HARVEY LEVIN: When a media organization -- and Sean, you know this. When a media organization is really threatened, and somebody says, “We are going to sue you, no matter what,” if you are right, it's going to cost you $1 million in legal fees. Right? If you are right, it's gonna cost you $1 million in legal fees, and that has a real chilling effect.



SEAN HANNITY (HOST): This is a real -- this is real. And listen, I know people that have paid for false allegations because their lawyers say to them, “It's gonna cost you $1 million, to just save your good name.”



LEVIN: It happens all the time.



HANNITY: “You might as well just pay it.”



LEVIN: It happens all the time.



HANNITY: It happens all the time, innocent people.

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