00:00Let's go back to the story of Luisa Eris Pehingil in the hearing of the vice president in the NBI. Luisa.
00:05Naomi, as I mentioned earlier, the vice president is on show today in the hearing of the National Bureau of Investigation.
00:15But even though she didn't run away, her lawyer, attorney Paul Lim, received a letter from the vice president
00:22asking for a new schedule for their investigation.
00:26The NBI approved it and the hearing was rescheduled to December 11.
00:32According to NBI Director Jaime Santiago, some of the reasons why she didn't run away today
00:39are because she didn't expect that the Committee on Food Governance would suddenly remove the camera.
00:47She also had some reasons to run away from her office.
00:50In addition, Vice President Sara is asking for questions from the NBI.
00:56But Director Santiago also said that the NBI will investigate if they will give questions to Vice President Sara
01:03because she's not the one who does most of the NBI's work.
01:07Vice President Sara was given until December 11 because she wanted the vice president to prepare or to give her time.
01:15But even though the vice president didn't run away, their investigation is still ongoing.
01:22Here is what Director Jaime Santiago said.
01:26For example, if my mom is sick, it's a valid reason or whatever, it's a valid reason.
01:36Except for the fact that she won't come here, that Honey Ho won't come here, that the council won't send her,
01:41that will indicate that she's already waiving her right to face our investigation.
01:50Besides the statements of Vice President Sara that she will oppose President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.,
01:56First Lady Liza Marcos and House Speaker Martin Romualdez,
02:00the NBI will also investigate and ask the vice president about the threats that she received against her.
02:09If the vice president, who faced the NBI earlier on December 11, opens her office,
02:18aside from VP Sara, the NBI will also ask others to attend the live zoom press conference.
02:26Here is the statement of Director Jaime Santiago.
02:30Later, the subpoena will be served to those who attended the videoclip that we identified.
02:39We will shed light, we will ask if it happened in their presence, they will ask, surrounding those matters.
02:53Naomi, the NBI is still looking for the assassin or agent that Vice President Sara Duterte mentioned,
03:03who is not a member of her country. But the NBI said that they don't have a lead yet.
03:10I will also mention that earlier, Director Jaime Santiago mentioned the possible takeover of Ombudsman
03:18in the investigation of the NBI and DOJ against VP Sara.
03:22The Director of the NBI said that they are ready to assist Ombudsman in the possible shift to take over the investigation.
03:30This is the latest. We will return to you, Naomi.
03:33Thank you very much Louisa Erizpe.
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