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>> what do we want! >> reporter: but gays and lesbians lost the right to marry in california. >> we were trying to figure out what to do next. and then we thought about the idea of a possible legal challenge to proposition 8. and serendipitously, a friend of my wife's came by the table. >> reporter: the friend suggested they would find an ally in her former brother-in-law, who turned out to be ted olson, a towering figure in the conservative legal movement. so that stub stunned you, right? >> yes, it more than stunned me. it stunned me, but i said if this is true, this is the home run of all-t...

This is true, this is the home run of all times. i mean, the idea that ted olson, this arch conservative, the solicitor general for george bush who had argued bush v gore and basically put me in bed for a couple of days, i was so depressed, was interested in gay rights. i thought let's check it out. >> didn't you have any doubts about ted olson? >> you know, they say politics makes strange bed fellows. you don't have a stranger bed fellow than me and ted olson. >> chad griffin was also at the polo lounge. he and rob reiner are old friends. they met when chad was just 19 and a press aide in the...