Seriously, Sean doesn’t care about the salary as much as he does his relationship with his viewers and being able to inform and opine and even entertain. He’s been talking the last couple of weeks as if he knows his tv job is tenuous. So why would he drop this coverage? Clearly something more important was threatened. I’d agree: the kids.
Hannity’s goal was to get someone with legal authority to take the investigation seriously. Another option for backing off is he has met this goal.