thanks. >> we love it. thank you so much. that's it for us. we'll see you back here at 10:00. >> don't go anywhere, smerconish starts for you right now. i'm michael smerconish. welcome to the program. big show today. nba star lamar odom out of his coma, while the owner of the nevada brothel where he was found unconscious is giving lots of overly candid interviews. but i'm going on ask him questions that nobody else has. also, has the power of evangelical christians in presidential elections been undercut because they have too many good choices? i'll ask ralph reed. and is there any path left for joe biden? david axelrod doesn't paint a

pretty picture. and what about playboy magazine deciding to give up on nudity? first the latest on the condition of lamar odom. he was in a coma for several days. he woke up yesterday and spoke to his estranged wife and reality co-star khloe kardashian. here's what is bothering me. the hospital and the police didn't release any information. and yet somehow many sordid details are all over the news. allegations of drug use and debauchery. the specific escort package that he ordered at the love ranch, even the price tag. how did this happen? one reason was the frequent media appearances by the owner of the love ranch dennis huff who had a long running show called cat house. take a look. >> he spent $75,000 and that was his number, what he wanted is two girls 24 hours a day to take care of any of his needs.

he told the girls he had done some coke that saturday before he came. reload is a sexual enhancement pill that you can buy at convenience stores. girls told us they thought he took eight to ten of them over the four day period. did get a call on sunday afternoon or evening and seemed a little upset about a tv show that he was on with the kardashians. the girls came back at 3:15 and he was unconscious foaming from the mouth. >> i worry with mr. owe doe dom's right to privacy, so i've invited the brothel owner on this show. joining me now is dennis hoff. you've been all over the news this week. >> not the way i'd like. i'd rather be promoting my book. but the bunnies lover your show and they watch every day. >> so for how long has lamar odom been your client? >> we can't confirm or deny that he's ever been there before, but he did know to give me a call on

october 5 and arrange a driver and every day he kept pushing it out and finally on the 10th he said come get me, i'm done partying, i want to relax. >> don't you feel that he's entitled to are more privacy than he's been afforded in the last couple of days? >> well, absolutely. and my business is built on privacy and discretion. been there 60 years. i've owned it 23 years and have thousands of big celebrities and politicians that come there. but when the ambulance pulls out and five minutes later tmz calls me, you have to deal with it. >> why not tell tm zm mchlttmz sand? i thought the escort/client relationship was that nothing gets discussed outside of what takes place in that relationship. >> well, you're talk about an illegal world that i don't know anything about. in the legal world, absolutely, we don't talk about our clients

until something like this happens and i'm not going to let the kardashians talk about me or what happened there. and that's what they want do. >> but it would seem to me that in a circumstance like will this, this is precisely when you shouldn't be saying anything, nothing but his drug use, nothing about what women were with him. i wouldn't encven confirm that had ever been will. >> we're talking about his lack of drug use, we're trying to defend lamar because we don't believe that he was doing drugs on our rproperty. he was told you can't bring drugs and he agreed to that. i've been doing coke in las vegas, i want to get relax and get away. he was going to sleep every night, eating properly and we felt like he was just looking to get away and we want the world to know that, that we don't think lamar was doing cocaine at our facility. >> i know that many condemn the type of business that you run. that's not where i'm coming from. you're involved in as i understand it a lawful enterprise. my beef is that this man is a

client, he comes there for several days for whatever purpose. that's his business not ours. and when everything hits the fan, all of a sudden you're the spokesman telling us why he was there, what he was doing when he was there, from his interests were. and i'm saying this poor of son of a gun has been in a company marks thank god it now looks like he's taken a turn for the better. >> that's absolutely right. but you're not -- i'm not going to let the world put a negative spin on everything about this guy because i like him and i don't think he was doing what the world is saying he's doing. just because he's had a 20 year of problems doesn't mean he was doing it when this happened. >> but how do you justify when tmz calls even taking the call and releasing any information about him whatsoever? >> because they already know. don't you yunderstand that ever hospital, all the paramedics, everybody has harvey levin's phone number on speed dial. they get information so fast

