 That wasn't a skit, my friends. You just watched Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen literally challenge Teamsters President Sean O'Brien to a fight during a Senate Help Committee hearing. Now if you're wondering how it got to that point, well, it's because of tweets, specifically mean tweets that Sean O'Brien made after their last confrontation that hurt Mark Wayne Mullen's feelings. But before we get to that, let's watch the full exchange. Here's the last time, and I kind of had a back and forth. Appreciate your demeanor today. It's quite different. But after you left here, you got pretty excited about the keyboard. In fact, you tweeted at me one, two, three, four, five times. And let me read what the last one said. Greedy CEO who pretends like he's self-made, sir, I wish you was in the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company myself, and my wife was running the office because I sure remember working pretty hard in long hours, pretends like he's self-made. What a clown fraud always has been, always will be. Quit the tough guy act in these Senate hearings. You know where to find me. Any place, any time, cowboy, sir, this is a time, this is a place. If you want to run your mouth, we can be too consenting adults. We can finish it here. Okay, that's fine. Perfect. You want to do it now? I'd love to do it right now. Well, stand your butt up, then. You stand your butt up. Oh, hold on. Oh, stop it. Is that your solution, every public? Oh, no. Sit down. Sit down. Okay. You know, you're a United States Senate. Actively. Okay. Sit down, please. All right. If we can't... No, I have the mic. I'm sorry. Hold it. Hold it. You'll have your time. Okay. Can I respond? No, you can't. This is a hearing. And God knows the American people have enough of contempt for Congress. Let's not make it worse. I don't like drugs and police. You are... I don't like you because you just described yourself. Hold it. You have the mic. You have time. Amazing. Now, I'm not sure if you noticed it, but when Mark Wayne Mullen was reading Channel Brian's tweets, he left out the best part. So you can see it printed out in full color here, but if you go to the actual tweet from O'Brien, he added a picture of Mullen standing on a platform during a debate to make himself seem taller with the hashtag little man syndrome. Now, that's in part why I think Mark Wayne Mullen was so mad. It seems like Sean O'Brien hit a bit of a nerve. And listen, we love our short kings, but Mark Wayne Mullen is not a short king. He's a short cunt. And if you're clearly self-conscious about your height and you go out of your way to overcompensate by standing on platforms and trying to make yourself seem like a big tough guy, people are going to point that out and make fun of you for it. You're making yourself a target, Mark or Mark Wayne or whatever your stupid fucking name is. But let's watch some more from that exchange because it took Bernie Sanders a long time to actually regain order. All right. And let's do this because I did challenge you and I accepted your challenge and you went quiet. No, I didn't go quiet. You challenged me to a cage match acting like a 12-year-old school. Hold it. No, excuse me. I will say, I will say exactly that. Mullen, I have the mic. You have questions on any economic issues, anything that's like go for it. We're not here to talk about physical abuse. You brought when I talk about, of course, let me show you his hearing because I want to expose this thug to who he is. You're not pointing at me. That's disrespectful. All right. I don't care about respecting you at all. I respect you at all. I don't respect you at all. All right. Hold it. Hold it. No. You don't want to. Hold it. Hold it. Please. Please. All right. This is a, excuse me. Mm-hmm. This is a hearing to discuss economic issues. So, any time, any place. No, that's not. April is a charity event. No, that's not, that's not, no. No, it's a, he, sir, he said it, and this is not. He is here to, no. You can send parameters and what the questions can or cannot be asked. No, you're not going to, we're not going to be talking about physical confrontation. Oh, this is about charity. For a union charity. Because this is for firefighters. Do you have a question on his test? April, April, April. Please, please. You have a question on his, let's not be. You said it. You're an embarrassment. I'm just simply answering it. You reached out to him. Hold it. Hold it. Senator Mullen, you made some charges. Charges. Mr. Biden, do you want to respond to the question? Yeah, go ahead, please. Yeah, I mean, look, the reality of it is, you know, Mr. Mullen, tough guy. Answer, hold it. Answer the questions. All right. You know, one, if I, he, he made a lot of statements, right? And his statements of fiction at best. Fiction, I read them. What? Answer the question, please. I can't understand them, to be honest with you. All right. He rambles so much. What was your question, actually? Except, well, you said I made a lot of statements. No, but what's your question? I don't understand your question. Could you repeat it? You said any time, any place. What's your question? Accept a challenge. What challenge? You said any time, any