Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 At indoor rally, Pence says election runs through Wisconsin Juan Williams: Breaking down the debates MORE (R-Wis.) said in an interview on Sunday that former FBI Director James Comey James Brien ComeyDemocrats fear Russia interference could spoil bid to retake Senate Book: FBI sex crimes investigator helped trigger October 2016 public probe of Clinton emails Trump jabs at FBI director over testimony on Russia, antifa MORE is a man of integrity as far as he knows.

"As far as I know. I don't know him very well. ... Two or three briefings is about what I had with James Comey," Ryan, who announced his retirement last week, told NBC's Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press."

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"Would you take him at his word? Would you trust his judgment?" Todd pressed.

"Look. I'm not going to try and help sell some books here," Ryan responded, maintaining during the exchange that he did not know the former FBI director well.

Ryan's comments come ahead of the release of Comey's book detailing his tenure in the Trump administration.

Comey made headlines last week with the release of excerpts from his new book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership."

The former FBI director writes that Trump responded to news of election meddling by asking if the interference changed the results.

Comey also said the president asked him to investigate an alleged tape detailing one of the most salacious parts of the dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

Trump ripped Comey on Twitter on Sunday, referring to him as a "slimeball."

Unbelievably, James Comey states that Polls, where Crooked Hillary was leading, were a factor in the handling (stupidly) of the Clinton Email probe. In other words, he was making decisions based on the fact that he thought she was going to win, and he wanted a job. Slimeball! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2018

Trump in subsequent tweets on Sunday said "big questions" are unanswered in Comey's "badly reviewed book" and that the former FBI director threw former Attorney General Loretta Lynch "under the bus."