Elizabeth Warren Enters Mass. Senate Race

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September 14, 2011

After months of speculation, Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren announced Wednesday that she will join the race to try to unseat incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown. (AP)

Harvard Law School professor and Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren says she's running to take back the late Ted Kennedy's longtime Senate seat from Republican freshman star Scott Brown, because in her words, "Middle class families have been chipped at, hacked at, squeezed and hammered for a generation now. And I don't think Washington gets it."

In her announcement video she also says "Washington is rigged for big corporations that hire armies of lobbyists . . . It isn't right and it's the reason I'm running for the United States Senate."

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Guest:

Brian McGrory, Boston Globe columnist

This segment aired on September 14, 2011.