place. I'm accepting yours. So once you come back. What challenge? What challenge are you talking about? April 30th. How about we do it for charity at the Smoking Guns in Tulsa, Oklahoma? No, we're not going to be talking about physical confrontations here. You want to fight me? What did you say by any time, any place? Let's have coffee. Discuss our differences. That's what you said. Yeah, that's right. All right. Well, let's say I don't have coffee. Let's do it. All right. I'd love to. It's funny how you're back on anything. I don't back on anything. You did. You're the one. You're a 100. Senator. You should be the most influential people in this country making changes. You're focused on debate. That's not irrelevant. You're an embarrassment. You're an embarrassment. You're an embarrassment. You're an embarrassment. You're an embarrassment. You're an embarrassment. You're working class in America. That's what we're talking about. You're the biggest thug here. He brought him in. All right. You're the biggest thug, even your colleagues. I don't know how to call you that. Why you do what you're doing, Senator. What a complete shit show. Listen, if I were Bernie Sanders in this situation, here's what I would do. I would just let them fight. If Mark Wayne Mullen wants to challenge this union boss to a duel and potentially get his ass beat, I would have no choice but to allow it. Now, the question is what happened during their last exchange, which was referenced that actually led to those tweets led to those tweets from Sean O'Brien that triggered Mark Wayne Mullen so thoroughly. Well, here's their exchange from the original hearing that took place in March. And as you're going to see, Mark Wayne Mullen was once again the instigator of that confrontation. I started with nothing, absolutely nothing. In fact, I started below nothing. And I started growing this little plumbing company with six employees to now we have over 300 employees. And back in 2009, you guys tried to unionize me. My guys were making money. They were being paid more than the union halls were paying their plumbers. Our benefits were better. But because we started bidding jobs at reunion jobs and winning those union pipe fitters decided they were going to come after us. They would show up at my house. They'd be leaning up against my trucks. I'm not afraid of a physical confrontation. In fact, sometimes I look forward to it. That's not my problem. But when you're doing that to my employees and then when that didn't work, they started picketing our job site saying shame on Mullen. Shame on Mullen. For what? For what? Because we were paying higher wages. Because we had better benefits and we wasn't requiring them to pay your guys's absorbent salaries. You talk about CEOs that are making all this money and what do you make, Mr. O'Brien? Well, I'm glad you asked that question. Yeah, I know what you make because in 2019, your salary was, what is this, $193,000. I'm sure you've got some pay raises since then. Yeah, when I was a regular. And the average UPS driver, the feeder driver makes $35,000 a year. That's inaccurate. And what do you bring? That's inaccurate. Hold on a second. That's inaccurate. Stay facts. That's inaccurate. The average UPS feeder driver makes $35,000 if you don't know your facts and maybe you should be in a position. I know him because I negotiate the contract. So I say one thing to you. What do you bring for that salary? What do I bring? Yeah, what job have you committed or have you started? What job have you created? One job, other than sucking the paycheck out of somebody else that you want to say that you're trying to provide because you're forcing them to pay dues. No, we don't force them to do it. Senator, that's the question. You're out of line. That's not happening. No, don't tell me I'm out of line. You are out of line. Don't tell me I'm out of line. Don't tell me I'm out of line. You frame the statement or I'll off-guard. Yeah. Because you don't know what you're talking about. You're gonna tell me to shut my mouth? Yes, I did. Hold it. It's off-guard. I'm not afraid of physical things. I don't have to be, but don't sit there and tell me I'm out of line. Senator, you made a statement. You asked the question. I didn't ask the question. You did. I answered the question. You asked the question. God, how much? Well, it was rhetorical. Let him answer. Well, you may think it's rhetorical. It was rhetorical. Sounded to me like a question. Let him answer the question. I'm not yielding my time to him. So if you're gonna let me keep my time, that's fine. You'll have your time. Let him, you ask a question. He has a right to answer that. So after seeing Mullin's demeanor, you can understand why O'Brien made those tweets about him being a tough guy. I'm not afraid of physical confrontation. Sir, you're an adult. Act like it. I mean, the animosity, it stems from Mark Wayne Mullin being vehemently anti-union. And that's not necessarily surprising considering he is literally a greedy CEO himself. He's worth an estimated $75 million and has defended billionaire CEOs like Howard Schultz of Starbucks who was caught retaliating against employees trying to unionize. So as a CEO himself, he knows that