John Boehner Says Full House May Subpoena Hillary Clinton's Private Emails

Speaker of the House John Boehner wields the gavel for the first time after being re-elected as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 114th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2015. | REUTERS/Jim Bourg

In the wake of a recent controversy surrounding a private email server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as Secretary of State, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) suggested this week that the Full House may subpoena Clinton's personal emails if she does not hand them over voluntarily.

Boehner said this week that Clinton broke the law when she used a personal email server set up on her electronic devices and in her home during her time as Secretary of State to conduct official government business.

The House Speaker went on to say that the Full House would be willing to subpoena the personal emails sent by Clinton on her email server during her time as Secretary of State.

"All options are on the table," Boehner told Bloomberg's "With All Due Respect." "If we need to do that, we may have to."

"The idea that [Clinton] was going to use her own server and do official business on it goes against every transparency issue that the president likes to tout," Boehner continued.

"At some point, they just can't ignore the fact that there a lot of public documents on this server that the American people have a right to see," the House Speaker said, adding "And we believe that it's time for Mrs. Clinton to turn that server and all those documents over to the IG, the Inspector General, at the State Department."

Clinton recently refused to privately testify about her emails to a congressional committee investigating the2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.