Syrian President Bashar Assad meets on Wednesday, April 4, 2007 with U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi at Ash-Shaeb presidential palace in Damascus. Pelosi arrived here Tuesday as the highest ranking US official to visit Syria since 2003 for talks with the Syrian leadership on the strained relations between Syria and the U.S., to convey a peace message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to President Assad, and to discuss Iraq and other regional issues with Syria. Pelosi’s visit was criticized by the US administration.(AP Photo Hussein Malla).

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Former President Bill Clinton talks to voters about Hillary Clinton in Concord, N.H., on Wedneday, Jan. 20, 2016. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

President Barack Obama left, with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Ca., right, during his visit to Capitol Hill to meet with House Democrats, in Washington, Saturday, March 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

FILE – In this June 8, 2017, file photo, former FBI director James Comey testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Comey blasts President Donald Trump as unethical and “untethered to truth” and his leadership of the country as “transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty.” Comey’s comments come in a new book in which he casts Trump as a mafia boss-like figure who sought to blur the line between law enforcement and politics and tried to pressure him regarding the investigation into Russian election interference. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Newsom in spotlight as a ‘hotshot to watch’ Mayor Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris laugh as they meet other up-and-coming young political people at a Time magazine breakfast as part of the Democratic National Convention, Tuesday, in Denver, Colorado. (Lacy Atkins / The Chronicle)

CIA Director Michael Hayden gestures during a news conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., Jan. 15, 2009.

From left: Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during a news conference on the Child Care for Working Families Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 14, 2017. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)