Sen. Adam Schiff on Sunday called the handcuffing of fellow California Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla "atrocious" after Padilla was forcibly removed for interrupting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles.

"To see him mistreated that way and tackled to the ground and shackled that way and in the midst of what we're seeing more broadly in Los Angeles is just atrocious," Schiff told NBC's Kristen Welker on "Meet The Press." "And I think all of us that work with him reacted with that kind of revulsion."

Schiff defended Padilla, saying he had "every right" to attend Noem's press conference and ask a question. He also pointed out that Padilla had been escorted into the room and had identified himself........

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