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Fox's Megyn Kelly tears up after watching a Newtown interview

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly on Monday became emotional and teared up on-air after playing a clip featuring an interview with the parents of one of the children killed in Newtown, Conn.

Before showing part of an interview with the parents of 6-year-old Jessica Rekos that aired on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Kelly told Fox News viewers “I want to warn you, this is very emotional, but it’s very powerful and Jessica's parents want the world to hear their story.”

After showing the clip, Kelly fought back tears and praised ABC News for doing a “great job” with the emotional interview.

“And that's what you would do, isn't it — I mean, you’d get into the child's bed and you’d remember all the things you loved about them,” Kelly said, referencing that Jessica’s mother said she and her husband got into their daughter’s bed after they heard what happened. “ABC News did a great job with that interview and we appreciate them letting us run that clip.”

As Kelly transitioned to an interview with a doctor about how to discuss this tragedy with children, she noted that “there's something in us that makes us need to hear those stories, right? And it is terrible and hard and I'm tearing up listening to it. I’m sure a lot of viewers are too.”

“In a sense it just seems that the world got a little darker on Friday,” Kelly said later in the show, adding that, “It just seems like we lost a little bit of ourselves on Friday. A red line was crossed… that we didn’t think could be crossed.”

And earlier on Monday, the Fox News anchor told viewers that “this is one of those moments, it’s like, it’s like what the country felt after 9/11 where regardless of your politics you feel first an American, you feel first a parent, and you think, it doesn't matter what your party affiliation is.”

“We have to work together to be honest about what led to this,” she said. “And how to stop it from happening again. Without any quick fixes, without any quick judgments, but to really look at it and try to figure it out.”