00:00In addition to that, several congressmen were accused of not confronting Vice President Sara Duterte in the hearing of the NBI
00:07in spite of the fact that the House Committee on Good Governance and Public Accountability passed a hearing.
00:13Several lawmakers were also accused of being busy with work and not following the plan to impeach the Vice President.
00:21Mela Lesmora is in the center of the news. Live, Mela.
00:25Patrick, at this point, a press conference was held online by House Assistant Majority Leader Jefferson Congon
00:34regarding the issues with Vice President Sara Duterte.
00:38Before that, congressmen were accused of being busy with work and not following the plan to impeach the Vice President.
00:47Congressmen were accused of not confronting Vice President Sara Duterte in the NBI today
00:55regarding their investigation into the death threat of Vice President versus President Ferdinand R. Marquez Jr.,
01:02First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos, and House Speaker Martin Lugualdez.
01:06According to House Deputy Majority Leader Paulo Ortega,
01:10insulting each Filipino is considered as a violation of the law of the Vice President.
01:16Yesterday, Ortega was the first to criticize,
01:19along with House Assistant Majority Leader Jefferson Congon,
01:22Duterte's comment regarding the administration's grand scheme against him.
01:28This is not a playbook of someone else.
01:30This is his playbook because he's the only one who made a plan to kill our President, the First Lady,
01:39and our Speaker.
01:41He thinks that there is a grand scheme that he is being helped with.
01:46But actually, this is the result of what he is doing and saying.
01:51Although, from what I see, this is my personal opinion.
01:54We saw the law that they imposed on terrorism.
02:01We really saw that he was being violated.
02:04But we need to let the Department of Justice, the NBI,
02:11and our law enforcement units investigate if our Vice President is really being violated.
02:19In the middle of the conversation about the impeachment complaint against the Vice President,
02:28the congressmen who are now focused on their work and not on the Vice President's corruption are against it.
02:36If we are talking about impeachment, everyone has the right to file an impeachment complaint.
02:44In the administration, we haven't talked about impeachment yet.
02:52We are very anxious, especially about our work in the Congress.
03:01Even though there are a lot of news and noise coming from the outside,
03:05the House of Representatives has been very consistent that we were focused on issues,
03:10issues of legislative inquiry, issues in our hearings.
03:15And we will continue to do that.
03:18Patrick, regarding the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability,
03:23next week, Committee Chair Joelle Chua said that they will hold a hearing
03:28based on the information they gathered on their hearings.
03:32And we are waiting for the next hearing,
03:36following the postponement of their hearings, which should have been scheduled for today, Patrick.
03:44Okay. Thank you very much, Mela Lesmoras.
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