We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into this city. So I want to say thank you to every single person that has been able to do this. [00:00:20] I'm Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the Secretary, because the fact of the matter is, a half a dozen violent criminals that are rotating on your on your. I also want to. Well, you just witnessed was United States Senator Alex Padilla [00:00:38] getting forcibly dragged out of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference, which took place earlier today. She was speaking from the Los Angeles headquarters of the FBI about the protests specifically against her agency. [00:00:55] Now, Padilla interrupted to ask her questions before being restrained. As you can see in that video by security guard shoved out of the room and handcuffed. Let's take a look. I also want to see how many of our Ice agents have been. [00:01:15] On the ground. On the ground. On the ground. Hands behind your back! Hands behind your back! - Let me get my hands behind my back. - All right. Cool. Lay flat, lay flat. Other hands. Her other hands. [00:01:33] So, as you can imagine, Democrats immediately spoke out, including, you know, the always aggressive, strategically minded Chuck Schumer, who said that he was sickened, he was sickened by the incident and demanded immediate answers as to what the hell went on. [00:01:51] Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles called it abhorrent, but DHS defended their decision to manhandle Padilla. Shortly afterwards, Senator Padilla chose disrespectful political theater and interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself [00:02:06] or having his Senate security pin on. Us. Would it be okay? Like, would you guys be cool with it if you were able to identify him as a United States senator or something? Tells me not so much. As he lunged toward. Did he did he lunge toward Kristi Noem? I didn't see any lunging toward Kristi. [00:02:23] No. Look, I'm going to be honest with you guys. It did come across as cringey political theater to me. It did. But he did not lunge at Kristi Noem. Okay. He just didn't. That's that's just not true. We all saw it. Anyway, the rest of the post reads Padilla was told repeatedly to back away [00:02:41] and did not comply with officers repeated commands. Secret Service thought he was an attacker and officers acted appropriately. Now, there has been an update to this whole kerfuffle. I'll give it to you in just a second. What are your initial thoughts? Was. [00:02:58] Look. At a certain point, I don't think the mealy mouth stuff that Chuck Schumer has done or any of the Democratic leadership, to be honest, because where are they right now on this? Gavin Newsom is the governor of the state, so he's making himself sort of the face [00:03:15] of opposing Donald Trump's policies vis a vis the deportation regime. But like, where's everybody else? Where's Hawk Jeffries on this? Where's Chuck Schumer? What do they think we should be like? What is the opposition? And how do we think an ideal version of overhauling our immigration policy [00:03:36] would look like? Where are they? And that's the problem with the Dems. And that's why they lose on this issue. They have no coherence at all. Right. If, if the if the the policy is yo, we believe in the status quo. [00:03:51] We believe that when Joe Biden signed those orders to expand, you know, the people who could claim asylum and the people we were given safe refuge to, here's why he did it. Here's why it's fine. Here's why it's going great. Here's what we should be doing to process it. Okay, cool. [00:04:06] Or here's why. You know what? We're Joe Biden might have had it wrong. We want to do nothing. There's there's there's nothing. What what is the Democratic Party's position on what's going on right now. The Republicans can simply tell you 12 million extra people came. [00:04:25] Whether that number is accurate or not, I don't know, 12 million extra people came. We got to get them the hell out. That's the message. They have a message. They got something. I mean, it goes back to the thing. It goes back to the broader problem with the Democratic Party, [00:04:40] the lack of a leader. And I'm sorry, Hakeem Jeffries is not God. He's not made of the stuff necessary to be thought of as a leader. He's just not. Hakeem Jeffries could not lead a prostitute to bed. [00:04:55] I promise you, he is nobody's leader. He is just not. - I'm just telling. - You, you're my. You're my favorite. I'm just telling you you are. That dude is not a leader. No, you're right, you're right. I mean, he's the guy who basically, like, threatened the Trump administration [00:05:11] if they end up arresting one of their members. And then they proceeded to arrest one of their members. And my favorite part is like, he's gonna they're gonna find out. They're gonna find out. They're gonna find out. And then, okay, what did they find out? That you have no plan. [00:05:27] You guys have no plan. That's the problem. There's no plan. There's no strategy at all. But apparently, Padilla and Noam, buried the hatchet. Here's what she told reporters after the press conference. Had a great conversation, sat down and talked for ten, 15 minutes [00:05:45] about operations in LA, some activities of the Department of Homeland Security. And so I thought it was very productive. And I, I wish that, he would have reached out and identified himself and let us know who he was and that he wanted to talk. His approach, you know, was something that I don't think was appropriate at all. [00:06:04] But the conversation was great, and we're going to continue to communicate. We exchanged phone numbers, and we're going to continue to talk on ways we can communicate better. - Why was that the action. - You decided to take? I'll let the law enforcement speak to how this situation was handled. But I will say that it's, people need to identify themselves [00:06:19] before they start lunging at people that during press conferences. Well, Alex Padilla saw things a little differently there peacefully. At one point I had a question and so I began to ask a question. [00:06:36] I was almost immediately forcibly removed from the room. I was forced to the ground and I was handcuffed. If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the Department of Homeland Security [00:06:52] responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country. [00:07:13] So, you know, that last point was, I think, a pretty legitimate and credible point to make. What are your final thoughts on this was. I mean, I'm glad he's out there making the case for these migrants, these workers, these undocumented folks. [00:07:29] I'm happy that at least somebody wants to put a voice and make the case to why these people belong in our country, and they aren't just visitors, they're part of what we do. They're part of why we're great. And, you know, I would just like to hear some Democrats explain [00:07:47] to the world their worldview that, like, we want America to be a great country that people are dying to get to. Like, there's something to the fact that people are willing to travel ungodly amounts of freaking miles and traverse lands to come here. [00:08:08] Sure, if we need to tighten up the processing of that, okay, cool. Let's have that conversation. But make the case that, yeah, we're a country that people are dying to get to, and a lot of these people deserve to be here, you know what I mean? [00:08:24] And I'd love to see somebody give voice to that. And this is and that's at least a start. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.