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larry: 10:00 eastern 7:00 p.m. with wolf blitzer tonight. see you then, wolf. karl penhaul is in port-au-prince, haiti, so is george willi, for s.o.s. children s villages. the 33 children caught up in what haitian authorities allege was a trafficking scheme. now, karl, the latest on the ten citizens being detained in haiti that took a bus load of undocumented haitian children out of haiti. what s the latest on those ten, karl? reporter: well, they re still sitting in jail cells near the airport in port-au-prince. when i talked to them twice over the weekend they said the conditions were spartan but they were treated well by they jail alrea lors they did have too much to eat and too much water but trying to keep spirits high by reading passages from the bible. they were to come before a judge today. that didn t happen we understand. they may come before a judge tomorrow. there s a possibility the haitian prime minister has left ....
Would have a swimming pool and would be able to two to church services as well, larry. larry: karl, these are not like classic traffickers, right? reporter: it s difficult to see that they are that they would fit the profile of classic traffickers. that, of course, though is something the authorities are working on because it would suggest no trafficker really fits the profile that we might have in our imaginations. overall all the haitian authorities and the ngos say the danger here is that you can t let these kids go out of the country without passports, without permission to leave because then they re out there. they could be cash for adoption scandals. but even worse child pornography, child abuse scandals. they can t run that risk. larry: thanks karl penhaul and george willeit. prince and paris jackson stole the show at the grammys last night. that s next. ....
Taken away from the parents with the hope of going to a boarding school or summer camp in the dominican republic. larry: were you surprised that those people took them, george? were you surprised? i do not know anything about the attention of these people, of these ten americans. what i do know, i do know about, we are working all over the world, 60 years and do know about the needs of children and do know what are the best interest of the child. the best interest of the child is to stay with his parents and not be separated from them. this was a clear separation, at least of some of the kids from their existing parents and from their homes. larry: karl, is it the belief that they acted in haste here? reporter: well, i think there are a number of elements we have to look at here. yes, from what they described to me their mission was a very poorly planned mission. they quite clearly had no ....