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.

Welker also asked Schiff for his thoughts on a scuffle on Thursday in which federal agents manhandled, handcuffed and removed Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference after he interrupted with a question.

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.

Democratic leaders and a lone Republican senator, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, quickly decried the treatment of U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California and

Sen. Alex Padilla’s (D-CA) takedown by federal law enforcement on Thursday is the focus of the latest fundraising pitches from Democrats, including the national party, lawmakers, and left-leaning political action committees.

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.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he would be against censuring Sen. Alex Padilla after the California Democrat tried to approach and question Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a press

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) worries about what will happen to people who question the Trump administration, who aren’t senators, and when the cameras are off. His comments came just days after he was forcibly removed from a room for shouting and disrupting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem‘s press conference.