"I would feel a lot better about Wells Fargo if I heard someone saying, someone in a position of authority, like the CEO, step up and say, 'I take responsibility, and I'm not keeping my job. and I'm not keeping my bonus over this,'" she told the host.

Warren appeared on CNBC Thursday and called for officials at the top levels of the banking giant to take responsibility for defrauding customers.

Elizabeth Warren is slamming Wells Fargo ahead of a Congressional hearing around the recent scandal at the bank involving millions of potentially fake bank accounts.

Warren is set to question the CEO of Wells Fargo next week when the Senate banking committee holds a hearing about millions of bank account openings that may not have been authorized by customers. Wells Fargo was fined $185 million in total and it fired at least 5,300 employees.


"We're talking about a scandal here that involves thousands of their employees cheating tens of thousands of customers out of money and making millions of dollars doing it for the bank," Warren said Thursday.

But Warren argued that it was the bank's top executives who needed to feel the heat.

"I want to hear something about some accountability. All they do is fire, you know, the low level employees. The guys who are out there just trying to make a living. And they say the people who presided over this, who are supposed to be running this bank not only have no personal accountability, but they get to walk out with multimillion-dollar bonuses? No. You can't run a bank like that," Warren said.

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