Warren rips Obama team: 'They protected Wall Street'

It seems like more and more Democrats are distancing themselves from President Obama these days.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., took after the president's economic team in an interview with Salon, saying its members favored banks over people while facing the economic crisis of 2008-09.

"They protected Wall Street," she said. "Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. And it happened over and over and over."

Warren was a prominent consumer advocate before her 2012 election to the Senate, and many supporters are urging her to run for president in 2016.

Obama administration officials said they took actions designed to save the U.S. financial system and avert another Great Depression.

In his book Stress Test, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote of Warren: "She was worried about the right things, but she was better at impugning our choices -- as well as our integrity and our competence -- than identifying any feasible alternatives."