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Rob Ford left reporters gobsmacked Thursday morning when he denied a new claim that emerged in police documents that he’d berated a female staffer by saying “I’m going to eat you out” and “I banged your pussy.”

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“I’m happily married,” Toronto’s mayor said Thursday. “I have more than enough to eat at home.”

After comment, journalists were City Hall were nearly speechless.

“I know we’re live right now, but I don’t know if we can…I, uh…Mayor Ford speaking as Mayor Ford does — very plainly,” CP24’s Katie Simpson said.

Regaining her composure slightly: “As he said in council yesterday, he ‘effed up,’ and now using language that I don’t think we can broadcast on TV, but we just broadcast that on TV.”

Sure enough, when the 24-hour news station re-ran the clip moments later the station cut to black abruptly and remained silent for about a minute.