it's unbelievable. and i'm not going to lie to them. >> but who is coming back it on your establishment the next time if they say, geez, if i get jammed up there he'll spill the beans about what i was doing there some don't you worry about the long term business model? >> you know, our business is very busy. that ranch happens to be busier than it's ever been thousand because of the notoriety that has been put on it because of this. >> i know that he married in to the kardashians. fair to say he never signed up, he never volunteered for the kind of disclosures that have been made about him for the last couple of days? >> and the dts cloisclosures ar coming from everybody, unnamed sources. he's doing cocaine with the hookers. well, guess what, he wasn't doing that. and the unnamed sources, they all have these ideas. the father immediately said these girls drugged him. lie. am i supposed to sit back and take that? no, i'm not going to do it.

>> so as i hear dennis hoff what you're saying today is you've been speaking in an effort to protect the man's reputation. >> and my own. i'm not going to let a father who is known to sell stories talk about my girls drugging him. i'm not going to let people talk about him using cocaine at my facility. the 911 call got all twisted around and it was said that he did cocaine saturday. yeah, before he got there. before he got there he was partying in las vegas. not when he was at my facility. and that's the word we need to get out there. zero tolerance at the bunny ranch and love ranch. zero tolerance. >> so in your bid to protect his reputation, what is that you want americans to know? >> what i want him to know is he was in a good frame of mind when he drove out there. talking about his family, his mother, his father, his mentor, the person that got him into basketball. he said that close i khloe kard

was vindictive and he was happy when he got there. he picked a couple much girof g had the time of life. everybody knows it. >> the guy is in the hospital. he'll be horrified that you you confirmed that he came and paid for a couple of girls. >> and he also told the manager he had the best night's sleep he'sed ed had in a long time. so when you're sleeping and eating lots of food, i don't think you're doing drugs and i don'ten think lamar was doing drugs at my place. >> and it sounds like you violated the hooker code. >> well, you know about about the illegal world. this is the legal world. >> even though it's legal, i would presume people still don't want their business talked about

when -- almost like going to see a lawyer and then having the lawyer say let me tell you wiyot the client. >> in the criminal world, they go away. you're dealing in a legal facility that has a right on protect its reputation. we won't sit back and let people throw rocks at us because we're doing this or that just because it's a hooker. guess what, these hookers are all making huge incomes and most have better educations than i do. they're professional working girls. >> and my argument is that whatever the terms of the transaction that lamar owe tomorrow h dome had, confidentiality was an important part and that's been violated. >> okay. >> do you want to respond? >> we agree to disagree. i'm going to protect himy busins and not let the world say he was doing drugs at my place. he wasn't doing that. it's not a secret that he was at

the brothel and that the ambulance took him away and they couldn't fit him in the helicopter. it was all out in the public within a few minutes. so it's my i don't thijob to pr business and lamar's reputation. they know he's at a brothel. that's out there. it's our job to make sure and let the world know that we don't think lamar was doing a lot of drugs at our place. or any at all. and i'm going to stick to that. and if people don't like me saying it, too bad. >> i think your obligation was to say yes he was here, he ran out of gas, the poor guy showed up and we were just giving him some assistance and he dropped over and that's all we know. >> after the paramedics already told the police he was in the bedroom in a vip suite? sounds good. got a good beat but you can't dance to it, michael. >> dennis hoff, thank you, sir. do you agree with me that lamar odom was owed more

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and accents of vegetables and apples. here is something you might not know. a quarter of americans say they are evangelical christians. this year evangelical voters have lots of candidates who would be acceptable. while that might seem like an embir re embarrassment of riches, it could be a problem. could so many good candidates split the vote and dilute their influence? who better to discuss this with than ralph reed, founder and chairman of the faith and freedom coalition and was a senior adviser to george w. bush's campaigns in 2000 and 2004. ralph, thank you so much for not

walking out as you were in the greenroom while i was interviewing a pimp. i appreciate that. >> no problem. good to be with you. do you have an embarrassment of riches that is actually problematic? there are so many individuals on that republican stage who is acceptable to evangelical christians. >> it's a problem, but it's a good problem to have. the kind of problem that most constituencies would love to have where you have in this field and i hesitate to start naming names because i'm going to leave somebody out, but at the beginning, of course wraalk has gotten out. you had ted cruise, mike huckabee, bobby jindal and jeb bush, catholic converts. marco rubio is a devout roman catholic. and i could go on and on. i don't want to leave anybody

