NEWT GINGRICH: Notice the language you just used. Suddenly it goes from a misdemeanor to a criminal violation.



MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS: It is a criminal violation.



GINGRICH: So now we have -- is Lewandowski a criminal?



KELLY: Those are your words. That's not what the police are saying, he's been charged with a criminal misdemeanor.



GINGRICH: That's right, a criminal misdemeanor, by a Democrat local official in a county with a very long history with very partisan politics.



KELLY: But you saw the tape and you heard the Washington Post reporter, an independent account of what happened. No one is saying that this is a major beating. It's just a simple battery, that's it.



GINGRICH: Simple battery, which has now been translated into a criminal offense. And you have never been in a scrum in a presidential campaign where people were shoved around, including by the way --



KELLY: Of course I have, many times.



GINGRICH: -- including by the press.



KELLY: Many times. She didn't want to file a federal case over it, Mr. Speaker, she wanted an apology, then they attacked her and said she was delusional and suggested she made the whole thing up and tried to question prior reporting and demanded to know why she didn't file a police report... and what did she do the next day? She went and filed the police report. That's how we got to this place. We got to leave it at that.