chance to lift up your awareness of what s happening in native communities across this country. it s question that will likely dog her whether in her campaign to re-election to her senate seat or something even bigger. if you ve got warren and trump in 2020, take what we saw in 2016 and magnify it by about 1,000. there s your campaign. i m not running for president, i m running for the united states senate. i m up in 2018 and taking nothing for granted. while republicans in her state are gearing up to try and defeat her, warren keeps her national profile in play, donating $5,000 from her own campaign account to every state democratic party. i believe that we need to build the infrastructure in the democratic party in every single state in this country. while strengthening the democratic party is a priority, she is on a mission to weaken
were trying to game the system. warren begins what will a long period i m not political at all. i am a registered republican. then i get deeply involved in the bankruptcy research. over time, she is surprised by what she learns. what you heard were basically people who worked hard, who played by the rules, who did everything they could and then it was that one event that bam somebody got sick, somebody lost a job, somebody ran off or died. this life that had been going along pretty good just suddenly starts tumbling off a cliff. that bankruptcy is their handhold on the way down. what happened over time is my politics shifted. warren is offered a position at harvard law school in 1995.
this was a pretty narrow base of the democratic party. i think she did think very hard about the possibility of running. she talked to people about it. are you going run for president? no. i m not running and i m not going to run. she was a senator for just a few years. that would have been the kind of overreach that would have led people to resent her. eve though she doesn t run, warren goes on the offensive,s she and donald trump engage in their very public feud. and massachusetts is represented by pocohantas, right? nasty women have really had it with guys like you. she makes it clear that she s going to fight for the party by going after donald trump. so help me god. when the campaign ends the insults don t. you were here long before any of us were here, although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a
because she believed it would hurt ordinary people. the experience would have a profound affect on warren s politics. the credit card companies start pushing for the changes they want and that s when i make the shift. that s when i become a democrat. when the republicans would come up with notions about how to change the bankruptcy code, i would bounce them off elizabeth warren. she would tell me real word consequences. too many people have abused the bankruptcy laws. warren is crushed when in 2005 a bill is signed into law making it harder to file for bankruptcy. we held them off for ten years. for ten years in that fight. in the end, lost. lost big. the banks got basically everything they wanted. there s something good that comes out of this story. that is, i learned about fighting. i learned about fighting in washington. i learned about fighting against those with power.
financial crisis in how the government was going to respond. a lot of those people saw elizabeth warren as their champion. the petition drivers out there to make sure she becomes head of the agency. there was a problem in washington. she was so controversial and had so much opposition from republicans and democrats and democrats told obama she would not be confirmed. the white house felt this contentious senate confirmation process could drag on for months and nted to start building the new agency now. theresident only offerser a temporary job setting up the agency. she will have direct access to me and to secretary geitner. she will oversee a staff at the treasury department that has begun to work on this task. good luck. warren takes a leave of absence from harvard. there is strong opposition to the agency and her, especially from conservatives like glen beck.