help the people, so, with one or two days' notice i was in miami and on my way. so -- >> so what was your understanding of what the mission was going to be that laura silsby had put together? >> in the very beginning the only thing i knew is that we were going to go over there and that she had an orphanage and that we were going to work on that and prepare that for children to be able to live there. >> at this point when you first went, did you think that -- were you under the impression that laura had all the permissions she needed to take kids from haiti into the dominican republic? >> yes. we were told that all the documents required to get kids into the dominican republic she had, and on the haitian side, that there were some documents that we needed to acquire and that that was part of our goal also. >> did you ever see the documents that laura said she had that she was going to show authorities?