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US & Israel plotted to install a new Iranian leader. What happened?

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CNN’s Erin Burnett talks to Mark Mazzetti, investigative reporter for the New York Times, about his new reporting on a US-Israeli plan to install former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad back into power in the opening days of the war.

CNN global affairs analyst Karim Sadjadpour and Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Richard Haass weigh in on the report.

0:00 What happened to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the start of the war?
1:37 Mark Mazzetti says Ahmadinejad was in contact with US & Israeli officials
4:04 Where is Ahmadinejad now? Does his inclusion in US & Israeli plans prove that regime change was the goal?
6:32 Foreign relations analysts react to the reporting on Ahmadinejad

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