read at your may 29th press conference? >> i'm not going to get into that. >> okay, so that's what i thought. you didn't write it. a 2013 piece about comey said basically when comey called you dropped everything you were doing, gave examples, you were having dinner with your wife and daughter. comey calls you, drop everything and go. the article quoted comey as saying if a train were coming down the track and i quote, at least bob mueller would be standing on the trackwise me. you and james comey have been good friends or were good friends for many years, correct? >> we were business associates. we both started off in the justice department. >> you were good friends. you can work together and not be friends but you and comey were friends. >> we were friends. >> that's my question. thank you for getting to the answer. now, before you were appointed as special counsel had you talked to james comey in the preceding six months? >> no. >> when you were appointed as