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Offensive against al qaeda and isis in yemen, which is a critically failing state, to more of a defensive posture, were trying to prevent people from leaving there, attacking the u.s. homeland. >> a defensive posture and the lack of a viable ally in the area. david, whats your biggest concern when you look at this situation devolving in yemen? >> the other really concerning thing about yemen is its become a canvas for the sectarian battle between the shiites and sunnis. we have a shiite insurgen...

Fall apart and now be in a proxy war with as you were just saying with these very dangerous folks on the ground who are trying to make bombs that could well get on airplanes this could happen anywhere. >> yemen is becoming another syria where the u.s. four years ago was forced to get out. somalia is for all practical purposes a failed state. libya is a failed state. the u.s. embassy has been shut down there. american diplomats have been forced to evacuate. bob baer, you worked at the cia. you re...

Now appealing for intervention from the united nations and emergency meeting of the security council will be held this afternoon. andrea mitchell has been track being all of this. yemen in chaos. is this now a failed state? >> its not only a failed state, this is now a proxy war, civil war and a proxy war between iran backed shiite rebels and the saudis. the saudis on the border worried about their oil field. they had low level insurgencies for years but this is a serious athlete to saudi arabia...

Would have been captured. to be continued for sure. susan page great to see you, chris cillizza and kasie hunt, thank you so much. over overseas, shiite rebels battle the ousted sunni government in what is becoming a proxy war between iran and neighboring saudi arabia. all of this creating an opening for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and isis. richard engel on home base joining me from new york. you know yemen, been there so often. this is the worst we have seen in a number of years. >> yeme...

Intelligence blunders when the bush administration said saddam hussein had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. >> analysts are struggling with speed. when i watched terrorists in the 90s, today that game has changed. thats one of the reasons we miss it. we have never seen anything like this. >> some have suggested the president needs a new national security team. this current one is not good enough. >> well the problems are hard for anybody. iran has made the houthis as effective as they ...

Emergency meeting of the security council will be held this afternoon. andrea mitchell has been track being all of this. yemen in chaos. is this now a failed state? >> its not only a failed state, this is now a proxy war, civil war and a proxy war between iran backed shiite rebels and the saudis. the saudis on the border worried about their oil field. they had low level insurgencies for years but this is a serious athlete to saudi arabia. you have a shiite-sunni civil war going on with big playe...

Week for the affordable care act. and where the obamacare kid is five years later. marcellus owens joins us. we begin with the long delay on the confirmation of loretta lynch. its been 134 days more than four months since lynch was nominated in november. its been another three weeks since the judiciary committee voted her out of committee. even longer since her confirmation hearings. despite bipartisan agreement that lynch would be a good attorney general, majority leader mitch mcconnell has not...

World were living in right now. but this is ridiculous. this is a rogue regime, oppressive regime that wants to destroy israel and the united states. >> nancy hang on, let me bring max in. max, follow up on that. i think the general is bringing up a good point here. they wont say this is a terror state anymore. all three of you believe -- >> no, i dont -- >> give me a chance to speak here, nancy. the reality nancy, is no matter what the -- >> give max a chance to talk. >> there is no question th...

To increase the pace of transfers from guantanamo. will you commit? >> absolutely. >> 122 detainees are less left and the conventional wisdom is the president will move even more aggressively to shift the remain degree takenees to u.s.a. facility if he can get the number below 100. >> were gifting there. thank you. >> we are. >> just days after taking credit for the tunisias museum bombing, more bombi7&x left 130 people dade and its not clear isis is exactly on the run here. that would probably ...

Little bit. some people are saying they are coming from all walks of life. coming from other parts of the country. they are coming from even communist background. who are these people protesting? >> i think its a proxy war when you get right down to it. i think its a political war. i think its a power war. i think there are many people who dont want to give up the power. and so they are sort of putting out their people. clearly people coming in from out of town and there are local politicians wh...