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will uh see my uh children so I have no
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plans of doing that I have no plans of
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uh leaving the country to
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hide Congress Mara offers
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himself
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law you will you accept the offer um no
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I think um well first off I'd like to
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thank uh Congressman rodante Mareta for
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his offer uh to be my lawyer in the
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impeachment case um I appreciate it
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because he's a very good lawyer he's a
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brilliant lawyer in fact uh he pointed
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out to me points during the Committee
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hearing that I was as a lawyer I was not
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able to um see so um that show his um
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astuteness in uh the
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law but um I feel that he will better
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serve the country if he remains as a
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member of the House of Representatives
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uh that is what is important right now
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we need good public servants good
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leaders good uh officials in uh
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government and I assure everyone that uh
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we we already have lawyers helping us in
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fact the moment that uh France Castro
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announced last year that they are
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planning to file an impeachment we
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already talked to uh
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lawyers who will handle the impeachment
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case at the time but now cases Pala
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three so we just need more uh lawyers
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and uh we already discussed this with
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the first team that we know hired as
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lawyers oh okay yes ma'am so very
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recently we had a meeting with the
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lawyers and um what was discussed there
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was the arrangements because we needed
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more lawyers we are expecting another
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impeachment case now so this this may be
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three impeachment
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cases so and then
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um we will await official copy of the
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Articles of
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impeachment so that um they can
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um repair the defense we already have
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advanced copies of what is filed in the
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House of Representatives and they're
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starting
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Preparatory works right now
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um sides um how do you feel right now
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and if for example impeachment comes
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through um are you confident with the
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numbers both in Congress and uh no we're
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not uh confident with numbers ma'am um
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because uh impeachment is a legal
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process and a political activity so we
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are confident with the legal aspect of
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the impeachment
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because um
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um all the lawyers that I asked to
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review the initial draft of the
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impeachment
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complaint this is not um well they would
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say it's not an impeachable offense and
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this is not an actionable offense uh
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things like that lawyer talk but uh with
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regard to uh politics that is a
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different matter all together so we do
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not know what will happen that
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uh well that's
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politics um they always say that uh
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there are no per permanent friends and
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enemies in uh politics so um it really
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depends on the person and the politician
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or uh what path he will
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choose the scenario
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government uhit said that they are the
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possibility of finger technation and
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forication charges among others against
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you and several other officials of the
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OB and
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formerly in relation to the alleged
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misuse of the confidential funds have
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you discussed this already with your leg
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any of the lawyers and have What can you
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it's a very
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heavy yes oh um we have an inventory of
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possible cases to be filed because right
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now it's only the two impeachment cases
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that are filed with the House of
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Representatives all the other cases we
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have a list we have an inventory and we
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have lawyers
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assigned uh for each case usually cases
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that are similar we assign it to one
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lawyer
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and then
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um uh other cases we assigned it uh to
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other lawyers so that um we ensure that
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um all the cases have um lawyers uh
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focused on uh each
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case about
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this
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Rodrigo I
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expect as usual December
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24 mother
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p
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through my
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brother impeachment
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case impeachment case last year announce
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France Castro impeachment so the
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moment and the
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moment atts against
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me singap you already mentioned your
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lawers are preped
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toes but the opposition groups who have
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filed the fil the complains against you
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are accusing you of being evasive in
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your answers and the alleged corruption
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and misuse of millions of um
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confidential funds MAA you can offer an
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explanation also to taxpayers how above
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board confidential
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funds question once and for all yes
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ma'am I'm not being evasive um if you're
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referring to the Congress to the budget
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hearing and the hearings in the house of
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rep Representatives I'm not being visit
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I am not answering the questions because
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they have no authority to ask
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confidential
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questions I am answering questions about
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the use of the money in the commission
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on audit and there is no you ask the
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commission on audit if there was
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anything at all that they can say or see
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that we are not Cooperative with the
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audit
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so it is wrong to say that I am invasive
