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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 dormitory. all of them surround harvard yard. in addition, the science center has also been evacuated. we ...

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 it's because congress will leak. but you know what, it's bogus. the oversight system is broken and it needs to be fixed. that's it for this edition of "the daily rundown." coming up next, chris jansing. she'll have the latest about what's going on on this scare on the campus of harvard. we'll see you tomorrow. became big business overnight? ♪ like, really big... then expanded? ♪ or their new produc...

My takeaway today, a look at the broken trust between the intelligence community and congress. it's 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 it's the nsa or the cia, america's intelligence apparatus is coming under more fire in the wake of revelations about robert levinson's role as a cia contractor. but it's bigger than that. the u.s. government has denied to this day that levinson was working for them. it's been revealed, of course, that he was a cia contractor. but it now raises al...

>> republican leadership does not want a fight over the debt limit heading into the election. remember, that's what got us out of the government shutdown was the fear of a possible default. so when we're 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 didn't even take up the farm bill. they got killed in all of these rural states and districts. i don't think they want to make that same mistake ...

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 who's challenging not the individual limit on how much you can give to an individual federal candidate, but there's a separate law that says once you get to a certain amount, adding up all the candidates you've given to, that's your limit. you can't give anymore. there's a challenge to that. there's another question about whether a state can ban affirmative action by constitutional amendment. we'...