Updated on: November 8, 2026 / 2:28 PM EST / CBS News

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The following is the transcript of the interview with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Nov. 8, 2026.

MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, the expected incoming Senate Banking Committee Chair, and she joins us from Cambridge. Good morning to you, Senator.

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: Good morning.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So you have written an outline here, an op-ed about what it's going to look like with Democrats in the majority. You said Democrats won by being populist economic fighters who are unafraid to call out corrupt politicians and corporate interests who have rigged the system at the expense of everyone else. That has echoes of President Trump's populist economic message. Not what he said there, of course, but certainly what he has said to voters again and again.…