Rand Paul: ‘Let the Dems Put Forward a War Hawk Like Hillary’

CHRIS JANSING:

In a makeshift operating room in remote Guatemala, a side of Senator Rand Paul most people have never seen. The eye surgeon, on a mission to help the blind and near-blind see in a country where more than half the population lives in poverty. He's one of 28 American volunteers organized by the Moran Eye Center in Utah.

RAND PAUL:

This is an amazing enterprise. We have a surgery center. We have a dental clinic and we have a place doing glasses.

CHRIS JANSING:

Scores of people line up every day for a week - hoping American doctors can give them their sight - and their lives back. A 79 year-old great-grandmother who hasn’t been able to walk for nine years, then cataracts plunged her into darkness. A farmer just wants to see again so he can work in his field. A mission to restore sight, and hope, to the poorest of the poor.

And if it all plays well to American voters it could further Rand Paul's personal mission, too -- to position himself for a race for president.

RAND PAUL:

I've been doing, you know, this kinda stuff for 20 years and so--

CHRIS JANSING:

But not in a foreign country.

RAND PAUL:

Right. Well, I've been operating on kids from Guatemala for, you know, it-- I think the first kids I operated on were 1996. This isn't something new that we're doing.