Tonight's primary debate between Democratic candidates Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch will be nationally televised by CSPAN at 7 pm EDT/4 pm PDT.
Streaming link will be added to diar shortly.
It will also be shown in the Boston TV market on WBZ-4.
4:01 PM PT: Jon Keller is moderating, and he's introducing Lynch and Markey
4:02 PM PT: Keller is talking about the format and mentioned a Boston charity effort.
4:02 PM PT: 1st question: As Senator what would you do to make us safer?
4:03 PM PT: Lynch is first. Offers condolences to families, and thanks to 1st responders.
4:03 PM PT: Lynch would continue what he has already done.
4:03 PM PT: Lynch talks about the coordination between agencies and says Markey voted against it.
4:04 PM PT: Claims the nurses and firefighters back him
4:04 PM PT: Markey talks. Says his heart goes out to the families and congrats to the "heroes"
4:05 PM PT: Markey on Homeland Security. Served on committee for 7 days, and authored legislation to screen all luggage for explosives.
4:06 PM PT: Markey says he's had to fight against Bush and the industries to safegaurd LNG and nuclear site.
4:06 PM PT: Lynch attacks Markey's record. Lynch attacks Markey on rail security.
4:07 PM PT: Markey retorts that his is the principal author of making rails more safe
4:07 PM PT: Lynch keeps attacking Markey on against coordination.
4:08 PM PT: Cannot remember the circumstances of his vote, Markey says. Markey says he was pushing for more cooperation among agencies.
4:10 PM PT: Markey says that perhaps why he voted no was a provision that would have made it stronger was omitted.
4:11 PM PT: Lynch throws out the word "extremist" towards Markey. And Lynch mentions that almost everybody else voted yes to port security bill.
4:12 PM PT: third or fourth time Lynch mentions over 400 votes.
4:12 PM PT: Markey talks about making sure LNG tankers are screened.
4:12 PM PT: Markey lead effort to make sure LNG tankers are secure he says.
4:13 PM PT: Lynch goes back to the port security bill.
4:14 PM PT: Even though I like Markey better, the "I voted no to make it stronger" agrument is a bad one.
4:14 PM PT: 2nd question: Obama and DOJ trying Marathon bomber in federal court. Did he do the right thing?
4:15 PM PT: Markey: "Obama said justice would be done". Proper place is in the federal court here in Boston
4:15 PM PT: Markey defers to Obama here.
4:16 PM PT: Lynch says we have sufficient laws to prosecute. Effort to classify the bombing suspect as an "enemy combatant" complicates things.
4:16 PM PT: Markey says "we can move on" Next Question. FISA
4:17 PM PT: 3rd question: Why did you vote the way you did on FISA?
4:17 PM PT: 2008 vote to reauthorize
4:17 PM PT: Lynch is trying to get clarification.
4:18 PM PT: Lynch sounds like he wants to weasel out of the question. Says he would extend to vote it for a year not not four years.
4:18 PM PT: Lynch says we should have judicial oversight.
4:19 PM PT: When he voted against it, it was that they wanted it for four more years.
4:20 PM PT: Markey glad that drones are being questioned.
4:20 PM PT: Markey said his opposition was because of Bush's policy of skipping the courts.
4:21 PM PT: Lynch says that his questioning of Ridge on it had the impression of a rubber stamp re: FISA
4:22 PM PT: Markey wants us to do these things within Constitutional bounds.
4:22 PM PT: 4th question: Surveillance cameras. Do we need more?
4:23 PM PT: Markey says after 9/11, we have to make adjustments, and that we did some.
4:23 PM PT: Says he was chair and founder of Privacy Caucus and sees the need for more surveillance cameras.
4:24 PM PT: Debate needed on where we place those cameras. Fed should pay for them.
4:25 PM PT: Lynch says he'd be cautious. Supports more camera for Amtrak in South Station.
4:25 PM PT: Appropriately used, camera can be helpful. Lynch says
4:26 PM PT: Keller lets them followup on previous comments.
4:26 PM PT: Markey says right now, we have more spending for nuclear weapons.
4:27 PM PT: Those seem not to be the best way of spending on our security.
