Boehner to Clinton: Did you bring emails?

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took shots at Hillary Clinton when she came to visit the Capitol on Tuesday, asking if the 2016 hopeful had brought any missing records from her time as secretary of State.

“I wonder if she brought her emails,” Boehner said at a news conference when told Clinton was meeting with Democrats down the hallway.

{mosads}“I welcome her to the Capitol,” he continued. But “if Hillary Clinton wants the Benghazi Committee to finish their work, she can help them by tuning over her emails sooner rather than later.”

The House Select Committee on Benghazi, a panel formed by Boehner, has been demanding that Clinton and the State Department hand over all emails related to the 2012 terrorist attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Libya.

The committee is still waiting on emails from some of Clinton’s top aides when she led the State Department. The panel is also zeroing in on two emails between Clinton and her aides that have not been turned over.

But State Department officials pushed back on Boehner’s suggestion the agency has been dragging its feet.

In May and April, State submitted nearly 5,000 pages of documents from Clinton’s senior staffers. In April, State turned over nearly 4,000 pages of documents related to the independent Accountability Review Board investigation into Benghazi. And the agency handed over more than 50,000 pages from other documents during the past year.

“Claims that we have been slow to respond to the increasing demands of the Benghazi Select Committee are neither true nor reflective of the effort being expended by an entire team of professionals at the State Department,” State Department spokesperson John Kirby said in an email.

Before speaking with reporters, Boehner huddled in a closed-door meeting with rank-and-file Republicans, where he cracked similar jokes about Clinton’s emails, sources in the room said.

GOP leaders also posted on a projector screen a number of quotations attributed to Clinton, including one that Clinton allegedly told to now-disgraced former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) during a healthcare discussion in 1993.

“We just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices,” Clinton said, according to Hastert. “Government has to make those choices for people.”

–This report was updated at 1:21 p.m.