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Israeli Government Encouraging its Citizens to Carry Guns; Jeb Bush Raised $13.38 Million in the Third Quarter; Lamar Odom Found Unconscious in a Brothel; Video of an Apparent Gang Rape of a 16-year- old Girl Found. Aired 3:30-4p ET

Aired October 15, 2015 - 15:30   ET

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[15:30:00] JOSH ROGIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The government, U.S. government and the Obama administration hasn't figured out exactly what that is.

BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST: Josh Rogin, thank you.

ROGIN: Thank you, Brooke.

BALDWIN: The Israeli government is encouraging its citizens who is are legally allowed to have guns to carry them. Why? This is in response to the random night attacks. Official say they have been carried out mainly by young Palestinians, often times acting alone. In response, police are now cutting off access to some Palestinian neighborhoods by setting up check point, stepping up patrol. In just the last two weeks the spike in violence is blamed for seven Israeli and 34 Palestinian deaths. Leaders on both sides accused the other of not doing enough.

Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would be open to a diplomatic intervention.

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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: I have been talking to John Kerry and other leaders about such a meeting. I think it's potentially useful because it might stop the wave of incitement and false allegations against Israel. So I would be open to meetings with Arab leaders in order to stop this incitement and set the record straight.

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BALDWIN: CNN international correspondent Phil Black is in Jerusalem with more - Phil.

PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Brooke, no new significant examples of violence in Jerusalem today. But everywhere you look, you see evidence of the tension, anxiety and fear on the streets of the city.

Whole communities of Palestinians in east Jerusalem have been effectively locked down by Israeli security forces. That security presence has really everywhere. It's highly visible. And Israelis who legally own guns have been encouraged to carry them on the streets. It is all evidence of just how difficult it is to police against this latest security threat.

This latest wave of attacks where we have seen young men, even teenagers, suddenly without warning attacking innocent people with knives. Meat cleavers and the result has been numerous dead people, both Palestinians and Israelis as well. And evidence of just how high the tension here is at the moment. A number of incidents involving the Israeli security forces a suspicious vehicle that was traced around Tel Aviv cornered by road blocks and a helicopter because of two men who considered suspicious within it. They were eventually freed on a train to the northern city of (INAUDIBLE).

A woman thought she saw a terrorist. A police officer fired his weapon. The emergency brake was applied, but the all clear was given there as well.

So things very tense. The Israeli government blames this latest wave of violence on what has been incitement from the Palestinian leadership. Palestinians, well, they believe that it is the Israeli what they say occupation and oppression that has led and is the course of continued instability and insecurity across Israel and the Palestinian territories as well, Brooke.

BALDWIN: Phil Black, thank you so much.

Just in to CNN, we just gotten new numbers on Jeb Bush's third quarter fundraising effort. This is -- he continues to struggle in the polls. Those numbers, when we come back.

Also ahead, Lamar Odom, his life dramatic on and off the basketball court. What he told our sports anchor Rachel Nichols about the tragedies in his life that seemed to follow him wherever he goes.

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[15:37:51] BALDWIN: Just into us here, we are getting some new information in about republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush and the money he has raised here. Let's go straight to our politics reporter Maeve Reston who has now the official dollar figure here for this third quarter. What has the Bush campaign raised?

MAEVE RESTON, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER: So we know first on CNN that the Jeb Bush has raised $13.38 million in the third quarter. He's got more than $10 million in cash on hand. What's really significant about this number is what it means is that a lot of donors are still sticking with Bush even as Trump has beat him in the poll. He's in a middling position in the polls, but he's built this campaign for the long haul. We know he has a huge footprint in the states around the country. He is going to have to sustain that.

What will be more telling is, we know, he has more than $10 million in cash on hand but it would be more telling is firm (ph) rate and whether he can sustain that over time. Obviously, we already know some of the fundraising numbers for some of the other Republican candidates in this race. Ted Cruz raised $12 million through a really strong direct mail

program. So he is a real contender out there in the other lane of this race among real conservative voters.

Marco Rubio raised more than $6 million during the third quarter. But he has had a lighter footprint than Jeb Bush.

So we are just going to have to see how this all rolls out. Right now, the question is whether or not Jeb Bush can get enough momentum to keep those fundraising donations coming in to keep the campaign going for the long haul, even as Donald Trump takes up all the attention.

BALDWIN: Maeve Reston, thank you so much.

Let's move on to the story so many people I know are talking about today. Two-time NBA champion and former L.A. Laker Lamar Odom has led a dramatic life on and off the basketball court. Because now, we are all waiting for word on his fate inside this Las Vegas hospital after he was found unconscious Tuesday at a legal Brothel in Nevada. We do know that a tremendous loss and pain have dogged this former player. Back in 2011, Lamar Odom told the "L.A. Times" that quote "death always seems to be around me. I have been burying people for a long time."

