Los Angeles mayor laughs at Trump's claims during brutal MSNBC take-down

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday morning, Mayor Karen Bass started laughing at Donald Trump's proclamations about the unrest in California's largest city before "Morning Joe" regular Mara Gay could finish her sentence.

Invited on to discuss the success of the curfew she set imposed on the city on Tuesday night, which was largely successful, Gay prompted Bass with, "Mayor, have you received any kind of communication from the federal government about or even the state government about what you can expect from the hundreds of marines who are in Los Angeles right now and what their mission is," before pausing as Bass laughed and saying, "go ahead."

"I don't think the governor has any idea," the smiling mayor replied. "I mean, which is the point. You know, on Saturday night, the president tweeted that because of the great work of the National Guard, the protests and the violence curtailed. The National Guard wasn't even here. They didn't even arrive until the next day."

"So that's why it's very hard not to see this as a stunt or as a test case, because there isn't anything happening here," she added. "Thursday before the first raid took place, the city was peaceful; nothing was going on when the raid happened. That's when people were just outraged at the way the raid happened and then, of course, the arrest of one of the most respected labor leaders in our city."

Asked why locals have taken to the streets, she explained, "We are a city of 3.8 million, 500 square miles. This is happening over about 5 or 6 streets in downtown Los Angeles. The curfew that we put in place last night covers about two square miles of our city. Is that is a picture of chaos? I'm sorry, but that's just not true just like it wasn't true that the National Guard saved the day before they even got here."

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