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Pelosi and Gingrich again trade jabs over ethics probe [video]

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s suggestion that she knows “something” about Newt Gingrich that will keep him from the presidency drew clarifications and recriminations Wednesday.

“The ‘something’ Leader Pelosi knows is that Newt Gingrich will not be president of the United States,” Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said. “Leader Pelosi previously made a reference to the extensive amount of information that is in the public record, including the comprehensive committee report with which the public may not be fully aware.”

Pelosi’s office offered a link to the four-part House ethics report on the former speaker. Her comments had come during a CNN interview this week as Gingrich has gained momentum heading into the Florida GOP primary.

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CNN’s John King asked Pelosi “what goes through your mind” when thinking of the possibility that Gingrich could be the GOP nominee?

“Let me just say this: That will never happen,” Pelosi replied.

“Why?” King pressed.

“He’s not going to be president of the United States,” Pelosi said. “This is -- that’s not going to happen. Let me just make my prediction and stand by it. It isn’t going to happen.”

Asked how she could be so sure, Pelosi said: “There’s something I know.”

Gingrich laughed when asked about the Democratic leader’s suggestion by NBC’s Ann Curry on Wednesday.

“Who knows? Who knows?” Gingrich chuckled. “She lives in a San Francisco environment of very strange fantasies and very strange understandings of reality. I have no idea what’s in Nancy Pelosi’s head. If she knows something, I have a simple challenge: Spit it out; tell us what it is. I have no idea what she’s talking about.”

Mascaro reported from Washington. Mehta reported from Coral Springs, Fla.

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