he apparently told the new york times earlier this week he had no passport and had never been to el salvador. did he know any of the american missionaries before he started representing them? we don t know that from here in haiti. i suspect at least part of the answer may be there in idaho. dan ayman i think is standing by in idaho. you re in boise. you ve been talking to family members of detained americans and church members of puello. how did this guy get hired? how concerned are the families? reporter: anderson, first of all the only thing family members have offered thus far for jorge puello is praise. this is a guy they trusted implicitly and somebody they thought was acting in good faith on their behalf. let me explain how jorge gets hired. he makes what s essentially been described as a cold call to the church offering legal services for free. that call then gets routed to a guy named sean lankford.
his wife and daughter both detained in haiti. i spoke with sean lankford today. he confirms he did hire jorge puello on behalf of the families and he said he s glad that he did and he said he s somebody who, quote, wanted to help the children. as for the allegations very surprised. nonetheless he says the church would work on drafting some kind of statement, a statement we haven t received as of tonight. anderson? i mean, this is obviously if it does turn out to be true that this man it s very confusing, dan, with all these names. this man in the dominican republic that s been representing these families, american missionaries in custody in haiti, there are accusations he is one of the same person as a man wanted for trafficking young girls into el salvador of all places. it sort of boggles the mind. there s a lot of skepticism on the part of the families. i mean, they find this hard to believe, yes? reporter: well, absolutely.
larry, who s breaking whose agenda and what are the sources? larry: next week celine dion is here monday. bill maher on tuesday. judge judy on wednesday. priscilla presley on thursday. right now it s time to go back to port-au-prince, anderson cooper and a.c. 360. anderson? captions by vitac www.vitac.com good evening. we re live in port-au-prince. it has been a day of mourning and of celebrating as well. celebrating life. a remarkable day in which this blood-soaked city seemed to stop and raise its hands to the heavens. we re going to show you what it was like on this the one-month anniversary of the earthquake. we begin with breaking news. extraordinary news about the ten american missionaries that may startling news that may blow against blow the case against them or at least the hopes some of them might get out soon. karl penhaul is working the local end of this breaking story. karl, what have we learned? preside the man on the left put together the defe