Valuetainment - June 14, 2026


“Shocking Twist： LA Wildfire Lawsuit Erupts as Politician’s Own Brother Sues Her City Over Devastating Palisades Fire”


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00:00:28.000 Vinny, what is the story with Karen Bassa's brother
00:00:32.140 Who is suing the city, L.A., who her brother is the mayor of
00:00:36.680 Okay
00:00:37.000 What's the story about?
00:00:39.400 There's a massive lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles
00:00:41.720 After her brother's home, Malibu home, burned down in the Palisades
00:00:45.480 Thousands, obviously, are suing the city
00:00:48.540 Claiming leadership failed to prepare for the response to the disaster
00:00:52.320 And the irony is brutal
00:00:53.900 She was already getting hammered for leaving to Ghana
00:00:56.820 while the warning, so remember the leaked audio, Pat,
00:00:59.280 that that guy put out, that the dangerous winds were coming,
00:01:02.040 the fire conditions were coming in,
00:01:03.420 and then people were asking why the city looks so unprepared,
00:01:06.320 the dry fire hydrants, the lack of resources,
00:01:08.720 the confusion everywhere, and now her brother
00:01:11.000 is suing the city that his sister runs.
00:01:15.140 And, like, this tells you everything.
00:01:16.820 Even her own family, Pat, this is the irony of everything,
00:01:20.480 gets burned by the city's incompetence, okay?
00:01:22.900 And imagine being the mayor of Los Angeles.
00:01:24.340 you leave the country while you know that everything bad is going to come and then your
00:01:28.380 own brother does this okay and honestly you know what i would say like your sister is the mayor 0.80
00:01:33.480 skip the lawsuit go to her office and tell her this is next level failed leadership and the crazy
00:01:39.860 part patch she'll probably still going to be mayor she's still in first place and that's california 1.00
00:01:44.780 politics in a nutshell the city can burn down leadership uh can fail completely in front of
00:01:49.280 the freaking entire country and your own brother can end up suing the uh the very city that that's
00:01:54.080 Is this the video? Go for it. 0.97
00:01:56.840 We are learning L.A. Mayor
00:01:58.240 Karen Bass's own brother is part
00:02:00.260 of a massive lawsuit against the city
00:02:02.020 over the Palisades fire. We're diving
00:02:04.240 into the court documents naming him
00:02:06.040 as one of the plaintiffs. Thanks again for joining us
00:02:08.200 live at ABC7 Disney Plus
00:02:10.460 and everywhere you stream. I'm David Ono.
00:02:12.420 I'm Liz Nagy in for Giovanna Lara.
00:02:14.220 Thousands of property owners who saw their homes
00:02:16.300 burned to the ground in the Palisades.
00:02:17.520 Is it wild, Tom?
00:02:20.600 Does it boggle your mind that the
00:02:22.240 brother of the mayor who some would say is one of the main reasons why she wasn't even here when it
00:02:27.780 happened and you're trying to get money now from that city now taxpayers have to pay for it is that
00:02:32.720 ridiculous yeah i have an idea i thought god okay karen bass is she gonna win in november i very
00:02:41.760 very highly likely yeah it's it's up above 80 because yeah the social people love that people
00:02:47.040 Unless something weird happens, Nithya Raman, you know, if you take the moderate Spencer Pratt voters who have been shut out, disenfranchised, whatever you want to say.
00:02:59.220 And I think there's and I think there's funny business, but I'll just say that that's what Tom Ellsworth thinks.
00:03:05.040 So, OK, who are they going to vote for?
00:03:07.280 They're going to vote for Karen Bass because they're not going to take Nithya Raman. 0.96
00:03:10.660 No, this what they would say, crazy socialist Marxist. 0.94
00:03:14.600 Yes. So therefore, Karen Bass can be reelected. 1.00
00:03:17.620 Karen Bass will then term limit out. 1.00
00:03:19.680 Her 2026-2030 will be it. 1.00
00:03:21.800 She's out of term limits. 0.67
00:03:24.520 I happen to think that she's turning a blind eye to this,
00:03:28.420 and she's allowing her brother to get a settlement from the city.
00:03:33.760 I don't think she cares.
00:03:35.420 I don't think she's going to let it happen.
00:03:37.020 And it's a way that graft is going to go to her brother.
00:03:40.280 I don't think they got together at the dinner table and says,
00:03:42.460 hey, I got an idea, sis.
00:03:44.100 I'll sue you.
00:03:45.180 Or I'll sue the city.
00:03:45.720 But he's not suing her.
