Work in Progress: Mayor Karen Bass

Work in Progress with Sophia Bush

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

You’ve seen the headlines, the news footage, and the online outrage about the ICE raids in LA, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joins Sophia to give a real-time report on the State of the City.

How did a small pocket of unruly protesters in one of the largest populations in America lead to military movement on city streets? Should law-abiding Angelinos be living in fear?

Mayor Bass sounds the alarm on the daily departure from due process, and what could be next in the immigration sweeps happening across the country.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.0	Hi, everyone. It's Sophia. Welcome to Work in Progress.
0:42.1	Hi, Whipsmarties. As many of you know, I consider myself very blessed to be a Californian and even more blessed to be an Angelino. I loved growing up in L.A. and I love the city for its diversity and its energy and its art and its people. And as my home city is being ravaged by ice and aggression coming from the White House, I can't believe I
0:50.2	have to even say that out loud, but here we are. I wanted to ask some questions of someone
0:55.1	who has been tasked with holding us together and tasked by us, by the people. Today's guest is
1:01.6	none other than our esteemed mayor, Karen Bass. She serves as our 43rd mayor of Los Angeles.
1:08.5	And prior to becoming mayor, she served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the
1:12.8	33rd and 37th District in California, also in the state assembly, and was the speaker of the
1:19.6	California State Assembly during her final term. Karen is also an Angelino. She is someone who
1:26.6	inspires me so much. She's carried her passion for public
1:31.1	health through her entire career, through her many degrees, and she has been a community organizer
1:36.8	for nearly as long. I don't know many emergency medicine physician assistants or clinical
1:42.4	instructors who have also studied philosophy but mayor bass
1:45.9	has done it all i so appreciate the way she looks at our human responsibilities how we show up for each
1:54.8	other how we make space for each other and how we go farther together so today as the president wants to put a target on the city of Los Angeles's back,
2:06.7	I want to talk to the woman who's actually standing in front of our city with a shield
2:10.6	and making sure that everyone in Los Angeles and in the surrounding areas knows they're safe with us.
2:18.6	Let's dive in with Mayor Karen Bass.
2:31.3	Mayor Bass, thank you so much for joining us today.
2:34.3	It means the world to have you call in from Los Angeles.
2:37.0	And first and foremost, I just want to thank you for all of your efforts to hold the city together in such a fraught time for the nation.
2:47.0	Thank you, thank you.
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