Pence spokesman Marc Lotter said the records contain emails to and from government accounts, as well as emails between Pence’s AOL email account and other non-state government email accounts. He declined to characterize the emails beyond that.

Although he did not mention it during an interview earlier in the day, Lotter said Friday night that Pence’s attorneys first attempted to deliver boxes of emails Jan. 9, Pence’s last day in office. But Lotter said that amid Holcomb’s inauguration activities, there was a “lack of clarity (about) what to do with them,” so the attorneys brought the records back to the law firm’s offices.

When Pence learned this week that the emails hadn’t been delivered, he directed the attorneys to take them to Holcomb’s office.

In his first public response Friday, Pence said he has “fully complied with Indiana’s laws.”