We don't know that the reporter was basing that statement on the NG interview, do we? They did have a reporter at the search who was talking to folks. She may have gotten that information elsewhere for all I know.
Where would she get it? LE said they don't/won't release the results, she and MR don't speak much, their mutual friend who was giving MR's comments in the beginning said she hadn't heard the results. Who else would know?