because you see they re good at doing things. they re good at doing renovations, they re very handy. as far as the logistics are concerned, according to his wife they had absolutely no knowledge of it. listen to rene thompson. was there any discussion about what needed to take place in order to transport children to the dominican republic? you know, my husband was not he was not in charge of any of the legal or official documents on the trip. yeah. and so, i mean, in his mind it was just to go help and the details about how it was going to get done was left to somebody else? right, right. they were just asked to help. so does i mean, does rene know anything about what s happening on the ground? is there finger pointing going on in the group or are they all still now standing together? reporter: in terms of finger pointing they re not willing to place blame on laura silsby.
and what she told me is paul thompson received an e-mail on a monday from somebody connected to laura silsby s church. he had never met laura silsby but jumped at the chance to go to haiti and started recruiting a couple others. he recruited four other men on this trip. his son, his cousin, his brot r brother-in-law and a close family friend. they knew that laura silsby was going to convert that hotel into an orphanage. they thought they could help because you see they re good at doing things. as far as the logistics are concerned, according to his wife they had absolutely no knowledge of it. listen to rene thompson. was there any discussion about what needed to take place in order to transport children to the dominican republic? you know, my husband was not he was not in charge of any of the legal or official documents on the trip. yeah. and so, i mean, in his mind
they thought they could help because you see they re good at doing things. they re good at doing renovations, they re very handy. as far as the logistics are concerned, according to his wife they had absolutely no knowledge of it. listen to rene thompson. was there any discussion about what needed to take place in order to transport children to the dominican republic? you know, my husband was not he was not in charge of any of the legal or official documents on the trip. yeah. reporter: and so in his mind it was just to go help and the details about how it was going to get done, that was left to somebody else? right, right. they were just asked to help. so does i mean, does renee know anything about what s happening on the ground? is there finger pointing going on in the group or are they all still now standing together? reporter: in terms of finger pointing they re not willing to place blame on laura silsby. they say they want to hear the entire story from their loved
it was just to go help and the details about how it was going to get done was left to somebody else? right, right. they were just asked to help. so does i mean, does rene know anything about what s happening onn the ground? is there finger pointing going on in the group or are they all still now standing together? reporter: in terms of finger pointing they re not willing to place blame on laura silsby. they say they want to hear the entire story from their loved ones then they ll evaluate, blame later. they want their loved ones home. it s interesting, when we first got to idaho a lot of the family members were complaining about the lack of information. they felt like the u.s. embassy wasn t helping them enough. today an entirely different perspective from rene thompson. she said every day there are now conference calls with all the families. the idaho congressional delegation is on the home, there are members from hillary clinton s office on the phone