Geraldo: Now everybody hopes that it is not true but realistically, what are the chances that little Caylee Anthony, the Orlando, FL 3 year old, now three year old that has been missing for more than two months is still alive? Before we explore the possiblity and get some surprising reaction from the cops, and I think surprising to Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez. I want to begin asking that question of JB, he's the mother's attorney. He joins me from outside his client's home. Good to see you. Do you believe, Caylee Anthony, this child is alive and if you do, do you believe as apparently the grandma does, Cindy Anthony Does, that the child has been in some way, kidnapped?
JB: The answer to your first question is absolutely. We do believe she's alive. And we most importantly believe that the police should be out there looking for her and until they find her or give us proof otherwise, we're going to err on the side that she's alive and we really do believe she's alive.
Ger: But would you, Jose, and you know I respect you as an attorney, would you allow your client tonight talk to the authorities and tell the authorities really what went down to help them in their quest that we all want to be successfully concluded?
JB: Everything that - first of all, the police if they want to come and have access to my client, I have already given them an open invitation and this has been a long standing and I have willing to allow open communication between police and my client so long as it's in the search for Caylee. But the problem is here is that we don't feel that there is a sincere effort that actually searching for Caylee. All they are doing seems to be is prosecuting Casey and that is not the way a missing child case should be laid out. Ok, yes, I can understand the suspicion, however, they still have a missing child and there is no suspicion, they still have a missing child and this sets a bad precedent for the missing children to okay once you focus in on what you call a person of interest, even though you don't have any evidence, so lets just call off the search and let's see what can turn up at that point. That's not the way that things should be done.
GR: Now, Casey is obviously in the building, in the parents' home behind you. You spent 7 hours together on Friday. How are things going? Are you gleening any information out of her that could be helpful or are you, as some contend, concentrating on her defense charges?
JB: No, everything we're doing is towards the search for Caylee. What we are focusing in on is trying to backtrack that might assist us in finding her or finding those responsible of having her and passing that on to law enforcement.
GR: I want you to stand by because I have law enforcement coming up on the other side of the commercial break. I think you'll be surprised with some of what the captain of the police department has to say and maybe it's all rhetoric, maybe from both sides; I don't know; but there are....... Can we run the investigation?
More coming........................
