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Elizabeth Warren: “The banks had flat out broken laws, cheated people, and…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Advocacy Speech for Kamala Harris's Presidential Campaign

Published | Video Starts at 01:35

You know what I love best about Kamala Harris? Kamala Harris can't be bought and she can't be bossed around. Now, I first met Kamala. Kamala in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash. The banks had flat out broken laws, cheated people, and stolen homes. Millions of Americans had lost their jobs, their savings, their homes. Now, I was setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Go cftb. Yeah. Kamala was protecting families as California's Attorney General, you bet. (01:35–01:43)

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Asserts that banks broke laws, cheated people, and stole homes during the 2008 financial crash.

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