LA Mayor RAGE QUITS CNN INTERVIEW After Her Trump Assassination Support BACKFIRES!

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]So, uh, when you talked to Jake Tapper in 2023, you said that your goal was to end street homelessness in LA by 2026.

[00:00:08]It's now 2026, >> and we haven't ended it.

[00:00:11]>> We have not ended it, and we're not close to ending it. How are you so off?

[00:00:15]>> Well, uh, basically, when I said that, it was at the beginning of my term. I am very committed to achieving that goal. I didn't anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that I would experience, but I am prepared to take those on now.

[00:00:32]>> But you promised that it would go away 100%. And it's only gone down about 17.6%.

[00:00:39]>> Right.

[00:00:40]>> So why should people trust you that you're going to be able to get to the 100%?

[00:00:43]>> Because let me just tell you, for the first time, we've had a decrease at all.

[00:00:48]>> There was not a decrease before at all.

[00:00:51]Ladies and gentlemen, Karen Bass just walked off CNN red-faced and finished.

[00:00:55]The mayor of Los Angeles sat down with Jake Tapper, got cornered on her own broken vow, and reportedly stormed out as her past Trump assassination remarks blew up in her face on live television.

[00:01:05]Back in 2023, she swore street homelessness would be gone by 2026. It's 2026. The number down a sad 17.6%. Her excuse bureaucratic barriers. She actually bragged there was not a decrease before at all. Come on. And what's coming next for Bass? The recall whispers, the federal heat. You are not ready. Quick interruption. If you'd like to support the channel, you can find all the donate links down below. Every contribution helps me keep creating videos consistently, improve the quality of the channel, upgrade my setup, and spend more time researching and producing the best content possible. Um, I truly appreciate every bit of support.

[00:01:45]Now, let's get back to the video. down and there were no firefighters pre-eployed to the Palisades despite one of the most dire wind forecasts in years.

[00:01:54]>> Last February, Bass told me this on Fox 11 Los Angeles.

[00:01:58]>> Although there were warnings that I frankly wasn't aware of.

[00:02:02]>> But what do you mean there were warnings you weren't aware of?

[00:02:04]>> It didn't reach that level to me. In a new book called Torch, CBS News reporter Jonathan Vigliotti writes, quote, "According to multiple sources, Bass was briefed before her departure about the National Weather Services models. CNN cannot independently confirm CBS's reporting." So, which is it?

[00:02:22]>> That's just simply not true. So, I don't know what sources he's talking to, but that is a wholesale falsehood. I will tell you that it wasn't just the city.

[00:02:32]the entire county was not prepared for this. But what I also said to you, Alex, is that it was a horrible, horrible moment in my life. The point is I wasn't here when my city needed me. And that is a profound regret.

[00:02:48]>> But that book makes the point that you being in Ghana actually hurt the city's response. It it argues that during the hour when the fire was building that you were sort of out of touch because you were focused on on the event in Ghana.

[00:03:02]>> No, that's actually not true either. So, I'll have to read this book and it would have been helpful if the author would have interviewed me.

[00:03:08]>> Well, he said he said that he asked for an interview for a couple years and then they never Well, that's news to me.

[00:03:15]>> Ladies and gentlemen, Karen Bass got cooked on CNN. And look, I don't say that lightly because CNN doesn't usually do this to Democrats. They protect their own. They give them softballs. They let them talk. They nod along like good little stenographers. But this one, this one slipped through. The mayor of Los Angeles, the woman who was sipping tea in Ghana while the Palisades burned to the ground, sat down with CNN to clean up her image. And she made it worse. Way worse. Here's what you need to know if you've been living your life and not following every little detail. Earlier this year, Pacific Palisades, one of the most iconic neighborhoods in America, gets wiped off the map. Thousands of homes gone. families with nothing. And where was the mayor? On a plane in Africa for a presidential inauguration in Ghana. While forecasters were screaming about the worst wind event in years. Now, a new book is out written by a CBS reporter saying she was briefed before she left. She knew. And on CNN, she's sitting there telling you she didn't know. The book is wrong. The reporter never contacted her. And oh, by the way, the whole county failed, not just her. This matters to you because your tax money pays for these people.

[00:04:20]Your safety depends on them being awake at the wheel. And public trust, the thing that holds a country together, collapses when the people in charge lie to your face about something this big.

[00:04:29]Watch how she handles being asked a simple question. You guys see what just happened there? She got hit with a direct quote from a reporter, multiple sources on the record in a book saying she was briefed. And her response is, "That's a wholesale falsehood." Okay. So either Jonathan Vigliotti, a CBS news reporter, made up sources for a published book which would end his career, or the mayor of Los Angeles is lying to your face on national television. Pick one. There is no third option. And then she goes, "It would have been helpful if the author would have interviewed me." Then the anchor says, "Well, he says he asked you for two years." And her answer, that's news to me. Two years of interview requests.

[00:05:10]News to her. Sure, Karen. Sure. And I want to tell you something. This is the woman who lectures America about leadership. This is the woman whose party tells you that Republicans are the dumb ones, the careless ones, the reckless ones. She skipped town during the worst wind warning in years to attend a ceremonial event in Ghana.

[00:05:27]Imagine if Ron DeSantis flew to Paris the night before a hurricane. Imagine the headlines. Imagine the panic on MSNBC. They'd be calling for his resignation by sunrise. But Karen Bass crickets soft music sympathy interview.

[00:05:42]Now CNN, to their credit, and I never thought I'd say those words out loud, actually pressed her on what regular Angelenos are saying.

