'Like A 12-Year-Old' - CNN Anchor Jake Tapper Takes Down Union Boss Who Wanted To Fight Senator

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper taking it to somebody who went after a Republican

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So this union boss was interviewed by Jake Tapper hours after Senator Mullen, a Republican, who was also a cage fighter, a former cage fighter, challenged him to a fight

Now this feud between these two men has been ongoing for a while. It's been brewing and a lot of it involves what this union leader was tweeting

So he went on CNN thinking it would be a friendly playground for him to just take shots at the Republican senator

But that's not what happened when he faced Jake Tapper. Let's take a look. All these shenanigans

Thanks so much. But let's talk about these shenanigans. Sean O'Brien, president of that union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is here

And Sean, I have to say, I'm sure you're plenty strong, but Mark Wayne Mullen is a former professional MMA fighter

What went through your mind when he basically challenged you to a physical fight during a Senate hearing

Yeah, you know, what went through my mind was you're one of a hundred of the most powerful people in the country and you're acting like a 12 year old in a schoolyard because you didn't get your way

I mean, look, he actually has the ability. He's one hundred of the elite to actually effectuate change in this country

And he's focused on being a bully. You know, we're not going to stand for it. And we definitely were brought up differently

OK, but can I say you're tweeting like a 12 year old

I mean, your tweets were you're not a United States senator. OK, and I get that you're tweeting is not the same thing as calling somebody out during the Senate hearing

But, you know, you know where to find me anyplace, anytime, cowboy. You're making fun of him for not being the tallest senator

I mean, you represent one point three million workers. Do you really think that tweet there's a tweet right there with your pink circling of the Apple box he's standing on

Do you really think that that is best serving, best representing the members of the Teamsters union

His story is compelling, but inaccurate. And in a hearing in March, he started the whole thing by coming into a hearing, looking at us and basically saying to me, I'm not afraid of physical confrontation

As a matter of fact, I welcome it. So that's what perpetuated the whole incident

Never knew the man in my life. Never met him. I was testifying in my first Senate hearing

And that was his first introduction to me. And you were at the hearing today, Bernie Sanders hearing, which is about how unions improve the lives of workers

Are you afraid that that message was lost because of this? Not at all. I mean, we had some great dialogue in there about issues that affect working people, about organizing

Now, I want to say I think it's beneath the decorum of a senator to challenge somebody to a fight

I know most of you are not going to agree with me on that, and that's fine. I think we've gone too far

People hitting each other, people calling each other names, people talking about getting in a fight in the Senate

Where are we going? This is not. How do you think this makes America look on the world stage

This is not the America I was raised in. And as much as the Republicans, and I support them and love them, there's decorum and a sense of, like as Bernie Sanders said to me yesterday, you're a senator

You're a United States senator. What are you doing? I'm not a fan of it

But I want to know what you guys think. Maybe you guys like it. Maybe you guys enjoy it. Maybe you guys think this is what's needed

I've heard that argument from people, too. And I respect that argument. I understand that argument

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