Name: Getting to Know Elizabeth Warren | The Daily Show
Uploaded: 2020-03-10T23:52:17.000Z
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- Let's start with Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Senator,

and mom who knows all the two letter words in scrabble.

You might think of her as part of the coastal elites.

You know, being a senator from Massachusetts,

and owning her very own eyeglasses, so fancy.

- [Reporter] Warren was born in small town Oklahoma in 1949.

Donald Herring, her father, was a janitor.

- [Reporter] She taught special needs children in the 1970s

before eventually becoming a law professor

- [Reporter] Warren, perhaps unsurprisingly,

didn't follow the traditional norms when she decided

Bruce Mann, a professor of law at Harvard, was the one,

- I still remember the first time I really noticed him,

I have a hard time believing that this guy's legs

Oh damn, I take it back, those are great legs.

Also, it was pretty progressive for a woman in the '70s

In fact, for all those ladies out there who's boyfriends

are taking too long, yeah, you know what to do, yeah.

(audience whoops, cheers) You know what to do.

Go ask Elizabeth Warren's husband to marry you, yeah.

No, while she taught at Harvard, she became one of

No, she knew the law so well that she would often

be called to testify in front of Congress.

And one of those hearings from nearly 15 years ago

- [Reporter] Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren

over a Biden-backed bill making it more difficult

- They have squeezed enough out of these families

never take down principal. - Maybe we should talk about

usury rates then, maybe that's what we should be

talking about, not bankruptcy. - Senator, I'll be the first,

- Senator, if you're not going to fix that problem,

you can't take away the last shred of protection

Because she's been fighting against the predatory practices

and this was long before it was cool, all right.

Unlike Joe Biden, who once upon a time was fighting

for credit card companies, which has never been cool,

like crocks, or taking your cousin to prom.

And because of her efforts to take on corporate America,

Warren became such a popular figure on the left,

that when she proposed creating a new federal agency

to protect consumers, President Obama wanted her to lead it.

- [Reporter] The CFPB is the brainchild of former

She first proposed creating the agency in 2007

student loans, and other financial products.

She was President Obama's pick to run the CFPB,

We're pretty unenthusiastic, frankly, about this new agency.

- So it turns out, back in the day, Elizabeth Warren

was Mitch Mc (sensor beep) blocked, right,

because a year later, she ran for senate,

And from there, her popularity just kept on rising.

- A new senator shaking up the democratic party,

Elizabeth Warren's tough take on Wall Street

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