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olympics. champion swimmer dara torres has won 12 medals and shes gunning for more in london. >> i love setting up on the blocks against those young whipper snappers and swimming against them. >> tonight i dare her to show me what shes really made of. >> i would like to see the greatest six-pack in history. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. we begin with a man who could give todays politicians some pointers on the ups and downs of life in high office. george herbert wa...

I think we learned that we dont take those differences when it starts getting a little bit askew we stop talking politics. its not worth it. youre making pasta and behind the living room door an youre home. we just dont do it. we agree to disagree and love and laugh and thats really cool. >> to sum up, love conquers all, right, chaz? >> absolutely, i does. mary is 100% right with my dad we let that get in the way and when he passed away, you know, its like never again. and so you know mary and i...

Im honored that he would make that request of me. >> without wishing to push this too far, congresswoman, but jennifer has expressed her wish, should we get to the stage within the year-long window that chaz has now said he will be held to and we do get to that church and you are asked formally to be the officiator, would you do it? >> wow, i honestly would be deeply honored. but i really think we have to have family discussions. i dont see why i wouldnt, but being put on the spot right here to ...

Popular in chazs community either. so we have some fun going back and forth on that. >> its true. >> sometimes we agree to disagree on things, but at the end of the day, chaz campaigned for me when i ran as a republican running for congress. so we put our love for one another ahead of politics. >> yeah. actually, i mean, its been an amazing experience because, i mean, mary and i, weve gotten along and love each other deeply. it goes beyond politic, it really does. i talk about this in the book t...

>> looks beautiful. >> there you go. >> that was from the documentary "becoming chaz." its extraordinary. chaz bono is with me now. it is an extraordinary documentary. >> thank you. >> its an extraordinary story and it centered around the pivotal moment when you decide, i actually want to be a man. >> mm-hmm. >> im going to do something about this. tell me about that moment. >> well, it was a long time coming. i think i started to put it together in my early 30s. and then suddenly, i was like, w...

That sonny was more tolerant than his mother was. would he have been equally tolerant by this turn of events? >> its so hard to guess how sonny would have felt about this, you know, any more than anything else after hes been gone for 13 years. it is always hard to second guess him. but my hunch is that he would have been frustrated or scared or worried and all of the fears that you kind of have about this. but eventually he would have come around and done what you do and that is that you love yo...

And come woman youre an amazingly courageous and supportive stepmother. the whole story i fine very uplifting and the fact that youre now happy and youre happy makes me happy. i think it makes everybody happy. doesnt it? if youre not happy youre a cynic and you dont deserve happiness. thank you for joining me. good luck with it all. i want to be at the wedding with my cameras recording every moment live on cnn. fair enough? have we got a deal? >> we have a deal. >> get her down the aisle, chaz. ...

>> when you were with chaz, but you got back onto the alcohol. why was that? >> well, i cant blame it solely on chazs transition. my sobriety has been a struggle for years. so its been an off and on thing for me. but i have had periods of time of sobriety, but when he did tell me that he was going to do this, i used it as a pass for myself, which only an alcoholic would do. >> for you, chaz, when you saw jennifer fall off the wagon is bit, did it worry you that perhaps the stress of everything y...

That, you know, thats whats important to me here. chaz and i, i think we learned a long time ago. there was a difference between politically. but when it gets askew, we stop talking politics. its not worth it when youre in your home. so we just dont do it. and we agree to disagree and love and laugh and thats really cool. >> love conquers all, right, chaz? >> absolutely, it does. and mary is absolutely right. with my dad we let that get in the way. when he passed away, its like never again. and ...