US Senator challenge's Witness to a Fight ! 11/14/23

A Senate committee hearing appeared to be on the brink of a physical altercation on Tuesday as a Republican senator stood up and threatened to fight a labor leader as the committee's chairman, Sen. Bernie Sanders, tried to play peacemaker.

Sir, this is a time, this is a place. You want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults and we can finish it here, GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma told Teamsters President Sean O'Brien during a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing after reading a tweet in which O'Brien said he could take the senator any time or any place.

OK, that's fine, perfect," O'Brien responded.

You want to do it now?" Mullin asked.

I would love to do it right now," O'Brien said, prompting Mullin to say, "Well, stand your butt up then."

"You stand your butt up, big guy," O'Brien said.

Senator Mullin, a former MMA fighter, stood up from his chair and seemed set on making his way over to where the Teamsters president was sitting.