CAMBRIDGE, Md. ? House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday slammed the book shut on whether she knows private information about Newt Gingrich that could make the former speaker?s presidential bid go off the rails.
The House?s top Democrat, who was part of a panel in the 1990s that investigated Gingrich for ethics violations, repeatedly said she was talking about information that had already been disclosed.
Continue Reading?I have said over and over again, as far as Speaker Gingrich is concerned, I refer to the public record,? she told reporters here Thursday during the House Democrats? annual retreat. ?It?s a matter of public record.?
During a CNN interview earlier this week, Pelosi ? who like Gingrich is a former House speaker ? said ?there?s something I know, the Republicans, if they chose to nominate him, that?s their prerogative. I don?t even think that?s going to happen.? That prompted Gingrich to respond that if Pelosi knew something, she should ?spit it out? and that he has ?no idea what?s in Nancy Pelosi?s head.?
Pelosi?s interview was the second time that one of her remarks stoked speculation whether she knew damning information about Gingrich that hadn?t already been publicly aired. She told Talking Points Memo in December that she ?know[s] a lot about? Gingrich and said ?not right here ? when the time?s right? when asked to elaborate.
But on Thursday, Pelosi said her comments on Gingrich?s ethics history and his prospects on winning the presidency were spliced together in the media and led to a misinterpretation.
?I was saying I know he?ll never be president, and they sort of combined the two things,? Pelosi said. ?Why do I know he?ll never be president? Just an instinct.?
The 1,280-page report on the ethics investigation on Gingrich is posted on the House Ethics Committee website.
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