out. i hesitate to even begin naming. but i would argue and this is my 10th presidential cycle of engagement that you have more committed men and women of faith, devout faith, either evangelical protestant or faithful observant cath lolic i this one field than in all previous fields since the so-called religious right broke on the beaches of our political system in the late 1970s. and what you're seeing is decades of work and engagement and building grass roots networks and energizing people is now bearing fruit and we'll have to let the dust settle. we don't though who the nominee will be. but it's probably going to be somebody that not only will be acceptable to this constituency, but they will be excited about. >> will you let the dust settle or will you encourage coalescing around a particular candidate and if so whom? >> well, that's -- for my personally, i'm happy to answer that. i can't answer that for every faith-based leader obviously.

but i'm not a big fan of smoke filled rooms or attempts to annoy presidents by any particular issue coalition. and i don't want to particular rise to the faith community. i think that's true for labor union, i think it's true for the hunters and sports man lobby. i think what you ought to do, this is my own personal view, is be about the issues. and for us that eat the sapgitity of lisapgity ity sack sanctity of life, the and limit of government about that my argument would be raesh make it about the person, make it about the plat the form and the issues and then let the voters decide which person is best able to rally people with that flag. >> i showed footage of donald

trump praying with every he have leaders. what is the extent if any of skepticism in the evangelical community about gudonald trump. he's followed by saying his favorite book is the bible. are you comfortable with what you see in terms of trump on these issues? >> well, we have certainly had a good relationship with him and he has come to a number of faith and freedom events including one a month ago this iowa where he was very warmly received. and again, without making it about personality, and i certainly don't deny that this is a riveting spectator sport, but for these voters, it is about the issues and what he has said, and you probably saw, michael, i guess there was a clip this past week where he was in i think a no labels conference and a woman asked him a question about the life issue and he said i'm pro-life. so what he does is he goes to these forums where he's speaking to faith based voters.

and keep in mind 50% to 55% of all the voters who whose shadow darkens the threshold of a voter booth will be an slelf identifid evangelical christian. he says i'm pro life, i support israeli and i'm for religious liber liberty. if you say that no matter who you are, you're going to get a hearing, he'll get a fair hearing. we'll see how the vote settles out. >> did you disagree with ben carson? i won't roll it because we've all seen it. when ben carson said he personally was uncomfortable with the idea of a muslim being elected president? >> yeah, he's a friend. we think very highly of him. but that is not something that i would subscribe to. you know, i think a voter can choose to vote for or against somebody based on their religion. it's a free country. if that's what you want to do, you can do that. but for me, it's not about

somebody's faith, it might be about their ideology, but i personally know muslims who are devout muslims who oppose the agenda of radical islam, their perversion of their faith by people like al qaeda and terrorists and radical jihad. and i think dr. carson in fairness, i think he did subsequently clarify that and say that it wasn't about the faith, it was about whether or not they favored using violence to advance their views. and i'm not a spokesman for dr. carson, but i think he said he would be against that whether that person was a christian or a jew or muslim or hindu. and i think that's what he was trying to say. >> ralph reed, thank you. next time we'll give you a different lead-in, i promise. >> no problem. good to be with you. donald trump has said several things that you'd think would alienate the gop base, but haven't. will his new 9/11 comments

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donald trump again under fire for something that he said this time about president george w. wush abush and 9/11. and last night donald trump was uncharacteristically silent when reporters pushed him hard on his remarks earlier in the day. this is what he had to say on bloomberg tv about push and th attacks. >> i have a bigger heart. i'm much more confident. say what you want, the world trade center came down during bush's time. >> you can't blame bush for that. >> he was president. don't blame him or don't blame him, but he was president. the world trade center came down

during his rein. >> jeb bush angrily responded friday afternoon tweeting how pathetic for donald trump to criticize the president for 9/11. we were attacked and my brother kept us safe. joining me now, anchor from the blaze amy holmes and ellis henni gchlt an. ellis, i thought for sure when he said what he said about john mccain, we like who don't get captured, going after megyn kelly on fox, i out this is the death knell within the hardcore of the gop and yet it wasn't. does this finally harm him or not? >> no. >> why not? >> listen, if can he get through megyn kelly, which is ground zero to the gop, he will get through poking at the bush family who are not all that popular. >> it has to be deliberate that he's willing to go after these icons of the republican establishment. >> i don't know how deliberate it is, but he's not suffering.

