cnn. cnn heroes do extraordinary work to help others but those people are rarely in the public eye. last fall u.s. army combat veteran jason cantor was a rising star in the democratic party running for mayor of kansas city when he dropped out of the race to seek help for post traumatic stress. he spoke to cnn about his journey to get help from a nonprofit run by cnn hero chris stout. my first message to people is, if you think something might be wrong, something is wrong and you should get help. i went to the v.a. and they gave me a lot of paperwork. i looked at it and said i m not really sure i know how to navigate this process. even you. yeah. and i m in a decent spot to figure that sort of thing out. i went to an organization in my town of kansas city called veterans community project. they helped me navigate the process. they serve all vets. anybody who falls through the cracks they have a village of tiny houses. they have effectively eradicated veterans homelessness in kans
that made it not at all a difficult choice for me. it s about i write in outside the wire about how a lot of people have something in their some day category. some day i ll do x. really i want people to understand don t wait for some day, make it now. making change is about getting outside of your comfort zone, and nobody ever made change from within their comfort zone. joe has a question for you. jason, you talk about your expenses in afghanistan, what you learned there and talking about politics. one of your first bit of advice taken from your time in a war zone is, if you want to change the world, you have to get outside the wire. explain that. so outside the wire is a term that we used overseas. it means to go off the safety of the base. and look, i ve spent a lot more time figuratively outside the wire in politics than i even did literally in afghanistan because, you know, it s been
the tweeting. when you dig deeper, what they re saying is, he never really followed through on his promise, which is to put the country ahead of himself, which, you know, is a shame obviously. but it is why he s just burroing down into his own base and not getting outside of it. he refuses to get outside of his own echo chamber. for sure. the book is outside the wire. democratic kansas city mayoral candidate jason cantor. thank you for being to this morning. thank you. still ahead, two decades ago mike pence made the case for impeaching a president with, quote, bad moral habits. that applied to bill clinton. so what about donald trump? plus, we ll go live to ohio as one of the candidates running in the special election there tries to clean up a last-minute gaffe in the dead-locked race. you can call it a gaffe. he actually insulted people in the county that s going to be casting the most votes tonight.
i m jason. senator black has been attacking me on guns. in army i know how to use and respect my rifle. in afghanistan i volunteered to be an extra gun in a convoy of unarmored suvs. i also believe in background checks so terrorists can t get their hands on one of these. aappro i approve this message because i want to see senator black do this. i believe that s what we call in the business a mike drop. that was a viral campaign from jason cantor calling for tougher background checks. he lost that race narrowly the former missouri secretary of state jason cannis running for r of kansas city. his new book called outside the wire. jason, great to have you with us. let s talk about your decision to run for mayor. the election is not until next
don t remember that likely. that s something that has to be at the top of our mind as we make decisions about our commitments there. so should we draw down? should we get american troops out of afghanistan? our strategy clearly needs to be about unwinding and reaching that point. i think what s tragic, and one of the things i point out in the book that kind of shaped my view of politics, is that, you know, so much of this can be traced back to a very politically-driven decision by karl rove and others to invade iraq. i was in afghanistan in 06, you know, e-mailing with my friends from officer training who were in iraq at that time and saying they weren t sure exactly why they were there. it diverted an enormous amount of resources. mika? jason, i m just curious as you seek to serve, your second attempt, and it is very much appreciated. thanks. politically. what are you hearing from people? we re in an age of sort of devalued truth, where there s now arguments about what is