An incensed Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) hammered House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on MSNBC Friday for suggesting Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) should be censured after he was grabbed by Kristi Noem's security detail.
Speaking with MSNBC's Ali Vitali, Lujan was asked about the altercation that started after the California Democrat attempted to ask Noem a question and ended with him on the floor being handcuffed by the FBI agents.
According to Padilla's Senate colleague, Johnson had a lot of nerve calling for the California Democrat's censure after he sat on his hands after the House Ethics Committee complied an "incriminating" report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).
After telling the House Speaker to clean "up his own house," Lujan suggested it might be informative to know if Noem's security team knew who they were manhandling despite protestations from the Trump appointee.
"I just don't know how there's trust with any of these other folks that are federal agents right now with how these folks were allowed to operate," he accused before proposing, "And by the way, they all had earpieces on, they were talking to each other. Where's that audio that needs to be preserved and fully investigated as well?"
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