korea and manhattan traffic. >> that does it for us tonight on kasie dc. for now, good night from new york. we do not back down. we do not shut up. >> she came to washington ready to fight. >> enough is enough. >> fierce and fearless. >> at best you are incompetent. at worst you were complicit. and either way you should be fired. >> people are asking me sometimes -- >> let me just follow up. >> is elizabeth warren the person she plays on tv? the answer is question. >> i learned about fighting in washington. i learned about fighting against those with power. >> do you know where the money

went? >> she's confrontational. >> she's smarter than any wall street banker, and she's tougher than any nfl linebacker. >> donald trump is a two bit con man. >> and a liberal fire brand who can take the heat. >> pochantas is not happy. she's the worst. >> we're pretty unenthusiastic about the possibility of elizabeth warren. >> she's starting to understand, a lightening rod is not necessarily a bat thing. >> nevertheless we persist. >> in a deeply divided country can elizabeth warren show she deserves to be president of the united states. >> fight hard and let's win! good morning, lawrence!

>> elizabeth warren, the senior senate from massachusetts announces her run for the oval office in february. >> the man in the white house is not the cause of what is broken. he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in america. >> senator elizabeth warren there officially stepping in to the 2020 campaign this morning with a message of opportunity for all. >> washington is working fabulously for the wealthy and well connected. i think that washington ought to work for everybody else. >> how do you debate someone who isn't interested in civility or facts? >> did you have someone specific in mind? >> we have to get out there and be clear about what we're fighting for and then we got to show we're willing to fight for it. it's not enough just to talk the talk. we have actually got to be

willing to get out and walk the walk. >> and she's done exactly that. over the course of her career as a law professor, consumer advocate and politician, warren has made a name for herself fighting for regular folks, taking on the nation's financial elite and the powerfully entrenched in washington. as a united states senator, one of her most defining moments takes place during the confirmation of then nominee for attorney general jeff sessions. >> she was warned. she was given an explanation. neverthele nevertheless, she persisted. >> it was a fight that started a movement. >> i rise today to express my strong opposition to the nomination of senator jeff sessions. >> senator elizabeth warren is arguing against jeff sessions to be attorney general in early 2017. >> a person who has exhibited so much hostility to the enforcement of those laws. >> the senator is reminded that

it is a violation of rule 19. >> rule 19 says you do not cast dispersions on the kraktcharact a fellow senate. >> after reading a letter who opposed sessions to be a federal judge in 1986, she's interrupted again. >> mr. president -- >> they are -- >> mr. president, senator warren, quote, said senator sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the fight by black citizens. i call the senate to order under the provisions of rule 19. >> mr. president, i am surprised that the words of mrs. king are not suitable for debate in the united states senate. i appeal the ruling. >> the senator will take her seat. >> warren is effectively barred from speaking about sessions. >> she was warned. she was given an explanation. neverthele nevertheless, she persisted. >> a future 2020 democratic

rival is among those rising to her defense. >> the suggestion that reciting the words would invoke rule 19 and force senator warren to sit down and be silent is outrageous. >> it was clearly meant to silence words they didn't want to hear, not words that were inappropriate. >> attorney general jeff sessions. [ applause ] >> jeff sessions is confirmed. it is a loss for warren, but her team capitalizes on the reprimand, plastering it on merchandise. >> this is a moment that would galvanize millions of democrats, liberals, progressives around her. >> we are the party of opposition, and that is our job. >> outspoken and unapologetic. elizabeth warren takes a leading role railing against the trump administration. >> we will band together to fight donald trump. >> it's a role she first embraces when president trump is

candidate trump in the spring of 2016. >> she was listening to the indiana primary results come in and republican side. >> well, the takeover is complete now. it is trump's republican party. >> trump wins overwhelmingly, and she was so sort of appalled by this. she wrote a series of posts that were very critical of trump. >> days later, trump tweets back, launching a personal attack on her claim about her heritage. >> and they got into this realtime back and forth. >> their twitter war comes to life on the campaign trail. >> she said because her cheekbones were high she was an indian. that she was native american. >> he's kissing the fannies of the poor, misunderstood wall street bankers. >> pochantas is not happy. she's not happy. she's the worst. >> donald trump is a two bit con man. >> she absolutely has gotten under trump's skin.