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I am definitely not answering questions
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about the use of the fund about
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confidential funds because it pertains
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to National Security and the lives of
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the people involved in intelligence
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operations and uh yes as I
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said we have fully cooperated with the
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audit process of the commission on audit
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who has the sole jurisdic to ask
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questions about the use of confidential
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funds funds in fact um two quarters of
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the Department of Education are already
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cleared by the commission on audit but
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it is still being questioned inside the
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committee uh in the House of
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Representatives
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so um that is the reason why I am not
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answering questions from the House of
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Representatives plus the fact that as I
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said it is an attack it is a political
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attack if you were if
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you're you are in Aid of legislation and
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you want to legislate about confidential
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funds you do not Target one office and
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terrorize and torment the employees with
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of that office what you do is you what
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uh do a sampling a random sampling of
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the offices who have confidential funds
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why not call the office of the president
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who has billions and billions of
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confidential funds if you want to
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legislate about uh confidential funds
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and that
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shows that um they're singling out the
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office of the vice president and I
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really feel that it's very
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disrespectful to the office of the vice
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president that is also why when they ask
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that I respect their process you know
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beget respect begets respect so if they
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want respect they should first respect
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the office of the vice president that is
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what I was saying that they don't like
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me they don't like my person they don't
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like IND D but they have to respect the
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office of the vice president so if they
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want to investigate con confidential
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funds they don't single out one office I
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understand ma'am uh VP just a followup
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was it yesterday or the other day uh the
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house also alleges that over 400
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names acknowledgement receipts again on
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the issue of the confidential funds ww
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records at the BSA could ma'am you could
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offer an explanation because we know
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that this is a
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legal explanation if this is
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above birth certificate no no I will not
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explain I will not give
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explanation because it will entail that
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I
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explain intelligence operations with
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which will
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compromise offices who do intelligence
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operations it will really compromise how
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they work so no no explanation will be
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given to the members of the House of
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Representatives one final followup from
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me ma' then what's your response to
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accusations that an office like the de
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Ed and the OV have no um have no
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jurisdiction amount to have these
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confidential funds um that are spent for
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National
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Security well the confidential funds was
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the first uh transfer of uh confidential
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funds was from the office from the
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contingent funds to the office of the
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vice president and this was approved by
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the office of the president the next
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year year confidential funds was uh
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2023 and we submitted it to the
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Department of budget and management it
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was approved by the department of budget
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and management and therefore it implies
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that it was approved by the Office of
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the President because it was included in
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the National
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expenditure uh program the NP
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so and then it was approved by Congress
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as well the only reason why we did did
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not use the confidential funds on the
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fourth quarter for both offices because
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we I was already flagged by a friend
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inside the House of Representatives that
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they will attack you using confidential
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funds
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so so yes it was duly approved by the
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Office of the President and both houses
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of Congress as well as because it was
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included in the general Appropriations
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act so it was not we presented it we
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defended it they approved it we used it
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and then um the question on utilization
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is uh under the commission on audit that
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is how the system works they cannot use
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or they
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cannot um twist the system according to
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their personal interests really all
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this
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uh circumstances and events happening
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surrounding the office of the vice
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president is a race to the presidential
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election in
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2028 Unfortunately they are attacking
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the office as well
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so and the person of the office of the
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vice president so
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I'll afteron
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after Madam vice president I'm just
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going to pick up on Mar's line of
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questioning um you said uh and I
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understand your explanation about this
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these confidential funds hav't been
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approved by several layers in the
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government but maybe just to go back to
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the basics if you can explain to
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ordinary Filipinos why the office of the
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vice president needs confidential and
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intelligence funds okay yes for the
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office of the vice president it's not
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the first time that uh the office has
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granted confidential funds during the
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time of Vice President uh Bai the office
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was already given confidential funds the
