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The Race for Los Angeles: Mayor Karen Bass Sits Down With Mimi Brown · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass, thank you so much for joining us on
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  Speaker 1: Front Page today. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing just fine, and thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. So, okay, we're going to get into some of
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  Speaker 1: the issues facing Los Angeles in the upcoming election, but
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  Speaker 1: before we do, I wanted to have a little fun,
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  Speaker 1: if that's okay. I know you're born and raised in L.A.
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  Speaker 2: I sure am.
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  Speaker 1: You spent decades in public service, but I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: see how L.A. you really are. if that's okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So no thinking, just the first answer that comes to mind, just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just a little fun. Okay. All right. Fox
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  Speaker 1: Hills Mall or Culver City Mall?
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  Speaker 2: Fox Hills Mall.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because that's what it was always known as. But then
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  Speaker 3: when they decided they wanted to change it and branded something.
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  Speaker 2: Else, Oh, no. It's known in the community as the
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  Speaker 2: Fox Hills Mall.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. That's what we will always call it. You know
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  Speaker 1: you're from L.A. when?
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  Speaker 2: You know you're from L.A. when you know where the
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  Speaker 2: Staples Center is.
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  Speaker 1: The Staples Center.
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  Speaker 2: The Staples Center.
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  Speaker 1: Which is technically right behind us, right?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: And some people might call it crypto. You're from L.A.
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  Speaker 2: if it's the Staples Center.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I think I know the answer to this, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask anyway. Old school R & B
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  Speaker 1: or West Coast hip hop?
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  Speaker 2: Well, now, for me, it's old school R & B.
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  Speaker 2: I thought so. I thought so. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And so because we're in L.A., we know that traffic
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  Speaker 1: can be a little bit overwhelming. So- Name a street
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  Speaker 1: or something, a freeway that someone may avoid during rush
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  Speaker 1: hour traffic.
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  Speaker 3: The 405.
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  Speaker 1: The 405?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: The 10 also, but the 405.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the 405 is probably backed up now. It starts
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  Speaker 1: really early, right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there used to be rush hour. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: there's rush hour anymore. It's rush day. It's rush day.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and then someone tells you they can get from
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  Speaker 1: Santa Monica to the Valley in 20 minutes. Are we
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  Speaker 1: believing them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if they're taking Metro.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good one. OK, they're taking Metro. OK,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't I did not expect that one.
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  Speaker 1: All right. And Mayor Bass, I want to end with
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  Speaker 1: a little wisdom. A legendary West Coast philosopher and one
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest thinkers of our time once said, and
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  Speaker 1: I quote, with so much drama in the LBC. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of hard being.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about Snoop. Yes, I am talking about Snoop.
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  Speaker 2: And it's LBC, it's Long Beach. Good, yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I talking about? I'm talking about Snoop, absolutely. Well,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for playing.
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Thank you for playing. All right, well,
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass, we are down to the final days before
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  Speaker 1: the election.
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  Speaker 2: Thank goodness.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, how are you feeling?
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  Speaker 2: I'm feeling, no, I'm feeling great.
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  Speaker 3: There's so much love out there and so much energy
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  Speaker 3: out there. But that doesn't mean that I'm not tired. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because, you know, I am running a campaign.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm also running the nation's second largest city. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm chairing the Metropolitan Transit Authority Board. So I
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  Speaker 3: have three full-time jobs. That makes the sister tired.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it does. You know, I wanted to ask,
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  Speaker 1: this time around, you've never lost an election.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: You have... been in public service for years. Does this
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  Speaker 1: time around feel just a little bit different for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but let me be clear.
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  Speaker 3: I have been in public service my entire life, but
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  Speaker 3: not as a politician. My roots are in the medical field,
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  Speaker 3: taking care of our community, who are most vulnerable, whether
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  Speaker 3: it was in the NICU, the newborn ICU with one
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  Speaker 3: and two pound babies, or whether it was working at
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  Speaker 3: County General Emergency Room. with gunshot wounds, stab wounds, and
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  Speaker 3: car accidents, are running community-based organizations. I decided as a
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  Speaker 3: child I wanted to devote my life to serving the
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  Speaker 3: city where I was born and raised.
