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Fox News spoke with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who shocked the incident with Senator D-Calif’s Alex Padilla.
Padilla was forcibly evacuated from the press conference when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference earlier Thursday about the recent protests in Los Angeles.
Even some Republicans are concerned about Padilla’s treatment in private, although they admit that his tactics are aggressive.
Here, some Republicans see it as dramatic as Democrats struggle to find information that resonates with the Trump administration.
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Senator Alex Padilla spoke at a press conference at the Wilshire Federal Building on Wilshire Blvd. Thursday in Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The senator was particularly shaken. The Senate is an equal body. And, if that happens to one of them, then, they are worried about the next one.
The Democrats demand a full investigation.
Yesterday, Mike Johnson, a California Democrat and Speaker of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
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Democratic Senator Alex Padilla from California was forcibly removed from journalists outside the Wilhill federal building after a press conference held by Los Angeles Department of Homeland Security on June 12. (Getty Image)
Johnson believes Padilla should be condemned.
D-Pa. Rep. Madeleine Dean said she had a private conversation with Johnson on Thursday. She wanted to lower the temperature, but said that only President Donald Trump could do it.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Rs.D.
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“I still hope that leader Thune and other Republicans will take us off the edge. But I’m not that sure anymore,” said Senator Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii.
