00:00Senator Aimee Marcos is having a hard time calling a resource person
00:05who is facing the second hearing of the Senate regarding the arrest of former President Duterte.
00:11Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamil will remind us about the executive privilege of the members of the Cabinet who will attend.
00:20MAV Gonzales is on the line.
00:23The day the Senate heard about the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte,
00:30Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamil gave a reminder.
00:34In a letter to Senate President Chief Escudero,
00:37he said that the members of the Cabinet will use their executive privilege.
00:42I wrote to the chairperson of the committee, Senator Aimee Marcos,
00:47that they will use their executive privilege regarding any talks between the President and his Cabinet.
00:56I think they used it once or twice,
00:59depending on the question asked by Senator Marcos.
01:03The so-called executive privilege is included in the controversial Executive Order 464 issued by the Arroyo Administration.
01:11It states that the President needs to be allowed to speak before the officials of the Congress
01:16and they cannot divulge confidential and classified information because of their position.
01:23But Escudero said that this is not a blanket privilege for the executives.
01:28This is not a reason for them not to go and attend.
01:31This is a right that they are given in return
01:34if they can invoke the executive privilege in a question
01:38about the details of the talks between the members of the Cabinet and the President.
01:44This is what Escudero said when he tried to stop the hearing about the ICC last Thursday.
01:50That's not true. I don't want to comment on the rumors.
01:53No, we did not talk about the ICC.
01:56Senator Marcos said that he wants to continue the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing.
02:01It depends if I can form resource persons.
02:04I need former justices, experts in international law.
02:09It's hard for me to get them.
02:11Some are afraid, others said they will be involved in politics.
02:16I understand that it's important to know what really happened.
02:20Now, if they are angry, the hearing is anti-administration.
02:25For me, it's simple, I'm asking because I don't know the answer.
02:30During the hearing last week,
02:32it seemed that President Marcos is trying to show off
02:35that he cooperated with Interpol to arrest the former President
02:39and his sister, Senator Aimee Marcos, who is investigating this decision.
02:44In the past few days,
02:45some have noticed that President Marcos did not mention Senator Marcos in the campaigns.
02:50In Laguna last Saturday, instead of 12, only 11 candidates were mentioned by the President.
02:56Let's not make this alliance of 10, 11 people, 11 candidates,
03:03who are running as Senators, to be included in the alliance.
03:07The Palacio asked the President about this statement.
03:10Let's just wait for the next rallies so we can know what he really meant by this.
03:16Did Senator Aimee and PBBM have a chance to talk?
03:21According to Senator Aimee, she is not talking to the President yet.
03:25Yesterday, Senator Marcos spoke about this.
03:28I don't know, I haven't asked yet.
03:30You have not withdrawn from the alliance?
03:32No, no, no action taken.
03:33From the polls, I said that I'm independent
03:36because I'm afraid that something bad will happen
03:42and I don't want to get involved in fights.
03:45I'm afraid that the two sides will really clash.
03:49And it happened.
03:50For GMA Integrated News, I'm Mav Gonzalez.
03:53For Tutok, I have 24 hours.
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