MSNBC host Chuck Todd said the Obama White House had become an administration where "events are controlling them" Wednesday on Morning Joe, and it repeatedly appears caught off guard on various issues.
Co-host Mike Barnicle asked Todd whether the White House, which was not in the loop on topics ranging from the botched Obamacare rollout to the Veterans Affairs scandal to the IRS scandal to the threatened ISIL takeover in Iraq, was simply weary and "mailing it in."
"This is an administration where events are controlling them," Todd said. "I can't remember the last time I feel like they controlled a set of events. The answer is the same, whether it was VA, whether it was the health care debacle, whether it was [ISIL] in Iraq, which is, boy, this all came up on us faster than we expected. We've had our eye on this but boy, we didn't expect it to be this bad or we didn't expect it to be this quick or we didn't expect it to be this substantial."
Todd added the last six months have painted a picture of an administration that looks like it's simply "struggling to run the government."