00:00Senior Counsel Daily was responding to the Prime Minister's Facebook post.
00:05Titled, My Government Will Not Buy Votes, in which she alleged,
00:10that two independent senators sought personal favors in exchange for support.
00:15He tells the Morning Edition, if such claims are triggered,
00:20the Prime Minister has a clear constitutional avenue to address them.
00:25And expose these persons by making those allegations.
00:30In the Parliament, where she has absolute privilege, whatever medium she used to give.
00:35To get these allegations out there is a very tawdry thing to do.
00:40I won't comment on it beyond that, simply to say, make the allegations specific.
00:45And if you feel you're running a risk of anything, do it in the Parliament.
00:50You have absolute privilege.
00:51He also takes issue with what he describes as...
00:55...repeated attempts to cast doubt on the integrity of the independent bench.
01:00Particularly suggestions that senators appointed by the President are politically...
01:05...kind through influence.
01:06The Senior Counsel acknowledges that scrutiny of appointees...
01:10...in the President's statements is not without basis, but warns against branding independent senators...
01:15...as political proxies.
01:16There is some justification for the...
01:20...in the President's statements.
01:21There is a feeling that, you know, there are perceptions about this, but they can only...
01:25...be perceptions.
01:26You can't translate those perceptions and automatically...
01:30...to say that the independent senators are somehow flunkies of the President.
01:35But that just doesn't make sense.
01:36And I repeat, their performance now and their performance...
01:40...last July when they were attacked during the debates about the...
01:45...improvement of the Prime Minister's...
01:47...the pension attaching to the Prime Minister's office...
01:50...they performed very well in the face of those barrages.
01:55Separately, Daily weighs in on the Police Commissioner's response to the recent fatal shooting...
02:00...in St. Augustine.
02:01He says the comments sent the wrong signal...
02:05...at a time of heightened public concern.
02:07I can't condemn enough.
02:10...the statements made by the Commission of Police...
02:12...he gave the impression...
02:14...that left...
02:15...to him, regardless of the circumstances of the shooting...
02:19...they may have other...
02:20...but left him, regardless of the circumstances of the...
02:23...this shooting...
02:25...that he's going to give his boys a bligh...
02:28...and that's impossible.
02:30Daily says he agrees with the Law Association's position...
02:33...that criminal law...
02:35...applies equally to police officers.
02:38Nicole M. Rom...
02:40...this is Anthony, TV6 News.
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