Nov 15, 2023
WATCH: Bernie Sanders Prevents Brawl At Senate Hearing
WATCH: Bernie Sanders Prevents Brawl At Senate Hearing
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>> Speaker 1: Knows, and
it's here and the last time, him and
I kinda 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 1, 2, 3, 4,
5 times and
let me read what the last one said.
[00:00:20]
Said, greedy CEO who
pretends 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 and long hours.
[00:00:36]
Pretends 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, anytime, cowboy.
[00:00:53]
Sir, this is a time,
this is a place you wanna run your mouth.
We can be two consenting adults,
we can finish it here.
>> Speaker 3: Okay, that's fine, perfect.
>> Speaker 2: You want to do it now?
>> Speaker 3: I'd love to do it right now.
>> Speaker 2: Well,
stand your butt up then.
>> Speaker 3: You stand your butt up.
>> Speaker 4: Hold on,
[CROSSTALK] stop it.
>> Speaker 3: Is that your solution?
Every poll?
>> Speaker 4: No, sit down.
[00:01:09]
Sit down, look at you.
You're a United States Senator, sit down.
>> Speaker 3: Active, okay.
>> Speaker 4: Sit down, please.
>> Speaker 1: All right.
>> Speaker 3: Can I respond
Mr [CROSSTALK] Chaiman?
>> Hold it if we can, no,
[CROSSTALK] I have the mic,
I'm sorry, this is what he said.
You'll have your time.
>> Speaker 3: Okay.
>> Can I respond?
>> Speaker 4: No, you can't.
[00:01:26]
This is a hearing.
God knows the American people have
enough contempt for Congress.
Let's not [CROSSTALK]
I don't like drugs and
I don't like you because
you described yourself.
Hold it.
You have the mic,
you have time, all right?
[00:01:42]
>> Speaker 3: Bless
Senator Bernie Sanders.
If I were the chairman of the committee,
I would have simply said, gentlemen,
here's the issue between you both
is nothing but as an opportunity.
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That's it.
So if you feel froggy,
somebody needs to jump.
All right,
put up the picture full of mass.
So, yes, one was talking reckless and
insinuated,
basically hey, if you want some,
come and get some.
[00:02:17]
Now that was keyboard courage talk,
all right?
He took keyboard courage talk and
brought it to the man directly.
I do like how even in breaking of all the
rules, they decided not to use profanity,
but said, but instead, you get your
butt up, no, you get your butt up.
[00:02:36]
Okay, so tidy sword Tuesday during
the Senate Help Committee hearing as
Senator Mullin, a former mixed
martial arts fighter, by the way,
challenged Teamsters President
Sean O'Brien to a physical fight
during the union leader's testimony.
[00:02:52]
The confrontation escalated to the point
where Senator Sanders had to step
in as a referee defuse the situation and
prevent a possible physical confrontation.
So Senator Mullin took the mic to blast
the team's boss regarding personal
[00:03:08]
attacks made against Mullin in June 2023,
specifically mentioning the tweet
where O'Brien called Mullin a greedy
CEO who pretends like he's self made.
In reality, it's just a clown of fraud.
[00:03:24]
Always has been,
always will be, all right?
And then the quit the tough guy
act in these Senate hearings,
you know where to find me,
any place, anytime, cowboy.
Well, all right,
Mullin's estimated net worth
[00:03:41]
ranges from 31.6 to 75.6 million,
all right?
So as Mullin continued to read the tweet,
he landed on the ending quit
the tough guy act in these Senate
hearings, you know where to find me.
[00:04:00]
Any place in the time, cowboy,
hashtag little man syndrome,
and shared this photo of Mullin
on an Apple box crate, okay?
O'Brien [LAUGH] was at the Tuesday,
November 14 hearing at Sanders invitation
to testify to the Senate Health,
[00:04:18]
Education, Labor and Pensions Committee,
once again, the Health Committee,
about how unions are improving
the lives of working families.
Sanders, the committee chairman,
might not have been aware of the previous
contentious feelings between
the Union Rep and the Oklahoma senator.
[00:04:36]
After the hearing,
Mullin was firm on his position,
did not apologize to the union leader or
the public for his conduct.
Quote, he called me out,
he said, anytime, any place.
[SOUND] you don't call me out and
say anytime, any place and
then not back up what you said.
[00:04:52]
I answer the call, period.
The GOP rising star said,
according to the Hill,
Mullin was also asked if he
believed he should be held to
a higher standard because he
is a member of the Senate.
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Quote, I'm still a guy, end [SOUND] quote.
[LAUGH] the husband and
father of six said, he called me.
He said it, I just answered the bail,
that was all.
Speaking about the incidental, FOX News
Sean Hannitor praised Mulli's actions.