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  Speaker 2: And I ran for office.
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  Speaker 3: This is a tough election, but my last election was
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  Speaker 3: extremely tough as well.
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  Speaker 2: What is different now is that the mood of the
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  Speaker 2: nation is so sour.
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  Speaker 3: Because the onslaught that we have experienced from this administration.
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  Speaker 2: $ 8 a gallon gas?
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Food that is really expensive.
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  Speaker 3: Both of those things are outside of the control of
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  Speaker 3: a mayor. But what is in control, because affordability is
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  Speaker 3: our number one issue, and that is housing. And I
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  Speaker 3: have overseen the building of more affordable housing in the
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  Speaker 3: last four years that's been built in many, many, many.
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  Speaker 2: Years before that.
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  Speaker 3: Did you know there's 10,000 units of affordable housing ready
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  Speaker 3: right now for people to occupy?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I did read that there is affordable housing in
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  Speaker 1: a building that was an office building downtown.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 3: One-bedroom apartments for $ 937? Wow.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not ready. That's not one of the ones
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  Speaker 2: that's ready. Okay. That's going to take a year or so.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And as we speak about affordability, I know that one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons why you left Congress was was because
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to tackle homelessness here in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: I have always been, maybe it's my emergency room roots,
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  Speaker 3: but I have always been compelled to respond to an
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  Speaker 3: emergency when I see it happening. And when we had
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  Speaker 3: the devastation after COVID of hundreds of, well, it looks
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  Speaker 3: like hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands of people sleeping
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  Speaker 3: on our street. That's not the LA where I was
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  Speaker 3: born and I was raised. And to me, it was
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  Speaker 3: a humanitarian crisis, especially because black folk are only 9%
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  Speaker 3: of the city and over 30% of the unhoused population.
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  Speaker 3: That said, even though I loved being in Congress, I
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  Speaker 3: had to leave. I had to come home.
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  Speaker 2: I had to address the problems that we're facing right here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, and speaking of the problems that we're
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  Speaker 1: facing right here, you know, homelessness used to be confined
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  Speaker 1: to just Skid Row. But as, you know, an Angeleno myself,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you kind of see it spread out more
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  Speaker 1: in different neighborhoods and, you know, on sidewalks. Why has
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  Speaker 1: it been so difficult to get a handle on?
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  Speaker 3: Well, let me just tell you, it was confined to
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  Speaker 3: South Central L.A. and Skid Row when I first started
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  Speaker 3: working on this issue. And frankly, nobody cared about it then.
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  Speaker 3: They cared about it when it spread across the city
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  Speaker 3: and when it spread to neighborhoods that were not what
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  Speaker 3: was considered the inner city. And so to me, I
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  Speaker 3: think the way it has been approached over these last
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  Speaker 3: three decades by the city and the county has been
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  Speaker 3: dysfunctional and that they never had a plan to actually
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  Speaker 3: house everybody. And what I'm doing now is number one,
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  Speaker 3: when I came into office, I wanted to get our
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  Speaker 3: people off the streets and not just.
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  Speaker 2: Shove them in another neighborhood. I want them to be
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  Speaker 2: housed properly. I want them to be back.
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  Speaker 3: On their streets and self-sufficient where they don't need any
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  Speaker 3: public money. That really wasn't what was tried before. And
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  Speaker 3: so that's what we've been doing. We've had the reduction
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  Speaker 3: in street homelessness two years in a row.
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  Speaker 2: It was the first time it ever went down. It
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  Speaker 2: was only going up.
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  Speaker 3: And so now what we've learned in the first term,
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  Speaker 3: I am ready to establish an independent system separate from
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  Speaker 3: the counties. where we can be in control so we
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  Speaker 3: can make sure that our people get the care that
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  Speaker 3: they need so they never go back to the streets again.
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  Speaker 1: Can you talk to me about Inside Safe and the
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  Speaker 1: work that you're doing with that?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and that's the primary program.
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  Speaker 3: Now, there's multiple programs to get people off the street,
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  Speaker 3: and I support.
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  Speaker 2: All of them.
