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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Punch Bull News Readback podcast.

I'm your host, Max Cohen.

And today I'm joined by our senior congressional reporter, Andrew Desiderio, to talk about

what was a wild week on the hill, a chaotic week, and one where a lot of members let their

frustration boil over.

Andrew, thanks for joining me.

How you doing?

Hey, Max.

We're going to start off with perhaps the most dramatic incident of the week,

and it didn't even happen on Capitol Hill.

It happened in Los Angeles, California,

where Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a press conference

featuring DHS Secretary Christy Noem.

It was about the ICE, the anti-ice presentations and riots and protests in Los Angeles,

the government response, and Pidiya showed up to ask questions of Noam.

And what happened after was something we rarely see happen to a sitting senator,

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