and trump does not like being taken on by powerful people, particularly powerful women. >> warren has been a senator only since 2013. and her path to the national stage has been anything but predictable. going back to her birth in 1949. >> i was a late in life baby, as they used to be called back then. and my mother always called me the surprise. i was about 30 before it occurred to me what that meant. >> elizabeth warren is born in oklahoma. the only girl in donald and pauline's family. >> they always saw themselves as middle class people. they saw themselves that people for for them the distinction was they used good english and they didn't say ain't. >> but her middle class upbringing is threatened when she's just 12 years old. >> my daddy had a heart attack.

and when that happened, it just turned our life upside down. he was out of work for a long time. the medical bills pile up. we lost the family station wagon. and we're right on the edge of losing our home. when it was my mother who pulls on her best dress, dries her eyes, puts on her high heels and walks to the sears and gets a minimum wage job. my mother saved our family. she fasaved our house. >> the family gets by, but there isn't enough money to fulfill her dream of going to college. and that's not the only hurdle. >> my mother's message to me always was find a good provider, get married. my mother thought i was a pretty iffy case on marriage. >> it's the middle of the 1960s in the middle of oklahoma and the young girl from the heartland is starting to find

her voice on the high school debate team. >> she felt that her world at home was pretty confining in a lot of ways, and this allowed her to think about big picture questions. >> she's a natural, winning state competitions, and she realizes this talent could help her go to college. >> i was a girl with a plan. and my plan was if i could get in and get a full scholarship, who could complain? >> she lands a debate scholarship to george washington university, but other priorities soon take over. >> i was 19 and i was in love. and the first boy i ever dated had come back into my life and in a very short space of time he proposed to me and i said yes, and i thought, oh, great. and left it all behind. >> coming up -- >> i was failing at everything. i felt like a terrible mother. dinner was always late. every child care arrangement fell apart.

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let me hear it. our agaenda is america's agenda. and if we fight for it, we win. >> trail blazing senator elizabeth warren is now in the middle of a presidential run. but in 1968, she was a newly married college dropout struggling to pursue a career. >> i just couldn't quite give up the dream of teaching. i really wanted to teach. that man. i had to find a way to get back to college. and i went to a commuter college, and i knew that was my second chance, and i hung on for dear life. >> the warrens moved to new jersey in 1970 where elizabeth warren teaches special needs kids at a public school. she gives birth to their first child amelia the following year. >> my husband's feeling was stay

home. we'll have more children. you'll love it. i went back home to oklahoma for christmas and saw a bunch of the boys i had been in high school debate with, and they had all gone on to law school. they said, you should go to law school. you'll love it. >> she takes their advice. after persuading her husband, warren enrolls in rutgers university law school the day amelia turns school. >> i took to law school the way a pig takes to mud. this was fabulous. i loved law school. >> at graduation, warren is eight months pregnant with her second child and conflicted about the future. >> alex was born about three weeks after i graduated. it was the hardest moment of my life. i thought, because i didn't take a job right out of law school, it was all over. >> liz is never one to sit and feel sorry for herself. so she put out a single,

elizabeth warren attorney at law. she's like, i'm doing real estate closings. like how the heck do you know how to do a real estate closing. this is before the internet, right? she's like, well, i just looked it up in books and no problem. >> when the family moves to texas, she joins the university of houston teaching contract law and courses on business and finance. the demands of a full-time job and family are overwhelming. >> basically, i was failing at everything. i was, i felt like, a terrible mother. dinner was always late. every child care arrangement fell apart. >> and i think she was getting quite discouraged and didn't know how she was going to do this. >> warren's career is in jeopardy until her beloved aunt b. comes to the rescue. >> she said, so how is it going, honey? and i just started to cry. and i said, i'm going to have to

quit. she said, well, i can't get there tomorrow, but i can get there thursday. and she arrived with seven suitcases and buddy and they stayed for 16 years. >> having solved the child care issue, which is an issue for so many women, it just propelled her forward. >> she never would have gone on to become the person she is. >> but aunt b. doesn't solve everything. warren's desire to pursue her career causes friction with her husband. >> he indulged her career and interest in the law, but told her that doesn't mean you can stop doing everything at home. >> the couple divorces in 1980 and elizabeth warren becomes a single mother at 31 years old at a time when women are struggling to climb the ladder in the workplace. >> i remember my obsession became balancing my checkbook.

