now, mayor garcetti.cheers and applause] mayor garcetti, we have known each other for much longer than your 21 years of service to this city. and i just have to tell you that your legacy is large. [applause] when we lighted the olympic torch -- light the olympic torch in 2028 when we take public transit to the airport, when we go to bed in apartments that are safer from earthquakes, and when we breathe in cleanlier air, angelynos will be -- angelinos will be benefiting from your legacy. [cheers and applause] and let me say something else about the mayor. i want to thank you for being supportive in every possible way during this very brief transition. three weeks. but you were there every step of the way and i'm deeply appreciative for that. now, from all over the country i am so blessed to be joined by my congressional colleagues. [applause] and, you know, i tell everybody that the best part of being in congress are the relationships that you develop and the lifelong friendships that you have. so will the

based on the facts and the evidence, the enabler is mayor eric garcetti. to defend himself, mayor garcetti has pointed to a report which inconceivably purports to clear jacobs of any wrongdoing. the report was conducted by a law firm hired and paid for by the city of los angeles. mayor garcetti would be liable if it were proved true -- apparently in the hope that no one outside the city would ever see it. the report failed to interview multiple firsthand witnesses. the interviews were not taken under penalty of perjury. the report focused exclusively on allegations of sexual harassment made by the los angeles police department, and get this, failed to give due weight to other witnesses. for example, the report includes an interview with jacobs in which he admits he used racist language, kissing, hugging, and squeezing people's shoulders. the report also identifies the individual in the lewd photo i said earlier. the individual stated that jacobs actions were not funny and embarrassed that person. that makes it clear -- it makes it clear nonconsent consensu

, who had served as mayor since 2013 term limits prevented garcetti from running again. a libyan man suspected of making the bomb that destroyed pan am flight 103 over lockerbie , scotland, 34 years ago, is now in us custody. authorities say abu arugula mohammad masud will make an appearance in federal court in washington d. c tomorrow after two years of negotiations to make his extradition possible on december 21st 1990 or sorry, 1988. the pan am flight headed from london and new york's jfk blew up over lockerbie, scotland. the brother of a man who was killed on that flight says the white house needs to ensure justice is served. mr president. you're on the time clock. you're a democrat. but republicans have dropped the ball on this also, but it's now up to president biden. don't deflect this to a statement from the state department. you know the issues you with me and i would love an opportunity to discuss this with you. that jet was carrying 259 passengers and crew members when the bomb exploded in the baggage compartment, everyone on board died and 11. people on the g

what i mean by this time is, in 2015, this was pre-pandemic obviously, eric garcetti declared a versiona state of emergency. yours is a bit more comprehensive, but freed up $100 million and tried to tackle the homeless problem he was dealing with. it didn't work. what's going to make what you're doing more successful than what mayor garcetti attempted to do. >> first of all, it's not just about the money, but it's really about the arcane bureaucratic process. you talk to developers. it's just so difficult to get anything done. when i declared a state of emergency, and issued following executive directives, it basically allows the process to be centralized. chuck, the other day i did a press conference on a piece of land where the builder had been working for 16 years, and it just finally broke ground. so it's about bursting past the bureaucratic maze and developers having no idea when approvals will be done. now i'm requiring that approvals and the process be moved within 30 to 60 days. >> there's a few issues that people run into all the time when it comes to dealing with homelessness.

