D.C. traffic briefly held him up, but James Comey made it to his final major TV interview of the week Thursday evening.

He was in hostile territory — the Fox News studio, where much of the recent coverage about the ex-FBI director has been negative. Nearly two weeks into Comey’s publicity tour for his new memoir, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, this interview had been advertised as the one “America’s been waiting for” with “questions that have not been asked yet.”