Live from NPR News in Washington. I'm Jack Spear.

A scuffle today in Los Angeles during a news conference by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christine Nome.

Senator Alex Padilla of California was forcibly removed when he tried to ask Norm a question.

Reporter Steve Futterman is more.

Padilla was pushed out of the room by security personnel taken to the ground and handcuffed.

His office posted video of it online.

He spoke afterwards.

If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question,

you can only imagine what they're doing to farmers, to cucks, to

day laborers. On Fox News, Noam said the action was appropriate. This man burst into the room,

started lunging towards the podium, did not identify himself, and was removed from the room.

Noam called Padilla's action political theater.

She says the two did speak later after the incident.

Padilla says he was never detained or arrested.

For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.

A historic moment for public media for the first time in the history of the Corporation

for Public Broadcasting. The U.S. House has voted a strip of all federal funding for the first time in the history of the corporation for public broadcasting. The U.S. House has voted a

tribut of all federal funding for the next two years. S NPR's David Falkinflick reports to the bill's

Republican sponsors won on the slimest of margins. President Trump had requested that Congress claw back

$8.3 billion in foreign aid and $1.1 billion for public broadcasting, money that had already been

approved by both Republican-led chambers of Congress and by the president. Conservative activists

have been pushing for such a move for decades, saying NPR and PBS have a liberal bias.

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