Watch Megyn Kelly ask Ted Cruz about being the 'most hated man in America'

The rising Fox News star starts off her new primetime show, The Kelly File, with a bang. It doesn't last.

Megyn Kelly
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Welcome to the new Fox News. Not only does Shepard Smith have a new News Deck — a TV newsroom that's finally worthy of the 21st century, as imagined by the sci-fi writers of the mid-20th century — but longtime news anchor Megyn Kelly has a new prime time program, The Kelly File. Although her 9 p.m. show is between Bill O'Reilly's O'Reilly Factor and Sean Hannity's eponymous program, Kelly says she's going to be a news anchor, not a pundit.

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Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.