[kidd]

How else is she supposed to answer?

Anything but a “no” would get her fired. Once fired, she would quickly become irrelevant.

[Genoa]

How else is she supposed to answer?

Exactly. I have seen other such examples lately in news stories that get posted here on FR: A reporter asks a political figure a question that they would be insane to answer any way other than by a denial, then it becomes a big news item that "So and so says she will not be doing such and so."