The Romney campaign is feeding today off House minority leader Nancy Pelosi’s cryptic “there is something I know” comment in a CNN interview last night about Newt Gingrich never becoming president, which we brought to you last night.

Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said Pelosi meant nothing other than that she knows the Newt will never be prez.

“The ‘something’ Leader Pelosi knows is that Newt Gingrich will not be President of the United States,” Hammill said in a statement. “She made that clear last night.”

“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,” Hammill said, helpfully providing yet another link to the public Ethics Committee report on Gingrich, who was fined $300,000 and was the only House Speaker ever to be reprimanded by the committee.

To recap, CNN’s John King asked Pelosi, “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 replied, “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 told Fox News today, ““I wish I knew what that (Pelosi’s) ‘something’ was. I’d tell people what it is right now.” Romney called for release of “all of the transcripts, all of the records” of the Ethics Committee investigation to be made public. “Not just the final white-washed report, but the full record, the reason that 88% of the Republicans in the House voted to reprimand their own speaker, the first time in American history that’s happened. We need to understand why that is and those records need to be released because you know that if Nancy Pelosi knows those things right now, she will hand them to Barack Obama’s campaign if Speaker Gingrich were our nominee.”

The Romney campaign helpfully recalls that last December, Pelosi mentioned that she was on the Ethics Committee at the time, had reviewed all the documents, and said, “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich…When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”

Gingrich got mad and promised to retaliate, claiming Pelosi was threatening to disclose non-public information, and if she did, “she has violated the rules of the House.”

Since then, former Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-Conn., who chaired the Ethics Committee, said there’s nothing to add to the voluminous public record. “The final report provided all the evidence in the case. The committee never releases additional material,” Johnson, now a health care lobbyist, told the Washington Post in an email. “I believe the report, as did the hearing, covered every aspect of the matter.”

The irony of all this is that for political purposes, Pelosi should be the Newt’s biggest booster. Democrats would love nothing more than for Gingrich to win the GOP nomination, betting he could produce the miracle of an Obama landslide in November.