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  Speaker 3: But the program that we're using with Inside Safe has
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  Speaker 3: been the only successful model in clearing encampments. And what
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  Speaker 3: is fundamentally different is prior to my administration— outreach workers
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  Speaker 3: would come and they would pick and choose one individual
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  Speaker 3: person in an encampment, which is why the encampment never
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  Speaker 3: went away. We understand that encampments are many communities. And
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  Speaker 3: so what we do when we go in to clear
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  Speaker 3: out an encampment, We house everybody.
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  Speaker 2: We take everybody.
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  Speaker 3: We even take people that weren't in the encampment but
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  Speaker 3: see us housing people, and they walk up and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: if you're housing people, can I come along?
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  Speaker 2: Which means we've destroyed the myth that people want to
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  Speaker 2: be on the street.
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  Speaker 3: Black and brown people, and that's 74% of the people
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  Speaker 3: that are on the street, they don't want to be there.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody wants to live in squalor, not unless, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't think they want to, but not unless they are
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  Speaker 3: seriously mentally ill and they don't even know that they're
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  Speaker 3: living in squalor.
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  Speaker 1: You know, your opponent, Nithya Raman, she's criticized your handling
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  Speaker 1: of homelessness, saying the city has spent millions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: on Inside Safe without accountability or lasting results. Now, she's promising...
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  Speaker 1: to cut street homelessness before or in half before the
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  Speaker 1: 2028 Olympics. Is that realistic?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not only realistic, but it's not only unrealistic,
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  Speaker 3: but it's it's. It's laughable considering that every single dollar
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  Speaker 3: that has been spent on homelessness.
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  Speaker 2: Is approved by Nithya Raman. I am the mayor.
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  Speaker 3: I put forward expenditures. This council approves it. She, until
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  Speaker 3: she was fired, was the chair of the homelessness committee.
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  Speaker 3: So all of the expenses went through her committee, could
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  Speaker 3: not be spent without her approval.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. You know, and I we talked a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about affordability, you know, because I don't think that you
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  Speaker 1: can talk about homelessness. You can't talk about affordability, you know,
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  Speaker 1: within the same sentence without going back and forth. LA,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about the gas prices, you know, $ 8 a gallon.
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  Speaker 1: Diesel is, you know, super higher than that in some places.
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  Speaker 1: People are struggling to afford life and not just in California,
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  Speaker 1: but around the, around the nation, you know? Um, But
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  Speaker 1: how do we make LA more affordable?
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  Speaker 3: And that's why I was saying what was different between
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  Speaker 3: my last campaign and this campaign. the mood of the nation,
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  Speaker 3: the mood of the nation primarily from this administration. There's
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  Speaker 3: three ways I think we can make L.A.
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  Speaker 2: More affordable.
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  Speaker 3: The other issues are outside of the purview of a mayor.
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  Speaker 3: We need a president that is not going to go
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  Speaker 3: to war, a president that would allow us to have
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  Speaker 3: reasonable gas prices, and gas is expensive here regardless. And
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  Speaker 3: so three ways. Number one is housing, which I described.
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  Speaker 3: 47,000 units being fast-tracked right now, 10,000 ready today.
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  Speaker 2: The other way is transportation.
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  Speaker 3: As chair of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, I made permanent
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  Speaker 3: a program that we were piloting, and that was providing
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  Speaker 3: free transportation for students. K through college can ride for free.
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  Speaker 3: Seniors can ride for free. Low-income folks can. can ride
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  Speaker 3: for free. So that cuts transportation costs. That's not even
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  Speaker 3: to say that basically it's inexpensive to travel on Metro.
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  Speaker 3: So that ride from downtown L.A. to the San Fernando
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  Speaker 3: Valley cost $ 1. 75. I will tell you in gas, no
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  Speaker 3: telling what it would cost because of the traffic that
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to worry about on Metro. The other
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  Speaker 3: big ticket for a lot of families is the cost
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  Speaker 3: of child care. So we provide child care services in
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  Speaker 3: a number of our parks, but we're getting ready to
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  Speaker 3: massively expand that by offering nonprofits and other companies that
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: provide childcare to do it in our city parks.