so i would sometimes late at night after i'd do my homework and get everything ready for the next day, i go back to the bedroom and pull out my checkbook and add all the numbers just to make sure i had enough money to make it to the next paycheck. >> she falls in love with a professor named bruce man. >> i still remember the first time i really noticed him. he had on shorts. great legs. >> less than a year after they meet, she bucks tradition. >> i watched him one night teach. i was sitting in the back of the room. he came over and he said, well, what did you think? and i looked up and i said, what can i say? will you marry me? and he said yes. >> the family moves to austin in 1983 where warren lands a tenured job at the university of texas. she volunteers to teach a course she has never taught before bankruptcy. >> i remember approaching it

with some real skepticism. my family had had hard times and we never declared bankruptcy so surely the people that did declare bankruptcy, maybe they were trying to buck the system. >> the research starts to have an effect on her political views. >> i had a long periods where i'm just not political at all. i am a registered republican, and then i get deeply involved in the bankruptcy research. >> over time she is surprised by what she learns. >> what you heard were basically people that worked hard, played by the rules, who did everything they could. and then, man, it was that one event that, bam, somebody got sick, somebody lost a job, somebody ran off a this life that had been going along pretty good just sudden by starts tumbling off a cliff.

and that bankruptcy is their handhold on the way down. and what happened over time is my politics shifted. >> warren is offered a tenured position at harvard law school in 1995. stepping into a world few women enter. >> one time elizabeth invited us to have lunch at the harvard faculty club. and i had never been there before. you sort of look around and you say, we're the only women here. >> the 1980s and '90s are a time when more and more americans go broke. the ivy league professor is asked to sit on a commission to review bankruptcy laws in 1995. >> it starts with flat wages. it goes to rising health care costs, rising housing costs, rising costs of getting a kid educated and how the middle class starts coming under a squeeze. bankruptcy is the tail end of that. >> it would lead to her first battle for the little guy,

taking on credit card companies who are pushing a bill that would make it harder for people to declare bankruptcy. >> this was a bankruptcy bill where there was huge money behind it. buying politicians in both parties. yet, she fought it furiously because she believed it would hurt ordinary people. >> the experience would have a profound effect on warren's politics. >> the credit card companies start pushing for the changes they want and that's when i make the shift. >> when the republicans would come up with notions to change the bankruptcy code, i would bounce them off elizabeth warren. >> too many people have abused the bankruptcy laws. >> warren is crushed when in 2005 a new bill is signed into law making it harder for people to file for bankruptcy. >> we held them off for ten years. for ten years in that fight. and in the end, lost. lost big. the banks got basically

everything they wanted. but there is something good that comes out of this story, and that i have learned about fighting. i learned about fighting in washington. >> coming up -- >> i want you to come to washington and do something for me and the country. >> arg has received $70 billion in money, $100 billion in loans from the fed. do you know where the money went? do you know where the money went

professor elizabeth warren wastes in time in the halls of harvard. she earns a reputation for being tough and demanding. there is one question she always asked her first year contract law students. >> there is three words i ask at the beginning. what is a sumpsit. >> that's because that word is the first word that is assigned. >> i always ask someone. >> she turned around and said, all right, let's get started mr. kennedy. no hello. no good morning. no welcome to law school. i was stunned.

