Has Frist since denied this Fox report that he dispatched DeWine and Graham to cut the best deal possible? It's one thing to say, "I wasn't part of this deal," and quite another to have sent a couple of Senators into negotiations that he himself was not officially a party to.
If he sent them to make the deal, then by definition, he was part of the deal. He denied being any party to it, and I believe him. I hope that faith and trust is not misplaced. We shall see.