The controversy about who on the Democratic side of the presidential race is qualified for the country’s highest office drags on, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign seems unwilling acknowledge that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is qualified for the post.

MSNBC’s Meet the Press posed the simple question to Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon: “From the Clinton campaign’s standpoint, is Bernie Sanders qualified to be president?”

“She’s never said that he’s not,” Fallon said. “How could she possibly be willing to support him against any of the Republicans if she questioned his fitness for office. This is beneath the debate we are having on the Democratic side.

“We can have good faith exchanges about who has the best plan to regulate Wall Street, who is actually going to get results in terms of raising wages, without questioning people’s motives or without questioning people’s fitness for office,” he continued.

“That is something Sen. Sanders vowed he wouldn’t engage in at the start of this campaign, and now I think they are getting a little bit frustrated with the daunting delegate math that they face.”

Meet the Press tried a second time.

“I don’t mean to press the point too much here, but I do want to make sure we get an answer here. The Sanders campaign is saying, he said unqualified in the speech. When I pressed his campaign manager this morning, his campaign manager said ‘yes, Bernie Sanders would still support her if she’s the nominee.’

“Hillary Clinton says she will still support Bernie Sanders if he’s the nominee. Is he qualified? Will you say ‘yes, Bernie Sanders is qualified to be president?’”

“I don’t know how else you could interpret her answer that she would support him if he was up against the Republicans,” Fallon dodged. “What we need to hear Bernie Sanders say … he’s the only person in this race who has called his opponent unqualified to be president of the United States. Bernie Sanders needs to come out and take that back.

“Hillary Clinton is probably the most qualified candidate for president that we have seen in decades, if not the history of American politics,” he said. “The reason why it’s problematic is because it is sending the exact wrong signal to (Sanders’) supporters, who at the end of this process we are going to need to unite together if we are ever going to defeat Donald Trump and the Republicans.”

Politico detailed how the qualification kerfuffle got started, as well as the continuing fallout.

“The spat over who has the bona fides to be president stemmed from reports this week that vexed the Sanders campaign. One report suggested Clinton questioned Sanders’ qualifications by wavering during an interview on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe,’ while another said her campaign planned to deploy a new strategy ahead of the New York primary to disqualify and defeat Sanders and unite the party later,” according to the news site.

The situation reportedly prompted Sanders to attack Clinton as unqualified during a recent speech.

Clinton told reporters outside of Yankee Stadium Thursday that she doesn’t “know why he’s saying that, but I will take Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump or Ted Cruz anytime.”

Regardless, Clinton spokeswoman Amanda Renteria also refused to use the word “qualified” to describe Sanders in an interview with Bloomberg Politics the same day.

“Amanda, it’s just a yes or no answer to this – Is Sen. Sanders qualified to be president or not?” the host questioned, according to YouTube.

“Senator Sanders has brought a lot of issues to the table and at the end of the day we would not say Senator Sanders is not qualified. That’s never been what this campaign has said, what the secretary has said, and I don’t think you will hear any of us say that,” Renteria replied.