Isyu sa bagong Senate Building, tatalakayin ng Senado ngayong hapon

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00:00Today, the Senate will hear the controversial new Senate building.

00:07But Senator Nancy Binay is in doubt as to its real motive,

00:12especially since the issue is being used in politics.

00:17Daniel Manalastas is in the center of the news.

00:22Will the tension in the controversial new Senate building escalate

00:26after Senator Nancy Binay, a former committee on accounts chairperson, was sued?

00:31She seems to be throwing back on what happened last year,

00:35when the Senate's investigation into the irregularities in the Makati City Hall parking building was carried out.

00:42I will go back to what happened in 2015.

00:47So, of course, on my end, I have to prepare.

01:01Because I've been through this, I feel like I'm already in a deja vu of what's happening now.

01:11I have to prepare that this kind of system that the Senate is using should not be repeated for personal ambition or vendetta.

01:22Binay also thinks that the new Senate building is being used because there's an issue in politics.

01:27First, I don't believe it.

01:29But as time goes by, it seems that the Senate building is being used for his issue.

01:39It's just confusing why you have to change the institution just because there's a Makati issue.

01:50According to Binay, she hasn't talked to the current committee on accounts chairperson, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano.

01:56The documents are still there.

01:59They warned the building should be built away from irregularities.

02:03Cayetano has yet to respond to Binay's statements.

02:06The Senate's hearing is already on schedule.

02:10But Senate President Francis Escudero was the first to point out that there are no irregularities in the project.

02:17I don't know why people are sounding too defensive about this.

02:20What I just said is, isn't it?

02:22It's too high and it's bad for the taste that such a big amount should be spent on a government building.

02:31That's what I said.

02:33I didn't say anything wrong.

02:35I didn't allege anything wrong.

02:38I didn't accuse anything wrong.

02:41It's just bad for the taste.

02:43If you agree to that, you can be sure of that.

02:47I'm not.

02:49Daniel Manalastas for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.