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.

“Padilla didn’t want answers; he wanted attention,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement Thursday. House Speaker Mike Johnson said the incident warranted a censure. “Perhaps he wanted the scene,” Noem told Fox News.

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.

The protests planned for Saturday could become the largest nationwide demonstrations of Trump’s second term. But unlike in previous eras, the government’s posture heading into them is not one of caution: it is one of preparation,

Good Thursday afternoon. Senators have just finished voting for the week, but many of them are leaving the Capitol stunned by video of their colleague Alex Padilla getting manhandled and ...

US Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference in Los Angeles, sparking outrage. Padilla attempted to question immigration raids, leading to Secret Service officers intervening.

Rep. John Mannion (D-N.Y.) shocked colleagues in both parties Thursday by tearing into Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) in what sources described as a tense and profane confrontation over the forcible removal of Sen.