00:03:46.440 suing the city and remember her position is going to be the same thing it was she fired that police
00:03:54.080 chief remember the uh the lady the self-identified lesbian yes um remember her and i'm describing her
00:04:01.540 the way she described herself and they tried to and they tried to you know um yeah really
00:04:08.440 paint that fire chief has having let the mayor down yes so this is karen bass this is the way
00:04:15.300 it's gonna go i fired the fire chief after too many things that broke in the public about our
00:04:22.720 discussions but that fire chief did it wrong there was a lack of leadership i'm with angelinos yes
00:04:30.360 she's gonna allow money to go to her brother that's what i think's going on adam and i think
00:04:35.560 it's dark i think it's a story that needs to be talked about i just want to give a different
00:04:39.640 perspective did you see uh what the new york times wrote about what's going on in california
00:04:44.700 Did you see that specific article?
00:04:46.360 No.
00:04:46.600 Not on this, but about voting, right?
00:04:48.180 About the vote? 0.78
00:04:48.720 New York Times rips California for indefensible, lengthy vote counting process.
00:04:54.680 The New York Times, the most leftist liberal magazine newspaper, is ripping on California.
00:05:03.040 Did you see this?
00:05:03.960 Here's some of the words.
00:05:04.720 They said what happens in California is indefensible, the voting.
00:05:09.440 It's a failure of government.
00:05:10.720 There's no good reason that California takes so long to count votes.
00:05:13.960 most other large u.s states and cities including those in texas florida michigan and virginia
00:05:18.640 do so very quickly it's a burdensome process and what's going on with this ballot harvesting in
00:05:25.140 california that was my own little two cents allegedly uh not part of the article but what
00:05:30.460 is going on the article talks about that do you know how bad it has to get when the new york times
00:05:35.760 is starting to rip on what you're doing on the left that's like fox news ripping on trump yeah
00:05:41.480 You don't see these types of things.
00:05:43.180 How do you feel about her freaking brother suing the city that she's in charge of for failing and then his house getting burned down? 0.97
00:05:50.580 What's the hypocrisy? 0.97
00:05:51.820 And Nithya Rahman, did you see what she had to say?
00:05:55.560 She says, I blame voter frustration for supporting all the support of Spencer Pratt.
00:06:04.620 Yeah, you think?
00:06:06.060 She says, I know many people in the city voted for Spencer Pratt,
00:06:09.260 who gave voice to the fear and anger of so many in this city
00:06:13.660 that people are feeling right now.
00:06:15.680 Voter frustration is the reason that they're sick of what's going on in California.
00:06:20.500 And whatever they did to basically flip it overnight from, 1.00
00:06:25.540 she gave a concession speech.
00:06:27.040 Yeah, we covered it.
00:06:29.040 She conceded the race.
00:06:30.780 Yes.
00:06:31.300 I'm so sorry, guys.
00:06:32.440 I let you down.
00:06:33.260 And now she's going to be in the runoff? 0.99
00:06:35.460 I mean this, like, rhetorically, burn California to the ground and start over. 0.98
00:06:41.500 Well, guess what?
00:06:42.600 Under her leadership, it almost did.
00:06:44.060 Exactly.
00:06:44.440 By the way, James O'Keefe, since you went to that story on Skid Row, Pat,
00:06:47.580 they caught people that were getting, paying homeless junkie crackheads on the street $2 to vote in the election.
00:06:57.660 And there's so many videos of it.
00:06:59.100 They got paid $2.
00:06:59.700 Multiple, multiple videos I showed yesterday, Pat, of literally homeless people going,
00:07:04.060 Yeah, they came. They gave me $2. They gave me $4. They gave me $5.
00:07:07.020 And the lady that was actually on camera on James O'Keefe's thing doing it, Pat, paying these people, she was just arrested.
00:07:12.640 And there's a picture of the ballot, empty ballot, and a post-it that said, you remember what the name was?
00:07:17.180 And it was funny. It was Karen. You are now Karen Williams, I think it was.
00:07:21.020 Great.
00:07:21.580 Yeah, exactly.
00:07:22.500 Is this it?
00:07:23.220 This is one of the people that was getting paid. Yeah, can you play this video?
00:07:29.020 And then did they come down here and try and pay you to vote?
00:07:32.560 Yes.
