MSNBC analyst on embassy attacks: 'It looks like 1979'

On MSNBC moments ago, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs Director of Columbia University Earth Institute, explained that the embassy attacks that took place yesterday were easily on the same political level as the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, calling it a “major political challenge.”

“This is an extraordinarily dynamic and frightening time,” Sachs said. “Libya, Egypt, Iran and the dynamics of this can absolutely get out of hand. You look at those pictures of scaling the walls of the Egyptian Embassy, it looks like 1979. It’s frightening to think about the Iranian hostages that were taken, just looking at those pictures.”