Mayor Karen Bass Predicts Los Angeles’ Future

What Now? with Trevor Noah

SiriusXM & Day Zero Productions

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Trevor sits down with Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass on the anniversary of her first year in office. In 2022, Bass upset a well-financed opponent to win the election and return to the city where her activism began. Mayor Bass discusses her work as a high school student on Bobby Kennedy’s campaign, why she cut a London trip short because of Angela Davis, LA’s homeless crisis, and whether she’d ever run for President. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Could we just make sure everyone's recording?
0:02.2	All right. I'm recording on my side.
0:03.9	I'm recording.
0:05.2	One second. One second.
0:07.5	I'm always recording.
0:10.0	Please note that all calls are recorded for quality assurance purposes.
0:19.7	This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
0:27.0	Happy Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bastay, everybody.
0:34.9	Happy Karen Bastay.
0:36.2	Happy Karen Bastay.
0:37.5	I love speaking to mayors because after years and years of speaking to politicians,
0:43.6	I have been told by, I would say like the majority of politicians that mayors have the most
0:50.3	direct impact on your life.
0:53.5	Like if you live in a city, a mayor has more of an impact on
0:57.0	your life than the president of your country does. And most people don't think this. Most people are
1:01.4	out there in the streets, especially in America. I've noticed like in America, it's all about national
1:05.3	politics. Christiana, I feel like of all of us, you have the highest stake in this conversation,
1:09.5	because you are a resident of Los Angeles. I do. And do and you know I've had some experience with mayors Boris Johnson was the mayor
1:17.2	of London and then became the prime minister so I have a lot of feeling I've had the worst
1:23.8	mayors I had de Blasio and Boris Johnson and Karen, I have no view of it right now because she's currently reigning as the mayor. I want to speak to her about, I mean, everything, obviously. But, you know, L.A. right now, I think one of the big topics, obviously, is homelessness. Yeah. Yeah. I find that people are more angry at homeless people than they are at the situations that make
1:50.2	people homeless.
1:51.2	For sure.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from SiriusXM & Day Zero Productions, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of SiriusXM & Day Zero Productions and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.