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confidential funds we use in relation to
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our work and National
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Security all the projects and the
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programs of the office of the vice
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president Target poverty alleviation
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there is a direct correlation between
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poverty and national uh
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security so um what we do is we want to
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Target the areas where we put our
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projects so that we achieve know peace
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and Order
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security so we don't want
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to um we don't want our
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projects put in areas where it is not
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needed for poverty
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alleviation so we want to
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prioritize uh the areas and the only way
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to do that is to use confidential funds
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to purchase
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information so where are the target
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areas we need that so that our projects
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will be will serve uh these areas so
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that's why we needed the confidential
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funds
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in in the Department of Education uh um
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there is a uh correlation as well of the
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education and National Security in fact
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uh that is one of
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uh of there is a correlation as well of
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education and national uh security there
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are so many threats uh to education not
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just uh
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Insurgency um and threats to a
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Department of Education personnel and
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students as well and we wanted to Target
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projects of the Department of Education
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as well in the most vulnerable areas and
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schools that is why we needed uh
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confidential funds it's all about
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National Security and the position of
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the office of the vice president and the
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Department of Education is that the
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National Security is a holistic concept
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it's just it's not just one uh like uh
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territorial defense sovereignty no
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National Security is about food secur
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SEC it's about quality of Education it's
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about poverty alleviation and everything
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else that we need to do as a country to
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get this get us out of this poverty rout
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but you are in the ntfl so couldn't have
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your offices work with the nflc as well
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as other government agencies that
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actually have National Security mandates
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um in the ndfl C they are only about um
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uh and local
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armed conflict and
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local and local or
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there so that is very specific to that
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um local conflict and uh
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communism so as I said uh the projects
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and the programs of OBP Target poverty
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alleviation and there's so many factors
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affecting poverty and there are so many
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threats to education not just uh in but
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there are also other government agencies
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with National Security mandates that you
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can work with your offices can work yes
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that is true but we work far faster if
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we are allowed to purchase information
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and Target our projects immediately on
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the certain school or certain bangi or
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certain um municipality we we move
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faster if we can Target our projects
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okay um going back to the confidential
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funds that was Al also about
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confidential funds but the names that
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are being verified by the Phil
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statistics for I know you said that you
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you can't explain because they're
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confidential in nature but maybe just a
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yes or no because other names have
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cropped up uh aside from Mary Grace
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Patos we have chippy McDonald Fernando
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tempura Carlos
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Oishi uh raunda Nova uh these were
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mentioned in a column at the Philippine
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in the Philippine Star and uh Joel Chua
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Congressman Joel Chua was
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quoted are yes or no are these Cod
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names
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um
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um I
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cannot explain confidential funds
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because it will entail
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explaining um intelligence
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operations and there is a
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law that
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prohibits
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officials who gathering information
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because of their office to divulge it in
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public so it's the anti-graft Corrupt
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Practices Act there is a specific
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provision of law you cannot divulge
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confidential information that
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you
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um that
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you uh received while in office so you
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won't even say these are no that's
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because that will add to cases that may
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be filed against me
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uh one last one last sorry yes why the
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choice of a letter submitted to the NBI
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instead of an a wait hold on I can
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answer I can give you a very short
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answer with regard to ARS I had nothing
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to do with the preparation of ARS it
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went down to the
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Grassroots uh level so I had nothing to
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do with reparations of ARS I was up here
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in the structure and money went down
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information so you have no knowledge why
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all these names were used in the
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acknowledgment receipts in the first
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place we do not even know if these are
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um ARS which came
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from uh deped or ovp to Kaa to because
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there's a chain of evidence
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supposedly in La there's a change of
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chain of evidence handling of evidence
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so right now nobody can really answer
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that because nobody knows
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if these ARS are
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true because we don't know if it came
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from us that's what they're that's what
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they're alleging yes that's what they're
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saying came from the OB submitted to yes
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but there is a legal process in the
