“I can tell you this: When I saw the texts, I was deeply disappointed in them,” Comey told Fox News host Bret Baier Thursday. “But I never saw any bias, any reflection of any kind of animus towards anybody, including me. I’m sure I’m badmouthed in those texts, I’m just not going to read them all. Never saw it.”

The interview took place soon after a previously lost stash of texts messages between the agents were sent to at least five congressional panels on Thursday.

In fact, Strzok and Page praised Comey in one conversation after his July 2016 appearance before Congress explaining why FBI did not recommend any criminal charges against Hillary Clinton, according to the Associated Press. Page lauded his public speaking skills and commended Comey for having a “brilliant distillation of fact.”

Additionally, the new batch of text messages reveal that the two were disheartened when Comey was fired last year, CNN reports. Page said she was “angry” and in “mourning” in one text to Strzok.

Strzok was a top FBI counterintelligence agent who was part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry team before being demoted after it was found that he exchanged text messages that were critical of Trump with FBI attorney Page, who also had been a member of the special counsel team. Strzok was also a lead investigator in the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized private email server.

Texts between the pair, who were having an extramarital affair, that have already been made public include Page calling Trump an “idiot” and “a douche.” Strzok replied to another, saying “F Trump.”

Comey told Baier that had he been aware of the level of disdain Strzok and Page had for Trump, he would have removed them from any relevant investigations.

“I would have removed both of them from any contact with significant investigations,” Comey said.

Despite his hardline stance on how he would treat agents exhibiting bias, Comey conceded that in the specific case of Strzok and Page, he found it challenging to decipher their exact meaning due to a lack of context.

“There’s a lot of texts; there’s a lot of context with those guys,” Baier told Comey.

The ex-FBI director replied: “Well, the ones I’ve looked at, I’ve had a hard time figuring out.”

Mueller is conducting an investigation on Russian interference in the 2016 election and is seeking to determine if the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin.

Last week, it was revealed the Justice Department’s inspector general is conducting an investigation into whether Comey complied with agency policy in the handling of information that was found to be classified in some of the memos he wrote about his conversations with Trump. Redacted versions of those memos were released last week after the DOJ sent them to Congress.

Comey, who was fired as FBI director last May, is in the middle of a publicity tour for his newly released book, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.