Welcome, everybody, to the Jim Acosta show.

It is Monday.

It's a Monday after the massive No Kings Day protests over the weekend.

As you can see, my big guest today is the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass.

Mayors, thank you so much for your time.

Really appreciate it.

I know it's tight in terms of your time, so I'll jump right into it.

Your response, I guess, first of all, to those big No King's rallies

that we saw over the weekend. We saw them in L.A. They were all across the country. Pretty impressive.

Your thoughts? Well, first of all, they were very impressive. We had 15 different locations

just in the city of Los Angeles, and they were all

peaceful. The largest one was about 30,000 people in downtown L.A. Unfortunately, we had some problems

toward the end, and that, you know, resulted in some conflicts between the protesters and law enforcement,

but it was brought under control very quickly. And so the evening ended with only five people

being arrested. Five people were arrested and 33 people were given citations, which is like a

traffic ticket. So overall, I would have to declare that as a success.

And just another example of how L.A. can manage itself and does not need federal intervention

to do basic police work in our city. Yeah. And just to cover the basics, I mean, for folks who are

not in L.A. and not immersed in what the local news is saying right now, basically, you still have the Marines there. You have the National Guard there. That's a constant state of being. And it's being done without your consent or the governor's consent.

Well, and not only that, without our knowledge as to what they're doing here. So needless to say, that opens the door up for all

sorts of rumors and gossip and fear because people think they're seeing them here, think they're

seeing them there. And we really don't know what is going on. It's just not helpful at all to the

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