Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) did not want to answer that one.

Warren on Saturday steered away from directly responding to a question about whether she would release her tax returns from before 2008 if her fellow Democratic presidential candidate South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg made his fundraisers open to the press.

Asked by @cbszak if she would release her pre-08 tax returns if Pete makes his fundraisers open press, Warren shakes her head. “This is about the conflicts he is creating every single day right now” later adds conflicts r “when candidates for president sell access to their time” pic.twitter.com/u0m869TugF — Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) December 7, 2019

The senator didn't say yes or no, but she made the argument she was focusing on the present. To her point, she has already released 10 years worth of her tax returns, which is more than President Trump or former President Barack Obama ever released. But Warren has also recently called for Buttigieg to release the names of his clients when he worked for the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. He began that job in 2007.

Warren wouldn't commit to release more tax returns, as Buttigieg has called for, arguing that "this is about what's going on right now." But she's also recently been calling on him to release his list of clients from his time at McKinsey. Full exchange below: pic.twitter.com/VbQQSc0ODf — Zak Hudak (@cbszak) December 7, 2019

Buttigieg's camp responded to Warren already, and called for her to release the returns in a show of transparency. Tim O'Donnell