unions threaten his wealth or did threaten his wealth when he was a CEO because they give workers more leverage. And that's bad for people who are greedy like Mark Wayne Mullin. Now, O'Brien pointed this out at the last hearing and in response, Mullin was apoplectic. My salary, if you follow me around, I walk, I actually look at this building. I bet you I work more hours than you do. Twice as many hours. That's impossible, but. No, that is, that's true. Sir, you don't even know what hard work is. Secondly, yeah. Secondly, I do it in a minute. Secondly, UPS feeder drivers. And you can quote Carol Tomei who quoted this. They make 93,000 on the lower end. Some of them make 150,000. I said feeder drivers. Feeder drivers, tractor trail drivers. Some of them make $150,000 per year. Some do. I don't disagree with that. Most of them make over, most of them make over. Actually, you've been there four years. Most of them make over a thousand. Most of them make over 100,000. So reclaiming my time. I go back to the whole fact that, sir, you haven't created a job. We haven't? You haven't been there. You haven't. Sure we have. You haven't. Sure we have. Tell me one job that you created. What are you talking about? Be specific. You're an employer? No, I'm not an employer. Employee people? No, but, you know, it's funny. No, then hold on. We create opportunity. That's not creating jobs. Because we hold greedy CEOs like yourself accountable. You call me a greedy CEO? Oh, yeah, you are. You want to attack my salary, I'll attack yours. What did you make when you owned your company? I made my company. I kept my salary down at about $50,000 a year because I invested every penny into it. Okay, all right. You mean you hid money? No, I didn't hide. Oh, hold on a second. Okay, close. He said that's out of line. You said I was out of line. We're even, we're even. We're not even. We're not even close to being even. You think it's smart? You think you're funny? No, you're not. You think you're funny? No, I never said, did I smile? You frame, you frame your opening statement. Hold on, hold on, hold on. You frame your opening statement, Stan, you're at the top side. Senator, please continue your statements. But, sir, I think it's great that you're doing this because this shows their behavior on how they try to come in and recognize a show. And they say about intimidation, and it's not about intimidation. They show your behavior. Stay on the issue. So that's the origin of this beef. Now, I'm assuming that Mark Wayne Mullen isn't still licking his wounds from that because he's mad that he was called a greedy CEO. He's probably still mad because this exchange led to a lot of scrutiny on Mark Wayne Mullen for being a greedy CEO. He wasn't just called the mean name. He was exposed as well. Because first and foremost, he was lying about his income. As Common Dreams explains, asked by O'Brien how much he made from his plumbing business, Mullen claimed, I kept my salary down at about $50,000 a year because I invested every penny into it. But, in 2013, then-Representative Mullen reportedly pocketed more than $600,000 from companies in violation of house ethics rules and federal laws limiting how much outside income members of Congress are allowed to receive. Although Mullen transferred ownership of the companies to his family, he continued to serve as a board member and chief advertiser while raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, second of all, as Sean O'Brien pointed out on March 8th after their last exchange, for the record, Senator Mullen saw his reported assets balloon from a range of $7.3 million to $29.9 million at the end of 2020 to a range of $31.6 million to $75.6 million. Now, ask yourself, do you think that Mark Wayne Mullen shared that wealth with his employees who helped him build his plumbing company and make it as successful as it was? Do you think he cut them a check after he sold the company? I mean, of course not, as evidenced by his wealth doubling. Now, he is the definition of a greedy CEO. That's what that is. And he doesn't like that O'Brien called him on that. He doesn't like that he is being perceived as part of the problem. He wants to make it seem as if unions are the problem, but his greed makes people want to join unions so that way they have protections from their greedy bosses who suck up all of the profits and leech off of their employees. But that's not the extent of his greed. He's not just a greedy CEO. He also has a fuck you I got mine mentality because after his $1.4 million PPP loan was forgiven, he had the audacity to come out against $10,000 debt forgiveness for people with student loans. So when it comes to whether or not tax payers should pay for his PPP loan to be forgiven, well, that's fine. But when it comes to student debt, not acceptable. He is a genuine piece of shit. And he's also a hypocrite because right wing watch pointed out that he said this about his own religious teaching. A lot of times when I speak, I also speak about my heart too. Something I've had to change about loving the people love the call. You guys, many of you guys have heard me say that. And a lot of times I talk about that because I choose my attitude. There's a lot of