Karen Bass answers Trump's 'take out' Los Angeles remark on KCAL News Mornings
The segment on leaders condemning the president's comments about Iran, Los Angeles and San Diego drew a conversation far bigger than the station's usual first day.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 113,928 views a day, 41 times a normal first day on this channel (2,774).
Local leaders respond to Trump’s comments suggesting allowing Iran to “take out” Los Angeles
The comments poured in. Within 13 hours of going up, CBS LA's segment on reactions to President Trump's remarks about Iran had more than 400 of them, where a regular video from the station usually gathers a handful in its whole first day. The views kept pace, passing 80,000 in that time on a channel whose new uploads usually spend their first day in the low thousands.
The piece comes from KCAL News Mornings. It follows state and local leaders as they condemn comments in which the president appeared to suggest letting Iran "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego. Mayor Karen Bass, who represented part of Los Angeles in Congress before running City Hall, said in a statement that his comments about LA were "dangerous and could potentially compromise our safety."
Much of the comment section turns to the reaction of the crowd around the president when he spoke, and to San Diego, home to one of the Navy's largest bases. Many others discuss what Congress could do about it.
It stood apart from the rest of the station's day. The next morning's uploads were Southern California fare, a heat wave reaching even the beachgoers of Redondo Beach and LL Cool J with Scott Caan talking up "NCIS: New York." None of them came close.
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- Channel
- CBS LA
- Subscribers
- 1,160,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,647,790
- Channel views, pace per day
- 777,216 (on a normal day: 514,727)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 83,777 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 113,928
The numbers
For a station whose new videos usually start quietly, this one began at a very different pace.
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Before she became mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass served as speaker of which body?
Bass was speaker of the California State Assembly from 2008 to 2010, before her years in Congress.