[00:05:49]>> I think there are a lot of people in this city that like you, that respect you, that voted for you, but they're frustrated. They feel like there hasn't been enough change fast enough in the city, and they're not sure if you're up to the task to take it to the next level. What do you say to those people?

[00:06:03]Well, what I say is is that we have absolutely made progress. I'm frustrated that it hasn't been more. I still will fight for change every single day I'm in this office.

[00:06:15]>> There it is. Even her supporters, even the people who voted for her are saying out loud what everyone has been thinking. We're not sure if you're up to the task. That's a polite CNN friendly way of saying, "Ma'am, you're in over your head." And her answer is what every failing politician says. One, we've made progress. I'm frustrated, too. I'll fight every day. Lady, you are the office. You are not fighting the system.

[00:06:36]You are the system. You can't be frustrated at yourself and then ask for more time to keep being frustrated. And here's what gets me. She ran on experience. She ran on knowing how government works. Let me show you exactly how she sold herself to LA voters back in the campaign because this is going to be very, very relevant in about 30 seconds.

[00:06:55]>> If uh what is one word that separates you from the other candidates for mayor?

[00:07:02]experience, collaboration. I'm sorry I had to throw in another, >> but but but let me just say though, >> anything else you want to add?

[00:07:11]>> Yeah, I just want to say I can't emphasize enough how I have benefited from serving in Congress and in the state house and that there are multiple examples we don't have time to talk about now that I've had to change federal regulations, federal law, and state law. And I can do that because I know how these institutions work. And you cannot run the nation's second largest city without intimate knowledge, long-standing relationships, and collaboration on every level of government. I have that based on my work over the years, and that is what we're going to need to have at our disposal in moving our city forward.

[00:07:51]>> Experience, collaboration, intimate knowledge, long-standing relationships.

[00:07:56]You cannot run the nation's second largest city without these things, she says. Okay, so with all this experience, all these relationships, all this collaboration on every level of government, somehow the National Weather Service warning didn't reach her desk.

[00:08:10]Somehow the firefighters weren't pre-eployed. Somehow she was in Ghana instead of in a command center. What exactly did all that experience get Los Angeles? A burned down neighborhood and a mayor doing damage control on cable news. And let me walk you through something because I want you to understand the actual machine here. A mayor of a major American city has a deputy mayor for emergency services.

[00:08:31]They have a fire chief. They have a police chief. They have an OEM, office of emergency management. When the National Weather Service issues a particularly dangerous situation warning, and which is rare, it's the highest tier they have. That warning fans out across every agency in the region within hours. It hits inboxes. It hits phones. It hits group chats. The idea that the mayor, the person at the top of that pyramid didn't get told is, I'm not going to lie, almost impossible unless nobody around her thought she'd care or unless she got the message and got on the plane. Anyway, I don't know which is worse. Honestly, both are disqualifying. One is incompetence, the other is negligence. Take your pick.

[00:09:10]Now, here's the part that's going to make Democrats really mad because after the city was on fire, after she got back, after she realized she was politically dead in the water, who did she go to? Who saved her? who picked up the phone and started making things happen for the people of Los Angeles.

[00:09:25]>> And so I asked the president after he issued the executive order in writing, I sent him a letter and said, "Mr. President, only you have the power to convene these two industries and hold them accountable." And I was hoping that he would tweet and make other messages around that. And he ultimately did. He did do a tweet around the insurance industry. And many Palisades residents told us that all of a sudden they were getting a little better response.

[00:09:53]>> And then uh I went to the Oval Office with Katherine Barger who is my partner on the board of supervisors and she represents the Eaton fire. I only represent Palisades, not Malibu. And so we were both appealing to the president to help us one with our FEMA reimbursement, but also as an advocate if he would advocate with banking and insurance. And that's where we are now.

[00:10:19]>> And what did President Trump say to you?

[00:10:21]>> Uh he was very welcoming and uh very supportive of the idea. And so um he did tweet right after that about the banking industry and that has been helpful in moving the needle.

[00:10:33]>> Ladies and gentlemen, did you catch that? She went to the Oval Office. She wrote a letter. She begged President Trump to tweet about the insurance industry because she knew his tweet would do more than her entire mayoral apparatus could do. She admitted it on camera. She said Palisad's residents all of a sudden started getting better responses from insurance companies after Trump tweeted. That's massive. That's the mayor of Los Angeles confessing that one tweet from the president of the United States moved the needle more than her entire administration. And remember, these are the people who spent 10 years telling you Donald Trump was Hitler.

[00:11:06]These are the people who said he was a threat to democracy, a danger to the country, a man who could never be trusted with power. And the second their city burns down, the second their constituents are screaming, the second they actually need a grown-up, they fly to Washington and ask the orange Hitler for help. And he helps them. He helps them because that's what he does. He doesn't care if you voted for him. He cares if you're an American. You know what I've noticed about Democrats? They talk a big game about caring for working people. They lecture us about compassion. They wear the ribbons. They do the speeches. They show up at the photo ops. And then when the chips are down, when actual families lose actual homes, they're in Ghana. And the guy they called a fascist is the one in the Oval Office picking up the phone for them. Tell me again who actually serves the people in this country. Tell me again who's looking out for working families. I'll wait. So look, will Karen Bass survive this politically? probably it's LA. They reelect anyone with a D next to their name, even if they set the city on fire themselves. Do I think she'll be held accountable? We'll see.

[00:12:08]I'd love to say yes. I'd love to say justice is coming for every politician who failed their city. But I've been watching this game too long to pretend.

[00:12:17]What I do know is this, and the people of the Palisades will remember. The families who lost everything will remember. And in the end, the only person in this entire story who actually showed up for them was the guy the media told them to hate. Thank you all very much for watching.