Chuck Todd on Yemen: Obama Micromanaged Transition and Now We Have No Influence

‘This is the single most dangerous thing that could happen’

"On Yemen, I think we have not -- it's not only, not only does President Obama own this a little bit, when you were talking about those statements. The Obama administration led by John Brennan -- I mean, we micromanaged that transition. I mean, in many ways 30 years ago we would have said this was a U.S. orchestrated change in power shall we say. And all of a sudden, our guys have gone. I mean, this is the single most dangerous thing that could happen, which is, we have no influence now over perhaps the most important safe haven for terrorists networks."

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