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Bill Moyers in Conversation

Elizabeth Warren on Fighting Back Against Wall St. Giants

Bill Moyers in Conversation

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4.8599 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear.

0:04.0

Senator Elizabeth Warren.

0:08.0

The government runs for those who can make their voices heard.

0:12.0

And they mostly make their voices heard through their lobbyists, through their campaign contributions.

0:18.0

And that means over and over and over, the tilt is in favor of the rich and the powerful.

0:26.0

This is the problem.

0:28.1

We've got to solve it and we've got to solve it now.

0:30.8

It's time for everybody across this country to ask of their senators, to ask of their

0:37.2

congressmen or congresswoman, whose side are

0:40.3

you on? Are you there for the folks who are out there trying to work for a living,

0:45.3

or are you just there for the millionaires and billionaires?

0:48.3

Thanks for joining us.

0:51.3

You cannot have watched television the last few months without seeing Senator Elizabeth Warren

0:56.4

talking about her book A Fighting Chance.

0:59.3

And that's a good thing because it's a terrific book about how a little girl from Oklahoma,

1:04.5

her parents, struggling to make ends meet and keep a roof over their heads,

1:08.8

how this little girl grows up to teach at Harvard

1:11.3

Law School, becomes the nemesis of wrongdoers on Wall Street, gets elected to the United

1:16.7

States Senate, and in record time becomes the leading voice of the progressive wing of the

1:22.1

Democratic Party. But right now, let me show you something she said to me when I first

1:27.3

interviewed her ten years ago.

1:29.3

The middle class has been pushed right to the edge.

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