i don't know if the viewers remember but mayor eric garcetti, her predecessor, he actually declared a homeless state of emergency back in 2015. at that time, l.a. city had 7 years later under his rule, we had 42,000 homeless individuals. it's very questionable what these emergency powers will do that mayor garcetti was not able to do and voters can establish more of the same unfortunately. >> todd: an emergency declaration means more money is going to be thrown in a nut nutshell. why does only seem to get worse and worse and worse the more money they throw at it? >> the core problem here is that the city still looks at this very myopically as a heisman element housing crisis. you will see that it's not. this is a crisis of drug addiction and mental illness. the city refuses to see that. so they are just spending money, throwing money at the problem and things will never get better. >> todd: what should mayor bass do in order to alleviate this crisis? >> she should address it what it is, mental health and addiction crisis, needs to get people off the street and that means involuntarily

she succeeds eric garcetti, who had served as mayor since 2013 term limits prevented garcetti from running. also in l. a. there are now calls for an expanded investigation after an l. a city councilman was caught on camera getting into a fight with an activist. kevin de leon was at the tree lighting ceremony or a tree lighting ceremony when activists started calling for his resignation over his involvement in that leaked audiotape earlier this year that lian says he was trying to leave when one activist kept trying to block him, and that's when things got physical. try to provoke me trying to elicit a reaction. then he headbutted me . i needed to defend myself and i grabbed him by his shirt or his pals. accuses the activists of hitting him in the face and also accuses the group that was there a quote harassing his staff for more than a year, but some of the protesters tell a different story, saying there were called or they were called racial slurs. him and his supporters just surrounded us and started pushing us as soon as we got there just assaulted us essentially and escalated a situati

karen bass succeeds eric garcetti, who was mayor there since 2013 but term limits for bennett garcettigain. also in los angeles. there are now calls for an expanded investigation after an l. a city councilman was caught on camera getting into a fight with an activist. kevin de leon was that a tree lighting ceremony when activists began calling for him to resign over his involvement in that leaked audiotapes scandal earlier this year, they leone says he was trying to leave when an activist kept trying to block him, and that's when things became physical. try to provoke me trying to elicit a reaction. then he head butted me. i needed to defend myself and i grabbed him by his shirt or his lapels daily on accused the activists of hitting him in the face. you also accused the group that was there of quote, harassing his staff for more than a year, but some of the protesters tell a different story. they say they were called racial slurs. him and his supporters just surrounded us and started pushing us as soon as we got there just assaulted us essentially and escalated a situation that didn't

but mayor garcetti apparently thinks that's the science. he held his breath. do it. this is one of the absurd things. go right next. the same narrative for the past. the whole point of lockdowns was stop the slow, the spread. now know from deborah burke's book that they lied to donald trump about the 15 days to slow the spread. literally admitted it in explicit language. this just came out about two months ago that they knew that wasn't they weren't they weren't telling the truth but they wanted to buy time and they duped donald trump into this. but if you look back and i go back 2012 here, these are all the arguments back during the flu season about how hospitals were overrun. i mean, this the idea of these emergency rooms, they have very tight capacity to begin with. but all they did was tweak the flu narrative to make it a catastrophic for the covid narrative to justify that two weeks are based on scary predictions that in most you know most places never happened. obviously it did. in some places they may have en overrun. but as i think overall that was the justif

officials even looking at some of the nominations that had kind of stalled out last year such as eric garcetti, the former l.a. mayor, nominated to be u.s. ambassador to india. they may take a look at some of those candidates and renominating them, putting them forward again, now that they'll have one additional vote in the senate but certainly they realize with house republicans in control, the legislative accomplishments are probably not going to be as prolific as they were this yeerp and certainly white house officials are also staffing up, getting prepared for that onslaught of oversight that will be coming as house republicans expected to ramp up all kinds of investigations into the biden administration >> more challenging days ahead, but to that point, the omnibus caps off a year of major legislative achievements for the democrats. these are five of the most significant bills passed and signed into law this year. there's the inflation reduction act signed into law in august, which aims to combat climate change with nearly $370 billion earmarked for clean energy funding of cars, homes, an

