Yes. Its putting words into their mouths. He could have gone through the whole interview and never said that on his own, so she asks, and he says yes, and then they can run with 'Mccrystal says….'
The first time I realized this was when that robot was interviewed and the reporter asks would you like to have a family, and he/she/it said yes, so that's what they ran with. (do you recall this AI or robot or whatever that was given citizenship by Saudi Arabia, was in the news a lot and now nothing….)