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Becoming a victim. the campus on lockdown for an hour and a half. >> ohio state will be stronger having come through this. >> reporter: now police are still trying to determine a motive here and terrorism has not been ruled out. they have interviewed family members. they have interviewed witnesses and scouring through surveillance video. as for the somali community here from talking to somali community leaders, they tell me they're afraid of retaliation against that community. >> rosa, thank you very much. let's turn to the transition at the white house. president-elect trump set to meet again...

Succeeds. >> joining me now is congressman jim cliburn, democrat from south carolina and assistant democratic leader. congressman clyburn, thank you for coming on the show tonight and happy new year. >> same to you, reverend al. thank you so much for having me. >> now, mr. romney has said that he thinks that we are in dealing with the politics of envy. when i heard him say that last night ialmost fell off the chair here in the studio because i don't know anyone that is fighting to close the gap, close the tax loopholes, protect social security and medicaid and medicare. i don't know any of the...

Obama. >> it's something we expected to come from president obama, but we didn't expect that newt gingrich and rick perry would become the witnesses for his prosecution if you will. >> joining me now is michelle cottle, reporter for "the daily beast." thank you for joining me tonight. >> it's my pleasure. >> now how much will these bain attacks hurt romney in south carolina and beyond? >> well, look, south carolina voters have a high tolerance for negative ads. so whereas maybe these ads would backlash against gingrich in iowa, you know, south carolina voters expect them to mix it up. you know...

These, of course, are the republicans in south carolina. and south carolina in general has twice more unemployment than iowa or new hampshire. so could a more grassroot kind of guy with a different image appeal to a different voter here that may not have worked in new hampshire or iowa? >> yes, sir. this is a totally different electorate, i think. south carolina is a carve out early state in the rnc's session because we have a blend of the republican base that's different. we have the conservative fiscal conservative side. we've got the social conservatives and the military conservatives, like...

What it's doing to kind of the major players themselves and the party has some fishers coming up in the establishment where you have the financial fiscal conservatives really ticked off about some of this stuff. you are seeing some interesting riffs coming up among the elites. >> now let me show you where they began circling the wagons today, some of the major talk show, radio people and even jim demint. let me show you this. >> they say they are vultures and unethical. i mean, that's about as severe a charge as you can make. frankly, you're right. it's one i would expect from barack obama. >>...