and i don't think he will suffer from these remarks. look, the gop does not want to relitigate iraq even if donald trump does. but at the same time, they don't seem to ever make him pay for these types of remarks. ellis and i were talking before the show that gop voters at the moment seem to value strength and that is the characteristic that they are seeing this donald trump right now. >> is this fair game? this sent me scurry to ing to m computer to reread bin laden determined to strike in the united states and i say to myself if it really were a legitimate issue, w. would never have been elected in 2004. >> as you said in your intro when jeb bush turned to donald trump if the first box debate and said my brother kept america safe. he got a huge ovation from the crowd. >> can we roll that tape? play that. >> your brother's administration gave us barack obama because it was such a disaster those last three months than abraham

lincoln couldn't have been elected. >> you know what, as it relates to my brother, there is one thing i know for sure. he kept us safe. i don't know if you remember -- you remember the firefighter? he spent a clear signal that the united states would be strong. >> they don't seem to ever hurt donald trump, but i think it is hurting him in a different way. yesterday donald trump had a huge victory over cnbc when he threatened to boycott if the next gop debate lasted three hours. cnbc gave into his demands. they waved the flag. but now he's stepping on his own mess apg aage and it's all abou attacking george bush through jeb bush. >> let's go to your side of the

aisle. big debate last tuesday. was it as significant a victory for hillary clinton as is now being memorialized? it seems to be growing exponentially at least to me how well she did. >> it was big. don't discount it. >> she had a good night. don't misunderstand me. >> think about the two or three months that came before dems we woman wounded, is there an opening for joe biden. all of that has been damped down. it has really turned her from looking like a weak potential nominee to an -- >> but isn't part of that -- i'll put up on the screen how the world of social media looked at this. what you'll see is that bernie sanders, look at some of those number, and these are not all left wing sites. drudge, time, in addition to the daily cost, they all saw bernie

sanders as the victor. to me it seems like the media woke up -- he's already shaking his head. the media loves the revital flare difference. so all of a sudden hillary had a hell of a night. she had a great night, but was it that big a night? >> she won the pundit class for sure, but if you look at the polling data, bernie sanders won a lot of the grass roots and young people. he was the most tweeted name of the night. he was the most google searched of the night. facebook said he was the most mentioned of the candidates of the night. and even barack obama's own close campaign advisers pointed to bernie sanders really having more of the heart and soul of the democratic party at this point. >> bernie sanders last night was on with bill maher and bill maher questioned him about the saleability of socialism. let's watch. >> they hear socialist, they

think herpes. >> we have to make the movement, if you like, to correlate what we're talking about. because on every one of the major issues i'm talking about, the american people agree. do the american people agree that public colleges and universities should be tuition free as they are in many other countries? >> and then he gave other examples of what socialism, democratic socialism. are we sticking around long enough for the explanation? we americans. >> no, probably -- it's a powerful negative slogan today. it doesn't help in the long run. but particularly if hillary is having well timed victories, i know you're saying it wasn't that big, i'm telling you it came right when she needed it and it truly turned the conversation. >> i'm saying perception becomes reality. >> it's politics. >> one final question about secretary clinton. front page of the "new york times" today. hillary rodham clinton has spent more than twice as much as any other presidential candidate on campaign staff, more than three

times as much on office space and millions more on advertising. according to reports filed this week with the fec. smart strategy or will she run out of money? >> it sounds like the clinton campaign is trying to have the shock and awe strategy really to keep joe biden from entering the race. but we saw how that worked with jeb bush. he's falling way behind will the other candidates. one of her campaign people said you can't just parachute in and expect to win these early states. isn't that exactly what joe biden is contemplating doing? i think that was the clinton campaign trying to frighten their competitor. >> i agree with you. appreciate both of you you being here. coming up, has the trial balloon of the biden candidacy finally burst? i'll talk to david axelrod and can "playboy" magazine survive without nude pictures? i'll ask a former center fold now sex therapist and mother of three what she thinks. ♪

