that is coming from haiti where we re getting those reports of up to 17 american missionaries and their families have then kidnapped by a gang. that s according to the new york times. we spoke with haitian security officials. nbc news has not independently confirmed the details about all of this, but we have reached out to the state department and the u.s. based charity, christian aid ministries and haven t heard back as yet. for the latest on this, we re going to bring in nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez. raf, what more do we know at this point? raf, what more lindsey, kendid morning. u.s. officials are scrambling to find out what happened to these missionaries and their families in haiti, that is not an easy task in a country that is among the most violent and chaotic in the western hemisphere. here s what we do know. the associated press is reporting 17 american missionaries and their families, including children, were kidnapped yesterday by an armed
endid, i hope it s not attacked it s continued because it didn t work. it is a situation where it was a different trial. we were able to do that on the front end of the case. and i think that s the benefit of having done this once before. without the legislature making that change only a few years ago to allow someone like dr. ziv, you wouldn t have been able to call her to the stand. how critical was she in your ability to secure a conviction today. i think that would be a better question for the jurors on how impactful she was. but to us, it was very important and it s something that we kept going back to and looking at. and kristen did the direct examination from her. but we went back to that report that she did a lot. because it was significant in
trump sat on that for 18 days until the press finally put the heat on him, and then at that point he fires him. the next day he meets with comey and asks comey to back off the investigation, and then when comey asks for more resources to put into this investigation, and announces that there is an investigation before the u.s. senate, what does trump do? he fires him. you re a prosecutor. you know if you re going to make a case, you need a statute and you need a target. when you say there s an obstruction case, who is the target? the target would be the president of the united states and anybody else that was involved in that decision to fire jim comey. it could be jared kushner who s admitted that he was involved in that decision to fire jim comey. the statute is section 1503, an endid he haver to object construct justice which includes