MCHENRY: Look Chris, this story is pretty clear. What the speaker did in reaction and what Mark Foley did it perpetrate this crime, clearly what Mark Foley did was sick. But the only question that remains in the story, Chris, is what person, group, or political entity held that e-mail and/or those instant messages?
MATTHEWS: Well tell me who it is?
KINGSTON: Well that‘s why we‘d like to get Ms. Pelosi.
MATTHEWS: No, wait a minute, let me get this straight. You‘re going to offer an opportunity for whoever did it on the Democratic side to come in and say that they did it. But you don‘t know anybody on the Democratic side did it, do you?
First of all, Mr. McHenry, do you believe a member of the Democratic leadership had anything to do with holding this information and dropping it on ABC last week? Do you believe that?
MCHENRY: I don‘t know that—Chris, I‘ll answer it this way. I do not know that they did not. And Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel, I asked them two days in a letter to submit themselves under oath and say clearly, yes or no, did they have prior knowledge of the instant messages and or e-mails. And if they did, they‘re an accessory to this crime.
MATTHEWS: How so?
MCHENRY: Because they allowed to keep a pedophile on the streets.
MATTHEWS: Just to follow this, let‘s follow that line of inquiry. Do you believe that your party controls all the committees? You control subpoena power, you control the leadership, you control all the non-member offices of the House, including the page control. You have all the authority in the world. If the Democrats have none of that authority, even if they had a glimmer of this, or a rumor of this, what were they supposed to do?
MCHENRY: Well, let me tell you something, Chris.
KINGSTON: Well they should have done what good citizens would have done and reported a criminal action, because it‘s against the law to solicit sex on the Internet, particularly to a minor. But, Chris, somebody had ...
MATTHEWS: No, it‘s not actually. Well, isn‘t because unless it‘s part of an effort to—and you actually do meet up with the kid and have sex, apparently. That‘s what I understand the law to be. But you‘re saying their job was to report it to the federal authorities and not to your leadership.
MCHENRY: Absolutely, and the Ethics Committee in the House is evenly divided. It‘s a bipartisan committee.
MATTHEWS: But you don‘t know—give me the name—please, gentlemen. There‘s two of you there. Please give me the name of somebody you suspect, some inclination of something you‘ve heard. Who do you believe—you mentioned George Soros.
