Great job!
I wonder if all of our calls and mail early this morning had the news outlets calling her for verification and that's how she found out. In any event, I too believe that if she had known it to be a lie, she'd probably have said so, and this late in the day our time, she'd know.
All: Is there any reason to think, if it was an outright lie/fabrication, that she would not want to acknowledge it as such? What might be some reasons?
Well, the only thing that comes to mind for me is, if it isn't true, letting it stay out there, without rebuttal, to show what can/could happen if DL stays with Howard?
her tone was very serious - I didn't feel anything from her that it was bogus. Once she knew I was not going to badger her with questions (I said Thank you after my single question) she was pleasant because she knew I had said or asked all I needed to. There was no snicker in her voice or anything - she was very pleasant (wall came down) when she said Thank you and have a nice weekend. (no sarcasm in her voice either)