>> the senate dabbles in today at 1:45 eastern time. working on legislation that would require states to recognize interracial and same-sex marriages as legally valid if help in another state that does not recognize such unions. it would also repeal the defense of marriage act signed in 1996 which defined marriage as between one man and one woman under federal law. off before lawmakers are working on funding the government passed december 16. watch live coverage here on c-span2. c-span fisher unfiltered view of government that we are funded by these television companies and more including comcast. >> are you thinking this is your security center? it's way more than that. >> comcast is partnering with 1000 community centers to create

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orion on its maiden voyage to the moon. >> here we go. >> hydrogen burn off igniters initiate. >> seven, six, five, four stage engine start. three, two, one. boosters and ignition. and lift off of artemis i. we rise together back to the moon and beyond. >> all engines and to make solid rocket boosters now propelling the vehicle at 128 miles per hour. >> good control on the role. all good calls so far. 30 seconds into flight of artemis i.

now traveling 607 miles per hour. >> you're looking at nearly 8 million pounds of thrust. engines are throttling down. >> that one minute 21 seconds into the flight traveling at 1420 miles per hour. the engines are back at maximum thrust.

the next major milestone will be for the solid rocket boosters to cut off and jettison but two minutes 11 seconds into the flight so about 30 seconds from now. again quiet here in mission control houston as teams continue monitoring the flight of artemis i. we are in a 16 minus downrange from the launch pad at kennedy space center traveling over 280. standing by for solid rocket booster jettison and shortly thereafter. confirmation that the solid rocket boosters have separated these 177-foot boosters. the core states continues to pound the flight of orion all engines firing traveling over 3400 miles per hour, 46 miles

downrange. >> c-span2 taking her lined out to the pentagon where we are about to get an update on the war in ukraine from defense secretary lloyd austin and the joint chiefs of staff chair general mark milley. expecting this to start shortly. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

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poland. >> a freedom caucus member also a member of the judiciary and oversight, good morning. >> good morning pedro. >> thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. good to be with your. >> talk about your pitch to your fellow republicans as far as your challenge for the speakership. >> i think the main thing is that we think that you need to change the status quo. you need to turn the page. i think all americans would like to see dash of the last call is listening to her, i think i want to see a page turned in washington, d.c. one of the things that i think has been so problematic is that members, just rank-and-file members have been kind of disenfranchised, everything goes to the leadership weather is nancy pelosi and the democrat side or whoever is going to be the republican leader. everything is centralized as far as power.

you have a very, very restricted amendment process. we haven't had come in six years we haven't had an open amendment process on the floor of the house of representatives. how about the budget? you need to empower the appropriators, you either get rid of the appropriations committee and change it which i'm okay with doing that by having the authorizing committees combined with the subcommittee on appropriations or you get the appropriators time to get their job done before june 1 and let's actually do a budget. we have done that in five years. we haven't even done a normal budget process. so i think i talked a lot about process. that's my pitch, is process to be more inclusive of members so they can represent the constituency, and then the other aspect to it, a drill, is this on the republican side when we lost in the 2020 we came close but we didn't get over the hump, they said we're such a good

election we made progress, so we can't change our leadership even though our leadership has been a place for six years effectively. and then this year they said we are going to win five-30 seats which of course did not materialize, that kind of majority. and there was a sense were going to do so well we can't make a change. now we didn't do so well. it's really close, razor thin margins. they say you can't make a change that. my question is are you ever going to make the status quo change? i think rank-and-file americans, citizens want to see a change in washington, d.c. and they know i certainly do try and what 31 votes if i'm seeing the numbers correctly as far as your nomination or lose your attempt to become speaker. what does it mean going forward particularly show the house come over to republican hands and come january when the that protest be taken? >> guest: you have to get 218 votes.

