Welcome to a special edition of the Jim Acosta show. I'm coming to you live from San Francisco.

As you can see with me right now as my friend, Democratic strategist, Maria Cardona. Maria, we had to jump on a sub-sac as fast as possible here because this is unreal what just took place in Los Angeles.

Senator Alex Padilla of California was forcibly removed from a news conference in

LA after he tried to question the Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Noam.

And, you know, he was saying, I'm Senator Alex Padilla.

I have questions for the secretary.

And then several men who were with her physically removed him from the news conference,

pushed and shoved him through a door. Your thoughts,

it's just outrageous. You know, Jim, I don't normally cuss in public, but this is fucking outrageous.

I am sorry. My blood is boiling right now. And I was so happy to see your note about how you wanted to go

live because it literally happened seconds

ago. And you know how I'm on a ton of group chats with leadership and activists and strategists

and local electeds that are in the Latino community nationally? Everyone is up in arms. and it's not just Latinos. It's everyone who

understands what this means in terms of our democracy. It means we might not have one anymore, Jim.

Yeah. This is a literal dissension before our eyes into fascism. A senator of the United States of America

who was asking the Secretary of Homeland Security a question. He was not being aggressive.

He was not somewhere where he was not supposed to be. It was a press conference. It was public.

That's right. That's right.

Go to ask questions.

That's right.

And the law enforcement officers grabbed him.

Didn't just take him outside of that room forcibly, Jim.

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