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Here is Mark Wayne Mullen about to throw down with the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

You know where to find me. Any place, any time, any time, cowboy.

Sir, this is a time, this is a place. If you want to run your mouth, we can be two 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? No, no, sit down. Sit down. Okay, you know, you're a United States senator.

Actively.

Okay.

Here's Mark Wayne Mullen, talking about dueling. Sit down. Sit down. You're a United States senator. Actively.

Okay.

Here's Mark Wayne Mullen talking about dueling.

In the days after the fight, you did many interviews in which you justified the violence as historically justified by precedence, such as caning and dueling.

Is it today your opinion that the caning of Charles Sumner was not only justified

but argues still for resolving our political differences with violence?

What I was simply pointing out is some of the rules that still applied to this body.

For instance, dueling with two consenting adults is still there. I was pointing out what is still

illegal for 170 years. There's no precedent for legal dueling. Even then they fled

the country. Do you realize that the man that beat Charles Sumner with a cane, he beat

him until he was unconscious. You know why no senators intervened? Because his friend held a gun on the other senators, and he kept beating him and beating him until he crushed his skull.

Here's Mark Wayne Mullen talking about Matt Gates.

We had all seen the videos he was showing on the house floor that all of us had walked away of the girls that he had slept with.

And he walked up to him as Chris, you know, now governor, Chris, you know him.

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