FBI 'opened the door for me': Padilla smashes Noem's excuse for security scuffle

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) claimed he was escorted by National Guard and FBI agents to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference last week — before he was forcibly removed.

The remarks come less than a week after the incident, which saw the senator pushed to the ground by federal agents. Padilla claimed he was there to have a meeting and “to try to get answers from the Department of Defense that state and local officials were not receiving.”

“I went to the federal building in West Los Angeles,” he recalled...