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NBA Star Lamar Odom in Critical Condition in Las Vegas Hospital; Love Ranch Employees Say Odom Took a Dozen Sexual Enhancement Supplements; Exclusive Interview with Ivanka Trump. Aired 2:30-3p ET

Aired October 15, 2015 - 14:30   ET

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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Top of the hour. You're watching CNN, I'm Brooke Baldwin.

Former NBA star Lamar Odom in -- critical condition inside a Las Vegas hospital right now. Doctors have not tell exactly what happened to him, but we are starting to get a clearer picture of the chaos and unfolded when two brothel workers found him unresponsive inside his room at Love Ranch. Authorities release these forensic calls to 911.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello, 911 what is your emergency?

I'm at the Love Ranch at (inaudible). I just called (inaudible) somebody out but I just wanted to let you know that they need to hurry because he's got -- blood coming out at his mouth, blood keep coming out of this mouth and trying to (inaudible) wake up. Seems like not -- almost not breathing.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, is he conscious?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is he conscious?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Now, they just this to it, they just told me that somebody just came out to me and told that he do have some cocaine on and that he finished on (inaudible) did it on Saturday. He's been (inaudible) as (inaudible) he dies. And he's been -- since that happen on Saturday, he just been awake and were conscious. Yeah, OK.

(END AUDIO CLIP) BALDWIN: The employees said Odom took nearly a dozen sexual enhancement supplements. The brothels owner talked with us here at CNN.

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DENNIS HOF, LOVE RANCH OWENER: The girl said that he had taken either 10 of them. I don't know whether that means in a short period of time or since Saturday when he got there, you know. One of the speculations is he had been doing coke before he got there. He knew he couldn't do it at my place. So he started taking these to give him the energy to carry on. It could be that he was just having a good time.

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BALDWIN: CNN has also learned that Odom has a estrange wife reality T.V. star Khloe Kardashian is making all the medical decisions. Their divorce has yet to be finalized.

CNN's Paul Callan is outside the sunrise hospital also with me I have Chris Witherspoon CNN analyst and entertainment editor for the Grio, and Darren Kavinoky, a Criminal Defense Attorney and Certified Intervention Professional.

So, gentlemen, thanks for being with me, and, Paul, first to you there, tell me who you seeing coming and going around that hospital and also what more you know, what happened?

PAUL CALLAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Brooke, here is what we know. Inside the room importantly, and this from Jesse Jackson among others, we did have a visit from Kobe Bryant earlier in the week, Khloe Kardashian apparently has been by Lamar Odom side. And the room was described as a private room that Lamar Odom is on life support that he is not talking.

Also, the Kardashian/Odom family had circled the wagons. They don't want to hold a lot of information coming out of the hospital of course, cooperating and Khloe Kardashian's representative just told CNN that Khloe feels that Dennis Hof, who is the brothel owner, should not be talking to the media and she suggested that seeking any form of publicity by talking to the media about this is sad.

So that's basically the picture on this as you've heard. The sheriff came out also and said, that they will look into whether or not Lamar Odom has been using cocaine, and as you described those sexual enhancement performance drugs. They have gone ahead to issue the search warrant for Lamar Odom's blood and the results of those tests should be out in a couple of week, Brooke.

BALDWIN: OK, Chris, let me just turn to you on play a clip from Sunday keeping about the Kardashian's his estrange wife Khloe Kardashian talking about Lamar Odom's mental state.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KHLOE KARDASHIAN, ESTRAGE WIFE OF LAMAR ODOM: Lamar has suffered so much lost in his life. I'm always going to be there for Lamar especially when something as tragic as this happens.

OK. Bye.

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One death after another, I can't handle it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is he OK?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He is just good as can be expected type of thing.

KARDASHIAN: I'm really on high alert for Lamar because I mean any saying I think will sat him to spiral and that kind of the last thing I want for him.

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BALDWIN: It's backed up, I mean, can you just explain people talked about how Lamar Odom has been really surrounded by death his whole life.

CHRIS WITHERSPOON, CNN ANALYST: Yes.

BALDWIN: Tell me how.

WITHERSPOON: This seems like tragedy really has spoke of Lamar, you can look at what Khloe was even saying is, this is most recent thing that happen. He'd lost his best friend Jaime, his childhood best friend from 12 years old. He lost him in June, that clip you saw was Lamar calling for you to tell him what happened. And so, he really has been through a lot and he lost his mother when he was 12 years old, his father was on heroine left the family. He lost his mother in 2003, lost a seven month year old -- or a seven-month-old child in 2006 who died at Sudden Infant Deaths Syndrome.

So he's been through more than most people at their 35 go through in one life time and Khloe Kardashian and the Kardashian's really were his source of kind of solace.