So let me bring in CNN sports anchor Rachel Nichols and also here HLN contributor in Swagger.nyc founder Sian-Pierre Regis.

So great to have you on.

And Rachel, to you first because I know you have interviewed Lamar Odom many times in the last decade. What has he shared with you on a personal level about so much really death through his lifetime?

[15:40:20] RACHEL NICHOLS, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Yes. I mean, that was so remarkable. You're talking about a guy who is known as one of the heart and soul leaders among NBA players. Known for his warmth, Brooke, his quick smile and just how much fun he was. And it's amazing how much tragedy he's been through in his life. He was always known as being so sensitive to his teammates. And maybe that's why.

He was born in a really rough part of New York. Lots of bullets flying while he was growing up. His dad was a heroin user who was in and out of his life. His mom, who he was close to, he was at her bedside when she died of cancer when he was 12 years old. His grandmother then took him in and then later on she died of cancer. He had a 6-month-old son who died of sudden infant death syndrome. And recently he had two very close friends who died from drug-related causes.

So a lot of tough stuff going on. He absorbed all of that. You could feel that. It made him a more empathetic person, but it is tough road. And he had struggled with drugs and alcohol at different points in his life. He was even suspended by the NBA at one point for that.

So this is a moment that a lot of Lamar's friends around the NBA and he has so many friends around the NBA. Unfortunately, they were just this is the call they were hoping wouldn't come but worried were going to come especially as they saw him slip further and further this past year or so.

BALDWIN: Kobe Bryant raced to his side at the hospital this week. Also his estranged wife Khloe Kardashian as well. So on that, let me just turn to you Sian-Pierre, because you have interviewed Khloe Kardashian a number of times. I think what people may not realize is even though she filed for divorce, because of a lot of, you know, legal paperwork it actually hasn't gone through by the judge. So she, what, is basically the next of kin. She's calling the shots.

SIAN-PIERRE REGIS, HLN CONTRIBUTOR: Yes. She's calling the shots at his bedside. She flew immediately once she heard along with Kris Jenner. Through the interviews that I had with Khloe over the years, the one thing she wants to talk about is Lamar Odom. You know, she knew that he had so much death that surrounded hum. She knew his circumstances. The Kardashian family really became Lamar Odom's family. And they took him in. She liked to be maternal. She liked to cook chicken for him, she told me one morning.

BALDWIN: So what happened?

REGIS: You know, I mean, tragedy followed him. And you know, he didn't like the spotlight either. And he said that just two months ago. He is tired of being followed around. And, you know, I think over time being out of the NBA now, not -- no longer being on the spotlight, no longer having his wife by his side, something has unraveled. And he was always been fighting with crack cocaine and abuse of drugs, so.

BALDWIN: With your sports connections, Rachel, I'm just curios, what kind of information do you have? We know he has been in critical condition in this hospital. You know, mixed reports, but I don't want to go there, as far as what was found in his system and what wasn't and a lot of speculation. What can you share?

NICHOLS: Yes. I mean, also mixed reports on how he's doing right now. We have had the Reverend Jesse Jackson who visited with him very briefly just for a few minutes on our air on CNN earlier today talking about what he saw. But then other reports from other sources talking about his condition sort of being the opposite.

So look, we know in situations like this in general there's a lot of touch and go. And we have heard that things are going to be critical over these next 24 to 48 hours. There are so many people rooting for him and sort of hoping they can will him to get a second chance here.

I think the prevailing thought among NBA people is have you heard anything? I think he's going to be OK. Maybe he could be OK. There's a lot of hope right now. Not a lot of hard information. And that might just because it's not there yet. We know in these cases you have to wait and see how the person progresses.

BALDWIN: Rachel Nichols, stay on it for us. And Sian-Pierre Regis, thank you so much. Thanks to both of you. Coming up, police discover what looks to be an absolutely horrendous

crime. This is caught on a go-pro camera, but the apparent victim never came forward. The question we are asking legally speaking, can the case even be prosecuted without her? We'll be right back.

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[15:48:47] BALDWIN: Police on the hunt for graffiti offender sign something much, much worse with video of an apparent gang rape of a 16-year-old girl. The recording was found in May, but investigators in Australia just announced the arrest of four men in their 20s and a teenage boy.

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DET. CHIEF INSPECTOR PETER YEOMAN, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA POLICE: The investigation is undertaken by the child abuse squad. It's terrible what happened to this young girl. I had a number of investigators looking at this. (INAUDIBLE). There will be ongoing counseling for that young child for a lengthy period of time. And that she's not in a good way at this stage.

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BALDWIN: I have CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson with me.

And this whole thing, I mean, caught on a go-pro camera, it's disgusting. Initially, the police had opened the case without the victim coming forward. They have since found her. They have found her counseling. I don't know if she will testify, but in the case where you don't have a victim, can you still go ahead and prosecute?