times we can get angry about politics. We can get mad at someone. I heard someone back here a while ago when I was talking, saying baloney. Because we get passionate about it. But Lord still calls us to love. And so even if you disagree with me, I still love you. I still respect you. I don't care about respecting you at all. I respect you at all. Well, I for one am completely shocked by this. You know, usually fundamentalist Christians are completely consistent about loving their neighbor and not judging others or hating others. So I mean, this is really out of character here for an evangelical. Listen, he is a clown. And since that exchange that took place today, he's had a couple of hours to cool off. So what is he saying now? Is he toning it down? Is he apologizing? Well, as CNN's Manu Raja reports, he has no regrets. He called me out. I was just answering the call. Don't say something. You're not going to back up. It's that simple, Mullin said. He's a president of a union. I'm still a guy from Oklahoma. You're a millionaire from Oklahoma, dude. Mullin said he was raised different when asked about the propriety of settling disputes physically. Don't say something stupid like that unless you're going to truly back it up, Mullin told us. He's a thug. He's been running at the mouth forever. Mullin did say he considers it a done deal and he's willing to get a coffee with the witness. And he pushed back at Senator Bernie Sanders admonishing him at the hearing. I'd hate to be that guy some days, Mullin said of Sanders. So it's over. It's a done deal, as he says, which makes sense because you can only humiliate yourself so much before realizing it's time to shut the fuck up before I look any more foolish than I already do. Now, as Ali Mastal put it, Republicans are an entire party that never learned to use their words and true words have never been spoken. And it's not only true because of Mullin's behavior today, but because of another altercation that allegedly got physical with the Republican because NPI correspondent Claudia Grisale reports have never seen this on Capitol Hill. While talking to Representative Tim Burchett after the GOP conference meeting, former Speaker McCarthy walked by his detail and McCarthy shoved Burchett. Burchett lunged towards me. I thought it was a joke. It was not. And a chase ensued. Now, we're gonna hear from Tim Burchett in a moment who's gonna recount the events and tell us about the chase that ensued afterwards. But just for some additional context, Tim Burchett is one of the eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy. So I think that says a lot. But nonetheless, here's what he had to say. And at that time, I got elbowed in the back and it kind of caught me off guard because it was a clean shot to the kidneys and I turned back and there was Kevin. And for a minute, I was kind of, what the heck just happened? And then I chased after him, of course. He's a, as I've stated many times, he's a bully with $17 million in a security detail. And he's the type of guy that when you're a kid with a rock over the fence and run home and hide behind his mama's skirt, and he just, from behind that kind of stuff, that's not the way we handle things in East Tennessee. We have a problem with somebody, I'm gonna look him in the eye and talk to him. Okay, so he walked down the hallway, hit you with his elbow. You can go on Claudia's Twitter account, it pretty much, or X account, it's very accurate. Okay, so then just explain. So you chased him, what do you mean you chased him? I just ran after him. I was like, what the heck, why'd you do that? Because it was, like I said, if you've ever been hitting a kid and it's a little different, you don't have to hit very hard to cause a little bit of pain. And so he just, of course, as he always did, does, he just denies it or blames somebody else or something, and it was just a little heated, but I just backed off because I saw no reason. I wasn't gaining anything from it. Everybody saw it, so it didn't really matter. You responded to him? Yeah, yeah, he just acted like, what are you talking about? Who are you to, you know, that kind of thing? And it's just, I think that's symptomatic of the problems that he's had in his short tenure as speaker. And were you face-to-face when you had this interaction? Yeah, but there was security detail, and I get it, they were doing their job, so it wasn't exactly like he didn't, he wouldn't turn around and face me. He kept scurrying, trying to keep people between me and him. And then so, where did he, where'd y'all were you? I just let it go at that point, it wasn't. Were you yelling? He was, yeah, I raised my voice to him, I thought it was appropriate, and I just don't expect a guy who was at one time three steps away from the White House to hit you with a sucker punch in the hallway. And did he raise his voice back to you? Yeah, just that high-pitched kind of thing, I believe, and that was about it. And did he walk into his office? How did this happen? No, he just kept on walking down the hall. I don't know where his office is now, and he had his detail and his posse, so to speak, was with him. So did his detail try to stop you? Do what? Did his detail try to stop