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00:00Live from the GMA Network Center, 20 years of news, 24 Hours.
00:10Good evening, Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
00:15Two days after Vice President Sara Duterte's election against the President,
00:22the first speaker was President Bongbong Marcos in his criminal action.
00:28According to the President, he will not overlook this.
00:30He should not ignore the truth.
00:33And the Congress should just answer the question about the use of OVP in confidential funds.
00:40Because of the threat, the Justice Department called Vice President to mastermind the assassination plot
00:47while laying down the more tight security of the President.
00:52And from Malacanang, Ivan Mayrina is live.
00:57Ivan.
01:01Mel, Emil, Vicky.
01:02President Bongbong Marcos will lay down the threat of Vice President Sara Duterte.
01:07Meanwhile, the Justice Department said that VP Sara can be held responsible for criminal cases, administrative cases,
01:14and she can also be removed from her license as a lawyer.
01:19The statements we heard are very worrying.
01:22President Bongbong Marcos will be held responsible for the threat to the life of Vice President Sara Duterte this Saturday.
01:29If the plan to kill a President is that simple,
01:33what about the common people?
01:37Such a criminal act should not be overlooked.
01:43That is my promise.
01:46Duterte's statement was made while he was with the Camera
01:49when his Chief of Staff, Atty. Zulaika Lopez arrived due to contempt.
01:53He said that he avoids the questions of the Committee in the Camera
01:56about the questionable use of OVP in his confidential funds.
02:00I hope this drama will not continue
02:03if we will just answer the legitimate questions in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
02:10The truth should not be talked about
02:13instead of answering the legitimate questions,
02:15we should listen to the lies.
02:18The lies that the President is talking about
02:20probably has something to do with the questionable name of Mary Grace Piatos
02:24who signed the acknowledgment receipt for the OVP funds.
02:28I talked to someone.
02:30I told her that if I get killed,
02:33kill BBM, Lisa Araneta, and Martin Romales.
02:38No joke.
02:41No joke.
02:42I made a deal, ma'am.
02:45If I get killed, I told her not to stop
02:48until you kill them all.
02:52And then he said yes.
02:53Because of his tolerance,
02:55the Department of Justice called Ambice
02:57as the mastermind of an assassination plot against the President.
03:01The premeditated plot to assassinate the President
03:07as declared by the self-confessed mastermind
03:12will now face legal consequences.
03:16We will use all the resources of government,
03:19all law enforcement agents
03:22to find out the identity of this assassin
03:27and the legal consequences arising out of this criminal plot
03:32will be dealt with the full force of the law.
03:36We will give the Vice President a chance to explain.
03:39Vice President Duterte said
03:41he will kill the President if someone kills him.
03:44DOJ said,
03:45If such an event happens, who will benefit?
03:49She is the beneficiary of the death of the President.
03:52So her words have to be taken in the proper context.
03:57The NBI will now put VP Sarat in prison
04:00for five days to face the authorities.
04:02DOJ said,
04:04Many criminal cases can be filed against the Vice President.
04:07He can also be disciplined by the Ombudsman
04:10and may be disbarred or removed from his license as a lawyer.
04:13Very bad precedent for our country
04:17if we will not take legal action on these kinds of threats
04:21coming from a very high ranking official.
04:24We have to maintain order in a civilized society
04:28by adherence to the rule of law.
04:31And we will apply the full strength and force of the law.
04:36A threat to the President is a threat to every Filipino
04:39because he is the one expected to deliver the service.
04:42And if he is impeded because of death threats,
04:45then it is a disservice to our people.
04:47When Vice President Rodrigo Duterte was in prison,
04:51he was arrested and charged by a teacher.
04:53After this, he posted on social media
04:55that he will pay Php 50 million
04:57if someone kills President Rodrigo Duterte.
05:00But the case was dismissed due to technicality.
05:03As a result of the so-called serious threat to the life of the President,
05:07the Presidential Security Command has ennobled their security.
05:11They are on red alert starting this Saturday
05:14and will be on guard to the President for the next few days.
05:18The President will travel to the United Arab Emirates tonight
05:21for a working visit.
05:23What will happen to our people's freedom?
05:27Aside from the President's trip to the United Arab Emirates tonight,
05:30the President has not yet released the schedule of his office for the next few days
05:35even though there is no notice to limit his public engagements
05:39amidst the so-called serious threat to his life.
05:43Vicky?
05:44Thank you very much, Ivan Mayrina.
05:48The threats of Vice President Sara Duterte
05:51are direct threats to the democracy of the country,
05:55according to House Speaker Martin Romualdez.
05:58Congressmen have also joined the BISE actions
06:01and called for an investigation to answer the second President.
06:06Maki Pulido is on the line.
06:12In the plenary, Speaker Martin Romualdez answered
06:15to the threats of Vice President Sara Duterte.
06:18It is alarming and it is impossible to ignore the confession of BISE
06:21that it has a contract to kill President Bongbong Marcos,
06:25First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos, and Speaker Romualdez.
06:29Because these kinds of threats are dangerous,
06:31it needs to be answered.
06:34This is no longer a joke.
06:36This is no longer a normal threat.
06:39This is a direct threat to our democracy,
06:42to our security, and to the security of the country.
06:52Such statement is not just reckless, it is dangerous.
06:56It sends a chilling message to our people.
06:59A message that violence can be contemplated
07:03by those in positions of power.
07:05In Duterte's accusation that he is being destroyed,
07:08in Romualdez's ambition to be a candidate in the next presidential elections,
07:12Romualdez said that he is being destroyed in the real issue.
07:16Duterte said that the public is being destroyed
07:18in the use of funds from the Office of the Vice President
07:22and the Department of Education.