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  Speaker 2: That way it lowers their overhead costs. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I've talked to people in Leimert Park.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked to people in Baldwin Hills.
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  Speaker 2: Just came from Leimert Park.
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  Speaker 1: You did? I love Leimert. You know, and I, but
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  Speaker 1: what I'm hearing from the people in those areas, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the cost of living and affordability is, Some are
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  Speaker 1: feeling pushed out of their neighborhood. You know, those families
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  Speaker 1: have lived there for generations and now things are changing.
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  Speaker 1: How do we keep those families there? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm very worried about that. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: you're talking about my neighborhood. You're talking about where I live. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I'm staying someplace different right now because. And the mayor
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  Speaker 3: has a residence in the city of Los Angeles. But
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  Speaker 3: my home is in the Baldwin Hills area. And so
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  Speaker 3: I am watching that. And that's happening for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of reasons. Number one, there's a lot of people in
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  Speaker 3: those areas who really did not.
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  Speaker 2: Intend to sell their homes.
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  Speaker 3: But other people from other neighborhoods come in and offer
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  Speaker 3: them exorbitant.
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  Speaker 2: Costs.
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  Speaker 3: And, for example, even my own home, coming home after
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  Speaker 3: the grocery store, being met at the door with somebody saying,
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  Speaker 3: I'll buy your house cash, I'll give you all of
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  Speaker 3: this money, that has persuaded some people to move. The
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  Speaker 3: other thing is that I'm worried about policies that say
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  Speaker 3: I can sell my home in Leimert Park. but the
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  Speaker 3: person I sell it to can build a six-story building.
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  Speaker 3: That really changes the character of the neighborhoods. And if
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  Speaker 3: you just think about Leimert Park, black people weren't even
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  Speaker 3: allowed there a couple of generations ago. So it is,
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  Speaker 3: to me, very important that black people not get pushed
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  Speaker 3: out one more time because, honestly, I don't know where
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  Speaker 3: we're going to go. And so I support the building
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  Speaker 3: of housing. That's a difference between me and my opponent.
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  Speaker 3: who thinks that housing should be built willy-nilly everywhere, anywhere,
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  Speaker 3: because she doesn't have the sensitivity to gentrification because she's
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  Speaker 3: only been in Los Angeles for 13 years. So she
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  Speaker 3: doesn't know the history of people not being allowed in
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  Speaker 3: neighborhoods or people being pushed out of neighborhoods. Lacking that sensitivity,
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  Speaker 3: it's easy for her to arrive at the conclusion she does.
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  Speaker 3: I would rather look at what the president of the
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  Speaker 3: city council, Marquis Harris Dawson, has done. So he supports housing,
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  Speaker 3: but he also supports maintaining the character of those neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 3: And what he's done is built hundreds of units of
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  Speaker 3: housing on Crenshaw Boulevard. No one gets displaced. The housing
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  Speaker 3: is there. Some of it is market rate. A lot
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  Speaker 3: of it is affordable. And that's the way I believe
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  Speaker 3: that housing should be built. That's the number one driver
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  Speaker 3: that a mayor can have influence over when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to affordability.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I really love that. I was born here.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in Alaska, but my family is from here.
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  Speaker 1: My grandmother, my great grandmother, they all live on Crenshaw,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and they've all seen their neighborhoods. They've changed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but they are worried about, you know, what
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: that may look like. I mean, the families having the
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: black homeownership and generational wealth to pass down to your
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: children is very, very important. And we want to protect that.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm a homeowner today because my parents were able
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  Speaker 3: to pass.
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  Speaker 2: The home along. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Moving on just a bit, you know, today, actually,
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  Speaker 1: you ordered an independent audit of the LADWP. And I
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: want to talk about that for a moment because people
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: have been opening their utility bills to $ 3, 000, $ 4, 000 utility bills.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on? Why are bills so high right now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, there's a couple of reasons.
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  Speaker 3: Number one, DWP bills are complicated because it's not just DWP,
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  Speaker 3: but there's other charges on there that why in the
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  Speaker 3: city history it was decided to lump everything on a
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  Speaker 3: DWP bill, I'm not exactly sure. But let me just
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  Speaker 3: say that we went through a brutal summer. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: a summer that I can't remember.
