Sen Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued Sunday that his fellow California senator was in the right to interrupt a recent press conference for the Department of Homeland Security, calling it “atrocious” how he was escorted out of the meeting.

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) went viral on Thursday when he spoke over and tried to move toward Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as she held a press conference in Los Angeles. Security acted quickly to push him toward the exit. Noem has described Padilla’s actions as “political theater,” though Schiff claimed that the senator was trying to ask a question and that Noem did not want to discuss “the lawless acts” by the DHS in Los Angeles.