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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

This is The Daily.

Today, on Monday morning, two rival bosses showed up for work at the federal government's

top consumer protection agency.

Why a nominee of President Trump and an Obama holdover are publicly and massively fighting

for control of an agency that Democrats in Washington love and Republicans hate?

It's Tuesday, November 28.

Where did the idea for the consumer financial protection bureau first come from?

So Elizabeth Warren, then a law professor at Harvard, wrote a paper in an obscure journal

in 2007 saying, maybe there should be a consumer financial protection bureau just like there's

a consumer product protection bureau.

Gary Rivlin has been reporting on the agency since its beginning.

And what does this paper that Warren writes from her perch as an academic?

What is it actually in vision?

There would be an agency for the federal government that looked out for the rights of people in

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