Amanpour: Aimen Dean, Michael Keaton, Kenneth Feinberg, Max Borenstein, Kent Babb and Nick Foster

With the Taliban and ISIS K taking hold in Afghanistan, former jihadist and MI6 spy inside al Qaeda Aimen Dean joins Christiane Amanpour and explains that the Kabul attack may inspire others and extremist groups may now come out of their sleeper cell mode. Then Michael Keaton, screenwriter Max Borenstein and attorney Ken Feinberg discuss their new film "Worth" that captures the work of the 9/11 victim compensation fund. Returning to Afghanistan, Syrian filmmaker and activist Hassan Akkad who sought asylum in the UK in 2015 gives an insight into what it’s like to be uprooted from your home, something he details in his new book “Hope Not Fear.” Washington Post sports journalist Kent Babb follows a high school football season in his new book, "Across the River." Our Walter Isaacson speaks to him alongside football coach Nick Foster about keeping young students out of the line of fire in Louisiana where homicide rates were the highest in the country in 2019.

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