CNN today did NOT deny the story and instead put out a statement that they "stand by" their producer John Bonifield.
CNN has not been reporting the news for a long time. They don't bother spending hardly any time at all on actual important news stories and instead spend the vast majority of their air time attacking Trump over and over and over. The other night Anderson Cooper "reported" that an "unnamed source" said that Trump vents about the reporting on CNN over Russia at least "3 times a day".
Wow. That's really reporting the "News" Anderson.
