Joanna Coles Interviews Elizabeth Warren at Hearst Tower

COLES’ PRESIDENTIAL RUNAROUND: No matter how hard she tried, Joanna Coles wasn’t getting her big scoop on whether U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) is planning a presidential bid in 2016. The editor in chief of Cosmopolitan permitted Warren to give what sounded like a well-rehearsed stump speech, with Clinton-esque gesticulations (Bill’s, not Hillary’s) on financial reform, the state of the economy and why “Washington is broken” — a familiar talking point among politicians of both parties (and pretty much every person of voting age in America). The interview, which took place Tuesday morning at Hearst Tower in Manhattan, gave Warren the chance to promote her new book “A Fighting Chance,” but let’s face it, the real reason why the small auditorium was standing-room only was to get a glimpse of the potential presidential candidate — and, Coles, a former newspaper reporter, knew that. “You’ve come straight here, flying from the ‘Today Show’ studios where you denied fervently that you’re going to run for president,” Coles said. “We’ll come back to that.” And she would, but first, the editor sat patiently — squirming only minimally — for about 30 minutes while Warren talked policy and her personal travails. Those included her mother’s struggles raising

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