year. tell me a little bit about the last few times you ve taken the biggest financial institutions on wall street all the way to a trial. anybody? aaron mcpike is joining us now. erin, has see publicly supported hillary clinton as the democratic potential nominee in 2016? wolf, not publicly. secretly because according to sources, all 16 of the democratic women in the senate signed a letter to hillary clinton urging her to run for president. elizabeth warren hasn t talked about this publicly. on her way into the speech earlier this hour, cnn tried to talk to her about this idea of her running for president. she has said publicly that she does not plan to run. and it would seem like a warren candidacy is contingent on hillary clinton not running for president. it s progressive groups really trying to draft her into the race. they re urging the media to take
her name is elizabeth warren. she delivered a high profile pop ewe list speech at the 2012 democratic convention. tell me a little bit about the last few times you have taken the biggest financial institution s on wall street all the way to a trial. anybody? i am really concerned that too big to fail has become too big for trial. that just seems wrong to me. i never thought i would run for the senate and i sure never dreamed that i would be the warm up act for president bill clinton. he s an amazing man who had the good sense to marry one of the coolest women on this planet.
could argue in policy boundaries. thinking that christie can bully his way around the country. hi hillary has a great personality that people are attracted to. and how many democrats went along with the war. and barack obama s credibility on that combined with the candidacy is what accept raseparated him. i think if barack obama had been a pro war and pro wall street guy it would have been a different primary. that goes to whether this hangover goes to populism. in the tea party they have a lot
we see periodic outbursts. that is not where the heart and soul of the party lies today. hillary clinton is just not there. she has had long standing relationships with sort of new democrat types that have come from wall street or long ago made their peace with wall street and believe it deserves a central roll in economic policymaking. she is constrained both for those reasons and because she is likely to raise tens of millions of dollars from wall street interests and large corporations there are limits to the degree that she can move left, which puts her out of step with where rank and file democrats are today. there is reason for someone to challenge hillary from the left and suddenly we have this vehicle in the human form of a very popular democratic senator. and when i go back to 2007, as soon as i saw that barack
protect consumers and their finances. the left wanted her to lead it but banks and republicans balked. it is so good to be here with so many progressives. i love it. reporter: instead, she took on massachusetts senator scott brown in 2012 and won after a sharp and expensive campaign. in the senate, she got right to business, grilling financial regulators like at this senate banking committee hearing which produced a video that became an internet sensation earlier this year. tell me a little bit about the last few times you ve taken the biggest financial institutions on wall street all the way to a trial. anybody? reporter: there s one snag to this whole idea. a democratic source tells cnn that north carolina senator kay hagan said all the democratic women in the senate and that of course includes warren, has signed a secret letter to hillary clinton encouraging her to run.