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  Speaker 2: A summer that's still going on and we're almost into November.
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  Speaker 1: And it's still hot.
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  Speaker 2: And it's 80 degrees out there.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: But one thing that was different about this summer is
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  Speaker 3: that usually the heat goes down in the night and
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  Speaker 3: you don't need your air conditioning. It was hot 24 hours.
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people left their air conditioning
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  Speaker 3: on 24 hours a day. But I've asked DWP. to
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  Speaker 3: look into it. So tomorrow they have their commission meeting.
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  Speaker 3: And at that meeting tomorrow, I'm expecting some results from
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  Speaker 3: the commission. And I ordered an independent audit.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to be.
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  Speaker 3: Clear about what that means. DWP does their own audits
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  Speaker 3: every year. I don't want an internal audit. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want any city department to audit DWP. I want it
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  Speaker 3: to be from the outside and I want DWP to
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  Speaker 3: pay for it. So it does not come out of
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  Speaker 3: the general fund. that would impact services like street cleaning
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  Speaker 3: and street repair and those things.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I know you also called for some immediate relief. You know,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: you've paused people getting their shutoff notices until January of
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: next year. But what does that look like? Are those
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: charges still going to be there? Are there relief programs
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: that are being put in place?
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: This is what I'm telling DWP to figure out. With
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: some people, it might mean a payment plan. Some people
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: might find out there's something wrong structurally, like a leak,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: or they need a new meter. I know, having been
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: born and raised here, I never had air conditioning in
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: any home I lived in. Even my home today does
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: not have air conditioning. We didn't need it. What we
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: all have to come to grips with is climate change
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: is impacting our city with climate events. That if you're
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: from here and you're not from the East Coast, you
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: don't know much about hurricanes. You don't know much about tornadoes.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: But we now have reorganized our emergency systems, our fire,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: our police department, and our emergency operations centers to prepare
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: for events that historically we have never experienced. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: You know, Mayor, I want to talk about immigration, too,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: because President Trump has made Los Angeles a major focus
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: on his immigration crackdown. What has it been like trying
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: to lead a city while going head to head with
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: the White House?
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Well, I will tell you one thing that has benefited
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: me personally, but also benefited our city tremendously, is that
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: I served in Sacramento. In my last term, I was
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Speaker of the House. I served in Washington, D.C., in
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: a leadership role in Congress. I know how those two
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: institutions work. I also served in Congress under Trump's first term.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: So I also know how the White House works. So
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: it helps me know how to navigate that. Because at
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: the end of the day, all cities need federal support.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: And we certainly do, a year and a half away
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: from the Olympics. But it also shows me how to fight,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: how to fight back constructively. And I had no problem
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: on day one saying this was an egregious affront to
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: US democracy to send troops that no one asked for
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: and were not needed. I understood that we were being
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: used as an experiment. I was on the phone three
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: days later with over 120 mayors letting them know what
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: was happening because I knew that what was starting here
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: was gonna go to other cities. I also knew that
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: if we didn't stand up, The message that that would
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: send throughout the country would have been chilling. And we
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: demonstrated for the world how to resist, how to stand up. Now,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: let me just say my opponent was nowhere to be found.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: She was invisible. She was not present when I worked
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: with the other council members, when we all stood together,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: when I issued at least five different executive directives. She
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: was not present when I met with the immigrant rights organizations,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: many of.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Whom I've worked with for decades. She was not visible.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Now she's speaking out now that she is running. But
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I do think that your ability to show that you
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: will defend Angelenos in spite of any kind of opposition
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: is the type of leadership that our city needs.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: And, you know, I wanted to ask you about the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: just some of the immigration immigrant communities. I know that,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: you know, speaking to some of them. It must be
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: a really tough time because what I'm hearing— It's a
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: horrible time. Yeah. And what I'm hearing is that people
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: are afraid to leave the.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: House for work, for school, for.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Just basic necessities. There's neighbors going to the grocery store
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: for them because they're afraid to leave. And then there
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: is reports about this 45-day blitz that is happening in
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: California today. and in San Diego, and I wanted to know,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: do you know anything about that, and is that happening
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: right now?
