(12 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 12 June 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Mark Kelly, (D) Arizona:
“Hey, every U.S. Senator has a right to go in a federal building. It’s their job to ask questions of, I don’t care who it is, if it’s his cabinet secretary, and he has the right to be there. He left here yesterday. I talked to him about it. That he was going back to L.A. because of what this administration has done and made a situation that was manageable much worse. And to force him out of what I thought was a press conference, that’s my understanding, it’s just, again, inflaming the situation. And he had every right to be there to ask, if the press is asking the Secretary questions, a U.S. Senator should be able to go into a federal building and ask questions.”
++WHITE FLASH++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Adam Schiff, (D) California:
“And Alex Padilla had every right to go into that room and demand answers. That is what a senator does. And for him to get that kind of abusive treatment, every senator who works in this capital should be offended by this and outraged by this. And I know I speak for millions and millions of Californians, we are grateful to have Senator Padilla’s leadership. He is well respected here on both sides of the aisle. We’re proud of him standing up for our mutual constituents. And the way he was treated and abused today is just disgraceful.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California has been forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and elsewhere.
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing Padilla by his jacket Thursday and shoving him from the room as he tried to interrupt Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles.
On Capitol Hill, Democrats Senators responded to the video.
Sen. Mark Kelly, (D) Arizona, said Padilla had every right to be there.
“It’s just, again, inflaming the situation, and he had every right to be there to ask, if the press is asking the Secretary questions, a U.S. Senator should be able to go into a federal building and ask questions,” Kelly said.
Sen. Adam Schiff, (D) California, said he spoke for millions of California’s when he said he was grateful for Sen. Padilla’s leadership.
“He is well respected here on both sides of the aisle. We’re proud of him standing up for our mutual constituents. And the way he was treated and abused today is just disgraceful,” Schiff said.
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