Next Up In Presidential Debates
BLITZER: Following breaking news we're watching as the House of Representatives voting on a motion to table a resolution to impeach President Trump. We'll continue to follow this. In the meantime, as we await the final roll call, there is other breaking news as well. CNN can now reveal the 20 Democratic presidential candidates who have qualified for the CNN Democratic presidential debates, which will take place in Detroit on July 30th and July 31st. Let me bring in our Political Director, David Chalian. David, explain how all this works.</s>DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR: Well, you know that the DNC has capped the debate stage for this first round at 10 per night. There are two nights of debates, a total of 20 candidates. How do you get onto that debate stage? Well, you had to get at least 1 percent in three approved-of polls from the beginning of the year until just today in that qualifying window or needed 65,000 individual donors to your campaign, Wolf. Across 20 states you needed 200 donors inside of each of 20 states, trying to show real, broad grassroots support. So we know, after the candidates submitted qualifications, the 20 candidates that will be debating in Detroit. Let me read the list to you. Michael Bennet, the senator from Colorado; former Vice President Joe Biden; Senator Cory Booker; Governor Steve Bullock of Montana; Mayor Pete Buttigieg; Julian Castro, the former cabinet secretary; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; Maryland Congressman John Delaney; Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii; Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York; Kamala Harris, the senator from California; former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper; Washington State Governor Jay Inslee; Senator from Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar, former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke; Tim Ryan, the congressman from Ohio; Bernie Sanders, senator from Vermont; Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts; Marianne Williamson, the author and Andrew Yang, the businessman. Those are the 20 candidates who have qualified for this next round of debating.</s>BLITZER: And 10 of them will debate on the first night and 10 of them will debate on the second night in Detroit. Tell us a little bit more about who made the stage for the first time and who didn't make it.</s>CHALIAN: Right. So 20 candidates debated in Miami a few weeks back in June in the first series of debates. There is one big change on that screen and that is Montana governor Steve Bullock. He is now going to be participating in these debates in Detroit. He was -- he had not made the debate stage in Miami. Eric Swalwell, as you know, the congressman from California, has dropped out. There was some question, looking at the public polls available, if indeed Bullock may have not bounced Swalwell from making the Detroit debate stage. But that tie break never had to happen; Swalwell dropped out of the race. That opened a slot for Bullock. The rest of the field is at it was in Miami. And now the big question is who debates whom. And that is what we learn tomorrow night when we do the draw between the two stages.</s>BLITZER: Excellent point. And our viewers and the candidates will be able to find out which Democratic candidates will face off on each night of the next debate in a special live event. You can watch the draw for the CNN Democratic presidential debates tomorrow night at 8:00 pm Eastern here on CNN. And stay with CNN for the Democratic presidential debates, live from Detroit at 8:00 pm Eastern on Tuesday, July 30th, and Wednesday, July 31. Dana Bash and Don Lemon and Jake Tapper they will moderate two big nights, 10 candidates each night, only here on CNN. Coming up, we'll have more on all the breaking news. President Trump heading to a campaign rally after saying he's "not unhappy" with the fury he's touched off by attacking Democratic congresswomen.