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of y'all, that you were the only two in the room, wouldn't it?
Mr. Comey. Yeah, I guess that's right. That's why I'm hesitating. But, yeah, I think that's what I meant when I said this. He asked if it was a private conversation, which I took to mean is it the two of us having this conversation. I said, yes, that it was.
Mr. Gowdy. So you did not take from that any implicit confidentiality, that this is just between us?
Mr. Comey. Yeah, I don't think so. I'm hesitating because it's possible, but I don't think so.
Mr. Gowdy. Well, it strikes me the options are that it was private and that you were the only two in the room, which both of you already knew, which begs the question why he had to say it and you had to agree to it, or "private" means just between us.
Mr. Comey. Yeah, that would ask me -- you're asking me to try to tell you what was in his head. I don't know.
Mr. Gowdy. Well, shortly after that meeting concluded, did you memorialize that conversation?
Mr. Comey. I did.
Mr. Gowdy. And to whom, if anyone, did you share or distribute the memo?
Mr. Comey. Sometime shortly after I wrote it, I shared it with the senior leadership team of the FBI.
Mr. Gowdy. Pardon me. Could you say that again?
Mr. Comey. Shortly after I wrote it -- I'm looking if I put
