Bernie Sanders teases Elizabeth Warren as VP

Bernie Sanders suggested fellow U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren would be qualified to be his vice presidential candidate on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday.

“It would be a great idea to have a woman as vice president and something I would give very, very serious thought to,” he said on the program.

Asked to name women he thought would be qualified, he warned “it’s a little to early to be speculating on that.”

But he named Elizabeth Warren as “a real champion in standing up for working families, taking on Wall Street.”

“There are other fantastic women who have been active in all kinds of fights who I think would make great vice presidential candidates,” he said, though he did not name them.

Like Sanders, Warren has spoken out extensively on regulating Wall Street. A junior senator from Massachusetts, the former Harvard Law professor has become a leading progressive in the Democratic Party and was urged to run for president herself before she declined to make a bid for the White House.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would include women on her list of possible vice presidential candidates, her campaign chairman told the Boston Globe last week.

This story was originally published April 26, 2016 at 9:07 AM with the headline "Bernie Sanders teases Elizabeth Warren as VP."