How to pronounce “deny”(noun) in English

with this story? Um, I mean for years uh, a couple of journalists have been like foyering the British Parliament to release the expense records and they've been just you know deny,deny, deny, drag their feet, um, after about five years the Parliament, and exposure in other ways, the Parliament finally set up a committee, ah, to start to release the records.Um, what they were really doing is they set up a internal secret redaction unit to clean up the records before they were released so nothing embarrassing would come out. So, ah,