Amanpour: Karim Sadjadpour, John Grisham, Charles Booker and Davarian Baldwin

A leaked recording of Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif criticizing it's untouchable Revolutionary Guard is shaking up politics inside the country. Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joins Christiane Amanpour to explain how the tape tells a story of two parallel regimes working in concert. Turning to American politics, racial justice activist and former Kentucky State Representative Charles Booker gives his take on the Justice Department investigation into Louisville's police and its wider implications. After dominating publishing with his legal thrillers, author John Grisham reveals why he's turning his eye to basketball and the crisis in South Sudan for his 46th book, "Sooley." Then our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Davarian Baldwin, Trinity College professor and social theorist, about his new book, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower," that explores the sometimes negative impact universities have on their largely black and brown neighboring communities.

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