to the major TV networks. After reviewing his tape, Fox News
brought Kelly on board at the end of 2002. A few months later he was in Kuwait, waiting for the war to start. Kelly embedded with the 2nd Bri-
gade of the 3rd Infantry Division alongside a cameraman and an engi- neer, where they provided live pic- tures of the war that was unfolding. “I’m the first guy into Iraq as U.S.
forces move into Iraq,” he says. “It’s mind-blowing.” His reporting captured a lot of
attention as the world witnessed the ugliness of combat. While Kelly’s military service
brought a level of measured comfort to his reporting, it was still the first time he was in the middle of a war. One viral clip shows Kelly’s bloodied face after a bomb exploded nearby. “I had never been in real combat
before. And this was real combat,” he says. “This is combat, and it was hap-
pening, and we were in the middle of it.”
Once he came back to the U.S.,
he covered the Pentagon and White House, where he traveled on Air Force One with President George W. Bush. He took a break from politics,
taking over as a host of Good Day New York at Fox’s flagship local station WNYW, where he hosted a morning show that combined news
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