Comey joined Josh Campbell, his former special assistant at the FBI and now a CNN legal analyst, to discuss Campbell’s new book Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump’s War on the FBI during a book launch event at George Washington University on Monday. The book is a broad defense of Comey and of the DOJ’s and the FBI’s actions in 2016 and 2017.

Comey also briefly opened up during the discussion about his plans for the 2020 presidential election.

“We’re in a weird state now because I won’t commit to anything full time until next year’s election because I need to be free to speak, so I’m in a little bit of a state of suspended animation,” Comey said. “I can’t go lead a nonprofit or take a prominent position somewhere else, because I need to be able to speak.”