i had no idea what it meant. i stumbled through it. and i'll never forget the look on her face after i said i don't know. >> the case is about a doctor who gets sued, but he doesn't get sued because of malpractice. he gets sued because he made a contract, a promise. and that's what a sumpsit is all about. she says she also has ten seconds in a classroom to guess who doesn't know it. she guessed me. >> it's true. it's true. i walk in. i think it's probably less than ten seconds. and it's not that i'm looking for someone that doesn't know. i'm looking for someone who will survive having been called on first in law school. >> the sub prime mortgage mess claims a new victim, lehman brothers declares bankruptcy. >> the worst financial crisis in modern times. >> and now with the financial markets in disarray, all sides have to pick up the pieces. >> in the fall of 2008, the finance system is on the brink

of collapse. the stock market plumets. panic spreads and another great depression is imminent. >> we are in the midst of a serious crisis and the federal government is responding with decisive action. >> congress establishes tarp in october 2008, authorizing $700 billion in taxpayer money to pail out the country's financial institutions. >> at the same time, congress creates a commission to watch over the program and to study possibly regulatory reforms. >> the motion is adopted. >> professor elizabeth warren is tapped for the job. >> i am at home and the phone rings, and this man says, this is -- i said who? he said harry reid, the leader of the united states senate. >> i want you to come to washington and do something for me and the country. >> and try to put some

accountability on how this bailout goes forward to try to hold these banks accountable for the money they were getting. and right on the spot i just said yes. >> she had written a book about how two wage earners have such a struggle. i just thought she would be good. and she was better even than i imagined. people in that commission, they selected her as a chairman out of all these big shots. >> she's immediately impressed me as somebody who was different and who had this talent for explaining complicated things in ways that the rest of us could understand. >> these bad mortgages and the securities that were based on them became known as toxic or troubled assets. >> from the start, warren presses the bush administration for answers on what they're doing with the money, helping the little guy or just the big banks. >> she never waivered from asking the question what

actually is in the interest of the american public here in the financial crisis. >> when barack obama takes office in january 2009, he inherits the crisis. >> congratulations, mr. president. >> with a new party in charge, a confrontational elizabeth warren continues to ratchet up the pressure on government officials she's relentless. >> you're telling me that these counter party obligations, these financial instruments that are bought by very sophisticated parties are going to be treated effectively like deposits in checking accounts and savings account. they ended up with 100 cent on the dollar government guarantees for which they had never paid. >> warren just drove him crazy. >> understand she's not the only one that criticized him. but she had some depth to what she was talking about. >> let me follow up because i'm afraid i'm confused here. >> as a democrat she was

expected to be hard on republicans and soft on democrats. >> i want to push back on this a little bit. >> she was supposed to defer to the very senior men who were running the bank bailout. and she did none of those things. >> aig has received about $70 billion in tarp money, about $100 billion in loans from the fed. do you know where the money went? >> we just came at this very differently. and he was secretary of the treasury and i wasn't. >> we had no power over what the treasury department did. we only had the power to embarrass them, i guess. >> there is one clear message from the president. that is no matter how much money we pump into these financial institutions, until we change the rules that brought us to this crisis, we are not safe. >> coming up -- >> i think she started to see that she's really going to be a lightening rod. lightening rod award winning interface. ♪ ♪

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contenders are saying brett kavanaugh should be impeached. senators kamala harris and elizabeth warren and julian castro are calling for the move specifically in light of new sexual misconduct allegations against him. and the united auto union workers saying 49,000 workers will go on strike tonight at midnight. they are demanding pay raises for workers among other things. now back to "headliners: elizabeth warren." >> as the country tries to pull itself out of the financial crisis in 2009, it becomes clear that banks are being bailed out but taxpayers are now. unemployment surges, mortgages claim. 401(k)s shrink. congress is trying to not only fix the catastrophic problem, but prevent it from happening

again. harvard professor elizabeth warren sees an opening to push an idea she's had to protect average americans. >> we needed an agency in washington, one that would make sure that the large financial institutions didn't build their profit models around cheating people. kind of straightforward. >> she wrote about it before the crash in an article called "unsafe at any rate" in the democracy journal. >> i remember the way she framed that saying there is a consumer protection agency to make sure your toaster doesn't catch on fire, but there is not one about the mortgages on your house. warren lobbies hard for support. she gains an ally in the white house. >> she made a very strong case for why this should be a priority for president obama. and it certainly seemed that the idea was consistent with president obama's view, which is that we are there to look out for the consumer. >> obama makes it a central part