that's the magic number to become the speaker of the house. nobody has 218 votes as a cedar talking to you today. that means that it's time for republicans to have an intro discussion, a family discussion, that's what mr. mccarthy always says, about which direction we are going to go. i don't think is going to get 218 votes. it may not be me. probably not going to be me, but we need a discussion to see who might be a consensus pick to get to 218 votes. >> host: which means in theory if it is good to be mr. mccarthy he would have to reach up to fellow members of the freedom caucus and other factions within the party to gain that support. what can a message could he deliver to perhaps slate some of you? >> guest: while i think pedro, a huge part of this is trust and is going to have to rebuild some trust here in the next 45 days

if he thinks is going to be the speaker. and that means that you're going to have to have open dialogue and accountability. and that's really how you build trust. trust is a series of promises kept. mr. ross is a series of promises broken. -- mistrust. we need to have a real positive message, positive direction and i think that kevin is not really, i think he's back away from some of the things that are base wants. our base wants to say look let's have a positive message. how are we going to reduce gas prices at the pump? and it can't just be performance. it has to be real use of leverage that we have. this is going to be a split government pedro and that means republicans are going to control of the house most likely, looks like the democrats will maintain control of the senate and jeff president biden is going to maintain control of the executive branch. how do you leverage when you are

in the minority or in the split, how do you leverage to get policy through which we think is a port in order to save reduce oil and gas prices or to provide more security along the border? or to reduce federal government spending so that we reduce inflationary pressure. or any myriad of policies. how do use the leverage once we haven't, there are some there, and i'm not sure mr. mccarthy has iterated how he believes he can do that. that's a huge problem for i think more than the 36 people voted against kevin yesterday, so more than 36 people that voted against them yesterday i think there's even more people because item number people come up to me yesterday, i think they felt compelled to vote for kevin, but they appreciated my candidacy and they wanted, they want to see a change. >> there was marjorie taylor greene was on c-span podcast and

one of the things she express was possibly an outsider say like a liz cheney, if you get the numbers a certain way and to get support from the democratic side to become speaker, she could eventually come to the top of that of the ticket. do you think that's a real possibility? >> guest: i love marjorie taylor greene and she's a friend but i but i disagree with her wholeheartedly on this. i don't think anybody's going to vote to facilitate liz cheney coming in to be the speaker of the house. that is such a long shot, even the republican or to the said they would be willing to work together with a moderate democrat to become speaker if kevin mccarthy is not speaker have actually walked that back. i actually have a great relationship with a number of my colleagues. i think i've got a pretty good relationship with most of my colleagues but certainly with some of my colleagues that we would say on the other end of the spectrum from me. they are not interested in a democrat to be speaker of the

house and i think that's kind of a fear tactic, instead of, it's a red herring instead of talk about what really needs to happen in our conference. >> host: assuming republicans to take power one of the things that will be on pressing terms i think the debt ceiling. what's the best approach in your mind? >> guest: is to not grant the debt ceiling. there's never any offsets in these crs, in his budgets that are going and that's part of what i raised was talking to you about you need to start looking at a real reform in the budgetary process to make sure that we are going forward, that programs, programs need to be looked at. you can continue to have a $1.5 trillion structural deficit every year and say simply which is going to add it to the credit card. that doesn't work in the short term or the long-term. an example would be take a look at as the fed keeps dealing with

inflation by raising rates, whether it's 50 basis points or 100 basis points, whatever a month, whatever their going to do, that will have an impact on chewing up our need to provide federal government payments and services. because it's going to cause interest rates to eat further at our spending. so when you have a revenue shortfall every year at $1.5 trillion and then you want to keep raising it putting it on the credit card you are going to add to the inflationary pressure, number one. number two, that's the short term problem. long-term problem is you are going to actually put this country in long-term foundational infrastructure only in the firm footing going forward and that's what's happened here over the last, it doesn't matter which party,

republican or democrat. >> host: you are republican from arizona. how did you feel about the result of the governor's race there? >> guest: i'm not happy about that obviously. i think that, that it's really interesting to see what happen on election day. i think you have a problem you secretary of state who's overseeing the elections and with the kind problems like we did it again on election day. to me it is unfathomable with the same problems in 2022 that we had in 2020 were 30% of the machines go down in eight to ten hours of the day on election day. that's odd. but you know we'll see what happens to understand there's actually some provisional ballots that be counted so i know that katie hobbes would work with when i was in the state legislature has been declared the winner, but it's my understanding that the provisional ballots that are outstanding. >> host: you have a question about the legitimacy of that

