GOP colleagues voted to silence Warren on Tuesday night, accusing her of impugning Sessions’s motives by reading the letter written by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow.

King's letter to Congress opposed Sessions's nomination for a federal judgeship, which he was eventually denied.

She told The Hill in an interview Wednesday morning that “everyone needs to read it, across the country.”

“Particularly every senator who’s going to vote on whether Jeff Sessions is going to become the number one law enforcement officer in the United States,” she said.

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Warren spoke to The Hill shortly before scheduled interviews on MSNBC, CNN and ABC’s “The View.” She typically does not grant interviews with reporters inside the Capitol.

After the Senate’s vote to stop her from talking on the floor, Warren held a Facebook Live interview on Tuesday night to circumvent the ruling.

The Senate is scheduled to hold a final vote on Sessions shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Senate Republicans voted Tuesday night to invoke Rule 19, which prohibits any senator from imputing an unworthy motive to a fellow senator, to silence Warren.

She said the letter deserves to be debated on the floor because it has direct bearing on Sessions’s nomination.

“For me, this was all about Coretta Scott King’s letter, which I believe is relevant to confirmation of Jeff Sessions to be attorney general,” she said.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) triggering of Rule 19 created a groundswell of public support and attention for Warren. This has prompted speculation that his maneuver was intended to help Warren politically, and pull the Democratic Party further to the left.

The Washington Post’s wrote Wednesday that McConnell in effect gave Warren’s 2020 presidential campaign “an in-kind contribution,” writing that “McConnell gagging Warren is one of the best gifts she could have received.”

Asked whether McConnell is secretly trying to help her politically, Warren replied, “I don’t know how I feel about that,” adding, “I think you have to ask him.”

Warren has been talked about as a key player in the 2020 Democratic presidential race and a potentially formidable challenger to President Trump.

A focus group convened by Democratic pollster Peter Hart at the start of 2015 found that voters wanted Warren to come over to their homes to talk about issues more than any of the 2016 presidential contenders.