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, well, first of all, it's really important to acknowledge
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: that the raids have never stopped. The drama around it,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: the fact that it's no longer in the headlines, might
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: lead people to think that this is not going on.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: It's not going on in such a dramatic fashion. But
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: if you're a family, if you're a kid who doesn't
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: know whether their parents are going to come home at night,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: whether they will be kidnapped and they won't find out
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: where they are, it's an extreme crisis with unbelievable pressure
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: on a family, especially if that family has a missing relative.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Right. And I think that people... they confuse the mayor's
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: power with the federal power.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: All the time, right? So I just think it's good
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: to kind of explain where does your authority begin and
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: where does it end?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Well, and let me just say not only that.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Our region is confusing because our city and county has
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: the same name. So a lot of times people think
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: that I'm in charge of number of other cities. We
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: have 88 cities in our county. I'm only in charge
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: of one.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: It happens to be the largest. Yes. But let me
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: be very clear. The federal government is supreme.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: And so I can organize resistance, and that is critically
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: important to do, but I cannot, under the authority of
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: the mayor or the governor, stop the military from entering
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: our city. Peaceful protest is 1,000% needed, appropriate, and is
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: what we have to do. The minute that protest tips
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: off to violence, and I said this during the protest,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: then you might as well pick up the phone and
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: ask the federal government to come in and take over
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: because you're inviting it. I can tell you that the
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: immigrant rights organizations, many of whom I have two and
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: three decades of history with, they.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Were not involved in any of the violence.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: But as common at the end of something, even the
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: end of a celebration of the Lakers championship or the Dodgers,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: you know, World Series celebration, You will have wonderful celebrations.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: And at the end, there'll be a group of knuckleheads
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: that either decide to light fires or graffiti or do
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: mischief and mayhem. That is very important to separate that
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: from the groups that have been organizing and resisting and
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: supporting the immigrant community for decades. I will also say
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that on behalf of the city, we raised money, philanthropic money,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: to provide financial resources to families. We helped organize food
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: giveaways and clothing, transportation, all the things that families needed.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: And I know that the enrollment has declined at LAUSD.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: And I don't know this for a fact, but I
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: would imagine that there are kids at home where their
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: parents are afraid to send them to school or the
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: kids are afraid to go to school.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: And that is a shame.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: What kind of economic impact is that having on the city? Oh, yeah.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Thank you for asking me that, because it has had
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: a profound economic impact. And there are sectors of our
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: city that are still suffering. For example, the Fashion Center
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: is suffering. A lot of the hospitality businesses, especially restaurants
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: that cater to the Latino population, you have workers that
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: are afraid to come to work. You have business owners
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: that are afraid to open. And this is just an
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: egregious overreach for no reason.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: That's the thing.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: If the administration did what they said they were going
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: to do, it would be a different story.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: We're only looking for the worst of the worst. We're
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: only looking for violent criminals. You know, over 70 percent
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: of the people that were detained had no criminal record
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: That's right. No criminal record at all. Just. On their
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: way to work, doing their everyday thing.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Being taxpayers in this city. Absolutely. And we need their taxes. Absolutely.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: You know, and I think there's this myth amongst black people, too,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: is that, you know, it's happening over there. Oh, no.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Our city has hundreds of thousands of black immigrants from
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: all over, from the Caribbean, from Latin America, Central.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: America, you name it. There are.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: thousands of black immigrants that have been detained. There are
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Asian immigrants that have been detained. But I will tell
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: you that the initial targeting was more on the Latino side.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: But still, the immigrant net has been wide. It has
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: been black, brown, and Asian.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I just think it's important to stress that it's
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: an everybody problem. It's not just a Latino problem. No, no, no, no. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: And Mayor, you know, I wanted to talk about the
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Palisade Fire, but I wanted to focus on where we
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: go from here. I know families have lost their home,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: their neighborhoods, and in some cases, you know, everything they own.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: But we're coming up on two years from that fire.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: And when you talk to those families today, what's their
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: biggest concern?