bass will become the city's 43rd mayor, but she won'tmally take over from eric garcetti until monday..s. house democrat who beat real estate developer rick caruso in last month's election. she will also be the first woman of color to hold the city's top spot. she's taking office amid a homelessness crisis, and as the city council faces fallout from a racism scandal. >>> wnba star brittney griner continues to undergo a medical evaluation at a u.s. army hospital in texas following her 10-month detention in russia. griner's wife posted an update on saturday saying in part, as b.g. and i start our journey to basically our minds, bodies, and spirits, i want to personally say thank you to some of the hands, seen and unseen, that helped to make it possible for me to see my wife again. while griner was arrested in moscow last february, for a small amount of cannabis oil, given a nine-year sentence, most recently she had been laboring at a penal colony where she struggled to stay warm in the frigid temperatures. >>> once the euphoria of being home wears off, griner will likely experience some

vast succeeds eric garcetti, who had served as mayor since 2013 limits prevented garcetti from runningnvestigation after an l. a city councilman was caught on camera getting to a fight with an activist. kevin de leon was at a tree lighting when activists started calling for his resignation over his involvement in that leaked audiotape earlier this year that leon says he was trying to leave when one activist kept trying to block him, and that's when things got physical. try to provoke me trying to elicit a reaction. then he head butted me . i needed to defend myself and i grabbed him by his shirt or his lapels accuses the activists of hitting him in the face and also accuses the group that was their quote, harassing his staff for more than a year, but some of the protesters tell a different story, saying they were called racial slurs. him and his supporters just surrounded us and started pushing us as soon as we got there just assaulted us essentially and escalated a situation that didn't need to get escalated like that. the activists in the video and the counselor have filed police rep

. >> about three and a half ago, i had a conversation with former mayor garcetti and he told me thatis, which is bad back then, even worse now, would be resolved in the next few years, because the city was building a lot of low income housing, more affordable housing, especially along the lines where the trans-service was being extended. what happened with that, with that plan? >> eric spent a lot of his political capital on a ballot measure, prop hhh, billion dollar bond measure that would build thousands of units of supportive housing, with the construction of housing for people living on the edge and a lot of it is being built right now, thousands of units are opened this year, the challenge is that the crisis, the affordable housing crisis that you heard about in that piece before i joined you, it has worsened and put the pressure on the people who have entered homelessness. naimt we have not seen the required expansion of mental health services and outreach workers and affordable housing, and housing of all different are different kinds. you have to think about the most expensiv

she succeeds eric garcetti, who had served as mayor since 2013 term limits prevented him from runningagain. video of a scuffle between los angeles city councilman and an activist prompts calls tonight for a rigorous investigation. box news. cristina gonzalez spoke with the councilman about what happened. stop kevin phone video from a december 9th encounter between council member kevin de leon, an activist from j town action and solidarity, demanding his resignation, says he was trying to get away from the activists and then one of the aggressors. his name is jason. really uh, pushed or busted the door open? that's the man in green with the black hat who? according to the lion thrusted his pelvic into me. to try to provoke me trying to elicit a reaction. then he headbutted me highlighting on the video, the spots where there seems to be contact between both men's heads and the aftermath, which de leon describes from his perspective, i needed to defend myself and i grabbed him by his shirt or his lapels. but the aftermath on video does show a disturbing scene, which j town members say wa

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da garcetti vowed to retry the case >> we have an ethical, professional, and mora responsibility to go-degree murder case >> but, before that second trial could begin, oj happened and suddenly, the stakes wer even bigger. >> when o.j. simpson went home, at the en of his trial, it was very hard in the da's office we were, you know, nationall considered to be, kind of, losers >> the second menendez trial began just eight days afte o.j.'s acquittal, with judge wiseberg presiding, again. the same judge the same case. but this time, the trial was fundamentally different. >> the first, major ruling judge weissberg made was no tv camera in the courtroom. >> this time, one jury for bot brothers judge weissburg also scale back testimony about the brothers'physical and sexual abuse. cousin, diane, for example, wa able to testify, just not abou lyle telling her that hi father was molesting him one reason that couldn't com in was because, this tim around, lyle didn't take the stand to lay the foundatio about abuse, in the firs place. >> in between the two trials there were allegations that he was