Elizabeth Warren wanted to be a teacher — instead, she became a crusader for consumer rights and regulation on Wall Street. This is her story.
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00:00Now when I talk about this, some rich guys scream, class warfare.
00:05Well let me tell you something, these same rich guys have been waging class warfare against
00:11hard working people for decades, I say it's time to fight back.
00:27I grew up on the ragged edge of the middle class and I know it's hard out there.
00:38We nearly lost our home, I remember how my mother cried every single night and eventually
00:45we made it.
00:47My mom went to work at Sears, I babysat, I waitressed, my daddy eventually made it back
00:53to work.
00:54We paid off medical bills for years.
01:16I was the first nursing mother to take a bar exam in the state of New Jersey.
01:38How much more is today's mom, dad and two kids spending on food than they spent a generation
01:42ago?
01:4421% less, today's family is spending 44% less on appliances than they spent a generation
01:50ago.
01:51So where's the money going?
01:52It's going to the mortgage, it's going to the health insurance, day care, child care,
01:56nursery school, something to take care of the little ones and a second car so that mom
02:00can get to work.
02:18Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God
02:23bless, keep a big hunk of it, but part of the underlying social contract is you take
02:31a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
02:42To all the small business owners who are tired of the system rigged against them, we're going
02:49to hold the big guys accountable.
03:03Have you returned one nickel of the millions of dollars that you were paid while this scam
03:08was going on?
03:09Well, first of all, this was by 1% of our people.
03:12That's not my question, this is about responsibility.
03:16I will take that as a no then.
03:26There's no evidence of her having any Native American.
03:28She's not 132nd, there's none.
03:29If there are questions, you know, she should answer them.
03:30If you're asked to be transparent, then you should do so.
03:43Donald Trump is worried about helping poor little Wall Street.
03:48Let me find the world's smallest violin to play a sad, sad song.
04:03I can't call her Pocahontas anymore because she has no Indian blood.
04:07I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you
04:13take the test and it shows you're an Indian.
04:19President likes to call my mom a liar.
04:22What do the facts say?
04:23The facts suggest that you absolutely have a Native American ancestor in your pedigree.
04:38Family stories are not the same as tribal citizenship, and this is why I have apologized.
04:47Nothing about my background ever had anything to do with any job I got in any place.
04:54It's been fully documented.
04:57This is the fight of our lives, the fight to build an America where dreams are possible,
05:11an America that works for everyone.