Today's unlawful physical attack on United States Senator Alex Padilla by the totally unprofessional and incompetent federal agents who did that came after Donald Trump completely surrendered on his promise to deport 15 million people. The central lie of Donald Trump's deportation campaign promise came apart today when Donald Trump himself decided to agree with Senator Alex Padilla and agree with every Democrat in the House and Senate and agree with Kla Harris and agree with Joe Biden that of course we shou ...

you became emotional when you came outside and spoke uh after this happened to you and and I want to make sure that I tell everybody specifically what it was that you were talking about when you when you teared up. You talked about farmers and cooks and day laborers. You spoke in Spanish.I've heard you often speak about um your father who was a short order cook and your mother who cleaned homes. You grew up here in the northeast San Frernando Valley in a neighborhood called Pomaa. Um you played baseball in ...

INTERVIEW. JACOB SOBOROFF HAS BEEN COVERING THIS STORY FOR US IS WITH THE SENATOR JACOB. >> ALL RIGHT.THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'M JOINED RIGHT NOW BY SENATOR ALEX PADILLA. SENATOR, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US LIVE ON MSNBC.FIRST QUESTION, HOW ARE YOU. WE ALL WATCHED THE VIDEO. WE SAW YOU TAKEN TO THE FLOOR BY THOSE AGENTS.HOW ARE YOU DOING. >> YEAH. LOOK.I'M OKAY. I'VE BEEN ON THE PHONE OFF AND ON WITH KIDS. RIGHT.BECAUSE MY KIDS WERE TRAVELS FAST IN THIS DAY AND AGE WITH TECHNOLOGY, MAKE SURE THEY'RE OKA ...

>> THIS IS "BALANCE OF POWER" LIVE FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. JOE: FROM BLOOMBERG'S WASHINGTON, D.C. STUDIOS TO OUR TV AND RADIO AUDIENCES WORLDWIDE, WELCOME TO "BALANCE OF POWER. " KAILEY: TONIGHT, INFLAMED POLITICAL TENSIONS AFTER A HEATED ENCOUNTER. A CALIFORNIA SENATOR FORCIBLY REMOVED AND HANDCUFFED WHEN HE TRIED TO CONFRONT THE HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY AS SHE BREATHED REPORTERS ON THE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN IN L.A. WE WILL HAVE REACTION TO THE STUNNING MOMENT CAPTURED ON VIDEO. JOE: THE MID EAST ...

Since the beginning of the year, but especially over the course of the last re uh over the course of recent weeks, I several of my colleagues have been asking the the Department of Homeland Security for more information and more answers on their increasingly extreme immigration enforcement actions. And we've gotten little to no information in response to our inquiries. And so I came to the press conference to hear what she had to say to see if I could learn any new additional information.And at one point I ...

politicians in Los Angeles and in Bali. Sir, sir, hands up. Hands up.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 you're rotating on your on your I also want to have On the ground. On the ground. On the ground.Hands behind your back. Hands behind your back. If you If you my hands, go ahead and stand behind my back.All right. Cool. Other hand.Lay lay flat. Lay flat. Other hand.Turn. Other hand. ...

Well, good afternoon everybody. Never put your hand on there. Good afternoon everybody.I'm Senator Alex Padilla. Uh you guys have some questions. I'm going to read a brief statement.I will not be taking questions, but allow me to read my statement. Uh I'm here in Los Angeles today. Uh, and I was here in the federal building in the conference room awaiting a scheduled briefing from federal officials as part of my responsibility as a senator to provide oversight and accountability.While I was waiting for the ...

THE ADMINISTRATION'S AUTHORITARIAN OVERREACH AND GROSS ABUSE OF POWER. A LOT TO DIG INTO. I WANT TO BRING IN NBC'S JULIE SIRKIN COVERING CAPITOL HILL.DAVID NORIEGA IS LIVE FOR US IN LOS ANGELES. CARLOS CURBELO IS A FORMER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN FROM FLORIDA AND AN MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST. AND DAVID DRUCKER IS HERE WITH ME IN THE STUDIO.HE'S SENIOR WRITER AT THE DISPATCH AND AUTHOR OF THE BOOK IN TRUMP'S SHADOW. JULIE, I'LL START WITH YOU ON THE HILL. IT STRUCK ME THAT SOME OF THE MOST EXPLOSIVE PARTS OF THI ...

Ventura County has thousands of farms, more than 2,000, maybe as many as 3,000 farms that look just like this. There are tens of thousands of farm workers that work at these farms every single day. And many, if not most of them are undocumented immigrants.This is around the time that you would see a lot of workers out here. Uh, and today it has been a virtual ghost town of workers. That's our Jacob Soberof reporting from farm fields in California's Ventura County last night, noting that many fields were emp ...

NBC's David Noriega joins us live in Los Angeles. Also with us, NBC News senior homeland security correspondent Julia Aninsley and Jason Hower, former chief of staff for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. David, how have these demonstrations now evolved in the past 24 hours.Bring us up to speed. Well, Anna, the number of protesters has remained in the hundreds over the last couple of days. that is significantly lower than the number when the protest started on Friday and into the weekend.And I would say t ...