Everything We Know About the Presidential Debates

There are three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate to look forward to in the coming months.

Here's a rundown of all of the information that's available to date.

First Presidential Debate: Sept. 26 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.

The debate will be split into six segments covering different subjects that will be announced at least a week before the event, according to the Commission on Presidential Debates.

Vice Presidential Debate: Oct. 4 at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.

The debate will be split into nine segments, each of which are set to last about 10 minutes.

Second Presidential Debate: Oct. 9 at Washington University in St. Louis.

The debate will be held in a town hall format, with about half the questions asked by members of the audience and the other by the moderators. Gallup is responsible for finding the audience members who are supposed to be uncommitted voters, the commission has ruled.

Third Presidential Debate: Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

The final debate will be held in the same format as the first debate.

The debate moderators have not yet been announced.

There are several third-party candidates in the race this year but if the decision were made today, none of them would qualify to stand alongside Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The Commission on Presidential Debates, which hosts the televised events, has ruled that in order to participate, candidates must reach at least a 15 percent average in selected national polls.

The commission this week announced it will use five polls -- ABC News/Washington Post, CBS/New York Times, CNN/Opinion Research Corp., Fox News and NBC/Wall Street Journal -- to make the mid-September decision.

As of Monday, Clinton had 44 percent and Trump had 36 percent, while Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson had 10 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein had 5 percent. Evan McMullin, the conservative independent candidate who announced his run earlier this month, has not been included in national polls.

Kellyanne Conway, Trump's new campaign manager, told CNN this morning that the Republican presidential candidate's debate prep will begin this weekend.

Trump has been in contact with former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, even meeting with him at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, home over the weekend, multiple sources told ABC News.

That contradicts the Trump campaign's official statement on Ailes.

"He is not advising Mr. Trump or helping with debate prep. They are longtime friends, but he has no formal or informal role in the campaign," Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told ABC News in a statement.

This isn't the first time Ailes has been in the news this summer, when he left Fox News -- the company he started -- in the wake of sexual harassment claims and a lawsuit by former anchor Gretchen Carlson. Ailes has denied the claims.

Ailes worked in politics before starting Fox News and worked on the campaigns of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

As for Clinton's debate prep, the campaign hasn't disclosed any details.

Well-known Washington lawyer Bob Barnett is said to be advising Clinton during her debate prep after he helped her prepare for the primary debates by playing Sen. Bernie Sanders.

ABC News' Liz Kreutz, John Santucci, Candace Smith and Ryan Struyk contributed to this report.

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