The Fox News CEO asked for evidence the network pushed the Big Lie. Her PR chief replied with dozens of examples.

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Filings from Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit against Fox News included an email from Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to Irena Briganti, Fox News' Senior Executive Vice President for Corporate Communications, Fox News President Jay Wallace, and other Fox corporate leaders. She asked, “Is it 'unarguable that high profile Fox voices fed the story that the election was stolen and that January 6th an important chance to have the results overturned” adding, “Please send specifics if so.”

Briganti replied to the email with dozens of examples from 7 different Fox hosts and contributors, including Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Maria Bartiromo, and others.

Suzanne Scott email

From a court filing in Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Suzanne to Irena

From a court filing in Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Lou Dobbs: "The radical Dems are also working with the corporate-owned left-wing national media doing their very best to nullify the votes of 71 mullion Trump voters. And let's be very direct, many are trying to steal this election from President Trump. There is no doubt about it."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Lou Dobbs: "Good evening, everybody. It has been a week since the radical Dems tried to steal an election from President Trump, or so it appears. And finally there is a signal of life coming from the Department of Justice." "And to come out with cute words at the end of it, I wish Republicans, particularly Republican leaders at the R.N.C. level, the governors, I wish they would just start calling it like it is, because this is an election that people know the Democrats really, really want to steal."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Text of Lou Dobbs and Rudy Giuliani conversation where Giuliani claims votes were stolen

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Lou Dobbs: "Up next, the latest regarding those Dominion voting machines that Kavleigh mentioned and what role they have played in the radical left's plot to steal an election. Sidney Powell is among the President's foremost attorneys on their legal team. She joins us right after these quick messages. She has some fascinating revelations for us. You don't want to miss them."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Lou Dobbs: "Well, it's now been two weeks since Election Day, and the battle for the White House is undenvav and intensifying. President Trump keeping up his legal challenges and pointing to a number of developments across the country. Evidence mounting, backing up claims that the Democrats tried to steal the election."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Lou Dobbs: "The electoral system that is supposed to work has been absolutely defaced by the scum who have decided to steal this election. What should we do now?"

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Lou Dobbs: "We're joined this evening by some of this country's great Americans who are fighting for President Trump, fighting for a free and fair election. One of them is Dr. Linda Lee Tarver. She has seen how the radical Dems have worked to steal this election in the State of Michigan, how they've worked to steal elections over the past 25 years in her home state."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Lou Dobbs: "Our first guest tonight has new information regarding electoral fraud in the radical left's efforts to steal an election, and she charges four individuals as authors of what she calls a Pearl Harbor-style cyberattack on the 2020 presidential election."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Lou Dobbs: "Republicans' last chance to challenge the electoral votes in each state will be January 6th when a joint session of Congress convenes to tally the electoral votes, although the White House says that they would be able to contest right up until January 19th."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Lou Dobbs: "And since the Republicans hold 26 of 50 statehouses, there would exist at least the mathematical possibility that President Trump could be named the constitutionally President. However, if the electoral process isn't completed by January 20th -- get ready -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would be sworn in as the new President. Quite a mess we have on our hands, is it not?"

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Lou Dobbs: "The evening of November 3rd was shaping up to be a humiliating defeat, you may recall for Joe Biden, and it all turned around overnight. And almost simultaneously, it turned around in five battleground states. Hundreds of sworn affidavits attest to midnight ballot drops and democrats strongholds including Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Lou Dobbs: "They have been outrageously wrong and exposed themselves as the liars and cheats and thieves they are and have been throughout the past four years. It is their nature, and there is no equivocation on my part, because the evidence is clear."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Lou Dobbs: "Working men and women in this country who see Washington as a vessel used to boost and enrich the privilege left, a town filled with self-serving government workers who conspired to steal an election in order to silence their voices. "

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Mark Levin: "Depending on how the vote turns out, the matter can be thrown to the House of Representatives to choose a President. The Senate can choose the Vice President"

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Mark Levin monologue

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Maria Bartiromo Christian Walker interview

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Maria Bartiromo Christian Walker interview

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Sean Hannity: "In other words, bypass the will of the people in Texas and Missouri. Just totally ignore what they want, and again, all because they supported what was a perfectly legal audit of the election results as part of an electoral challenge, something the Democrats themselves did in 2000, 2004, 2016."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Sean Hannity Matt Gaetz interview

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Sean Hannity: "That would mean they want you to forget about -- well, we've proven the case, state laws were absolutely not followed. They were broken in many cases."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Sean Hannity Rudy Giuliani interview

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Hannity: "77 percent of Republicans believe they are in fact was widespread voter fraud, 77 percent. Gallup has it higher. They put the number over 83 percent. And to be very clear, I agree with all of you, all 77 and all 83 percent. I stand with you."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Hannity: "We have a duty to investigate every legitimate claim of fraud and abuse. Every American should be shocked by what we heard to the core from witness after witness these last few days."

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Hannity claiming voter fraud examples

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Hannity claiming voter fraud examples

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Hannity claiming voter fraud examples

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Hannity dominion claims

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Hannity Dominion claims

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Pirro: January 6, when the Electoral College vote will be formally counted is just a few days away. Yet how much do you even know about January 6th, and the congressional mechanism in place?

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Pirro: They didn't just steal the election from Donald Trump, they stole it from all of you. There was a fraud in their inducement of all things Biden in order to con you

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Pirro: How is it that Joe Biden underperformed with African-American voters everywhere but in those swing states?

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Pirro: Why was there an overnight popping of the vote tabulation that cannot be explained for Biden?

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Pirro: Why would the Democrats want to ban election observers as they count the ballots? Do they not think they could win honestly?

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Newt Gingrich: "Look, if you back all the way out and look at the statistical basis of this. Biden didn't do very well, everywhere except he's stealing it.

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023

Gregg Jarrett: Those meetings come ahead of a critical January 6th meeting of Congress where they will vote to certify the Electoral College votes

From a court filing in Dominion Election System's lawsuit against Fox News, made public on March 7, 2023