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david axelrod knows and he doesn't paint a pretty picture. speaking of pictures what happen one former center field thinks about the magazine deciding to give up on nudity. first the latest on the condition of lamar odom. he was in a coma for several days. odom 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, in crystal, nevada, 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. >> whoa! i worry about mr. odom's right to privacy some i've invited brothel owner on this show. joining me now is dennis hof. you've been all over the news this week. >> boy, it's not the way i'd like. i'd rather be promoting my book. "the art of the pimp" 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. we don't talk about any of them. but when the ambulance pulls out and five minutes later tmz calls me, you have to deal with it. >> why not tell tmz to pound sand? i thought the escort/client relationship was like a penitent/preacher relationship, absolutely 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 confirm if i'd owned the establishment if he had ever been there. >> 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 property. he was told when he came out there, you can't bring drugs, lamar, 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 coma for a couple of days, thank god now 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 understand that every hospital, all the paramedics, everybody has harvey levin's

phone number on speed dial. they get information so fast it's unbelievable. i've got a long-term relationship with them. 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 at dennis hof's place, he's going to spill the beans about what i was doing there. 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 now because of the notoriety that has been put on it because of this. >> i know that he married into the kardashians. he participatesed in reality television. fair to say he never signed up, he never volunteered for the kind of disclosures that have been made about him in the last couple of days >> and the disclosures are coming from everybody, ul kinds of people, unnamed sources. 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 hof 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 khloe kardashian was very vindictive and he was happy when he got there. he picked a couple of girls and had the time of life. everybody knows it. >> dennis, you said he picked a couple of girls and had the time of his life. >> everybody knows that. >> no, they know it because you said. the guy's in the hospital. i'm sure he's horrified or will be to find out that you've 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's had in a long time. my point is when you're sleeping properly and eating lots of food, i don't think you're doing drugs. i don't think lamar was doing drugs at my place. i'm going to support him until i know different. >> and it sounds like you violated the hooker code. for the last couple of days. >> well, you know 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 about the client. >> in the criminal world, they go away. you're dealing with criminals. you're dealing in a legal facility that has a right on protect its reputation. that's been around 60 years. we've never seen anything like this happen. and we're not going to 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 odom had with your establishment, confidentiality was an important part and that's been violated. >> okay. >> do you want to respond? >> well, we agree to disagree. i'm going to protect my business and not let the world say he was

doing a lot of drugs at my place, because it makes him look bad. and 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 job to protect my 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 hof, thank you, sir. >> thank you. do you agree with me that

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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 are acceptable to evangelical christians. >> right. you know, it's a problem, but it's a good problem to have. i mean, it's the kind of problem that most constituencies would love to have where you have in this feel -- and i hesitate to start naming names because i'm going to leave somebody out -- but at the beginning, of course walker has gotten out. you had scott walk, son of an evangelical preacher. you have ted cruz, son of an evangelical preacher. 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 catholic in this race, 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 grassroots networks and energizing people is now bearing fruit and we'll have to let the dust settle. we don't know 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 anoint presidents by any particular issue coalition. and i don't want to particular ise it 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's the sanctity of life, sacrament of marriage, the central importance to culture and economy of the family and the need to relimit government to it's confined to specific enumerated purposes. that's what we're interested. that's what we asked candidates to spoke to. my argument would be, rather than make it about the person, make it about the platform 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 some evangelical leaders. . what's the extent, if any, of the skepticism in the evangelical community about donald trump. he's followed by saying his favorite book is the bible. followed by "art of the deal." 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, and donald trump is an oversized personality, but for these voters it's 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 at 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 in primaries is going to be a self-identified evangelical christian. so you cannot ignore this constituency, and he says, i'm for traditional marriage, i'm pro-life, i support israel and i'm for religious 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 -- 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

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donald trump again under fire for something that he said this time about president george w. bush and 9/11. something really unusual, on the campaign flail massachusetts 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 bush and the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 americans. >> i think i have a bigger heart than all of them. i think i'm much more confident then all of them. when you talk about george bush, 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 reign. >> 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 henican. ellis, so often i've been wrong about the donald, 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 thought this is the death knell within the hard core of the gop and yet it wasn't. does this finally harm him or not? >> no. >> why not? >> listen, if he can 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.

yet still his numbers remain constant. 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 in donald trump right now. >> is this fair game? this sent me scurrying to my 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 in the first box debate and said my brother kept america safe. he got a huge ovation from the crowd. >> i want to show that. 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 sent 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 acceded to his demands, waving the flag that cnbc called mercy. but now he's stepping on his own message and it's all about

attacking jeb bush over george bush through 9/11 something gop voters have no interest in relitigating. >> let's go to your side of the aisle. big debate last tuesday. cnn debate in las vegas. 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. >> it wasn't she was so brilliant. but think about two or three months that came before that, where dems were saying is she woman wouldn'ted? can she ultimately succeed? there an opening for joe biden here? all of that has been damped down. along with implosion of the benghazi committee. 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 numbers, 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 webs wednesday -- he's already shaking his head -- the media loves the revival narrative. 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 grassroots 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, dan pfeiffer and david axelrod, they 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. >> what we do is 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. here's the lead --

