Senator Elizabeth Warren on Coronavirus, Bloomberg, Super Tuesday & Running Mate

I see you are already making a positive change, here we go, how are you handling

coronavirus

? You must shake a million hands every day. It's true, yes, but you know this is actually a time to be serious. That's okay, because this really is a threat and we must do it. take some steps and we need to start taking them right now. I posted another one. I've been making plans about this for a while now, but we need to ensure that everyone who wants to get tested for

coronavirus

can do so for free when the vaccine comes out, we need to make it free, we need to set aside money so that anyone who gets tested in quarantine their paychecks will be reimbursed.

Those are all things that make us all safer, yes, and we have to think and start working right now. The economic consequences of these supply chains are already being disrupted. I can't get

mate

rials coming from China for medicines. I can't get parts to manufacture here. That will have an echo in our economy. It will pass through Europe's economy and recover through ours. We need to start a stimulus bill now and we need to tell the Federal Reserve to open the window to make loans to businesses that need help getting through a rough patch, if they agree not to lay people off.

We need to at least minimize both the health consequences and the economic consequences everyone is improving everything is improving that's true, it really is about leadership, yes, and that's why when serious problems arise you can't just have a guy who believes In magic, the things he says about himself, he must believe in you. In the last 48 hours two of your main rivals and Tom Steyer have dropped out of the race and how do you find out they are dropping out? Are you guys in a group like text? Does anyone text you a ghost emoji when you're around?

I actually talked to Amy, well, it's happening today. We have stayed in close contact with me. Pete and I exchanged messages. Tom and I talked right after. Were you disappointed that they endorsed Joe Biden and not you? You know, look, I recognize that everyone sees this. differently and I'm someone who's just not the same who's in this race, you know, you started, in fact, you mentioned it when you introduced me. I'm not someone who looked in the mirror when I was 14 and said hmmm, future president. I'm someone who looked in the mirror when I was seven and said future public school teachers do, and one thing led to another.

I've spent my entire life teaching and my entire life around this central question in law school where I've talked about what's happening to the American middle class why it's hollowing out what's happening to working families everywhere. the country why people who work as hard as my mom and dad worked two generations ago find the The road today there is so much rock here is much deeper and for people of color it is even harder and even steeper and This is a fundamental question about whose side the government is on and that is what attracted me to this career.

I never thought I would be in electoral politics. So, you know, 10 years ago I was still in the classroom and talking about what was broken and what we could do to fix it and dozens of people listened to what I reacted to and then I'm

running

for president of United. Mayor Bloomberg is Mayor Bloomberg is also

running

for president, it seems like he doesn't seem to like him very much, it's not, it's not personal, it's all, who makes billions of dollars and says well that must mean he's qualified to be. President of the United States and then he thinks he can run for president when he has a history of adopting racist policies, when he hides his tax information, and he looks at the White House and says, well, there's one there right now, but that's not the proof that thought he could run for president at a time when he has many charges against him for discrimination before roasting him in that debate.

I mean, that was like that was like a Comedy Central roast that you actually did at some point. Do you think you have any idea that this guy, when this guy comes out, he's going to start handing out money for all the campaigns and maybe he should be a little nice? No, no, you didn't, did you talk to him after that? He said yes, yes and he was angry. I don't know, he's very price controlled and we talked about the fact that I was born and raised in Oklahoma mm-hmm and he's spending a lot of money in Oklahoma and everywhere, he actually says yes. local TV networks, you love them, this is really scary, he spent close to half a billion dollars, yeah, to buy his way, he could have abandoned you if you weren't so bad, oh yeah, on that debate stage, but raise this fundamental question: will we be a democratic party where the only way to become the nominee is to be a billionaire or spend 70% of your time sucking up to them?

It's a big flaw, it's real, no doubt, you know? It's part of the reason why when I got into this race not only was it who I would be fighting for, it's what I've been doing my whole life, but it was hell and I made the decision I was going to make from the beginning. this with grassroots funding, if you think it's the right way to do it, go easy on Elizabeth Warren and throw in five dollars, but this is really our democracy at stake. Well, you're taking PAC money right now, so I asked from the beginning.

Day one on this let's keep all the

super

PACs out, that's what you mean by

super

PACs out, it's unlimited spending, do you know how many candidates agreed to accept that? None of them and I asked him over and over again to go That's fair, it's the super PACs plus Michael Bloomberg, who is a walking, talking super PAC. I mean, I know he has his sock drawer. He is a super PAC. You know, loose change. He doesn't give you anything when he goes out. I mean, when he leaves. You know, but here's the thing. If we're going to have unlimited spending on our elections that fundamentally changes our democracy and we can stop it tonight, you know, I did that in my 2012 race.

