00:00President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered the Justice Department to recommend the House Quad Committee
00:07to sue former President Rodrigo Duterte.
00:10Meanwhile, legal experts are studying the so-called clemency for Mary Jane Veloso.
00:18Kenneth Paciente is coming back.
00:22President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has already received the clemency of Mary Jane Veloso
00:27following his return to the country from Indonesia to serve his sentence.
00:32According to the President, although the Indonesian government did not give a condition for the transfer of Veloso,
00:38the government will have the legal experts to discuss his clemency.
00:44We still have to have a look at what their status is and of course we are aware of the request for clemency
00:52from our representatives and we will leave it to the legal judgment of our legal experts
01:07to determine whether the provision of clemency is appropriate.
01:15The President responded not to the recommendation of the Congress' Quad Committee
01:20Former President Rodrigo Duterte and others were sued because of the anti-illegal drug campaign
01:26which was initiated by the President and is now under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department.
01:30The recommendation of the Quad Committee is that when they do an oversight hearing,
01:39they will forward their findings to the DOJ with their own recommendations as to how to handle the findings in the hearings.
01:50So we will go now to the DOJ.
01:52Even so, the President said that this is still a long process,
01:55especially since he still needs to gather evidence for the case build-up.
01:59I will look into it. We still need to assess what the case might be,
02:06if the direction of the recommendation of the committees from the House is correct.
02:16The President shared his plan for this Christmas.
02:19He said that he will celebrate Christmas here in Manila with First Lady Luis Araneta Marcos.
02:24They also said that they plan to go to Baguio and visit Ilocos.
02:28Even so, even though it's Christmas, the work for the Chief Executive is still ongoing.
02:33I don't have off days.
02:35I'm not with them.
02:38We're not together on vacation, holidays, weekends. We're not together.
02:44We're always on call.
02:46Kenneth Paciente for Pambansang TV in Bago, Philippines.
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