of his financial reform package. >> we're proposing a new and powerful agency charged with just one job, looking out for ordinary consumers. >> while street doesn't like it, nor do many in congress. >> this is an agency that will put no in innovation. >> warren works closely with congressman barney frank who steers the reforms through the house. >> she fully understood both the political restraints and the need to work around them rather than simply stamp your foot and hold your breath and hope they go away. >> she was doing a campaign both inside and washington and beyond it. >> what i heard the president saying on the consumer financial protection agency is it's not going down. >> and in the process, charms john stewart on the daily show. >> either we fix this problem going forward or the game is forward. >> when you say it like that, i know your husband is backstage, but i still want to make out

with you. >> this new massive super government bureaucracy would have unprecedented authority. >> i think she started to see she's really going to be a lightening rod. in part of the education of elizabeth warren, she started to really understand a lightening rod is not a bad thing. i'll own it. i'll own that lightening. let it hit me. >> the todd frank act named for the senator and congressman. >> the motion is agreed to. >> clears its final hurdle in the senate by a vote of 60-39 in july 2010. it gives the government new powers to regulate banks and the derivatives market and creates a council to market economic risks. >> the other big part was in fact the consumer financial protection bureau. >> it's a big victory for elizabeth warren. >> the bill signing was a big moment for the obama administration. it seemed obvious that elizabeth warren would be front and center

and so they placed her right in front. >> now the question is who will run this new agency? for many the answer is obvious. >> there were a lot of people who were highly engaged after the financial crisis in how the government was going to respond. and a lot of those people saw elizabeth warren as their champion. >> but there was a problem in washington. she was so controversial and had so much opposition from certainly republicans and democrats and democrats told obama that she would not be confirmed. >> the white house felt this contention senate confirmation process could drag on for months and they want to start building this new agency now. >> the president only offers her a temporary job setting up the agency. >> she will have direct access to me and to secretary gieger and oversee a staff at the treasury department that has already begun to work on this staff. >> elizabeth warren takes a

leave of absence from harvard. there continues to be strong opposition to it and to her especially from conservatives like then fox news host glen beck. >> i can't believe i live in a country where that agency and every other agency is being run by someone, in this case it's elizabeth warren, who hates the free market system, wants to destroy it and in some cases want a markist or communist or socialist utopia. >> we're pretty uneven thoovent about the possibility of elizabeth warren and this new agency. >> the obama administration decides it is too polarizing. >> this was really in obama's presidency. he wanted to avoid a fight if he could. >> instead, president obama nominates warren's colleague in july 2011. >> i asked elizabeth to find the best possible choice for director of the bureau. that's who we found.

>> the hard part was then going back and telling the people i had hired that i wasn't going to be able to stay. but, you know, sometimes you got to be the grown-up. >> even before warren steps aside, some around her have an idea of what she could do next. >> i wanted barack obama to appoint her the head of the agency. and i said if they don't confirm her, she can run for the senate. and he said, well, do you think she wants to be a senator? i said, well, yeah. she might even want your job. she's got to start somewhere. >> she was untested but she proved very quickly in that senate race she's got that. -their béarnaise sauce here is the best in town.

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the reliability blue state of massachusetts by capturing the late ted kennedy's senate seat. democrats look to elizabeth warren. >> and, so, suddenly you got democrats in massachusetts looking around saying, she couldn't get confirmed maybe but i think she maybe would make a good messenger in the senate race against this republican. we got to find a way to put her in office. >> warren hasn't held or run for public office before. >> elizabeth never saw herself as a politician. that's why i thought she would make a good senator. >> the 62-year-old officially enters the race in september. >> she was untested, but she proved pretty quickly, very quickly in that senate race she's got that. >> but warren hits her first real stumble when a controversy emerges in april 2012. >> the "boston herald" had a story that raised a lot of questions about why it that har

regard had listed her as a minority and a native american when there was no apparent proof that she was a native american. >> my father's people objected to my mother because she was part cherokee and part delaware. in order to get married, my mother said they had to go el e elope. and my brothers and i grew up with that. i know myself to be a person of native american heritage. >> she's asked why she listed herself as a minority in law school directors in the 1980s and '90s. >> i listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that i would be invited to a lunch-in a group or something that might happen with people who are like i am. nothing like that happened. that was not the use for it and i stopped checking that off. >> a lot of folks looked at that and said this is somebody's image is that she's genuine. they looked at that and said,