you? One guy got between us there towards the end, but I wasn't looking to knock him out or anything, I just wanted to let him know I know it was him. I mean, this is middle school level bullshit. It's just so ridiculous that the former speaker of the House is behaving in this way. And I believe Birchit here. So McCarthy allegedly shoved a fellow Republican, presumably in retaliation for his vote to oust him as speaker more than a month after that happened. So McCarthy is still holding a grudge, and presumably isn't going to let it go anytime soon. Now, as Birchit stated when he confronted McCarthy, he denied that it happened. Now, predictably, when McCarthy spoke to reporters, he also denied it, but you can just see it in his face that he is completely full of shit. Hit him in the kidney. HC5, you're all down there, right? Not a very big hallway. So I'm walking out. You could talk to Bruce Westman, because I actually called him after you guys reported, said, did I hit somebody? Bruce Westman and I were walking out. I guess a reporter was interviewing Birchit or something. I guess our shoulder said, because Birchit runs up to me and said, I didn't know what he was talking about. Some reporters asked me. I did not run and hit the guy. I did not kid me, punch him. I did not shoot anything like that. You didn't shove him? No, we're walking through. You were at HC5, right? You guys line up along the way there. It was Bruce Westman and I walking out. He must have been interviewing someone. I didn't know it was him or something. I guess our elbow sit as I walked by. I didn't punch anybody. Did he run after you? Yeah, well, I guess it happened, because when I was walking back further, I don't say somebody was interviewing me or talking to me, and he comes running up like, why did you hit me or something? I said, I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't even know something transpired. But reporters or witnesses said it looked like there was plenty of room for you to walk and that you intentionally hit him. There is, okay, not a place. Show me a reporter who saw that. Ask Congress Westman. What if he was at NPO? Okay, well ask Bruce Westman. No, I did not go up. If I would hit somebody, they would know I hit him. He said he was in pain, Matt. Did you hit him so hard? Come on, now. That's what he said. That's all. Matt, you pushed him twice while he was at Congress in the chamber. When have I pushed him? Kinsinger said he was in the back railing once and you elbowed him and pushed him. You said Gates. Kinsing, Kinsinger. No, no, I don't know about Kinsinger. Can Congressman Gates, though, is filing or submitting a complaint to the ethics committee over this issue? Do you have any response to Congressman Gates? No, I think ethics is a good place for Gates to be. So I mean, Bertrand said that you're the kind of guy, this is where it's, as a kid, put, throw a rock and then go hide under his mom's skirt. That was his exact words. What's your responses? Yeah, I just don't believe him at all. And the problem is that reporters witness this too. So it's not just Bertrand's words against McCarthy's, it's the word of Bertrand and reporters against a notorious liar like McCarthy's. And to make matters worse, this is not the first time that he's been accused of this because they referenced Kinsinger's accusations and he detailed this in his book, detailed how he was shoved not once, but twice by McCarthy allegedly. So this was shared on Twitter by Manu Raju of CNN and in his book, Kinsinger alleges, quote, once I was standing in the aisle that runs from the floor to the back of the chamber. As McCarthy passed with his security man and some of his boys, he veered towards me, hit me with his shoulder and then kept going. Now he later adds, another time I was standing at the rail that curves around the back and of the last row of seats in the chamber, as he shoulder checked me again, I thought to myself, what a child. Now if you wanna read the full passage, Kinsinger explains that he was previously one of the boys. He was part of the Cool Kids Club, but then became an outcast after he condemned Donald Trump, which is when he says McCarthy decided to start physically assaulting him, shoving him. So yeah, this is kind of what McCarthy does. It's his MO and the only reason why he probably hasn't shoulder checked Gates yet is because Gates has a much bigger mouth than would likely tattle on McCarthy to Daddy Trump. But you know, he wants to. Now the reason why Republicans are violence and they're unable to use their words, as Ellie Mustal put it, is because they have the emotional maturity of toddlers and sometimes they're unable to contain their emotions and it just spills over into the public and they look like babies shitting their pants. So I fully expect this to keep happening and I admittedly kind of want it to happen more, especially when it comes to Republicans shoulder checking each other, trying to use my words very carefully here on YouTube so I don't violate the TOS, because these people are dickheads and I want to see these dickheads duke it out. So I say, if they want to fuck around, let them find out. But that's just me. Will you actin' like a... Ba-da, ba-da, ba-da.