Senator Elizabeth Warren has a new autobiography out about growing up in Oklahoma and how the economy was such that it allowed for the American Dream. Warren’s book tour has focused on how that isn’t the way things are now a days, where families can’t pull themselves up from their bootstraps anymore because they can’t even afford bootstraps. Or an education to know what bootstraps were used for back when the American Dream was alive and well.

Good progressive and populist message. This should have been a total puff piece for Matthews. But Matthews, a man from working class roots himself, passionately implores Warren to give America the hope and the answers, and she delivered in true Elizabeth Warren style:

Matthews: “What can and will the Democratic Party do (since this is the party that wants to do it) to restore the hope of a meaningful, family building employment, that seems to be gone in so much of the country?”

Warren: “Well, you know, this isn’t magic. We actually know how to do this. We did this for nearly half a century, coming out of the great depression until about 1980. We made the investments together that helped build opportunity for all of us.”

“I went to a commuter college that cost fifty dollars a semester. It opened a million doors for me. How could I go to a school that cost fifty dollars a semester? Because I grew up in a America that said, we collectively, all of us, are going to make those investments in education so that any kid, who works hard, who plays the rules, who tries to get out there and make something of herself, is going to have a fighting chance to make that happen.”