Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin appeared on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s show Tuesday evening to discuss challenging a hearing witness to a fight after the witness appeared to make a threat online.

“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,” Mullin, who has had three professional MMA fights that he won, 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, per Fox News, before Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called the hearing back to order.

“It’s political correctness,” Mullin told Hannity of O’Brien’s tweeted threat to attack the senator. “All of a sudden you have to worry about somebody’s feelings but by the way the left can say whatever they want. And it’s not personal to me. I’m not mad at this guy. He said it. I am just answering the call, that’s it.

“If he wants to go out afterwards and have a cup of coffee let’s go have a cup of coffee. I am friends with a lot of guys I used to fight. I grew up in the country of Oklahoma. You did the same thing that you did when you grew up. You settled your issues and you went it and there were no hard feelings about it. Well a few times there are hard feelings, especially if you won, but if you lost you took your lickings and you learn from it,” Mullin continued.

“And this guy I just don’t think he was expecting me to answer the call and we need more of this to be quite frank. I don’t say more violence, but we need people to be taught a lesson and be called out on what they say,” he said.

“I think any other kind of response would have been gutless,” Hannity said.

“I would agree with that,” Mullin said. “I mean, what did people want me to do? If I didn’t do that, people in Oklahoma would be pretty upset with me. That’s how I was raised, and I also represent Oklahoma values.”

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Too often, big union bosses intimidate, threaten, and bully employees and job creators to get their way. That might work on some people, but not on me. Yesterday I made it clear: in Oklahoma, you don't issue a challenge unless you're going to answer the call. pic.twitter.com/N4A3uRPTHj

— Markwayne Mullin (@SenMullin) November 15, 2023