I don’t think the two statements necessarily are mutually exclusive. People could go to jail AND we could lose big in 2018.
If any of the information being exposed shows that some of the GOPe are complicit, who knows what chaos there will be before 11/18...?
Maybe Newt is doing some strategic egging of Sessions to get his act together regarding the unethical Clinton gang?
(dunno... just a shot in the dark...)