MSNBC: L.A. Mayor Bass Pledged Not to Travel Internationally if Elected, Was Warned of a Real Fire Danger and Went Overseas Anyway

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SCARBOROUGH: “Also, local L.A. officials coming under fire from all sides. ‘The New York Times’ this morning reporting in their lead story, mounting criticism of Bass threatens grip on leadership, talking about the mayor and it writes, ‘The mayor told ‘The Times’ that if she was elected mayor, not only would I of course live here, but I would also not travel internationally. The only places I would go would be D.C., Sacramento, San Francisco and New York in relation to L.A..’ And ‘The Times’ writes, ‘That pledge has been spectacularly broken.’ And then they move, they move over on a 14, um -- one second here. They move over and they, they talk about how she left at a time when the warnings for extreme fire emergencies were up. Now, though, ‘The Times writes,’ her decision to leave the country at a time when the National Weather Service was warning of quote, ‘extreme fire weather conditions’ has set off a political crisis for Ms. Bass. And the question that ‘The New York Time’s asks is, will she be able to command the respect and the authority she needs to see Los Angeles through its darkest time?”