[14:35:00] And he talked about it in different interviews how they kind of -- always there to keep him grounded and bring that piece into his life and he didn't really have growing up.

BALDWIN: Darren, let me turn it to you. And I know, you know, someone who knows about addiction, knows, you know, has spoken, speaks, you know, incredibly about this. I do want to ask you about what your legal had on, the fact that this because they're divorce is not fully gone through from what -- been explain to me, just paper work judge hasn't signed off on it. Therefore she is, what, legally responsible as his (inaudible) for calling the shots?

DARREN KAVINOKY, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Right. And people need to pay attention to their legal documents that typically rise in this situations, who is empower to make health care decisions on their behalf, God forbid, things like this happen.

But, you know, but there's another interesting legal issue I think that are arises out of this, where now we're hearing about the search warrant that's been issued for Lamar Odom's blood, search warrants obviously suggest that law enforcement is interested in getting those results not related to any necessary medical treatment but regarding a possible prosecution.

And here there's a very important policy discussion to be had about Good Samaritan laws, about immunity from prosecution because you want to encourage people to call 911 on behave on others, when they're in the throes of an overdose.

There are people who are perhaps themselves in the throes of an overdose, they don't need to be discourage from seeking emergency health for fear prosecution, and I'm really troubled by that notion that there could be some lurking criminal aspect should Lamar Odom survive this ordeal.

BALDWIN: Chris, back to you.

WITHERSPOON: Yes.

BALDWIN: You talk about how really sort of death and tragedy has followed him, but also in terms of his own personal life, tell me more about his own addiction problems, what we know publically as far as drugs abuse in the past.

WITHERSPOON: Well, at one time, he's one of the highest, you know, high profile NBA athletes. Everyone was (inaudible) as watching. And he left the Dallas Mavericks in 2013, left for personal issues. And since then, the cameras have followed him. Paparazzi have followed him. There been several recorded paparazzi interaction that weren't good where he just kind of said, "Stay away from me, I want to keep life personal." That have been captured in from a lots of blogs and have gone viral if you will.

So he weren't that he was much of this life as he could to himself. And I think that drug is something that he was definitely struggling with. You don't have to be an expert to know that. There was numerous reports that have come out and speak a lot about him being involved with some drugs issues.

BALDWIN: Chris Witherspoon, thank you. Darren Kavinoky, thank you as well, on Lamar Odom in critical condition in this Las Vegas hospital.

Coming up next, Ivanka Trump weighting in on her own father, the Republican front runner Donald Trump, watch she says about his controversial remarks on women. Why she says her father would make a great president. Coming up.

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[14:40:00] BALDWIN: Let me turn now to an exclusive interview with one of Donald

Trumps most trusted advisors being his daughter, Ivanka Trump. In despite Donald Trumps controversial comments about women and recent months, she says working months could have no better man in their corner. Ivanka Trump sat down with Poppy Harlow with the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit.

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IVANKA TRUMP, DONALD TRUMP'S DAUGHTER: We are at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, and Michael Cohen from the Trump Organization said that the company employs 57 percent men and 43 percent women, but there are more female executives than male within the Trump Organization. How can we see that translate across corporate America so that more women are at the upper echelons?

Well, I think it's incredibly important. And I think companies who aren't prioritizing insuring that women are at all levels within the organization and that this proportion of -- men versus women and genre inequality, you know, anyone who is thinking in those terms and whose not being very proactive to ensure that there are companies being thoughtful about the gender makes as simply kind of fall behind.

So I think it will be a self-selecting thing. I think in 10 years from now, the 10 years from now the companies who haven't evolved will not be the companies that they are today. And, you know, I think my father recognized this a long time ago. I wouldn't be the person I am today. I wouldn't have the ambition, the drive, the passion, the commitment to what it is that I'm doing both for the Trump Organization and for my own brand if he hadn't encouraged me, emboldened me, given me the confidence that I could do whatever it is that I set my mind to accomplish if I had the vision, the energy, the passion and work ethic to match.

POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENET: You started Women Who Work. It's an initiative you pushed to empower women at all levels to work and to follow their dreams. But you found that an increasing amount of American women are staying home. From 23 percent in 1999 to 29 percent in 2000, and some of that is in part due to rising child care costs.

TRUMP: Yes.

HARLOW: What's your message in this campaign to those women?

TRUMP: Well, so my campaign is about the fact that women are working at all aspects of their life. So I really wanted to create a brand that was celebrating the fact that women are multidimensional, that we're all working really hard at architecting the lives that we want to live, and lives that are consistent with our personal priorities. And I do think there's this unfortunate and prevailing depiction of the working woman as, you know, wearing a black pantsuit and being solely focused on her professional role. And that is just not true. And hopefully I can be a small part of changing the narrative around what it looks like to be a woman who works today.