call? >> guest: yeah, the call. i mean, let's count all the ballots and see what happens, see what happens there, before we let you go your thoughts on the president conformer president trump's announcement last night. >> guest: well, i'm actually very pleased i thought he did a pretty good job and i think that his focus is right. it needs to be on what policies worked under the trump administration to bring economic prosperity to more people come to secure the border. i will just tell you, in the yuma sector in 2,029,000 encounters with illegal border crossers for the entire fiscal year, last year under president biden u.s. over 340,000. you have all the problems with the border. you have crime. you have the woke that unit that is out there right now, and i think president trump sounded too good message and i think, i believe he is the year of the

republican party until he's displaced and i don't think he's going to be displaced in intensive. >> host: representative biggs, republican affairs of a member of the freedom caucus and serves on the and oversight reform committee. representative biggs, thanks for your time today tragic thank you, pedro. good to be with you and we will be joined by legislative drop the course of the morning and joining us from capitol hill adam smith democrat of washington also that you are the armed services committee. thanks for giving us your time. >> guest: thank you. >> host: can we start with poland? what i dream about the source of these missiles that fell there? >> guest: it hasn't in 100% confirmed but confirmed but it seems like it was an antimissile missile defense system that ukraine fired at the russian rockets that were coming in but they're not sure. they know know it was a russian-made rocket but ukraine has a lot of russian-made rockets. i think the crucial point here is none of this would be happening if russia wasn't committing war crimes on a day

in and day out basis in ukraine by launching cruise missiles at civilian targets. they launched over 100 missiles yesterday all at civilian targets, which is absolute definition of a war crime. ukraine is doing its best to defend itself in the situation i do want to really upon the biden administration and nato for the call response to this. making sure we get the facts before we really come to any conclusions and try to make sure that we don't escalate the situation between russia and ukraine. so i think they handled it well. ask a coming out and we'll see. it does not appear that this was an intentional russian attack on poland. >> host: representative smith, one of the things regarding ukraine that hopefully will take place at least from the biden administration . he was more funding for ukraine. tell us about the figure that is being floated by the white house and d.c. that materializing? >> guest: they are asking for $37 billion, good chunk of that is humanitarian aid because of

the russians are bombing the civilian infrastructure it's creating a humanitarian crisis in ukraine and some of the money also goes to help continue to help ukraine defend itself. there's also that $10 billion to deal with covid and other healthcare related issues. the hope is we get it passed during the lame-duck session. i think it's really important that we do that. we see every day what rush is doing in ukraine and all ukraine wants is to be a sovereign, democratic nation. we need to continue to support them in that effort. again i support the biden administration's effort. and over 50 countries working together try to stop russia's invasion of ukraine and end this war drama would you say republicans will be on board with this new funding? >> guest: yes. certainly on my committee. i know mike rogers was a ranking member on the committee, mike turner is about to come as the chairman of the intel committee also on the committee, i think

there's a lot of republican support for supporting ukraine. i went to key of a couple months ago. mike waltz was one of members whose on the trip. it's also a member of the committee of republicans in florida. he strong supports this i think their strong bipartisan support to continue to support ukraine in this effort. >> host: as far as the itself should republicans gain power after the midterm elections do you see the focus of the armed services committee changing or at least things that you've championed for perhaps going away? >> guest: i think it will be different. every two years it's different. particularly at something shifts and you've got the house, you got the sin and you got the white house, and if one party or the other takes it over in ia given cycle does osmond be a six month to eight month. matt was like okay how is is going to change? clearly republicans have different items of agenda and there's always a sorting out come different members try to figure out what's possible and

this will clearly happen here. but again i will emphasize mike rogers and i are really close on a lot of issues and the biggest thing that we're close on we believe in bipartisanship and we believe in our committee getting its work done passing the defense bill every year. we were in a by personally to get that done in a bicameral way. house senate democrat republican. we've done it for 62 going on 63 straight years. i. i think i will continue to happen. >> host: speak at the defense bill what's the status of the ndaa and you can explain, what's the status traffic national defense authorizing actor is a oversight built for the pentagon that we pass over you. we're making progress. we've got another beating to more and i pretty sure by the end of this week we will have a bill that house and a senate democrats and republicans agree upon and the plan would be to pass it the first week of december so we're making good progress and are confident we will get done. >> host: what's the biggest look like as far as the bill is concern? >> guest: you are talking about the budget aspect of it, the top line numbe