boy, that sounds like there is a calculation there. >> everybody we talked to kind of said the same exact thing, gave us the same information. it didn't play any role in her employment. >> i never got any benefit from my native american heritage. the people who hired me have been absolutely clear on this point, that they didn't know and didn't care. >> her responses don't satisfy everyone. but warren wins the party's endorsement at the june convention. but her republican opponent scott brown raises the native american issue to attack her character during their first deba debate. >> i think that elizabeth warren claimed he was a native american, a person of color. as you can see, she's not. >> that may have backfired because a lot of people then did see it as racially charged because he was talking about her appearance. >> i believed my mother and my father and my aunts and my uncles. i never asked anybody for any

documentation. i don't know a kid who did. >> in a tight race, warren survives the controversy and emerges victorious. she defeats brown by eight points and makes history, too, as the first female senator from massachusetts. >> you took on the powerful wall street banks and special interests and you let them know you want a senate out there fighting for the middle class all of the time. >> and that you will well and faithfully discharged the duties. >> a senator dives on the debates on student loan debt and wall street reform from her perch on the senate banking committee. >> tell me a bit about the last few times you have taken the biggest financial institutions on wall street all the way to a trial. [ applause ] >> anybody? >> i'd like to offer. >> sure. >> i can 100% draw a line between the person pushing me on

that first day of law school and the person that i see today. >> i want to ask a question -- >> she scares the hell out of wall street. let me tell you why. she's smarter than any wall street banker and she's tougher than any nfl linebacker. >> despite that toughness, some future democratic rivals see a different side to warren. >> every woman has access to the full range of reproductive health care services. >> you don't necessarily see, for example, elizabeth in a smaller room where there is not a camera. just making jokes. you know? she has a great sense of humor. >> whether it is behind closed doors or not, in public, the truth is that i'm like a whole lot of politicians who have good talking points. elizabeth actually cares. >> she also earns a reputation for being laser focussed, almost dashing through the senate halls, sidestepping reporters while her aids try to keep up.

>> most of what you see her doing is walking really fast through the halls. usually like carrying some literature to read and getting ready to question somebody at a hearing. >> i believe in what the democrats are fighting for. >> early on, warren rises in the democratic party. still, she's not afraid to go against president obama on his policies. >> are you ready to fight? all right. no more secret trade deals. >> and his appointments. >> she opposes larry summers as president obama's favorite candidate to head the federal reserve in 2013. >> she saw him as part of the wall street wing of the democratic party. >> she derails the domination of an investment banker to a top position in the treasury department. >> enough is enough with wall street insiders getting key position after key position and the kind of kroenism that we have seen in the executive branch. >> but she's accused of going

too far. >> i think if the criticism in the antonio weiss case was this was too strident. you were just basically saying anybody who is an investment banker is unworthy of a major position in government. >> that fierceless and willingness to stand up to her own party wins her support from the democratic left. early in her first term, warren is getting some buzz as many look ahead to the 2016 presidential race. >> i went to a liberal gathering in detroit. and there were people all wearing these hats at the conference. run elizabeth run. they were screaming. they were december rsperate for run. >> coming up -- >> nasty women have really had it with guys like me. >> trump is a low-hanging fruit. he's an easy target for elizabeth. for elizabeth. granted.

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run, warren, run! >> elizabeth warren is only a freshman senator when groups on the progressive left begin a grassroots movement to draft her into the 2016 race for president. >> in terms of trying to understand the scale of it, i think there was a general assumption throughout politic that is this was a pretty narrow base of the democratic party. >> i think that she did think very hard about the possibility of running. she talked to people about it. >> are you going to run for president? >> no. i'm not running, and i'm not going to run. >> there was never a sensible president -- she was a senator for a few years, that would have been the overreach and burn,ness that would have led people to resent her. >> even though she doesn't run, warren goes on the offensive as she and donald trump engage in their very public feud. >> and massachusetts is represented by pocahontas,