JOEY JACKSON, HLN LEGAL ANALYST: You know, you could. It gets increasingly more difficult, Brooke, because an element of rape, right, is consent. And so, you really want to get the victim on the stand to say that I was not good with this happening to me, because it's such a strong element in the case to prove. But there are a number of other things that prosecutors are doing to be creative. And there are a number of reasons why victims don't report, you know. And there are experts who will testify as to, you know, women feeling, you know, dehumanized, blaming it upon themselves psychologically going through a lot of trauma.

But there's something called recent outcry. And oftentimes what will happen to a rape victim is they may confide in a friend or say something I can't believe what happened and they may, you know, cite chapter and verse what did happen. Now normally that would be hearsay, right, because the person's speaking about what happened to them should be in that courtroom.

[15:50:31] BALDWIN: Right.

JACKSON: And should be subjected to cross-examination. But what our system does is it allows that to be an exception. So it allows other people who have heard the recent outcry to come in and give compelling testimony. And then there's also experts who could speak to the issue of why things are not reported, et cetera. Very challenging to put forward a case without a victim, but certainly it's probable and can be done.

BALDWIN: Five people were arrested. But apparently there were as many as eight in the room when she was assaulted. Could those three others be implicated as well?

JACKSON: It always depends upon the nature of the conduct. Now, what happens in Australia and we have a federal statute like this, but in the event that you have knowledge of a crime and you don't report that crime and it happens to be a felony, that actually is a crime within itself. And so, to the extent that you have knowledge of a serious crime and you don't go to the authorities in a timely way, I mean, you can get two years for that. So if those people were there and they were witnessing it, then that's an issue for them.

In terms of them being prosecuted for the actual rape it depends upon their conduct. Now, you know, in order to be held accountable you have to aid, you have to importune, you have to conspire but certainly could be held accountable in other ways if you're there and do nothing.

BALDWIN: OK. Joey Jackson, thank you so much. Gang rape on Go-pro. It's disgusting.

The images, they are frightening. A huge cache of missiles underground sitting ready for launch. We will explain what this is coming up.

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[15:51:18] BALDWIN: All right. All you fantasy sports fans. This is potentially huge. The department of justice, the FBI are now investigating daily fantasy sports sites. "The Wall Street Journal" is reporting agents have been contacting draft kings customers. The increased scrutiny ignited after the discovery a Draft Kings employee had access to inside information. He ended up winning $350,000 in a contest with fan duel.

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BALDWIN: At least 12 people in Baltimore are in jail today after protesting a city hall meeting that made the interim police chief permanent. Police charged the group with trespassing after they say they ignored orders to leave. The group of mostly student activists say they were not given a chance to voice their opinions during the meeting.

And in Iran here were some alarming unprecedented images of this underground missile facility being broadcast on state media. Even more alarming perhaps the White House says this appears to violate a U.N. Security Council resolution. So why, why would Iranians act so brashly at the same time the world is weighing a nuclear deal that could revive their economy?

Here is CNN's senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

FRED PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It looks almost like a scene from an action movie. Dozens of ballistic missile launching systems inside a gigantic cave. But the video shows Iran's missile program is very real and very big as the head of the elite revolutionary guard's aerospace division says.

The missiles in various ranges are mounted on launchers in all bases and are ready to be launched, he told an Iranian state TV reporter. And added, that is if enemies make a mistake. The video was published only days after Iran test fired a new generation of ballistic missiles Tehran says are capable of reaching targets in Israel possibly breaching U.N. resolutions the U.S. believes.

JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: We've got strong indications that those missile tests did violate a U.N. Security Council resolutions that pertain to Iran's ballistic missile activities.

PLEITGEN: But why the saber rattling so shortly after the nuclear agreement that many believe will help improve relations between the Iran and west. Iranian hard liners and the powerful conservative clergy in the military say they fear American influence on the country could expand and warned their followers at recent Friday prayers.

We will never allow America to enter into our culture, into our economy or for the great Satan to influence our policy. The supreme leader's military adviser said.

Anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric have increased with Iran's supreme leader even saying that Israel will not exist in 25 years. The quote now on posters around the capital.

But recent polls show a majority of Iranians want better relations with western countries. Business leaders in Tehran hoping international investment will increase thanks so to sanctions relief as a result of a nuclear agreement which was ratified by Iran's parliament Tuesday by a large majority.

Despite strong messages sent by Iran's armed forces so far the momentum brought on by the nuclear agreement doesn't seem to be fading.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, London.

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BALDWIN: Fred Pleitgen, thank you so much.

Let's show you the big board here. We are 20 seconds away from the end of this closing day. A lot of green on the screen as the week is just about wrapping up on this Thursday. The Dow up 215 points. You can always go to CNNmoney.com to check the latest numbers.

Thank you so much for being with me here. I'm Brooke Baldwin. That does it for me here in New York.

Let's send it to Washington, my colleague Jake Tapper. "The LEAD" starts now.