Mike Evans completely backed away from that claim...look it up.
It doesn’t change the fact he said it to begin with. Read his words. He’s not mincing them. He thought it would be a huge story, and he wanted to be one of the journalists—if not the journalist—who broke it. He underestimated the ability of Obama’s WH to lie and get away with it.
Read the transcript again. He repeated the same story all that day. Something changed by the next day. He didn’t suddenly realize he’d been repeating a figment of his imagination. He was told to alter the truth. Why would anyone suggest otherwise?
Yup, he sure did. Right after he had repeated it constantly on several radio stations. So was he lying in the beginning when he presumably spoke without concern, or later, after pressure from his good buddy (Neil) was applied?
I for one couldn't believe he wouldn't expect blow back when he first made his pronouncements. Ah well, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.