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vice president biden, perhaps getting into the race for the presidency. here what happens i noticed. there's a tendency of people to talk about the likelihood of him getting in, and 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 hispanics. >> 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, as you remember, he got dragged into some debates that were harmful to his candidacy in the general election, the talk of 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 not a lot like her dad. she's very thoughtful. 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" playmate and penthouse pet of the year. now she's a lawyer, ph.d. and mother of three. bill's got a very tough 13lie here...... looks like we have some sort of sea monster in the water hazard here. i believe that's a "kraken", bruce. it looks like he's going to go

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guys, you remember when we used to say we only bought "playboy" magazine for the articles? well, the 62-year-old publication is about to put us to the test.

hugh heffner, # 9 years old, announced he will stop producing nude pictures. why are they doing this? will the radical move succeed? joining me now is somebody who knows something about this, a former centerfold. play mate october 1994 and penthouse pet of the year in 2004. one of only two women to be thus featured in those competing publications. she is now married with three kids. she is quite accomplished. has a law degree and ph.d. in clinical psychology. why are they doing this? >> i think it's a wise rebranding move. they are trying to appeal to the younger male who no longer wants to hide "playboy" under the bed. they want to read it on their morning commute. this way they can get advertising, they can get celebrities to pose in provocative photos. and they don't have to pay as

much to pose in lingerie as opposed to nude. they are doing market segmentation. the paper format will be nonnude but the "playboy" channel is. >> if you want porn, the sper net has made it so plentiful. and play can't compete. >> i think men became desensitized. it is not shocking anymore. research shows about 30% of high school students take nude photos now. and i think the cosmo survey said 9 out 10 women has sexed a nude photo. so why bother with paying for a nude magazine when you can get your girlfriend to simply pose. >> you think they are going after the maxxum segment?

scantily clad. >> something you can read on the train without offending anybody. >> it really is about the articles now. >> i think the articles will show the female. i think it will feature hot new celebrities. and i can see how it will be exciting but it won't appeal for the erotic orientation. it will be really more for the morning commute. >> here is some of your clothed work for "playboy", okay. you are a mom. you are an attorney. you possess a ph.d.. any regrets? >> i have no regrets. this is the only way i was able to afford all that expensive education. and i had a very nice run as a glamour pin-up model. i made a lot of money. and i also made great friendships, lasting friendships with the women. and i think there's a lot of misconception of centerfolds as being dumb. there are a lot of women i have posed with who went on to have great careers and accomplish great things. >> how old are your kids?

>> they are 13, 9, 2. >> have you brooched the subject with them? i guess with the 13-year-old you have to? hey, mom has been a pin-up model? >> the thing is i was free to see their reaction. one day my 13-year-old said, oh, yeah, somebody pulled out naked pictures of you. it was a nonevent. and then she was discussing something else. the current generation is desensitized. >> what about her friends? maybe among the guy friends your daughter is going to be none as having the hot mom? >> it doesn't seem to be all that interesting to them. it is kind of disappointing to me. i thought it would be shocking. kind of amazing. >> what i am hearing from victoria, you think this is a smart move from "playboy". it is about going after market share. right now they can't compete with. and that it will work. >> it is about rebranding their

very well known logo so it can go mainstream. again, attracting the younger hip male that can read it anywhere, any time. and being completely nonoffensive, appealing to celebrities. and in the same token, maintaining their "playboy" channel, which is plexus it. >> i get it. thank you, victoria zdrok. thank you for being here. up next, the best and the worst tweets are coming up. ♪ the way i see it, you have two choices; the easy way or the hard way. you could choose a card that limits where you earn bonus cash back.

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laugh out loud. the girls watch your show every day. i don't know why that is so amusing. among escorts 25 to 54, this is the number one saturday program in the nation. that you know, jay. number two, scenes by jax. thank you for calling out the pump. what he did was a total invasion of privacy when he assumed lamar wasn't going to make it. a great observation and one that i didn't make. all those revelations about lamoure odom is while he was still comatose. thank god the man appears to have taken a turn for the better. number three, where are we. justin garfinkle. trump is a block of granite. he won't be taken down. where did you get your suit? trump section at macy? 's no, paul macy.

thank you very much. finally figuring out a legit reason to have a "playboy" bunny on the show. she is a ph.d. attorney, and a mom, and a "playboy" bunny. how the move by "playboy" is going after market share that is right now not available to them. keep the tweets coming. i will see you next week. hoppy harlow in new york. thank you for joining this this saturday evening. you are hearing from the owner of that nevada brothel where lamar odom collapsed and fell into a coma that he only came out of yesterday. they want him to stop talking about odom's days there. he is defending his decision to speak out. yo