The Tea Party is on the move, but after their health care defeat... are they still as viable?

By Gloria Borger, CNN Senior Political Analyst

It’s a rare sight these days to see political polar opposites on the same side of a fight.

But that’s what’s happening in California, as David Boies and Ted Olson team up to fight against Proposition 8—and for gay marriage. It’s a case they’re arguing in district court in San Francisco, but it’s likely to head to the Supreme Court one way or another.

Gloria Borger interviews Ted Olson and David Boies.

These men have both there before—on opposing sides. It was 2000, and Ted Olson represented George W. Bush and David Boies was Al Gore’s lawyer in the celebrated recount case that divided the nation. The men fought hard, and—as we all know—Olson won.

It was a bitter fight in the country, but ironically, the case brought Olson and Boies together. Soon mutual respect grew into a real friendship that has grown over the past decade.

And now they’re on the same side, and will head to the Supreme Court, together—which is where this case is likely to get resolved.

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