ms. wallace: like what? mr. comey: i explained to him without using any of the terms you used, but to explain to him the nature of this information, why we were telling him, and that provoked from him a long monologue that had nothing to do with what i had asked about, reviewing and then denying other allegations of sexual misconduct i women who had said he assaulted them. >> 19 of them. mr. comey: i don't know if they went through 19, but he went through one after another. it was a woman on a plan, a woman here and here, and i think he said, do i look like a guy who needs to go there? meaning prostitutes. rich eisen was rhetorical, so i did not answer. which ilad he -- assumed was rhetorical, so i did not answer. >> i'm glad he did not ask me. it was going off the rails, so i pulled out -- and the rhetorical sense -- so i reduced the temperature by saying, look, we are not investigating you. which was true. we were not. we are not investigating this, we simply thought you would need to know this because as i to

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