Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren hit back at critics who said her reading of a letter by Coretta Scott King about Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions was an attempt to raise money and drum up attention for a possible presidential run in 2020.
Warren, D-Mass., said in an interview with CNN that she wasn’t trying to fundraise off the moment and isn’t thinking about 2020. Instead, she was trying to make a point that she feels Sessions is unfit to serve as attorney general.
“I’m doing my job,” she said. “It is my constitutional responsibility to debate Jeff Sessions’ confirmation as the attorney general of the United States.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell silenced Warren while reading the letter Tuesday evening for impugning the reputation of a fellow senator. She had been warned earlier while reading former Sen. Ted Kennedy’s statement from Sessions’s mid-1980s nomination for a federal judgeship.
While Warren said she wasn’t concerned about fundraising, her campaign sent out an email asking for donations to support her attempts to speak out.
Warren said she’s not worried about concerns Democrats are obstructing Trump’s Cabinet choices, but doesn’t expect to win many battles.
She said Trump’s choices for his Cabinet have been like a “bad movie” and Democrats will stand against them.
“We may not have the votes to stop them but we sure as heck need to make it clear to the Republicans and the American people exactly who Donald Trump is putting in charge of our government,” she said.
