FBI officials will hand over the first of “tens of thousands” of deleted emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server on Friday to the State Department, government lawyers told a court Monday.

Judge Emmet Sullivan of U.S. District Court questioned State Department attorneys on why the agency would not receive the documents until several weeks after the Clinton email investigation had been closed.

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