[00:05:26]
And here's some of the conversation.
>> Speaker 5: Senator, I got to be honest,
I don't think this is gonna hurt
you at the people of Oklahoma.
I think your popularity probably will
go up tenfold as a result of that.
He called you out,
you called him out for calling you out.
And that's kinda old school
the way it used to be, isn't it?
[00:05:43]
>> Speaker 3: Right, yeah, it is,
in Oklahoma, people tell me,
I've had media come out to me and
says this incumbent of a senator, listen,
I'm a guy from Oklahoma first.
In Oklahoma, you don't do this,
maybe you run your mouth in New Jersey.
I don't not, I'm not from New Jersey, but
this is some thug that's a mob boss, and
you're supposed to be intimidating
cuz he's the boss of the Teamsters.
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You still aren't gonna run your mouth
at me and expect me to just sit there.
And you should have seen the fear
of his eyes when I stood up, too.
I'm not joking, I'm not looking for
a fight, I used to get paid
to fight professionally, and
it's not personal to me.
I'm not mad at this guy,
I mean, he said it.
I'm just answering from the call,
that's it.
[00:06:17]
If he wants to go out afterwards and
have a cup of coffee,
let's go have a cup of coffee.
I'm friends with a lot of guys that
I used to fight, unfortunately,
I grew up in the country of Oklahoma.
You did the same thing that you did
when you grew up and you settled your
issues and you went on with it and
there was no hard feelings by it.
Well, a few times it was hard feelings,
especially if you won.
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But if you lost, you just kinda took your
lickings and you learned from it, right?
And we need more of this,
to be quite frank.
I'm not saying more violence, but we need
more people to be taught a lesson and
be called out on what they say.
>> Speaker 5: I think any other response
kinda would have been a little gutless.
>> Speaker 1: [CROSSTALK]
I would agree with that.
[00:06:50]
I mean, what do people want me to do?
If I didn't do that, people in
Oklahoma would be pretty upset at me.
[CROSSTALK] that's not how we raise,
not supposed to represent Oklahoma values.
Oklahoma values, put up the picture.
Sir I'm from Glenwood Road,
here's what we saw.
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We saw an 82 year old US
senator stop a former
MMA fighter from doing what
he said he wanted to do.
If you allow an 82 year old
individual to stop you from fighting,
[00:07:23]
sir, we question if you
had any fight in you.
It's real simple.
Mullin is a former MMA fighter with
a professional record of five and
he beat up five people in his life.
Five, he was inducted into the Oklahoma
Wrestling hall of Fame in 2016.
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How does that happen?
Mullin also the first, as he says,
Native American Senator in
almost two decades, okay?
Yeah, it was weird, that was ridiculous.
And naturally, if he really wanted to do
something, you can wait after the hearing
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if you really wanna do something,
there's a hallway.
All right, everybody has to go down
I've been there before, before after.
To do it while the cameras are on,
while police officers are present,
and while the Senate is officially well,
in the commission of the hearing,
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that is when you decide to bring it up for
the cameras.
Come on, man that's Hollywood,
get real, all right?
Okay, Francesca, am I wrong here?
>> Speaker 6: I mean,
no, you're 100% right.
Look, this is about the actual issue,
which is,
what are the values that Sean O'Brien,
head of the Teamster, stands for?
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And that is union values, right?
Working class, protecting the working
class of America values, right?
Making sure that workers are paid fairly,
that they have negotiating and
bargaining rights,
that they are not bullied by their bosses.
That is what the Teamsters represent.
[00:08:54]
So Mark Mullin and this, or Mark Wayne
excuse me, the dumbest name ever.
This dude says his values are what?
Trying to throw a punch, trying to be
a tough guy in a literal Senate hearing?
Are you kidding me?
What about the workers of Oklahoma?
What about the Teamsters of Oklahoma?
What about the truck drivers of Oklahoma?
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What about those folks?
This goes back to the fact
that earlier in March,
the two of them had it out because
Mullin was mad at O'Brien,
cuz he said that the Teamsters tried
to unionize his plumbing company.
>> Right.
>> Speaker 6: In other words,
he is just like any most bosses, a boss
who doesn't want his workers, fighting for
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a better wage, fighting for better living,
working conditions and such.
So this is the disagreement.
And look,
hats off to the Seans in our unions, man.
You got Sean Fein, you got Sean O'Brien,
both of them represent a new class of
working class hero who's not gonna take
all this corporate crap lying down.
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They're gonna stand up for themselves.
And we've seen the proof in the pudding,
as with the UAW strike.
>> Speaker 3: Yep,
there you go, very well said.
All right, we will bring you an update
if they ever throw them hands,
we'll let you know who won, okay?
All right,
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