4:27 PM PT: Lynch talks about gun violence.
4:27 PM PT: 11 killed since Boston Marathon, all due to guns.
4:28 PM PT: Lynch says we have to devote resources to fighting that.
4:28 PM PT: Markey talks statistics on gun violence. And now a break.
4:31 PM PT: next question: background checks(on guns). Even with Newtown support, gun control advocates not winning. How would you change that?
4:31 PM PT: Lynch says AWB ban appropriate. Supports ban on high capacity magazines and universal background checks.
4:32 PM PT: Lynch would increase funding for "behavioral issues"
4:32 PM PT: Markey says that people who know him know that he takes on the tough issues.
4:33 PM PT: He fought against Chinese-created assault weapons and in 1994, Clinton had banned them.
4:34 PM PT: The only technology that should be near a child is a computer not a gun, Markey says.
4:34 PM PT: Lynch talks about his cousin that was gunned down. He doesn't mention that he voted against a AWB before that.
4:35 PM PT: Just keep this mind: NRA grades. Lynch C- Markey F
4:36 PM PT: Markey says that many revolutions started here. Abolitionist, health care reform.
4:36 PM PT: Markey believes that gun safety crowd not giving up and that there should be a price paid for opposing it.
4:37 PM PT: Lynch says he had a chance to talk to Obama, and he's never seen Obama that angry regarding the background check failure.
4:38 PM PT: Lynch says he knows who is works for. A shot at Democratic leadership and says that he works directly for the people of Massachusetts.
4:39 PM PT: Markey wants to find people who can cross the aisle to address gun violence.
4:40 PM PT: Lynch brings up port security again. Brings up NAFTA. Says he's with the fishermen, Markey is with the fish.
4:40 PM PT: Markey defends against Lynch's bailout attack. he was with Kerry and others to save the economy.
4:41 PM PT: Talks about his history on telecommunications and that those lead to a revolution in broadband.
4:42 PM PT: Lynch attacks Comcast and that it has no competition and he sounds passionate.
4:42 PM PT: Markey says people can call Verizon for cable service too.
4:42 PM PT: Yeah, I've got to give it to Lynch on this too.
4:43 PM PT: Lynch says there isn't any competition in the cable industry.
4:44 PM PT: Lynch cites an article that says that someone is amazed at how Verizon squeezes money from its customers.
4:44 PM PT: Markey rebuts, saying before 1996. 1 cable company. 1 phone company. Another break.
4:48 PM PT: next question: biggest policy difference. Markey says Obamacare. Was his proudest vote.
4:48 PM PT: Markey mentions Lynch's no vote.
4:49 PM PT: Lynch says Markey is a policy guy, and he's a people guy. Note to Lynch, policy can be very pro-people and if you're wrong on policy like choice, it's bad on people.
4:50 PM PT: Says problems in Fall River and other cities cannot be solved by a pen in Washington.
4:50 PM PT: Markey says after 9/11, he went to Logan Airport.
4:51 PM PT: Markey says he listened to what they needed, and they wanted cargo to be screened and so he did it.
4:52 PM PT: Lynch says Markey need to go to Roxbury because they don't like their cable bills.
4:52 PM PT: Lynch says we got Obamacare wrong. We could have forced insurance companies to lower prices. Repeats GOP lie on not being able to keep their doctor.
4:53 PM PT: Note to Lynch: Health care cost growth has slowed since Obamacare and the lowest increase in costs in 50 years.
4:54 PM PT: Markey says he voted no to sequester and Lynch voted for it. Lynch brings up Markey against Roe v. Wade Huh?
4:54 PM PT: Lynch the anti-choicer attacking Markey on choice? Really? Markey brings up his record.
4:55 PM PT: Markey attacks Lynch's record on choice.
4:56 PM PT: Lynch says women are under command, and abortion on military base is a bad idea. So Lynch, women let their bodies be controlled by their commanders?
4:57 PM PT: Markey talks about the greatest tragedy is the abuse of women in the military. Looks like he's seen the Invisible War and Keller cuts Markey off and now the debate is over.
4:57 PM PT: Lynch won a few rounds, but his remarks on choice IMHO lost him this debate.