Hmmm. I never saw/heard that. Was HER name given as the direct source of the denial? Or was it just a statement issued by a campaign staffer saying, in the third person, that she didn’t make the call? There IS a difference. Ethics-challenged politicians often have a staffer issue a fake denial, and then when proof of the denied misdeed turns up later, the politician claims s/he wasn’t aware of the staffer’s denial and hadn’t directed it, and that the staffer was simply misinformed. Of course, if the proof never comes out, the denial stands as the last word.
It was just a campaign flack, IIRC. True, they could just be issuing the automatic denial to give her cover and allow her to backtrack if necessary.
Still, I don’t think it can go anywhere at all without the audio recording, and if we aren’t getting that by now then I am tuning out unless there is some major development to give credibility to the story.