What a tease.

(SF Gate) — On CNN tonight, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, made what most political observers say is a pretty safe prediction: the Newt will never sit in the Oval Office.

When pondering Pelosi’s cryptic line, “There’s something I know,” recall that Pelosi sat on the House Ethics Committee when it reprimanded Gingrich in a 7-1 vote, which included a 3-1 vote by the committee’s Republicans. Pelosi pointed out this history way back in December, providing a link to the Ethics Commitee report, while Mitt Romney is just taking it up now.

Gingrich was the only House Speaker ever reprimanded by the committee and was fined $300,000. That would buy a lot at Tiffany’s.

Here’s the interview with CNN’s John King:

“KING: Because of your history with Speaker Gingrich, what goes through your mind when you think about 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?

PELOSI: He’s not going to be president of the United States. This is — that’s not going to happen. Let me just make my prediction and stand by it. It isn’t going to happen.

KING: Why are you so sure?

PELOSI: There’s something I know. The Republicans, if they choose to nominate him, that’s the prerogative. I don’t even think that’s going to happen.”