07:24The issues surrounding confidential and intelligence funds,
07:28the questionable disbursements,
07:30and the lack of transparency demand answers.
07:34We will not tolerate and accept vague explanations
07:38and evasive responses.
07:41If you have nothing to hide,
07:43why don't you answer the questions?
07:46It is the right of the people to know the truth.
07:50Romualdez also denied following the protocol of the Camera.
07:54Disrespect for the protocols, security measures,
07:59and leadership of this institution
08:02is not just a breach of rules,
08:04it is a breach of trust.
08:07After Romualdez's defeat,
08:09some congressmen also spoke
08:11to condemn the statements of the second president
08:14and called for an investigation to answer him.
08:18The House must take immediate action.
08:21We must call for a full investigation into the Vice President.
08:26Mr. Speaker, the behavior cannot just be tolerated.
08:30And we demand that the Vice President
08:32face the full force of the law for actions.
08:36We cannot and will not allow anyone,
08:39even the Vice President,
08:41to threaten the very foundation of this republic.
08:45Congressmen also condemned the resolution
08:48asking for support from the President and Speaker.
08:51After the defeat,
08:52lawmakers, including Romualdez,
08:55as well as the allies of VP Sara,
08:58former President and former Second District Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo,
09:02Romualdez's defeat was watched by VP Sara
09:05who was inside the House at that time.
09:08We are still trying to get her statement
09:10from what Romualdez said.
09:12For GMA Integrated News,
09:14Macky Pulido reporting for 24 Hours.
09:17In her response to the House Committee
09:20on Good Government and Public Accountability today,
09:23Vice President Sara Duterte asked
09:26for an amendment to the contempt order
09:28against her Chief of Staff,
09:30Jonathan Andal.
09:41Just as the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability
09:45was about to begin,
09:46Vice President Sara Duterte
09:49and ACT-Teachers Partylist Representative Franz Castro
09:52suspended the hearing
09:54to allow the Vice President and Congressmen
09:56to go to the House Committee.
10:01Vice President Duterte asked
10:03why the Office of the Vice President
10:05or OVP staff
10:06was not immediately given a copy of the document
10:08that the Committee asked for earlier.
10:17Vice President Duterte and the four OVP staff
10:20who just arrived and were arrested by the Committee
10:23for not attending the hearings several times.
10:26But they were not with her Chief of Staff,
10:29Atty. Zulaica Lopez,
10:30who was at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center
10:33because of an acute stress disorder
10:36due to the Certificate of Confinement
10:39given to her by the Committee
10:40from doctors and an excuse letter.
10:42But it was approved by a congressman.
10:44Her doctors did not say
10:48that she was not physically incapable
10:53of attending today's hearing.
10:55I just find it a little bit odd, Mr. Chair,
11:00that it was not mentioned here
11:03that because of her condition,
11:06she will not be able to come.
11:08Because Lopez did not come today
11:10and because of what happened this weekend,
11:12the Committee decided to add five more days
11:15to the contempt order against Lopez
11:17that should end today.
11:19I move, Mr. Chair, that the period of detention
11:22of Atty. Lopez be ten days instead of five days.
11:29Because she will not be able to attend today.
11:32So we saw in the history
11:35of her evasive attitude, behavior,
11:41and the way she created,
11:43the way she lied
11:45that she was not harassed
11:47or that she did not barge.
11:50Her room is already included.
11:53So all of the events.
11:55The congressmen who are allies of the doctors
11:57tried to counter this.
11:59Even the vice-chairman
12:00questioned the extension of the contempt order of Lopez.
12:03But the chairman of the Committee
12:05did not agree to speak to the vice-chairman
12:07if he does not admit that he will speak the truth.
12:10Something that he has already refused to do.
12:12I will only recognize you if you will take your oath.
12:15Okay.
12:16Let's do this.
12:17The point of the vice-chairman,
12:18why will Lopez be punished
12:20for making four defendant officials laugh?
12:23This is how the president receives resignations
12:26from the assistant secretary and undersecretary
12:28as well as the appointing authority.
12:30I asked you earlier,
12:31who is the appointing authority?
12:33Yousef of ASEC.
12:35What is your answer?
12:36Secretary.
12:37You don't know.
12:38I haven't answered yet.
12:39I saw you.
12:40Answer.
12:42Camera.
12:45I saw you.
12:46You said, secretary.
12:47You don't know everything.
12:49The one who is on fire is the president.
12:52At that time, the tension grew
12:54and the vice-chairman asked to reconsider
12:56the extension of the contempt order of Lopez.
12:59You need to reconsider
13:00that extension of your detention.
13:02It was illegal in the first place.
13:04You asked the president
13:06why he accepted the resignation.
13:09Do not ask due process.
13:11If you have any question,
13:13insofar as the actions of this committee are concerned,
13:17I think the proper remedy is for you to go to the court.
13:21Sure.
13:22I will go to court.
13:24But every day,
13:26you are depriving a person of her liberty
13:31while I await.
13:33That is precisely the point, ma'am.
13:35If our action of detaining your chief of staff
13:39is against the law,
13:41I think the proper remedy,
13:43and I think you're a lawyer,
13:44Yes, sir.
13:45the proper remedy is to go to the court.
13:47Sir, do you really want to show the Filipino people
13:50what you know about the law?
13:52That is the decision of the committee as a whole.
13:55I hope you will respect it.
13:58I'm just helping you, sir,
14:00because the Philippines is embarrassed.
14:02Is this the House of Representatives?
14:05For GMA Integrated News,
14:07Jonathan Andal,
14:08for 24 Hours.