Leland Vittert is the Chief Washington Anchor for NewsNation and host of On Balance, the network’s primetime weeknight newscast. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Born Lucky: A Dedicated Father, A Grateful Son, and My Journey with Autism (Harper Horizon, 2025).<\/p>\n
Vittert spent a decade at Fox News \u2014 first as a foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem, where he covered the Arab Spring, multiple Gaza wars, the conflict in Libya, and Russia’s advance into Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Returning to Washington, he reported from the Obama and Trump White Houses, covered the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, and led the network’s coverage of hurricanes and much of the domestic unrest from 2015 to 2020. He joined NewsNation in 2021, has led the network’s election and political coverage, and helped grow it from 4 hours of programming to a 24-hour news channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"