Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) blamed the Republican party on Wednesday for not being able to pass reforms during the Obama administration.
MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle asked Warren about income inequality first, which Warren dodged.
"Why has income inequality failed to get significantly better in the last eight years?" Ruhle asked.
Warren blamed policies that were made for the "billionaires."
"The policies here are for the billionaires, they're for the bankers, they're for the giant corporations. They get the tax breaks, they get the regulatory boosts, they get the great deals in Washington," she said.
"But Senator, you guys were in power for the last eight years, why is it that it didn't work for those good Americans you're working for?" Ruhle asked.
"Let’s be clear about what it means to be in power," Warren responded.
She then blamed the Republican party of blocking their reforms.
"The Republicans had a blocking position," she said. "When they didn’t have a blocking position, we got the Affordable Care Act through, and when they didn’t have a blocking position, we got through the Wall Street reforms."
"But once they had a blocking position in the Senate and then in the House, we couldn't get the minimum wage increase, we couldn't get increases into Social Security, we couldn't get a more progressive tax bill," she continued.
She said she didn't want to "shuffle off all the blame" on the Republicans.
"I don't want to try to shuffle off all the blame. I think there's plenty that we can do, we should have done, we must do in the future in our side of the aisle," she said.
But then she went back to talking about Republicans, saying they have made their "agenda 100 percent obvious."
"They are here to make sure that Washington works for those at the very, very top, and they have done a great job of that," she said.