The Making of a Presidential Debate: Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Video

The Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute will host their first-ever presidential debate tonight at 8 p.m. ET on CNN. Over the past few days, workers transformed an empty auditorium at Constitution Hall into a full-scale television set. As the final preparations were made, watch our behind-the-scenes look at how it all came together.

Featuring interviews with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who will moderate tonight's debate; Kate Lunger, senior executive producer for CNN Special Events; Sam Feist, CNN's Washington bureau chief; Keith Thornhill, debate project manager, and our own Edwin J. Feulner, president of The Heritage Foundation.

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[karmalevel]

This is so cool! go Heritage

[HeritageFoundation]

@karmalevel Thank you! Hope you enjoyed the debate.

[tnoyy34rt]

Go Obama!

[Alvin691]

2:50 Please note, no one is running against Obama so he is only scrutinized by his record.

[3martijns]

@dan428 CNN is only rarely worth watching because it is almost always Boring.

Debates are interesting, but CNN manipulated this one to give an inordinate amount of time to Ron Paul and Huntsman.

CNN has a Liberal Bias. I saw Blitz calling conservatives nasty names, so he IS a Lib.

80%-90% of MSM is Liberal.

[dan428]

@3martijns No, I think presenters should be just presenters. They shouldn't lean any particular way or have any significant input in debates or discussions. So I think Blitzer fits the bill in that respect.

[3martijns]

@dan428 Just one more reason CNN is getting beaten in viewership.