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tavis: despite having her leg amputated at age 5, she became the first african-american to win an olympic medal. from there she went on to become a successful public speaker. she has written a new book, "how great women lead: a mother- daughter adventure into the lives of women shaping the world para " it is a great concept for her mother and a daughter to write a book. how old is she? >> she is 17. we started my freshman year in high school. tavis: what was that working with your daughter? >> it is the perfect storm between teenage hormones and menopause. it was a great learning exp...

tavis: despite having her leg amputated at age 5, she became the first african-american to win an olympic medal. from there she went on to become a successful public speaker. she has written a new book, "how great women lead: a mother- daughter adventure into the lives of women shaping the world para " it is a great concept for her mother and a daughter to write a book. how old is she? >> she is 17. we started my freshman year in high school. tavis: what was that working with your daughter? >> it is the perfect storm between teenage hormones and menopause. it was a great learning exp...

tavis: despite having her leg amputated at age 5, she became the first african-american to win an olympic medal. from there she went on to become a successful public speaker. she has written a new book, "how great women lead: a mother- daughter adventure into the lives of women shaping the world para " it is a great concept for her mother and a daughter to write a book. how old is she? >> she is 17. we started my freshman year in high school. tavis: what was that working with your daughter? >> it is the perfect storm between teenage hormones and menopause. it was a great learning exp...

Of these scenes obviously were invented. we now know that president kennedy had a series of extramarital affairs. you're not disputing that, are you? >> absolutely not. as david talbot says, it's fair game to introduce and talk about those in a manner that's historically responsible. and one of the painful things, and you'll see it in our film at stopkennedysmears.com is them saying why are they distorting in this way that's not necessary? i have lots of disagreements with kennedy on policy. that's fair debate to have. it's not fair to trash ademean him. >> they've said this is not a documenta...

Someone a political agenda. now it's time to re-evaluate. they gave an interview in "the new york times," cited historians whose work they were using, david talbot. david talbot not only was never contacted, he released yesterday a skalthing statement about the distortions, number one. number two, howard, as you well know, the coverup is often worse than the mistake. the history channel the not telling the truth. they are using this screenplay. they're going out and offering it to actors with millions of dollars attached to try to get them to be in the screenplay. >> in fairness, that remains ...