Gutfeld!’ panelists discuss the video of the day showing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who has come under intense scrutiny for traveling to Africa amid wildfire response, deflecting blame on the controversial trip.

Robby Soave and Niall Stanage discuss Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass investigating why she was allowed to go on a trip to Ghana days before the LA wildfires.

"Obviously I hated the fact that I was out of the city when the city needed me the most," Bass said during an interview.

"I felt absolutely terrible not being here for my city," LA Mayor Karen Bass told FOX 11's Elex Michelson during a sit-down interview addressing her trip to Ghana as the wildfires broke out. She said she wasn't given any early warnings about the weather prior to her leaving the country.

Asked about her trip to Ghana just before the wildfires erupted, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she "hated the fact that I was out of the city when the city needed me the most."

The National Weather Service warned that intense Santa Ana winds were due to hit L.A. two days before Bass left the city for Ghana.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is desperately trying to deflect any blame for the devastating wildfires that destroyed her city. Bass sat down with KTTV anchor Elex Michaelson in a clip posted to social media platform X on Wednesday where she spoke about the situation surrounding those wildfires and her actions during that time,