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: So their biggest concern is really the financing.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: And the insurance.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: So we have expedited, cut red tape, fast tracked everything
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: we can on the building process. We have about a
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: thousand homes under construction now. People are returning home. The
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: commercial areas are beginning to come back. And when you
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: go to the Palisades now, it is an entirely different feeling.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: It is a feeling of the future. It is the
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: feeling that is much.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: More hopeful, especially with the commercial areas coming back, like
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: the Palisades Village that Rick Caruso owns, but led the rebuilding.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: And when you go.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Back, there's a place for the community to congregate, to
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: go to restaurants and to feel more normal. that's encouraging
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: people who weren't sure they wanted to come back to
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: actually come back.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: And so I find it to be more hopeful.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Whereas, you know, in the early days, of course, it
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: was massive grief, grieving, but I appreciate you asking because
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: it's an opportunity for me to explain that I do
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: not represent Altadena.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: You know, that was my next question, Mayor Bass, because, um,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I've done a lot of work in, in Altadena and, um,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I think there is this confusion on what you do
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: represent and what you don't represent.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Some people say, why do you only pay attention to
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: the Palisades? The Palisades is the only area that's in
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: the city of Los Angeles. Malibu is an independent city.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Altadena is in an unincorporated area, which is like View Park,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Windsor Square, Ladera Heights.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Those are all.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Unincorporated areas in our community. So they don't have a
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: mayor or a city council. They have a supervisor with
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: the county, and their supervisor is Catherine Barger, a very
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: close friend and colleague of mine. But I have no
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: jurisdictional oversight in Altadena.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that you haven't been following what's
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: been happening to Altadena.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Our areas are joined completely. We fight together, whether it's
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: going up to Sacramento and changing the law related to
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the insurance industry or the banking industry.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Are going to Washington, D.C. and advocating for those things.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: The other issue in the Palisades right now, by the way,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: that is not banking or insurance is DWP. So this
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: is people who have built their homes. And now they're
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: just delayed in getting connection to power. And so we
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: are addressing that right now with groups of homeowners that
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: are ready to move back.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: We have Zoom calls.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: We find out their individual issues and we've been getting
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: them connected to power ASAP.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Love that. You know, and at a recent town hall
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: in Palisades, Councilwoman Tracy Park, who represents the area, she
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: told residents that she's voting for you, but she stopped
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: short of endorsing you. And I wanted to know, you know,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: what do you make of that and what does that
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: say about your opponent?
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Well, well, what it says about my opponent is that
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: there's no one on the city council, none of her colleagues,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: not one of them that supports her. And she would
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: say it's because I'm the mighty, powerful mayor. The reality is,
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: if you talk to any of the members of city council,
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: they all individually have their stories about how difficult she
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: is to work with. You cannot govern the city if
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: you cannot build relationships. And let me just say in
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: terms of Tracy Park, we work together very, very well.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: We were together yesterday campaigning. Whether she decides to officially
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: endorse me or not, I have her vote.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: That is what's most important.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: And I understand that she represents people who don't necessarily
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: feel that way. And she has to be a true
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: representative to all of the people in her district. And
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I have the utmost respect for that and for her.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And Mayor, you know, as we wrap up,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: you know, you are a black woman leading the nation's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: second largest city in America. Do you ever feel pressure
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: to get it right? No, no, no, no, no. Knowing
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: people are not just watching you, but they're watching what
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: you represent.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Let me reword your question. Do I ever not feel pressure?
