Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Sunday she hopes Hillary Clinton will embark on a presidential run in 2016 â€“ even as chatter about a White House bid heats up around the first-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts. Warren hopes Hillary Clinton will run in 2016

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Sunday she hopes Hillary Clinton will embark on a presidential run in 2016 – even as chatter about a White House bid heats up around the first-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts.

“All of the women – Democratic women I should say of the Senate – urged Hillary Clinton to run,” Warren said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” “And I hope she does …. Hillary is terrific.”

Warren is referring to a letter signed by all Senate Democratic women, including herself, last fall that privately encouraged the former secretary of state, senator and first lady to run for the White House in 2016. Though liberal activists want Warren for the presidency, the senator said in repeated interviews in the last week that she was not running in 2016.

The Massachusetts senator is currently promoting her book, “A Fighting Chance.”