feingold. judge jeanine: chad pergram, senior producer for capitol hill. thanks for sharing your thoughts on the passing of senator john mccain earlier this evening. right now we have on the phone senator jeff flake from arizona. senator flake? thank you so much for joining us this evening. your thoughts tonight on the passing of senator john mccain. well, just gratitude for having him served for so long and so well. he leaves a huge void in the senate obviously. in arizona there is a huge void, and there is a void in terms of international leadership he has been so active in. he has a huge legacy obviously that we are grateful for. judge jeanine: senator flake,
committee didn t come down terribly hard on him. they came down on allen cranston, the senator from california much harder. but mccain said the appearance of impropriety on his behalf was wrong. this set something into motion with john mccain. this was the side of him always fighting back against power and influence. if you look at the famous mccain feingold campaign finance law, that s part and parcel of what they went through. when you hear those ads, we ll tart to hear a lot of them in the next couple months. a candidate will appear on tv and say i m so and so and i approve this message. the version they ultimately signed into law was the house version. but it s the companion piece of legislation. everybody knows it s mccain
content. next month, we ll feature jefferson city, missouri. you re watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. starting sunday, american history tv features the contenders, a 14 week series on key political figures who ran it for president and lost but who never the less changed political history. tomorrow we begin with former house speaker henry clay of kentucky, known as the great compromiser. next we preview the series and all 14 contenders with three historian, richard norton smith, jean baker and karl cannon. this is about an hour 30 minutes. richard, when you and mark decided the list for the contender, what was your objective? to give viewers an alternative school of american political history in particular. it s been observed that the winners write the history books. there was a lot of truth to that. but that means that we re deprived of like the dark of side of the moon. there s another whole story line. and even more on the biographi