America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer & Dana Perino

At 9 a.m. Eastern every weekday, a control room in Fox News's New York headquarters cues the same opening: a live shot of the Capitol or the White House, a two-shot of Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino at the desk, and whatever the morning has brought. America's Newsroom has opened that way, with variations, since February 12, 2007. It is not a show built around a host's monologue or a panel's argument. It is built around the clock.

The format is straightforward: breaking news at the top, correspondents live in the field, and interviews with the people making the news. Senators, cabinet officials, lawyers, and authors rotate through the guest chair. Hemmer, a former CNN anchor who joined Fox News in 2005, handles the hard-news lead. Perino, White House press secretary under George W. Bush before joining the network in 2009, brings the policy and political lens. Their easy banter between segments is the show's signature texture, a contrast to the heavier material.

The program sits in Fox News's straight-news daytime block alongside America Reports, The Faulkner Focus, and Special Report with Bret Baier. Its "seasons" are production years, not narrative arcs. Its "finale" is whatever the news cycle delivers on a given Friday. The show remains on air as of the latest available listings in October 2026. [edit]

The premise does not change. America's Newsroom airs live from 9 to 11 a.m. Eastern on weekdays, and its job is to cover whatever is happening in Washington, in the states, and around the world that morning. The first block usually leads with the biggest story of the day: a Supreme Court decision, a congressional vote, a foreign policy development, a domestic crisis. Correspondents report live from the scene. Then come the interviews.

Guests range from sitting senators to administration officials to legal analysts to authors promoting books. In June 2026, Senator Shelley Moore Capito appeared to discuss a Supreme Court ruling upholding West Virginia's girls' sports protection law. In February 2026, Senator Katie Britt joined the program. The show also takes remote interviews and sit-downs that Fox Nation packages separately as "An America's Newsroom Interview."

The on-air partnership between Hemmer and Perino is the show's anchor. Hemmer, who joined Fox News in 2005 after a stint at CNN, is the breaking-news lead. Perino, who served as White House press secretary under George W. Bush and joined the network in 2009, handles politics and policy. Their exchanges between segments, often light, sometimes pointed, give the program a rhythm distinct from the network's opinion hours.

Because this is a daily news program, there are no discrete narrative seasons. Production years are tracked by streaming platforms, and Fox's own site lists episodes from Season 5 onward. Each broadcast is standalone. The "arc" of any given year is the news cycle itself: an election, a confirmation fight, a war, a trial. The show's shape is the shape of the morning.

Recent years have brought changes to the desk. In March 2026, Hemmer was absent from the anchor chair due to family loss, and substitute anchors filled in. In May 2026, a retired Navy SEAL, Robert Harward, appeared on the program and sparked a viral online conversation about his appearance, a moment that pushed the show into broader media coverage. The program also debuted a new studio set in recent years, as shown on its social channels. Through it all, the format has held: news first, guests second, banter between.[edit]