[14:45:00] And that is the purpose of the campaign. It's not to tell people they should work or they shouldn't work.

HARLOW: Your father points to you telling him that he has been on the campaign trail "really misunderstood" on his views about women. He has said some things about women that have shocked many people. About Carly Fiorina, he said, "Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that?" About Megyn Kelly's questioning him in the first Fox debate he said, "There was blood coming out of her wherever." Ivanka, what was your reaction to that?

TRUMP: Well, I think a lot of the sensationalism around this was orchestrated largely by the media. But my father is very blunt. He is very direct. He's not gender specific in his criticism of people, and people that he doesn't particularly like or people that he does like but things that are wrong on a particular issue.

So, you know, I don't think that he's gender-targeted at all. Like I said, I wouldn't be the person I am today. I wouldn't be a high-level executive within his organization if he felt that way. So he's always supported and encouraged women. And truthfully, he's proven that over decades through his employment practices, through his hiring practices.

HARLOW: What would a President Trump do for women in this country?

TRUMP: He'd be amazing for women in this country. He would be incredible for women in this country. And he's starting to articulate his positions. It's not my place to articulate those for him. I'm not part of the campaign. I'm very busy and he's kept me very busy working alongside my brothers and running the organization now that he's taking this up, and in terms of his efforts to try and make this country great again, as he says.

So, you know, I'll leave policy to him. But I can speak from my vantage point as a child and also from my vantage point as a colleague and somebody who works for him. He's been an amazing parent. He's given me every opportunity to succeed. He's been loving and supportive. He's pushed me. He's corrected me. He's disciplined me. And I think as a parent now myself, I appreciate how hard that is more than ever before.

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BALDWIN: All right. Let's bring our back in CNN Political Commentator and Serious Executive Host, Margaret Hoover. In just interesting listening to Ivanka Trump about, you know, being at the Reagan Library Republican Debate. She was their, second row, you know, hugging her dad every other commercial break but as far as, you know, family member surrogates from any of this and Democrats or Republican who ought to be really seen.

MARGARET HOOVER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND SERIOUS EXECUTIVE HOST: Well, you started to see the Columba Bush, Jeb Bush's wife get on the campaign trails especially in some Hispanic events, we're getting fund raising e-mails from our list if you're Republican, you are.

I'm also getting fund raising e-mails from Bill Clinton because I subscribed to all of them and my role as...

BALDWIN: It will be millions today, wow, wow.

HOOVER: Wow, wow. And so, Columba Bush I think, you know, Bernie Sander's wife were starting to see. We will see more of the Republican candidates as the field winnows.

BALDWIN: OK.

HOOVER: But, look, kids of candidates also having unique role to play. I mean Ivanka can certainly help soften Donald Trumps harshness towards women. She's a very good spoke person in that but we've seen Abby Huntsman, helping her sisters, help with -- her dad's campaign, Meghan McCain was very involved in her family's campaign.

So family has a role to play to help shape the character narrative all of these candidates.

BALDWIN: We'll be seeing more of them simultaneous on? Margaret Hoover, thank you so much.

Coming up next here on CNN is President Obama announce just this morning nearly 10 troupes were remain in Afghanistan. What is that mean for the future of the fight there? Let's explore that, back in a minute.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Sixteen-year-old James Langevin was volunteering in a local police station when an officer's gun accidentally discharged.

JAMES LANGEVIN (D), RHODE ISLAND: The bullet ricocheted off a locker, is what I'm told and the bullet went through my neck and severed my spinal cord.

GUPTA: Langevin was paralyzed from the waist down and has limited mobility in his arms.

LANGEVIN: The question I had right from the get-go, how am I going to live any kind of a meaningful life going forward?

GUPTA: But Langevin did just that. He attended college. Went on to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and was elected a Democratic Congressman for the state of Rhode Island. Motivated, he says, by his own desire to prove the naysayers wrong.

LANGEVIN: I would hear the, well, you are a nice guy, but this is a rough business and you're better off doing something else. You know, it's always when you tell me I can't do something that, you know, I'll find a way.

GUPTA: He did find a way. On the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Langevin made history.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For first time in our country's history, a gentleman with the challenges that Mr. Langevin faces is presiding as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

LANGEVIN: I hope that the people can look at me and say, you know, here is a guy with tremendous challenge and difficulties, but somehow he's made it.

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BALDWIN: Coming our next, much on President Obama's big announcement this morning from White House nearly 10,000 troops will remind in Afghanistan. We speak with the veteran who serve in that county. Do not go away.

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