Court exhibits in the $1. 20, 2020, Bill Sammon, then the managing editor and a vice president of Fox News, texted with the election desk's Chris Stirewalt: "More than 20 minutes into our flagship evening news broadcast ("Special Report with Bret Baier") and we're still focused solely on supposed election fraud — a month after the election. "    Fox argued in its own counterclaim that Dominion's lawsuit should be dropped because the company had only filed the suit "to punish [Fox News Network] for reporting on one of the biggest stories of the day — allegations by the sitting President of the United States and his surrogates that the 2020 election was affected by fraud," the Fox filing reads