SEN KENNEDY: “I think this was an intentional leak by somebody who wanted to do harm to this administration. By somebody who probably has a history of disappointing his parents.”
Reporter: “Sir, let me ask you about this Defense Intelligence Agency assessment that assessed with low confidence that this had only set the program back by months. How did the officials in this briefing explain that assessment to you?”
SEN KENNEDY: “It was an early, partial assessment taken out of context. I kind of like… this is what I took away from it, Casey: If you look at one of the memos that a member of my staff wrote to me about provider tax and the bill, and the reconciliation bill, and from that you tried to extrapolate how I was going to vote on the bill, you would likely be in error. I think this was an intentional leak by somebody who wanted to do harm to this administration, by somebody who probably has a history of disappointing his parents. And it got a lot of press coverage, I understand the press is going to cover this sort of thing. But I really do think it was not accurate, and it was taken out of context, at least based on what I was… on what I was told today. And I believe Rubio. I believe General Kane.”