Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says he would want comedian Bill Maher to be “a-- whooped” if Maher invited him to appear on HBO’s “Real Time.” El-Sayed makes the comment during an interview with Chuck Todd.

In the interview, El-Sayed also frames a potential appearance as a debate over Maher’s views, describing them as “terrible.” One outlet reports El-Sayed’s language explicitly as a desire to see Maher “a-- whooped,” while another describes the remark in similar terms and emphasizes that El-Sayed would come to argue against Maher’s beliefs.

Both accounts agree on the core point: El-Sayed criticizes Maher and responds with a confrontational remark about what he would want to happen if they were to meet on the show. The reports differ mainly in how they phrase his stated intention to debate versus his broader criticism, but they attribute the same exchange and setting to El-Sayed’s comments to Todd.