"Why did they get us here if they weren't going to let us in?" grumped a longtime KNX News reporter, one of two dozen media people queued up Thursday

Calls grow for Kristi Noem to resign in the wake of Padilla incident - California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell leads calls for Homeland Security Secretary to step down after senator forcibly removed

California Sen. Alex Padilla is pushing back against claims he was deliberately trying to make a scene when he was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security press conference with Kristi Noem last Thursday.

Longtime Republican strategist Sarah Longwell urged sitting senators in her party to defend Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who was handcuffed and forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ’s press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.