right? pocahontas. >> 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 long time ago. they call her pocahontas. >> now we have a president who can't make it through a ceremony honoring native american war heroes without reducing native history, native culture, native people, to be the butt of a joke. >> when confronted about calls for her to settle the issue of her heritage by taking a dna test, warren dismisses the suggestion. >> what's wrong with knowing? >> look, i do know. i know who i am. and never used it for anything. never got any benefit from it

anywhere. >> you begin to wonder like, is this going to become similar to hillary clinton's emails? an issue that just keeps coming up over and over again. republicans are certainly going to bring it up. >> you got warren and trump in 2020. take what we saw in 2016 and magnify it by about 1,000, there's your campaign. >> in october 2018, warren changes her mind. a few months before launching her presidential run, she releases a video of the results of a dna test. >> and we did find five segments of native american ancestry with very high confidence where we believe the error rate is less than 1 in 1,000. >> now the president likes to call my mom a liar. what do the facts say? >> the facts suggest that you absolutely have native american ancestry in your pedigree. >> while confirming that warren has native american ancestry, the results show that it's a small percentage. >> is this enough native american to push back, i guess,

on the president's mocking of elizabeth warren? it's a weird question to ask, but i guess i'm asking it. >> despite the mixed reactions surrounding the dna test, warren remains a major player in the democratic party, running for re-election to the senate in 2018. while republicans in her state gear up to 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, warren is also on a mission to fight efforts to weaken dodd-frank, the financial bill she fought for before she was a senator. >> how could it be that this congress is saying, i know what let's do, let's make it easier for big banks to cheat american families. >> her most personal fight continues to be over the future of the agency she helped create.

>> this is what drove elizabeth warren into the political arena in the first place. she cares deeply about the bureau. >> good morning, director mulvaney. >> in 2016, trump tacks mick mulvaney, now the acting white house chief of staff, and a long-time critic of the bureau, to run it. >> despite what you might have read, i'm pretty sure i'm not the devil. all the stuff you have read about me i encourage you to take with a grain of salt, except the part about me keeping elizabeth warren up at night. she sends me about one letter at week complaining about something that i'm doing. >> warren, who has publicly sparred with mulvaney, blasts him during an appearance before the senate banking committee. >> but in 2012, you voted in favor of a republican budget that called for eliminating the agency entirely. is that right? >> i don't have a specific recollection, but that sounds familiar to me. >> sounds familiar, okay. >> their war of words heats up as the committee hearing

continues. >> you've taken obvious joy in talking about how the agency will help banks a lot more than it will help consumers. and how upset this must make me. but here's what you don't get, mr. mulvaney. this isn't about me. >> as long as the cfpb is in business, that's something she's going to be very outspoken about. >> we're here today to fight for the consumer financial protection bureau, let's do this. >> this is her legacy. she thought it up, dreamed it up, and frankly she birthed it. now of course it's under ferocious attack. >> under the trump administration, the embattled bureau has been weakened. but it's a cause warren can continue to champion in the senate. she wins re-election to a second term in 2018 in a landslide. but her most significant battle begins the month after she's sworn in. >> and that is why i stand here today to declare that i am a candidate for president of the

united states of america. >> warren's positions, like medicare for all, and canceling student loan debt, mirror those of other progressives. in april she becomes the first democratic candidate to call for president trump's impeachment. >> we took an oath to protect and serve the constitution of the united states of america. and the way we do that is we begin impeachment proceedings now against this president. >> in july she receives her 1 millionth campaign donation. >> it's all of us in this together, raising our voices, that's how we make real change. >> whether or not she wins her party's nomination, elizabeth warren appears determined to use her words and her convictions to transform the american political system. >> but this life is now about, it's about the chance to get in there and use every tool we can to help make this a government

that triuly is once again a government that works not just a thin slice at the top, a government that works for all its people. i come before you as a member of a new generation. ready to step into the highest levels of american leadership. >> a young candidate with a standout pedigree. >> american left-handed episcopalian gay war veteran -- >> in a crowd of presidential contenders trying to unseat donald trump. why you? i mean, why are you the guy to take him down? >> i think it wouldn't hurt to have somebody from a new generation. >> he's a polite midwesterner who isn't afraid to deliver a blow. >> you will not see me exchanging love letters on white house letterhead with a brutal dictator.