Politics & Government
Elizabeth Warren on Hillary Clinton VP: 'I Think If It Was Me, I'd Know It By Now' (VIDEO)
Stephen Colbert opened the hour-late "Late Show" with Elizabeth Warren, a chance for the Massachusetts senator to rebut Donald Trump.

Elizabeth Warren got a star turn near midnight on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Thursday night, a chance to take her Donald Trump attacks from Twitter to late-night television.
The show played up the Massachusetts senator's presence, starting with a tongue-in-cheek meeting outside her "VIP" green room. There, Colbert begged Warren to announce whether or not she'd be named Hillary Clinton's vice president.
"I think if it was me, I'd know it by now," Warren told an eager Colbert, emphasizing the many qualified options Clinton could yet pick.
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Colbert acquiesces, shuts Warren's door with its "VIP" sign, and leaves — only to duck back into the frame and gleefully strip the "I" from the middle of the sign.
But the former "Colbert Show" host spent much of the rest of the show pushing to square Warren's long-delayed Clinton endorsement with self-professed ideals far more similar to defeated Democratic socialist candidate Bernie Sanders.
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The surprising longevity of Sanders' candidacy is a testament that the anger Trump has tapped into is real, Colbert argued over Warren's standard lines of attack against the billionaire's divisive rhetoric.
"People have legitimate feelings," he said. "How are Democrats addressing that?"
"What Democrats are going to talk about is how we're stronger together," Warren replied.
Watch a portion of Warren's "Late Show" interview here:
The show also printed up a stack of Warren's most scathing anti-Trump tweets, which Colbert displayed one by one on his desk.
"Are you a bully? Are you bullying him?" he asked. "Are you sinking to his level?"
Warren pantomimed crying.
"Oh, boo hoo. That poor little billionaire, did I hurt his feelings?" she quipped. "Did I insult the policies that he doesn't have?"
Before letting her leave, Colbert gave it one last shot, producing a printout of Warren and Clinton campaigning side by side in Ohio.
"Could this be the ticket? Could this be the ticket?" he pressed. "Is there a chance?"
Smiling, Warren shook her head.
Image: YouTube screengrab/The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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