>>But, the quote is, I called Neil’s office and Neil said.<<
Yeah, I think he was flying loose with language. If the office “said that Neil said...” some would argue that it means the same thing. So just talking off the cuff he could say what he did, but really meant “I called Neil’s office and they told me Neil said...?
I don’t think it’s very relevant though. He’s standing behind the body of everything he said and just clarifying exactly what he meant here. Don’t get me wrong. I think he wanted us to infer exactly what we did, but it got him in trouble.
He said many times with certainty, that nether hospital, that is, that no hospital in Hawaii could produce it.
It was very clear that it does not exist.