Alex Padilla actually said...

"I had the audacity to try to ask a question as a senator of a Cabinet secretary"

"If that's how this administration responds to the senator with a question, ... that cruel, disrespectful treatment of so many people who deserve much better"

"When I heard the secretary, not for the first time in that press conference, talk about the needing to liberate the people of Los Angeles from their duly elected mayor and governor, it was at that mom..."

"First Amendment rights are a beautiful thing, and they need to be utilized."