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CNN analyst and political director David Chalian was stupefied by video of federal agents manhandling and handcuffing Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) after he tried to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question during a news conference about the federal intervention of the Trump administration against anti-deportation protesters in California.

Homeland Security has defended their actions by claiming that Padilla behaved unprofessionally and failed to identify himself as a member of Congress. However, some observers note that he did just that.

A House hearing descended into shouting on Thursday afternoon with a Democrat demanding a subpoena for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and Chairman James Comer shouting at him to "shut up."

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Maxwel Frost (D-FL) argued with Comer (R-KY) about whether Noem should be subpoenaed because her agents detained Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA).

U.S. Senators took to the floor on Thursday afternoon after Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was shoved out of a Homeland Security news conference, pushed to the ground, and handcuffed by the FBI.

"We have a constitutional obligation to provide oversight to the executive, a constitutional obligation to ask questions, to make inquiries, a constitutional obligation to check and balance the authority of the executive," Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said from the Senate floor.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will gain control of U.S. Steel as part of a merger deal with Japan's largest steelmaker, according to The Associated Press.

“We have a golden share, which I control,” Trump said Thursday about the deal with Nippon Steel to invest billions in Pennsylvania-based U.S. Steel, which was founded in 1901 by American financier J.P. Morgan.

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was tackled and handcuffed by federal agents after he interrupted a news conference with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

As the Los Angeles conference began on Thursday afternoon, agents could be seen forcing Padilla from the room after he interrupted Noem.

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was pushed out of a news conference and handcuffed after barging in to ask questions of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Fox News reporter Alex Rego witnessed Padilla being removed and confirmed that he was forced to the ground and that FBI agents handcuffed him. He was then "escorted down the hall and temporarily detained," Fox's Chad Pergram posted on X.

A Republican state representative in South Carolina accused of hoarding indecent pictures of children has been deemed too dangerous to receive bail, South Carolina Public Radio reporter Maayan Schechter reported on Thursday.

"The judge ruled that RJ May, now a suspended state representative, will remain in jail through his trial, citing flight risk and danger to his family and himself," wrote Schechter on X. "The judge said that the weight of evidence against May is significant."

President Donald Trump's administration is following conspiracy theories that the protesters in Los Angeles are being paid.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed in a news conference Thursday that agents of the IRS have been deployed on the ground in Los Angeles to investigate who is "paying them" to protest.

President Donald Trump gave an ominous threat to undocumented migrants in a lengthy Truth Social rant on Thursday afternoon.

“Biden let 21 Million Unvetted, Illegal Aliens flood into the Country from some of the most dangerous and dysfunctional Nations on Earth — Many of them Rapists, Murderers, and Terrorists,” Trump said.

President Donald Trump is trying to distract Americans from his “flailing agenda” with “twin military spectacles,” according to an analysis by USA Today columnist Chris Brennan.

“Trump is wasting an estimated $134 million to send 4,000 National Guard members and 700 U.S. Marines to Los Angeles,” Brennan said before adding, Trump is also “blowing at least an additional $45 million, for a June 14 military parade, which by no coincidence at all is also his 79th birthday.”