Sen. Alex Padilla on J.D. Vance Calling Him ‘Jose’: ‘He Knows My Name’; ‘It’s Just an Indicator of How Petty and Unserious This Administration Is’

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The senior senator from California, Alex Padilla. Senator, I want to play some sound from the vice president’s trip to Los Angeles yesterday and get your response on the other side. Sure.
>> Well, I.
>> Was.
>> Hoping jose Padilla.
>> Would.
>> Be here to. Ask a question, but unfortunately, I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn’t.
>> The theater.
>> And that’s. all it is. You know, I think everybody realizes.
>> That’s what this is. It’s pure political theater. These guys show up.
>> They want to.
>> Be captured.
>> On camera doing something. They want to be able to go back to their far left groups and to say, look, me, I stood up against border enforcement. I stood up against Donald Trump when all they’re really standing up for is for drug cartels to run rampant over our country, and sex traffickers to be able to continue to. Traffic little kids into our country. That’s what you’re doing when you stand against border enforcement. So I think these guys, we ought to laugh them out of the building.
>> I just want. To say. Some things here. Vice president jd Vance served with you in the Senate for multiple years. He is currently the president of the Senate, where.
>> You serve.
>> He also went to Yale. I assume that he knows your name is Alex Padilla. Your response to him calling you jose?
>> Oh.
>> He knows my name. He knows my name. Look, sadly, it’s.
>> Just an.
>> Indicator of how.
>> Petty and unserious this administration is.
>> But he’s the.
>> Vice president of the United States. Do you.
>> Think he’d.
>> Take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously? You know, you think maybe he’d take a moment to talk to some of the families who have.
>> Been impacted, have been terrorized.
>> To feel what’s really going on on the ground. And you saw him shaking hands with marines, but did he listen to the marines?
>> Because we have.
>> You know.
>> Report after.
>> Report of the marines, so many of the marines themselves that. Don’t want to.
>> Be there. That’s not.
>> Why they enlisted or if not the migrant families.
>> How about the employers.
>> Who I know are speaking. Up because. They’re concerned. About their workforce?
>> Or how.
>> About this?
>> Just take a moment.
>> And talk.
>> To.
>> The. Sheriff of Los Angeles county. Talk to the chief of police of Los Angeles.
>> City and.
>> Hear from them. Their frustration for the lack of communication, the lack of.
>> Coordination.
>> This unnecessary and counterproductive buildup of.
>> The national.
>> Guard and the marines.
>> Making their.
>> Job as local law enforcement more difficult. Or even if you couldn’t do.
>> That.
>> How about taking a moment to go to the Pacific palisades and.
>> Pasadena.
>> Altadena and talk to the families who lost everything in the fires from. Last January? Because guess what? Months and months later, there’s still no additional disaster aid coming to so many people. In the region. We got a lot of