Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) delivered a classic response to news Hillary Clinton will turn over her private server to the FBI: "About damn time."
The Chairman of the Benghazi Committee had been calling for Clinton to give the server to a third party arbiter for months.
"I can't help but smile at the notion that somebody is voluntarily turning something over to the FBI," Gowdy said. "They generally don’t ask. They generally tell you to do so."
Earlier this week, Clinton swore under penalty of perjury that she delivered all of her work emails to the State Department for inspection and public release.
"I read that statement, and it's easier to read Egyptian hieroglyphics than it is to parse the words that her lawyer wrote in that statement," Gowdy said.
The congressman rebuked Clinton’s decision to be her own arbiter of what should be included in the emails she released. He said Clinton did not personally go through all her emails. Instead, Clinton’s team of lawyers did so.
"How in the world can she aver that the public record is complete when she herself did not go through and look at each one of those emails," Gowdy said. "We found 15 that she did not turn over to the State Department so we know for a fact that that statement is not correct."
Democrats have accused Gowdy’s committee of mission creep. The Clinton campaign has called the committee’s actions a partisan attack for purely political reasons.
"I didn't advise her to have her own server. I didn’t advise her to rely on Sidney Blumenthal as her primary adviser on Libya. I didn't advise her to keep her public records for 20 months after she separated from service and not turn them over to the Department of State," Gowdy said in a heated moment with CNN’s Brianna Keilar.
"I didn't advise her to say the record is complete and then we find 15 emails where they weren't. And I certainly didn't advise her to say there's to classified information on the server when we know now that there was classified information on the server."
Gowdy even took a dig at the Clinton campaign’s suffering poll numbers. The once dominant frontrunner now trails Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) in New Hampshire.