Fox News anchor asks if US senator forcibly removed from press conference was “there to protest law and order”
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From the June 12, 2025, edition of Fox News' America Reports
SANDRA SMITH (FOX ANCHOR): And more representative of the tensions was the moment when a U.S. senator barged into the room. All we could hear was bits and pieces of what he said, but we know that he was eventually detained. The idea that he was arrested, I guess, is being changed to the language temporarily detained.
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This is Sen. Padilla. But, John, just speaks to the escalating tensions there. Apparently, he was at the congressional baseball game last night. He pulled out early to go back to California, where obviously he made it, because we saw him there. The governor is responding already to that scene, John.
Gov. Newsom has posted this: “Senator Padilla is one of the most decent people I know. This is outrageous,” he says, “and shameful. Trump and his shock troops,” he writes, “are out of control. This must end now.”
So, that happened.
JOHN ROBERTS (FOX ANCHOR): Yup. Not quite sure the point that he was making there. But Kristi Noem was up at the podium along with the acting ICE director, the U.S. attorney, and others who had been talking about quelling the riots in Los Angeles, and they seem to have successfully done that, the arrests of some of the nefarious people that have gone on.
And so, was Padilla there to protest the enforcement of the law? Was he there to protest law and order? I'm not quite sure.