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custody of evidence so right now we
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really cannot say if the ARs came from
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us because the ARs that are with us has
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not
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been uh checked with the ARs that are
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with
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them you're denying that the AR came no
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I'm just saying that we do not even know
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if the ARs with us are the ARs that are
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with them because the ARs from from from
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the field going to the office going to
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Kaa that's not how you do uh legal
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work it's not how you do legal work
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there's a very stringent process in
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evidence that is why even if there is no
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law prohibiting a person from divulging
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confidential information person cannot
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answer that because we do not know if
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that paper that they're holding was a
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paper that
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came from the OBP in the P because there
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was no marking of exhibits that was what
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I was telling Congressman Chua you
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cannot
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ask the OB Personnel to say yes or no to
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um exhibit that was not
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marked as real and true as
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correct and as a faithful reproduction
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of the evidence of the office so so
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would your offices then be willing to
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certify no because there is no there is
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no question about that from the
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commission on audit it's only a
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congressman saying that
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this
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paper and asking what is this paper
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about there is
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no there is no
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case and that is the to ask that about
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the paper is the sole jurisdiction of
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the commission on audit okay so then if
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the commission on audit asks that is
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what we are that is what I was saying we
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have been fully
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Cooperative with the commission on
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audit everything that they asked for we
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submitted that is why there was a
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partial disallowance only and even then
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we are not yet finished with the
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process because we can still
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submit um documents that are required by
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the commission on audit that is the
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problem uh right now as I said they are
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doing work that they are not that uh
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that is not under the Mandate of the
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House of Representatives they cannot
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audit they cannot question at all they
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cannot make me
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answer um and say that uh we represent
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the taxpayers and you have to answer no
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I will only answer to the commissional
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audit because that is the body who can
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ask us questions about the fund use next
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question AB afternoon ma'am ma'am on the
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issue of your budget not being
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reinstated or re or restored your
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reaction first on the decision of the by
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Camal conference
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committee when we do not expect anything
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about the budget of the office of the
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vice president uh anymore as I said um
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the and
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the before I was saying that I am not a
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problem I've been saying that I'm not a
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problem the problem of the Philippines
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is corruption and all the other peace
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and Order issues but uh it uh it is
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clear uh right now that they consider me
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as the problem already so I will not
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help them solve the
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problem ma'am a followup question uh
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it's nearly January already your office
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will be uh filing a new budget request
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for 2026 how much do you intend to ask
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from Congress for 2026 we've not
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discussed that uh we we need to wait for
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the budget call uh because the budget
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call outlines the rules of uh your
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proposal for Budget uh for your office
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so we need to to read uh the budget
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call before we can sit down and discuss
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a budget proposal for the office of the
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vice president ma' but top of mine are
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you still considering to hike the 733
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million or will you be happy operating
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at the same expenses in 2026 I cannot
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answer that because uh There Are Rules
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uh they usually put conditions in the
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budget call and we really need to read
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the budget call to draft a uh a proposed
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budget that's two
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questions uh just to follow up on the
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budget in the previous interviews you
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said that you cannot give a definite
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answer on what will happen with regards
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to your satellite offices given that the
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budget were uh was not final at that
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time but given that the BAM already uh
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decided not to
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reinstate the your original proposal of
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2 billion what will happen to your
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satellite offices there are around I
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think 10 satellite offices across the
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country yes um well well we we we have
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to we have to see if uh we can continue
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with the projects that they are
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implementing uh we need to see if they
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if the projects are still there and then
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if uh they can still implement the
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projects so that is something that we
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have to discuss with u the exacom of the
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office of the vice
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president possibility of shut down and
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then affected personel just in
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case satellite offices
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central office Office of the vice
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presid buet I am sure that they are
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preparing themselves as well
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uh um W update pull out and
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replacement for of the
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Philippines
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yes Chief of Staff armed forces of the
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Philippines
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requests is
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I already said that I will seek security
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Arrangements outside of the a forces of
