“My take upon watching it was that he’s a new guy who’s probably been briefed thoroughly on a gazillion things BUT he was suddenly faced with a question about something he believed to be highly classified.”
Yeah, right. It was “classified.”
That’s why, as the video says, the story was ALL OVER THE NEWS while the guy says, quite credibly, that he didn’t know anything about it.
Nope, incompetence is incompetence. Face reality.
If it hasn't been DECLASSIFIED and it's still CLASSIFIED, it doesn't matter who had it all over the news.