Rudy Povich

And everybody who is in those lounges, you're not going to fly the plane.

There's no liability.

You're not going to be... Everybody who's there, you can't go into the lounge with a ticket that has already expired.

So nobody... Everyone's just going to go get on a plane anyways.

Why do I have to sit here and drink coffee at 9 a.m.

when everybody knows we want a Bloody Mary?

Yeah.

For nearly two months, Mayor Karen Bass has repeatedly denied that she was involved in altering an after-action report on the Palisades fire to downplay failures by the city and the Los Angeles Fire Department.

But two sources with knowledge of Bass's office said that after receiving an early draft, the mayor told then-interim fire chief Ronnie Villanueva...

that the report could expose the city to legal liabilities for those failures.

Bass wanted key findings about the L.A.

Fire Department's actions removed or softened before the report was made public.

You can't.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's all the optics.

All you got to do is hang out on one movie set one time, and you will definitely find out the people who are all red carpet, no movie making.

You'll find out all the people that just want the award.

They don't want to learn the script.

They don't want to learn how to do lighting.