host: joining us now is ronald hansen who is a national news reporter to talk about the arizona senate debate. thanks for joining us. guest: nice to be with you. host: set the stage as far as tonight's debate and relate it to larger issues in this rate for arizona's senate seat. guest: this is arizona having a senate race and we've been doing it since 2016 stop this is to complete the final -- to start a new term in 2020. he is facing a first-time candidate the republicans in this race has been about masters trying to make the sick as -- a case against mark kelly not being the independent he claims to be. mark kelly is trying to make the case that he promised to be an independent voice for arizona. host: as far as the race itself, where to the two stand? >> at this point, mark kelly is the favorite. he is wildly popular in arizona and is in good standing with independent voters which is a critical block in arizona. there are quite a few of them. he is in the favorite heading into the debate and lake masters wants a five way republican primary and he is someone who has the horseman of p

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host: ronald hansen, thank you for your time.e interested in watching this, you can see it live starting at 9:00 a.m. on c-span and follow along on our app at c-span now. it's open forum and thank you to those who are calling and waiting. let's start with bob from illinois on the republican line. caller: good morning and thanks for having me. i am worried about our legacy mainstream media. i heard stories years ago about hunter biden's lap top stop new weather station had -- no other station has talked about this. i would -- i was wondering if boblinsky. he's lying but we need more exposure to this story. another two years has gone by and there is an election going up and this country's going backwards, we need help. host: dorothy in virginia's next from the democrats line. caller: i hope everyone is doing fine today. i'm calling in response to the last person talking about the snap program. when she said one persians average net can benefit is one normal one, i don't know where one person is getting $250 per month. i am 76, soon

host: ronald hansen writes for the arizona real public and is the host of the gaggle podcast, what is that? >> it is a weekly politica we have and usually we talk to people, whether it is our own reporters, whether it is politicians or former vice president mike pence. >> thank you for your time. but you bet. >> net to footed from dragon endurance. live coverage in progress on c-span. >> we are where the international space station is at the time of launch. depending on when that large window is, sometimes it can be shorter, sometimes it is a little bit longer. it will be about 29 hours from lunch to docking. dragons ride home depends on a lot of things. sometimes the return journey to earth and take a matter of a couple of hours, a few hours. it could take up to 24 even a few more hours. you have to do with orbital mechanics. as we mentioned during the lunch broadcast, everything has to be super precise. because the dragon is catching up to the space station, those mechanics really dictate down to the millisecond went to liftoff with the capsule. >> coming up soon, we should start to