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AARP is collaborating with all the debate host sites on a number of policy and community engagement activities to support our campaign's effort to urge the presidential candidates to give voters real answers on how they'll keep Social Security for future generations.

“People sitting out there want the moderator to yell ‘liar!’ It ain’t gonna happen,” said Lehrer, who moderated 12 presidential debates from 1988 to 2012.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he doesn't want Anderson Cooper to moderate a presidential debate because he would be unfair.

“I don’t think Anderson Cooper should be a moderator, because Anderson Cooper works for CNN and over the last couple of days, I’ve seen how Anderson Cooper behaves,” Trump said. “He’ll be very biased, very biased. I don’t think he should be a moderator.”

Clinton's job, by contrast, is much harder. She's expected to do well on the basis of intelligence and experience -- but she doesn't have her husband's famous charisma. And while identifying Trump's flaws should be easy, establishing her own grand narrative will be much harder.

While Fallon acknowledged to MSNBC's Thomas Roberts that the campaign does not know which "Donald Trump we're gonna get," he dismissed the idea that Clinton's strategy would include eliciting an outburst from the famously unscripted candidate.

Lehrer and Bob Schieffer, another experienced moderator, spoke during a panel discussion at the University of Notre Dame Wednesday night about how to strike the right balance between fact checking a candidate and staying out the way.

The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates has set a “mid-September” deadline for Johnson and the other third-party candidates to meet three criteria to qualify for the first debate later this month: “evidence of constitutional eligibility,” “evidence of ballot access” and “indicators of

Speaking on a panel at the University of Notre Dame on Wednesday, Jim Lehrer and Bob Schieffer -- who have moderated 15 presidential debates between them -- stressed that moderators should take a back seat to the candidates.

Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson will appear on the ballot in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, a feat no third party candidate has achieved in 20 years.

The Johnson campaign has embarked on a push to be included in the debates. It has proposed a plan to the CPD that would allow him to participate in the first presidential debate by initially circumventing the selection criteria. The proposal calls for placing a third podium on stage and simply allow

With the upcoming Vice Presidential Debate fast approaching on Oct. 4, 2016 many topics have been on the minds of many as to who will be allowed into the debate hall taking place in Willett Hall and what to expect within the next month.