00:00The talk has been rife about a cabinet reshuffle or a revamp once again.
00:05Yeah, you keep talking about that. I don't know why.
00:08Well, there seems to be a lot of sources who keep on whispering.
00:11Whispers have been, Malacanang has been filled with whispers.
00:15Take for example.
00:15Why? Who's going to be changed again?
00:18According to reports with sources not being cited, DOH secretary.
00:25My favorite source of information, sources not being cited.
00:29Sir, unfortunately, the SOTOLO protects us from citing our sources.
00:33Okay, fair enough.
00:35For example, DOH secretary Ted Herbosa has been reportedly on his way out,
00:40allegedly to be replaced by a former DOH undersecretary, Vergere.
00:46Yeah.
00:47Let's go.
00:48I heard that too.
00:50But the most I hear about it is from you guys, not from within government.
00:59So, no cabinet reshuffle happening because everybody's on a wait-and-see mode on whether or not Ben-Hur Abalos
01:04will make a comeback into your administration.
01:07And who will be removed?
01:09Allegedly?
01:10Yeah.
01:10Oh, well, there were a lot of options according to the Malacanang's information.
01:16I'm, okay.
01:17I'll be very candid.
01:18I'll be very frank with you.
01:19Of course, I want Ben-Hur to play a more active role in government.
01:24Of course, he has been there and he has been helping us in many ways, informally, privately.
01:30I wouldn't mind finding a way for him to help us in an official capacity.
01:39But just because we want him to join, to become a more active, to play a more active part in
01:49government, doesn't mean, it necessarily means that somebody else has to be, it's not a zero-sum thing in the
01:57cabinet.
01:58That you have to remove somebody to gain somebody else.
02:01And, you know, I think we have a really good group of people in the cabinet right now.
02:06And we are working well together.
02:11And I don't see the need.
02:13I don't see why you keep talking.
02:16Why does this subject keep coming up?
02:18Because a lot of people have...
02:19Because I have to tell you, when we sit around the table in meetings, we don't talk about that.
02:25So, sir, definitely no cabinet reshuffle happening.
02:28Size of relief, your cabinet secretaries...
02:31Who else?
02:32Reshuffle means more than one.
02:33Who else?
02:34There were also information from multiple sources claiming...
02:39Multiple sources.
02:40Of course, at least two.
02:42Anyway, sir, there are some sources who have been claiming that Secretary Ramulya, John Vick in particular, maybe moved to
02:52another agency to be...
02:53So, like which agency now when they go to...
02:55Allegedly.
02:57Okay.
02:58Just tell us what to hear.
03:00Sir, supposedly, you were thinking of putting Benhur Avalos either to the DILG post or the DOJ post.
03:08However, that's not yet happening.
03:10What's keeping you from actually appointing him to a post when you have already mentioned that you are quite interested
03:15in giving him an active capacity in your government again?
03:18But again, it's counterproductive.
03:22You know, what you are trying to promote in government is stability and a steadiness of work.
03:30And that's an important part of governance.
03:33If you keep moving people around, they have to start learning the job again.
03:36And we just don't have time for that.
03:40And the people who are sitting in their particular capacities, be it cabinet, be it something other, some other agency,
03:49are, as far as I'm concerned, are doing the job that they are asked to do.
03:56And I have gained already the experience that they have learned lessons from.
04:02And to just keep moving people around for no really good reason, it makes no sense to me.
