The Romney campaign has recently been resurfacing a story from December when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi briefly made it sound like she was privy to confidential information prejudicial to Newt Gingrich which came out of her time on the House Ethics Committee. That led to Romney’s call for Gingrich to release all of the material he provided to the committee and not to hold that their publicly available report on him is the end of the matter.
Pelosi stirred the pot again in an interview with CNN that aired last night. Romney’s camp sent out an email this morning titled, “Nancy On Newt: There Is Something I Know.”
It highlighted the following exchange from the CNN interview:
CNN’s JOHN KING: “Because of your history with Speaker Gingrich, what goes through your mind when you think of the possibility, which is more real today than it was a week or a month ago, that he would be the Republican nominee and that you could come back here next January or next February with a President Gingrich?” PELOSI: “Let me just say this. That will never happen.” … KING: “Why are you so sure?” PELOSI: “There is something I know. The Republicans, if they choose to nominate him that’s their prerogative.”
Romney addressed the issue in an interview with Fox News this morning, in which he said “I wish I knew” what that “something” that Pelosi knows is. “I’d release it right now,” he laughed.
