looked through these records, a little late in the game. somebody did an internet search and found out this guy was connected to this number. unfortunately, they haven t figured out yet that not for a year after the important timeframe. i m betting they are going to drop this as quickly as they ve picked it up. ted, i think you mentioned in the earlier notes that basically, they put everybody on the list that they might potentially want and maybe they hadn t dug that deep into this man s story. if they hadn t put him on the list they wouldn t that could have been a possibility. what normally happens is you have defense investigators who will go out and conduct an investigation. they will come up with names that may very well be associated with the anthony case. there will come a time that the court requires a list of who is going to be called. in this case, this guy was put on the list.
i think it honestly was they looked through these records, a little late in the game. somebody did an internet search and found out this guy was connected to this number. unfortunately, they haven t figured out yet that not for a year after the important timeframe. i m betting they are going to drop this as quickly as they ve picked it up. ted, i think you mentioned in the earlier notes that basically, they put everybody on the list that they might potentially want and maybe they hadn t dug that deep into this man s story. if they hadn t put him on the list they wouldn t that could have been a possibility. what normally happens is you have defense investigators who will go out and conduct an investigation. they will come up with names that may very well be associated with the anthony case. there will come a time that the court requires a list of who is going to be called. in this case, this guy was put on the list.
if i m the prosecutor i want to take care of my victim, make sure no defense investigators are getting to her. i want to make sure she s not being bribed or trying to be convinced out of testifying. i want to make sure my victim is okay. i want her counselors. psychologists, protect her. certainly she s going to obviously headline any case they have. it s not a case without her. the other question is what about the potential for blood evidence and for other bodily fluid evidence and how that would shape the argument on either side. certainly it helps, right. especially if it corroborates any part of her story. she said this was a violent attack. if there are pictures of scratches on her body, if there s any evidence of forced sexual contact, that is going to be important. but again, it s really her story versus his story. i will say i don t think the prosecution and the new york police department would have yanked someone of his stature off of a plane going to france
thanks so much for being with us on this wednesday. good to see everybody this morning. you know the pictures are coming in, new pictures, and the devastation, continues for the midwest. that s right. ali velshi in joplin, missouri, where they had a harrowing night. hi, ali. good morning, christine, kiran, it is a better morning here. people counting their blessings. a near miss last night in joplin, missouri. everyone taking shelter and bracing for another twister that thanchgfully never came. this city, as you know, is reeling. 48 hours after the deadliest tornado in recorded u.s. history the death toll stands at 124 people killed. the national weather service upgraded sunday s tornado to an ef-5, the highest possible rating with winds above 200 miles an hour. now in oklahoma, devastating storms carved up canadian county, which is west of oklahoma city. five separate tornadoes touched down and five people are dead. dozens more are hurt. the dallas area got pounded too.
witness, thompson, our viewers may remember him. fill us in. phil: i met with him for a couple of hours, he and his attorney, and right new, in the last hour, they have been deposed with the defense team a couple of days ago, the attorney tried to get thompson subpoenaed to testify and be deposed because he said he never met george anthony, only knows of him from tv and news and did not talk to him on the cell phone on the day before caylee was report the missing as the defense investigators are alleging saying they have four confirmed telephone record contacts from george anthony s phone to this convicted kidnapper and they say, look, we have nothing connected with this, they are trying to distract everyone but the defense team going ahead with the deposition and we will see if he takes the stand. shepard: back to phil as news warrants. and we have arthur aidala and