Elizabeth Warren Describes Her Dream Candidate for 2016 — Which Sounds Like Her

CAMEROTA: "How many times do you estimate you've been asked if you will be running for president?"
WARREN: "Many."
CAMEROTA: "I mean, hundreds, right?"
WARREN: "A lot."
CAMEROTA: "And you have consistently said no."
WARREN: "Uh-huh."
CAMEROTA: "Can you describe your dream presidential candidate?"
WARREN: "I've spent my whole life studying what's happening to America's middle class and watching year by year by year, just take one blow after another. We've -- we live in an anywhere now where the game is rigged. Where Washington works really great for those who hire armies of lobbyists, armies of lawyers. It's just not working so well for the rest of America. I believe what our election should be about, including our 2016 presidential election, is about how we're going to change that, how we're going to pull back and make Washington work for families again."
CAMEROTA: "So it sounds like what you're saying is your dream candidate would be someone who champions the middle class?"
WARREN: "You bet."
CAMEROTA: "Who stands up for student loans and students, and social security. Do you know anyone like that?"
WARREN: "You know, I really want to give everybody who gets in this race a chance to get out there and put their agenda in front of us. Now you're right, we do have some information. We have two Republicans who have officially gotten into the race so far and I''ve watched them vote. They voted against the social security benefits increase. They voted against reducing the interest rate on student loans. So maybe I can put it this way, of those who have declared, I've already seen two of them in my view take themselves out of the running for really working for middle class families."
CAMEROTA: "If you didn't hear a Democrat come forward who said those things you just said, then would you get in?"
WARREN: "I want to see who else gets in this race and I want to see what the issues are that they push because this is really key. What issues are people going to talk about? When I talk about the playing field being tilted and I talk about this a lot in my book. The book is a very personal book about how encountered this, how I saw it a piece at a time. But I also saw a big part of this during the financial crisis when it was really about how can we protect the tender fannies of the giant banks and not really do much to help the American people who got slammed so hard. I think that's another core issue that should be part of the next election."