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Anytime you're the first.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I'm the first black woman. I'm the first woman.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And I know that anything that I do is magnified, good,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: bad and ugly. And I know that I want to
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: perform so that women that come behind me, red, black
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: or green, that they do not feel burdened.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: By who came before them.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: I want them to feel uplifted and confident that they
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: can walk straight into this job and succeed.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: You brought up your public service and your life in
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: public service. I think that a lot of people may
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: not know that back in the early, you were, I
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: don't want to give a date because I don't want
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: to age you, but you are Aging gracefully at 73.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: But the community coalition and all the things that you did,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: you know, just protesting and building, you know, in the street.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: And if you don't mind, if you could just share
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: a little bit about, you know, what led you to
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: do all of those things.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Well, I made a decision as a child that I
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: wanted to spend my life in service. But I always
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: make a distinction because when you say that you've spent
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: your life in public service, some people equate that with
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: you've been a politician all of your life. And this
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: is the latter part of my life, going into elected office.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: But it's meant the world to me to be mayor
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: because I feel like my life has come full circle.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Now I'm in the driver's seat. Now I get to
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: implement a lot of things I was fighting for other
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: people to implement. You know, one of the things is
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: addressing violence. I started Community Coalition because we had a
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: thousand homicides in our city. Crack cocaine was an epidemic
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: in the black community and the Crips and the Bloods
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: had become notorious around the world. And I did not
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: want to see our community suffer or be depicted that
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: way negatively around the world. So I walked away. I
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: was a full-time faculty member at USC Medical School. I
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: walked away from that comfortable job. If I had stayed,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: I would have been long retired from. And I said,
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go to the epicenter where the violence is.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: And I'm going to do everything I can to come
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: up with strategies.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: To prevent and to intervene in that violence.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Now I've taken those strategies that we piloted, that have
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: been professionalized and studied, and I've incorporated them into my
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: administration by creating an Office of Community Safety because I
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: believe in a comprehensive approach for public safety.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Back in those.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Days, we were trying to address homelessness. Nobody was interested
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: in it. because it was South Central and Skid Row.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Now I'm able to come in and address homelessness, something, again,
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: that when I went up to Sacramento as a legislator,
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: I was trying to address there. When I went off
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: to Congress, I was still trying to address the same issues.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: Now I get to come into this position with the
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: authority to actually deliver.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: And, you know, there are voters who supported you four
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: years ago who may be undecided. What do you want
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: them to know about what will be different or what
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: next four years will look like?
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Well, let me just say that by 2030, the end
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: of my second term, you will not see encampments on
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: our street again.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: We have laid the foundation to do that.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: You will see the city be far more affordable because
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: those 47 units that are working their way through will
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: be finished. And we will have another 10 or 20,000
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: that are underway. You will see a city that is
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: safer because of our comprehensive approach. We will prevent and
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: intervene in crime. By the way, that's why our homicide
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: level is at a 60-year low because of the strategies
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: that we've employed. And you'll have an adequate number of
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: police officers.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: So when you call 911, you won't be waiting.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Two days for the officer to come. And our city
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: won't be spending hundreds of millions of dollars on overtime.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: And then most importantly, we will have completed... the best
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: olympics in olympic history and la will be seen differently
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: around the world because international tourists when they come to
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: la they won't just go to the usual five places
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: but they will say oh my god i never had
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: any idea that all of these neighborhoods existed in la
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: our motto is games for all which means we are
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: planning festivals art exhibits watch parties sporting events all around
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: the city. And we will be pushing international guests to say, don't.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Just stay here. Explore East L.A. Explore the San Fernando Valley.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Know what's in South L.A.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: And the reputation and the view of Los Angeles will
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: be different to the world.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Did I read this right, that this upcoming Olympics is
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  Speaker 1: one of the biggest Olympics?
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  Speaker 2: This will be the largest sporting event in U.S. history.
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  Speaker 3: It will be the largest Olympic Games in Olympic history.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's huge.
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  Speaker 3: And my opponent, who made a pledge to be against
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  Speaker 3: the Olympics when she first ran for city council, to
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  Speaker 3: this day is ambivalent about the Olympics. You cannot be ambivalent.
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  Speaker 3: About such a monumental event. And we are well on
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  Speaker 3: our way in terms of the preparation. We need to
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  Speaker 3: be stable, consistent and moving forward. She wants to replace
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  Speaker 3: the chief of police on day one. She does not
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  Speaker 3: understand that the minute she would be in office and
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  Speaker 3: say that, she would destabilize the police department. Now, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know about you, but I don't want to give
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  Speaker 3: Trump an excuse to come in and basically say, you
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  Speaker 3: guys are a hot mess.
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking over. I'm not going to issue that invitation.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Mayor Bass, thank you so much for your time
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  Speaker 1: and being part of this conversation. We are wishing you
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  Speaker 1: the best in the days ahead. That's your front page.
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