Media Alert

 
I’ve written in the past about my longtime friend since our days at Camp Nebagamon, John Kander (who is the nephew of legendary Broadway composer John Kander, writer of Cabaret and Chicago) and that his own nephew Jason Kander was Secretary of State of Missouri.
 
Well, Jason -- who currently hosts the "Majority 54" podcast on the Meidas Touch Network -- is going to be featured on 60 Minutes tomorrow.  It’s for a major story about a remarkable, audacious -- and up to now, secret -- rescue operation he organized with others to evacuate almost 400 Afghan allies from Afghanistan, people who had risked their lives as translators and support for the American military.  Kander, who had served in Afghanistan as an Army intelligence officer, said the decision to get involved in the rescue mission was because, “It felt like leaving a friend behind when you had promised them you wouldn’t.”  And a plan, known as Operation Bella, was created that required raising a great deal of money for an airplane and used, as part of its subterfuge, the deception of a fake wedding party.

When I say this is a major story for 60 Minutes, this is what I mean:  they are spreading the report out over two segments.

Here's a video he posted about the upcoming story about the rescue.  It airs Sunday on CBS at  7 PM Los Angeles and East Coast time.  60 Minutes is calling the segment, "Welcome to the Wedding" --

And here's the promotion video that 60 Minutes ​has released --