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Much. let me give you more word out of harvard. at least four buildings have been evacuated on the campus of harvard after unconfirmed reports that explosives were planted in those buildings. campus police and cambridge police are now sweeping the buildings one by one. our nbc affiliate, whdh is reporting that the state police bomb squad and canines are now on the way. the buildings include severe hall, a classroom building, emerson hall, the philosophy building and thera hall, a freshman dormit...

Levinson, or the nsa. and the fact is the oversight system works. i can tell you why. these intelligence communities tell the bare minimum to congress. they come up with the reasons boy claiming its because congress will leak. but you know what, its bogus. the oversight system is broken and it needs to be fixed. thats it for this edition of "the daily rundown." coming up next, chris jansing. shell have the latest about whats going on on this scare on the campus of harvard. well see you tomorrow....

My takeaway today, a look at the broken trust between the intelligence community and congress. its been ten years since the biggest intelligence failure of this decade, when the u.s. failed to find any weapons of mass destruction in iraq. now whether its the nsa or the cia, americas intelligence apparatus is coming under more fire in the wake of revelations about robert levinsons role as a cia contractor. but its bigger than that. the u.s. government has denied to this day that levinson was work...

>> republican leadership does not want a fight over the debt limit heading into the election. remember, thats what got us out of the government shutdown was the fear of a possible default. so when were heading into an election, you can see them trying to take that off the table if the conservatives listen to them. does that open up possibility of doing a farm bill? yes. potentially. because remember last year, last election cycle, house republicans didnt even take up the farm bill. they got kill...

Among the cases that are argued and sort of maybe ready to be decided is for your audience, i think the most interesting one, would be this challenge to the aggregate contribution limit. this is a man whos challenging not the individual limit on how much you can give to an individual federal candidate, but theres a separate law that says once you get to a certain amount, adding up all the candidates youve given to, thats your limit. you cant give anymore. theres a challenge to that. theres anoth...

Year since 2005 when this was first recorded. far fewer than 2007. 1350 in 2005. 1,200 in 2011. these ads write themselves. you, dan balz, have to work 40 to 50 hours to make ends meet in this tough economy. congress is barely putting in -- not even putting in 30 hours. >> yeah. >> i mean, is that an incentive to move, though? boehners very sensitive to these hits more so than i think people realize. >> certainly its an incentive to make it look like they are on the job and trying to do somethin...

This rallying cry. >> the free world is with you. america is with you. i am with you! >> mccain was -- is traveling to ukraine with chris murphy. democrat from connecticut. by the way, he also had this to say to nbc about what he thinks the u.s. might do next if these protests continue. >> i think what would provoke even more concrete action on the part of the u.s. congress, if theres any brutal repression of these demonstrators. that would be unacceptable, i think, in congress. >> ukraine caugh...