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the Philippines already
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yes uh we are exploring uh Private
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Security Services
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yes aiv no because uh there are
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professional uh security services so
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that's not uh considered as a private uh
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Army and and um I do not know if uh
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these individuals are allowed to bring
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guns
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so that makes them less of a an
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army professional uh Security Services
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but uh that is one option uh that we are
00:32:18
preparing for in case there is a pull
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out of the
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entire um entire security details from
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the Arm Forces of the
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Philippines initially I asked my husband
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and then he said that uh he'll make ano
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Arrangements how
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estim Wala P Kam Wala ping we do not
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have we have not requested for proposals
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yet from uh s providers service
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providers we have not uh requested a
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proposal yet so but
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agci I think only Filipino uh
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organizations or agencies are allowed uh
00:33:06
that kind of service in within the
00:33:08
Philippines I think Mama I do not know I
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do not know but uh I I know that they
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are Filipinos
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yes no I
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don't
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no but um uh no I do not uh feel secure
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as I said that um there's always
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been bias because when you see say for
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example they've not
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ever
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investigated threats against me which
00:34:04
are all documented but we do not give
00:34:07
them the information because we don't
00:34:08
trust them at
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all it's just an imaginary threat like
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for
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example imaginary
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to the first family and speaker what
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your take on
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this
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IM
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Vice confence what's your take on this
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yes I know we have documents sir we have
00:34:54
screen caps we have photos we have
00:34:57
police BLS we have everything on file
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but uh I never talked about it before
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because I felt now it was part of my job
00:35:10
as vice president you get
00:35:13
that so and it does not affect my work
00:35:17
so all the more that uh it was uh
00:35:21
inconsequential for me at the
00:35:23
time but right now um seeing that
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they
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are uh picking out words that I said and
00:35:35
making a case out of it and saying that
00:35:38
these are
00:35:39
threats so I think they should start
00:35:43
with where is this coming from that is
00:35:46
the question that they should ask
00:35:48
themselves but uh I don't think they'll
00:35:50
ever ask that of themselves so we'll
00:35:54
just move on to the cases and the
00:35:56
impeachment in and whatever will come uh
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in the new
00:36:02
year you reget
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orat to the president and the first lady
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and speaker no mam
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nil I will not die in
00:36:19
vain mention the 2028 presidential
00:36:22
elections that all of the attacks of the
00:36:24
marus government here now is all
00:36:26
connected to
00:36:28
the last time a sitting vice president a
00:36:31
very popular sitting vice president was
00:36:33
investigated for corruption allegations
00:36:35
and refused to respond in the public
00:36:39
forum ele and I'm preferring to former
00:36:42
vice president ma'am are you concerned
00:36:45
that your enemies would be able to turn
00:36:48
public opinion against you and it will
00:36:50
hurt any potential plans of you're
00:36:52
running for president you're leading uh
00:36:54
surveys as oh I've not seen the recent
00:36:57
surveys but uh yes that is what they are
00:37:00
trying to do turn public opinion and
00:37:02
that is the
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strategy agent
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W speaker
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speak yes
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yes
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speaker speaker
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yes yes but yes yes so um yes that is
00:38:26
what they are trying to do turn public
00:38:28
opinion that is a common strategy uh in
00:38:32
politics um La
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propaganda and uh
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everything um will it hurt my chances
00:38:41
I'm not yet a candidate so right now I
00:38:44
am just the vice president of the
00:38:46
Republic of the Philippines and working
00:38:49
for the country so I am not yet a
00:38:51
candidate so I do not know if this will
00:38:54
affect me um maybe my decision my
00:38:57
decision in 2026 will consider what is
00:39:01
happening right now but uh I cannot
00:39:03
really say uh with finality what will be
00:39:07
the considerations for me to decide to
00:39:09
run for president uh as I said uh just
00:39:12
give me the last quarter of 2026 I think
00:39:15
that is the best time for any any
00:39:17
presidential candidate to decide uh to
00:39:20
run m
00:39:28
for
00:39:34
former surve
00:39:42
and2
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yes it's all these are all political
00:39:48
attacks um from the from the attack from
00:39:52
the left on the confidential FS the
00:39:55
meeting with the Speaker of the House of
00:39:57
representatives and um the attack on uh
00:40:01
the budget and um the other attacks that
00:40:06
you see in uh social media so these are
00:40:11
all directed
00:40:14
to uh uh remove me from the race yes and
00:40:19
then of course remove me from
00:40:25
office I that means a
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down
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martinz and this is personal knowledge
00:40:51
Kasi narinig KO talaga I was there
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ah so Kaya Alam KO Kay Alam KO sa Sima
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palang nin ah okay Wala Lang
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din Vice President Martin
00:41:38
if you want somebody sitting
00:41:47
there no I'm I'm at peace I'm at peace
00:41:51
with whatever happens uh to me I've
00:41:55
already accepted that uh whatever
00:41:58
happens to me that will be I know God's
00:42:02
purpose uh for my life so I am at peace
00:42:05
staying and uh finishing my term because
00:42:09
that is my contract with uh the Filipino
00:42:12
people and I am at peace going if uh I
00:42:17
will be removed from office okay thank
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you
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out of context
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Isen out of context when you
00:42:45
appreciate
00:42:47
the um the message you should take all
00:42:51
the words together and not just take out
00:42:54
uh the things that you want to use
00:42:56
against the person
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uh yes
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sir sir
00:43:30
is
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Sir um security is fundamentally a trust
00:43:37
and confidence uh position so it's
00:43:39
difficult to entrust your life to
00:43:42
somebody you really do not know and
00:43:44
that's just I know just uh put there by
00:43:48
somebody who you do not trust as well so
00:43:52
that's a it's a very difficult position
00:43:55
and
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well it's a very difficult uh position
00:44:02
position and I actually pointed it out
00:44:06
to the Chief of Staff of the Arm Forces
00:44:08
of the Philippines I told them that
00:44:11
there is a line of succession you're
00:44:13
supposed to protect your number
00:44:15
two your one and two because that is
00:44:19
your reserve because one day if you do
00:44:22
not protect your two one day you you
00:44:25
have no no one if you don't have a two
00:44:28
and you don't have a one you don't have
00:44:35
anyone that is in the Constitution and
00:44:38
they are supposed to to protect that
00:44:45
line bik na Naman
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Outsource private you to
00:45:01
get higher consider you said um you 400
00:45:06
plus approximately 400 plus it was
00:45:08
combined PNP and AFP Personnel when uh
00:45:13
the PNP pulled out all the Personnel of
00:45:17
uh PNP uh is
00:45:21
334
00:45:23
334 uh AFP personnel and not all of them
00:45:26
are uh working for security uh some of
00:45:29
them are working for admin some of them
00:45:32
are working for Budget some of them are
00:45:34
working for supplies so there's a lot of
00:45:37
there's are there are several offices
00:45:39
inside that unit that don't work for
00:45:43
securing the person they work for
00:45:47
operations of the entire uh unit
00:45:51
soan Lang sir Ang
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NASA security talaga you like close
00:46:02
insecurity mam I don't trust I don't
00:46:05
trust anyone right now except
00:46:14
myself koala
00:46:17
Lang Lang nakar I think this week this
00:46:22
week sigur or last week I don't trust my
00:46:24
memory on that per very recently yes
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thank
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you s Naman next year na magita ulit
00:46:40
ha Naman ano January na
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please yes
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okay
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