Exclusive: Inside Hegseth’s push to showcase a dramatic Iran rescue on ‘60 Minutes’

In April, two crew members of an F-15 fighter jet were shot down over Iran and subsequently rescued. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and political appointees in his department pushed for these crew members to appear in a "60 Minutes" report about the rescue operation that aired on Sunday.

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