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we had an extra podium ready for him at the debate in las vegas just in case. and now joe biden's will he or won't he presidential run is becoming the joke literally. the headline of this piece on the new yorker's report says it all. biden to decide on 2016 bid pby early 2017. just one of the many topics i want to talk to cnn commentator. joining me now is david axelrod. i'm eager to question you about joe pbiden perhaps getting into

the race. there is the likelihood of tieing it to the outcome of the debate on tuesday night. are the two necessarily connected? >> well, i don't know what his reasoning is. if you were just gauging this on the basis of politics, you'd have to say yes because part of the urgency that people felt in trying to nudge him into the race was that the frontrunner was weak and getting weaker. i don't think that's true after the debate on tuesday. hillary clinton had a great night and therefore the market for the white knight coming into save the party is no longer there. but that may not be the standard by which he's making this decision. you know, he may simply just feel that he would be a better candidate and wants to give it a go. i'm still skeptical about it. i think these emotional issues that he's talking about, the trauma his family has been through, are such that he'll ultimately resolve not to get

into the race. but i think this drama will go on for a while. >> i'm hearing you say i think that david axelrod doesn't see the path to the nomination for the vice president. >> well, look, i can't predict -- there are unpredictable events that could happen that would open the race up. but right now i see hillary clinton and bernie sanders together holding about three quarters of the vote. and with joe biden getting about a fifth of the vote. and nothing in the debate changed that dynamic. both had very good nights particularly for their base supporters. and so i think it's a tough row to hoe. just looking at the number, you'd have to say it's a tough race. >> let's talk about the republicans for your brand new podcast the ax files, you had an interesting sit down with governor romney. i'll play a portion and ask you to react. >> i think donald trump has said a number of things which are

hurtful and he has said that they were childish in some respects and i think will be potentially problematic either in a primary or in a general election if he were to become the nominee. and they relate to things he said about women and things he said with about members of the news media, things he said about has panics. >> so the 2012 standard bearer doesn't seem to psyched that donald trump is thus far leading in his party. >> i think he was speaking from experience because he got dragged into shaome debates tha were harmful, self deporting immigrants and so on that really lived into the general election. and think he learned some lessons from his own campaign. the interesting thing was it wasn't just he said that trump would be damaged if he were the nominee, but he feels that trump

may be damaging the party brand generally by taking the debate down this road. >> we're at a stage of the campaign that candidate families have not yet played a role, but you paid a compliment to donald trump's daughter ivanka. he retweeted it, it caught fire in the blogosphere. speak to the strength of ivanka trump as a factor in this election. >> yeah, first of all, i tweeted it because i was so impressed by her. i sat next to her a few years ago at a dinner party and i was just completely surprised because she is not a lot like her dad in the sense that she's very thoughtful, you know, she's very -- she's not impulsive in what she has to say. and she just was completely impressive to me. and the fact that she's now come out and started doing interviews and so on along with her brother, i think that helps humanize trump in a way that he

needs it and obviously given some of the things that he said that have offended women having this very poised, very bright, very thoughtful woman who is his daughter come out and affirm him is helpful to him. >> ivanka, 2032. one final question. i'm sure you took note of the fact that the spending reports came in this week and donald trump's largest expenditure in the last three months, $825,000 spent on paraphernalia like the hats make america great again. you got to give him credit for his return on investment. he's spending nothing and he's still number one in the polls. >> he has maximized the earned media in a way no candidate that is our lifetime. and so he has not had to spend a lot of money which has to be frustrating to some of these other candidates who have spent millions on television and have nothing to show for it. >> but in an unconventional year, will it nevertheless catch

up with him if he hasn't built a traditional organization? >> well, i think so. first of all, i think he is doing more organizing than people suspect. not everywhere. in illinois, we have very complicated ballot rules and he's well behind in terms of getting himself on the ballot. but i understand that in iowa, new hampshire, he's doing real organizing and spending some money on that. but not on the big television dollars. i think that's always been the question about trump. he's an improvisational politician, but at some point organization really matters. and i don't know over the long run whether he can organize this entire country, but in the early states, he seems to be doing so. >> david axelrod, thank you so much. >> good to be with you. no more nudity in "playboy" magazine? will it survive? i'll ask victoria, one of only two women to be both a "playboy"

