The View marvels over tense feuds between lawmakers in Congress

The View hosts discussed viral clips that happened in Congress on Tuesday, during which several lawmakers got into verbal feuds with each other.

The viral clips that were discussed included Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), one of eight Republicans who voted to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as House speaker, claiming McCarthy had elbowed him in the back. McCarthy has denied Burchett’s claim. The other feud discussed involved Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) standing up during a Senate committee hearing and preparing to get into a fight between him and one of the witnesses, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien.

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“People are always concerned about how young people are being treated, kids, how kids are being treated,” The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg said. “And yet, none of them thought, ‘This is not a good look for me. This is not a good look for kids to see us doing that.’ Why aren’t you concerned? See, this is why I get freaked out with you all because I can’t figure out what’s upsetting you. You nervous, so you don’t want drag queens reading books, but you will throw down in the middle of a committee meeting and not give it a thought?”

Fellow co-host Sunny Hostin also said that what happened in Congress was “some thuggery” on display, even though such congressmen want to “call other people thugs.” She also noted that Mullin is a former MMA fighter and wondered why he still isn’t doing MMA since “he likes beating people up.”

Joy Behar, another co-host, joked that viral videos such as the ones from Tuesday are why “a Republican Congress has a lower approval rating than the coronavirus.”

On social media, Mullin issued a statement claiming that big union bosses “bully employees and job creators” to get what they want, and while some tactics work on some people, they do not work on him.

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“Yesterday I made it clear: in Oklahoma, you don’t issue a challenge unless you’re going to answer the call,” Mullin’s social media post read.

Burchett, meanwhile, has doubled down on his claim that McCarthy assaulted him, saying Tuesday evening that the former House speaker is “spinning out of control.” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), another one of the Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy, has filed a complaint to the House Ethics Committee over the altercation between McCarthy and Burchett.