The first presidential debate of the 2016 U.S. election season kicks off Monday night. Here's what you need to know about the presidential debates. Martha Raddatz, chief global affairs correspondent and co-anchor of ABC's program This Week, and Anderson Cooper of CNN, will moderate the second presidential debate. They didn't make the cut, according to the Commission on Presidential Debates, which sponsors the debates and sets the criteria. Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson did not meet the criteria to participate in the first presidential debate.

Source: CBC News September 25, 2016 15:00 UTC