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The following is the transcript of an interview with Sen. Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on June 15, 2025.MARGARET BRENNAN: And we're joined now by California Senator Alex Padilla.
Republicans continued to chastise Padilla, using words like “launch,” “lunge” and “bum rush” to describe Padilla’s behavior as he began to try to pose a question to Noem.
US Senator Alex Padilla’s dramatic removal and handcuffing at Kristi Noem’s federal press conference in Los Angeles has ignited political outrage and alarm over federal overreach. With Democrats decrying the act as ‘dictatorial’,
The California Democrat interrupted an event for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem amid protests over the administration's immigration crackdown
Alex Padilla is the first Latino to represent California in the U.S. Senate. FBI agents handcuffed him after he interrupted a press conference on immigration enforcement in LA.
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Noem was in L.A. to address the ongoing protests against President Donald Trump's immigration policies. Federal agents handcuffed Padilla after his removal.
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Sen. Alex Padilla, in an interview with "Pod Save America," spoke about being violently kicked out of DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference yesterday in LA. Padilla said a briefing he planned to attend was delayed with the secretary arrived.
Now the senior U.S. senator from California, Alex Padilla’s career in public service started amid intense fervor over immigration in the early 1990s. Now, it comes full circle.
The senator is known on Capitol Hill for being kind and nerdy. His forcible removal from a news conference resonated as a call to action among Democrats.