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What Now? with Trevor Noah

Mayor Karen Bass Predicts Los Angeles’ Future

What Now? with Trevor Noah

SiriusXM & Day Zero Productions

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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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

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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.

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