00:07:32.920 on a ballot yes oh they just how much they pay you five dollars that's better than the two bucks 0.99
00:07:39.620 they give the other lady you told you who to vote for though so uh they told you to vote for 0.94
00:07:44.100 karen bass that's a key to the city karen bass they vote for karen bass for five dollars 1.00
00:07:49.620 oh this lady two bucks this lady for karen bass yeah karen they told you to vote for karen yeah
00:07:56.700 They had to sign a little thing. 1.00
00:07:58.700 Poor freaking girl. 1.00
00:07:59.700 And how much did they pay you? 0.99
00:08:01.700 It was like two bucks.
00:08:02.700 Two bucks?
00:08:03.700 You had to sign off on a thing to vote for her?
00:08:05.700 Yeah.
00:08:06.700 They'd say, oh, do you want to vote for Karen or Nithya?
00:08:08.700 Or they'd just really just tell you to vote for Karen, huh? 0.98
00:08:10.700 They would vote for her, man.
00:08:11.700 They'd get you an option of Detroit, but they'd tell you who they want to.
00:08:14.700 They'd tell you who you want to vote for.
00:08:16.700 They'd tell you who you want to vote for.
00:08:17.700 They'd go, we'll give you $2, but you've got to vote for one of these.
00:08:20.700 Hey, Pat, can I ask you guys?
00:08:21.700 Can you guys come over here?
00:08:22.700 I'm a barber, man.
00:08:23.700 I got $4.
00:08:24.700 $4?
00:08:25.700 He's a businessman.
00:08:26.360 But here's my thing.
00:08:27.540 How is this not, Pat, the number one?
00:08:29.720 They are paying people, and James O'Keefe always does a great job,
00:08:33.760 and it's always like his stories never go past,
00:08:36.080 like people were arrested for it, and then that's it.
00:08:38.900 That's how all these votes are coming in,
00:08:40.480 and there's like 62,000 votes that went up towards Nithy Aram
00:08:44.440 or whatever it was.
00:08:45.380 That's about the average of how many people are there,
00:08:47.900 hanging out, skid row.
00:08:49.280 Yeah, James O'Keefe does a great deal.
00:08:50.920 Pat, let me ask you.
00:08:52.100 These are American citizens, so even if they pass the SAVE Act,
00:08:55.460 They can't stop this corruption, can they?
00:08:58.760 You know what I'm saying?
00:08:59.800 Like, they're American citizens.
00:09:01.120 So there's corruption embedded in the system and then externally from the system.
00:09:06.060 Well, there's things that have to happen.
00:09:08.080 What I'm saying is you're a California guy.
00:09:10.560 I mean, how do they deal with something like this?
00:09:14.340 You look there 20 years.
00:09:15.600 You don't see what he passed five days before the election, what Newsom passed?
00:09:18.780 What was that?
00:09:19.260 He allows you to watch, but you have no right to question the integrity of the election.
00:09:27.320 You can't question it.
00:09:28.600 It's a crime nowadays after what he did May 27th, if I'm not mistaken, right?
00:09:32.740 On May 27th, what's that again?
00:09:36.760 Mail and ballots.
00:09:37.380 Mail and ballots.
00:09:38.020 Yeah, you can't even.
00:09:38.660 It's like, no, no, no.
00:09:39.780 What do you mean what happens if you question it?
00:09:41.440 Listen, you know what's the most honest country when it comes down to elections?
00:09:45.260 Like typically, like cream of the crop, and I'm not just saying this because someone's in the room?
00:09:48.720 Chile.
00:09:49.260 You know how they do it in Chile?
00:09:50.420 Can you pull up the clip on how they do elections in Chile?
00:09:52.840 Adam, in Chile, when you vote, they allow cameras to come and see every vote that comes in,
00:10:00.140 and they scream out the person's name.
00:10:01.900 Oh, wow.
00:10:02.580 They'll say, boom, vote for here.
00:10:04.520 Boom, vote for here.
00:10:05.580 You're watching every single ballot that comes in that's counted publicly with hundreds of videos in front of them.
00:10:12.400 Like, streamers can go and record what you're doing.
00:10:15.480 Yeah, look at this.
00:10:16.000 Eliminates corruption.
00:10:16.240 Can you press play?
00:10:17.340 Watch this.
00:10:17.900 Transparency.
00:10:19.260 Look at this. 1.00
00:10:20.300 Look how many mics are in their faces. 1.00
00:10:22.760 Cuatro, Johannes Kaiser. 0.71
00:10:24.500 You have people from the left, people from the right,
00:10:27.320 and they're showing you who it's going to.
00:10:29.620 So in Chile, they trust their election.
00:10:31.860 How many people live in Chile, by the way?
00:10:33.260 In Australia, if you don't vote, it's a $20 fine.
