“Sen. Sanders accepts Clinton’s challenge. He will release all of the transcripts of all of his Wall Street speeches," Bernie Sanders' campaign announced Friday. "That’s easy. The fact is, there weren’t any." | AP Photo Sanders challenges Clinton to release Wall Street speech transcripts

Bernie Sanders' campaign, answering a challenge from Hillary Clinton, sarcastically promised to release transcripts of the Vermont senator's Wall Street speeches on Friday and urged his Democratic primary rival to do the same.

“Sen. Sanders accepts Clinton’s challenge. He will release all of the transcripts of all of his Wall Street speeches. That’s easy. The fact is, there weren’t any. Bernie gave no speeches to Wall Street firms,” spokesman Michael Briggs said in a statement. “He wasn’t paid anything while Secretary Clinton made millions, including $675,000 for three paid speeches to Goldman Sachs.”


“So now we hope Secretary Clinton keeps her word and releases the transcripts of her speeches. We hope she agrees that the American people deserve to know what she told Wall Street behind closed doors,” he continued.

Briggs' statement represents a new escalation in the Sanders campaign's attacks on the former secretary of state's ties to the financial industry.

When she was asked during a CNN Democratic town hall earlier this month why she accepted so much money from Goldman Sachs, Clinton responded: "Well I don’t know. That’s what they offered. ... Every secretary of state I know of has done that."

Asked during MSNBC’s Democratic town hall on Thursday night why she wouldn’t release the transcripts from her paid speeches, Clinton responded: “I am happy to release anything I have when everybody else does the same.” She said that every other candidate, including Sanders, had been paid for speeches.

According to The New York Times, Sanders was paid for three speeches in 2014 for a grand sum of less than $2,000.