Elizabeth Warren offers to meet with Bill Gates over wealth tax

Elizabeth Warren announced on Twitter that she would be willing to meet with Bill Gates after Gates said he's unsure how open-minded she is.

He argued that taxing too much, though, could jeopardize the U.S.' status as the place to build innovative businesses. Gates said he was somewhere in between the extremes of cutting the estate tax and imposing a 6% wealth tax on billionaires, an idea Warren, a Massachusetts senator,Warren's willingness to talk with Gates suggests that there could be even more attention on an already controversial policy that's emerged in the run-up to the 2020 presidential race.

"When you say I should pay $100 billion, OK, then I'm starting to do a little bit of math about what I have left over," Gates told Andrew Ross Sorkin, a New York Times columnist and co-anchor of CNBC's "Squawk Box." "Sorry, I'm just kidding."

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