00:10:35.620 Are you serious?
00:10:36.200 You know, in Chile and multiple other countries,
00:10:40.000 the day before election and the day of election,
00:10:43.280 you cannot have any liquor open.
00:10:45.060 You cannot have any bars open.
00:10:46.360 And every bar has to shut down the day and day before of election.
00:10:49.520 Really?
00:10:50.280 In Chile?
00:10:51.320 In Chile.
00:10:52.360 And I think in a couple other countries.
00:10:54.340 So you're sober and they can't.
00:10:55.260 In a couple other countries, restaurants are closed for 24 hours.
00:10:58.420 Like nothing.
00:10:59.280 You can't go anywhere.
00:11:00.320 They just want to make sure.
00:11:01.040 It's almost like a national holiday.
00:11:02.200 Yes.
00:11:02.580 We have so much access to great technology to be able to make it 100% honest and trust.
00:11:09.500 But I'm convinced they don't want this.
00:11:12.060 By the way, you know what's crazy?
00:11:13.700 This is the part that we talked about the other day.
00:11:15.480 Watch this.
00:11:16.360 You know what happened with the game with the Knicks
00:11:18.220 and the, what do you call it, the Spurs, right?
00:11:21.040 Remember that one play?
00:11:22.120 There was this play that Wemby goes to shoot a three.
00:11:24.820 He hits the three, and he gets fouled because Johnson hit him.
00:11:29.540 Johnson's like, dude, the guy pushed me from the back.
00:11:31.440 Mitchell Robinson.
00:11:32.360 Robinson.
00:11:33.240 So they go do the instant replay, and they say, no, this is, guess what?
00:11:36.640 They give the foul.
00:11:37.200 They overturned.
00:11:37.920 And then on the other side, when Wemby's going to go to catch the ball,
00:11:41.440 they show the clip.
00:11:42.540 Wemby's like, dude, these guys are pulling my arm down.
00:11:44.360 The clip was that Cat was pulling his arm down.
00:11:47.340 They flip, and the position goes the other way.
00:11:49.520 Can you imagine, Vinny, we have instant replay in baseball.
00:11:53.940 You can find out what the strike zone is and where the ball was.
00:11:56.620 You have instant replay in tennis to see if it's an ace or not.
00:12:00.340 You have instant replay in football to see if your foot was on the line or not.
00:12:03.820 You have instant replay in basketball to see if – but no instant replay in voting.
00:12:07.780 Because guess what?
00:12:09.120 You know, integrity in basketball, baseball, football is a lot more important
00:12:13.000 than elections.
00:12:13.560 Who cares about elections? 0.93
00:12:15.040 You're just hiring the next president.
00:12:16.800 This safe act thing that went 50 to 48 with these four Republicans that sat out with, you know, a couple of these names.
00:12:25.340 Mitch McConnell and the other.
00:12:27.360 Yeah, a couple of these guys that sat out.
00:12:29.840 I don't even think Massey was on that list.
00:12:31.260 Was Massey on the list of four that didn't vote?
00:12:32.840 No, you had.
00:12:33.660 Oh, that didn't vote?
00:12:34.820 He voted no.
00:12:36.020 Oh, he voted no.
00:12:36.900 Collins, Rutowski, Thune, and.
00:12:39.120 Collins.
00:12:39.460 Susans Collins, the one that I'm thinking about.
00:12:41.220 And the corpse of Mitch McConnell.
00:12:41.740 Can you imagine these guys?
00:12:43.260 We were about to have the most powerful thing, tool to protect elections for everybody to have voter ID.
00:12:49.500 By two votes, it didn't go through.
00:12:51.700 That was one of the most important issues, by two votes.
00:12:53.760 Nobody wants election integrity. 1.00
00:12:55.280 It's just a bunch of bullshit. 1.00
00:12:56.480 They don't want no election integrity. 1.00
00:12:58.200 What's the side of the left?
00:12:59.160 The left doesn't want no election integrity.
00:13:00.880 If you want election integrity, you could do it like this.
00:13:03.380 You don't want no election integrity.
00:13:05.420 They want to say no cameras allowed.
00:13:07.100 Remember one time we were going in there and we were recording?
00:13:09.300 We wanted to kind of record the fact that we had all our employees recording.
00:13:11.760 What did they say?
00:13:12.240 take the cameras out what are you worried about exactly what are you worried about you know what
00:13:16.460 they should say oh come on in would you like a cup of water come on in bring the cameras in we
00:13:21.500 have nothing to be afraid of go record as much as you want no they don't want an integral election
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