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guy, you remember when we used to say that we only bought "playboy" for the articles? the 62-year-old publication is about to put us to the test. founder hugh hefner now 89d years old has announced that next year he'll stop publishing nude pictures. the distinctive aspect that has defined the brand since its first issue when this ran a center feemd old of marilyn mon. why are they doing this?

joining me now is something who knows something about this, a former center fold and playboy playmate in october of 1994 and penthouse pet of the year in 2004. one of only two women to be thus featured in those competing publications. she's now married with with three kids, has a law degree and . . . . why are they doing this? >> i think it is a really wise rebranding move. because they are trying to appeal to the younger male who no longer wants to hide playboy under the bed. they want to read their magazine on their morning commute. in this way, they can get mainstream advertising, get celebrities to pose in provocative photos and they don't have to pay as much to women to pose in lingerie as much as nude. they are keeping their explicit playboy channel. there pay format will be nonnude

but they will have the playboy channel, which is explicit. >> is part of it because there is no market channel available because if you want porn, the internet has made it not hard core important. >> to men, they are decency advertised. they say 9 out of 10 women under 21 have texted a nude photo. why pay for a news magazine when you can get your girlfriend. >> they are going after the maximum segment of the market, beautiful women with you scantily clad. >> provocative but something you can read on the train. >> it really is about the articles now. >> i think it will still show the female pull kri tud but

still feature hot new celebrities. it will be exciting about you it won't appeal for the autoerotic orientation. really more for your morning commute. here is some of your clothed work for playboy. you are a mom. you are an attorney. you possess a ph.d. >> any regrets? >> i have no regrets. that was the only way i could afford the expensive education. i had a very nice run as a glam and pin-up model. i made a lot of money and have some great, lasting friendships. a lot of misconceptions with center fields as being dumb. a lot of the women that i have posed with went on to have great career and accomplish great things. >> how old are your kids? >> 13, 9, and 2. >> have you broached the subject with them, hey, mom has been a pin-up model? >> i was always a little bit afraid to see their reaction.

one day my 13-year-old said, oh, yeah, somebody pulled out some naked pictures of you. it was like a nonevent. the next thing, she was discussioning something else. the current generation is very decency advertised to this. it is not a big deal to them. >> among the guy friends, your daughter is going to be known as having the hot mom. >> it doesn't seem all that interesting to them. kind of disappointing. i thought it would be shocking. it is sort of an everyday thing. >> what i'm hearing from you is that you think this is a smart move from playboy. it is about going after market share that right now they can't compete with and that it will work. >> it is about rebranding their very well-known logo so it could go mainstream. and attracting the younger, hip male that can read it anywhere, any time. being completely nonoffensive and very appealing to

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i always say you can col fee on twitter if you can spell smerconish. let's take a look at what has come in. from shock, laugh out loud, dennis hof, owner of the brothel tells smerconish, quote, the quirls watch your show every day. i don't know why that is so

amusing. among escorts 25-54, this is the number one saturday program in the nation. thank you, jay. scenes by jack says, thank you for calling out the pimp. what he did was a total invasion of privacy when he assumed lamar wasn't going to make it. >> a great observation and one i didn't make. all of those revelations about lamar odom were while he was still comotos and thank god he has taken a turn for the better. >> justin gar finkle, trump is a block of granite. he won't be taken down, you pathetic hater. where did you get your suit? the trump section at macy's. >> now, bravo to @smerconish. >> victoria is an attorney and a mom and a playboy funny.

making excellent points about how the move by playboy is to go after market share that right now is not available to them. keep the tweets coming @smerconish and i will see you next week. breaking overnight, growing tensions in the middle east. a rash of attacks and three more palestinians killed in jerusalem in the west bank city of hebron. >> do you think that 9/11 was president bush's fault? >> donald trump under fire walking away from questions about statements that he made about former president george w. bush shares the blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. he did finally respond. >> oh, my god, this car is going to hit