Sen. Warren Has Some Ideas About Hillary Clinton’s Platform (VIDEO)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. speaks at the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) Legislative Conference and Presidential Forum in Washington, Monday, March 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) ticked off a list of policy topics she’d like to hear former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discuss more: minimum wage, equal pay for women, and trade policy.

Warren, who has repeatedly said she won’t run for president in 2016, made the remarks in an interview on CBS’s This Morning on Thursday.

“I’ll tell you where I stand on minimum wage, I’ll tell you where I stand on equal pay for equal work, I’ll tell you where I stand on expanding —” Warren said before being cut off by CBS’s Charlie Rose.

“Name to me one thing that you would like to see Hillary Clinton do and say and commit to that she has not committed to,” Rose said.

“Well, I’d like to see her address all of these issues. We have a big debate going on right now on trade within the Democratic Party,” Warren said. “I have real concerns about something called the investor-state dispute settlement that basically would permit multinational companies to sue other countries when they try to put regulations in place to protect their own workers, to protect their own citizens.”

Warren, along with Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Ed Markey (D-MA) have previously expressed strong concern for the investor-state dispute settlement that lets foreign companies challenge regulations of a government in front of an international tribunal, according to The Huffington Post.

Clinton has actually hinted that her 2016 presidential platform would emphasize income inequality and equal pay for equal work, in the process giving a tacit nod to Warren.

Warren, along with Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Al Franken (D-MN), and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) have signed on to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee’s “Ready for Boldness” push which, among other things, calls for expanding Social Security benefits and “higher wages, and millions of clean-energy jobs.” The push is meant to move candidates like Clinton (if she runs) to the left.

Here’s the video, flagged by the Republican-leaning opposition research shop America Rising, of Warren’s interview:

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