I had an agreement with my Republican counterpart that we would keep all Super PAC money out of the elections. race and, wow, we did it, but it takes everyone to agree to do it and that's why I think it should be tomorrow, it's Super Tuesday, yeah, it's 70% of us, 40% of all the delegates . I'll tell you the conversation I had. I've had people over and over again where people seem to think I know something I don't know is that they want to know if I vote for the person I like and think would be the best president or vote for the person I think couldn't beat.

Donald Trump and a lot of people think they're two or even four different people, what do you say to people who are in that state of mind right now and who are going to vote tomorrow? so I think number one is you have to vote for the person you think will be the best president of the United States. I think it's a sacred obligation of people, but I also think that those things don't diverge over time, as more and more. comes out about the people, the person who will be the best president is also the person who has the best chance of beating Donald Trump because this is what it will take to take on Donald Trump, of course, but it will also be necessary to talk about our affirmative stance . vision of the kind of America we want to be, we just want to say, hey, look, just get rid of Donald Trump and we'll go back to the way things were before.

No, we have this opportunity to have an incredible opportunity in 2020 to fix a lot of what has been broken for a long time in this country and to address issues like racial justice, economic justice, environmental justice and social justice, we have this opportunity to build a nation where every person has value and where every child is worth investing in. and I think that's how we build a future in this country and I think that's on the way too. Daylight saving time is this weekend. What is your opinion on this? Because I'll tell you what, this is the bad one where my son gets up at like five in the morning.

You can win a lot of votes from a lot of parents if you get rid of this thing. Well, done, well, that's all about your husband. , your husband, Bruce, my successor too, uh-huh, has he done it? Have you had conversations about things like, I mean, obviously, we wouldn't have a first lady, Bruce, he would have to be the first man or something, his name is Brutus man, Oh, Bruce Banner, so the first man with two N, do you know what I have to do? I said this compared to not being my first husband, it took me a couple of bites at Apple, watch this well once you find the right one, wait, he is the perfect husband for me and because anything I want to do in this kind of things must be in this. fight, he is one hundred percent willing to try to help, so when people joke with him, you know you would be the first guy and he gets invited to things and people make jokes about it, he says it's okay, he likes that No, I said it's good.

If this is part of what helps then he's happy to do it you know, you have a person in me I know it's not something you would probably share but you have a person in mind that you feel like this is my person I would like to be my running

mate

, Yes, you wish, but I'm not screaming. Do you think maybe he feels like it would be wise to reveal those names because I think that's something about the committee that gets people excited? Maybe you're right about that. On the other hand, think of all those people who think I'm thinking about their name, oh yeah, I have another theory: someone you've spent a lot of time with on the campaign trail, if you were to name your dog Bailey as your running mate, believe.

America would absolutely love to love it. Have you considered and listened to it? Donald Trump has a pet as a running mate. Maybe you could do the same. You know Bailey is running for first dog. He's fine, he's ready to have a dog in the White House that he's working on. his problems that he wants to be able to take out He had another idea for your running mate, a real one here we go Rizzo, music would be great, it would be for her to play the flute, yeah, you're thinking about her okay, go, actually We've done this with several candidates and I think it's only fair that we also did some merch for you so I know you know this late in the game that you take care of yourself and we can turn it into a full song. yeah well that's one now yeah oh you're a G and we got a bag you gotta have to vote for Liz she's the shit.

I'll pack all this up and tomorrow will be the big day, yeah it's all up to you. tomorrow you know, for me it's about having built this whole movement across the country, so tomorrow is a big day, 40% of the delegates are at stake, this race is obviously very fluid, at this point people are outside and so on, but like I was saying. I've had the opportunity before to go out and talk to people all over the country about what they face every day. You know, a big part of it for me has been selfie lines where you can talk one-on-one with yourself, right?

Yes, and now we have done it well. a hundred thousand selfies and a lot of them are just funny, a lot of them come up, you know, people laugh when people make faces and oh, you look at the family dynamics, now let's stand there and you know how people do that, but there are also the ones where someone walks by and the girl is adorable and she walks by and the mom gives me a hug and says please wait for medical attention she has brain cancer someone will tell me I have student loans and you are my last hope.

I'll never get out of this hole in my entire life and then you say the other guy has brain cancer, never mind you and your student loans, it's that for every I don't know, yeah, xx people, it's all fun and then something is almost like a knife between the ribs because it is very painful thank you very much they need a government on their side they are not asking for alms they are just asking for a government that is on their side instead of on the side of the billionaires who don't I don't want to pay a fair share of taxes instead to do it on the side of giant corporations.

They just gave Britain the rules in its favor and that's what 2020 is about. It's not just about Donald Trump. 2020 is about how we view commitment to each other. 2020. It's about how we use the tool of government to not only lift up those who have already been elevated so high, but how we use the tool of government to invest and lift up every voice in this country. We have that opportunity. Thanks for being well. If you like the video, please give it a ring and click the subscribe button below. Oh