Rep. Steve Scalise Stephen (Steve) Joseph ScaliseHouse GOP slated to unveil agenda ahead of election House panel details 'serious' concerns around Florida, Georgia, Texas, Wisconsin elections Scalise hit with ethics complaint over doctored Barkan video MORE (R-La.) on Monday night said that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezSenate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Florida Democrat introduces bill to recognize Puerto Rico statehood referendum The Memo: 2020 is all about winning Florida MORE (D-N.Y.) "shouldn't condone" her supporters who brought up the 2017 shooting that seriously injured the minority whip in order to berate him online.

"She oughta own up and just say, 'Look this isn’t something that I condone,' " Scalise said on Fox News's "Hannity."

"She doesn’t … own this herself directly, but she shouldn’t condone it either."

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Scalise and Ocasio-Cortez briefly sparred on Twitter over the weekend over the freshman New York lawmaker's call for a 70 percent marginal tax rate on Americans making more than $10 million. Scalise ended the conversation with screenshots of messages from some of Ocasio-Cortez's followers, who called to "snipe his ass" and "kick his cane."

"Hi @AOC," Scalise wrote on Sunday. "Happy to continue this debate on the Floor of the People’s House, but it’s clearly not productive to engage here with some of your radical followers. #StayClassy."

Hi @AOC. Happy to continue this debate on the Floor of the People’s House, but it’s clearly not productive to engage here with some of your radical followers. #StayClassy pic.twitter.com/lZCO3oiLUZ — Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) January 5, 2019

Scalise was shot and severely injured during a practice for the charity Congressional Baseball Game in 2017. He required a cane to get around as he recovered.

"We shouldn’t tolerate either side, our friends or our enemies in a political debate, to encourage or incite violence against another person," Scalise told Sean Hannity on Monday.

"I’m not offended by words like so many others feign to be, but when it talks about violence, it gets to a line that I think we have a responsibility to call out," Hannity said.

"The First Amendment doesn’t allow you to say 'fire' in a movie theater," Scalise said. "When you incite violence against someone else, that’s not the way we act in this country. If you wanna debate the merits, then go ahead."