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00:30Tratlong senador ang hindi nakadalo.
00:32Sa unang beses pa lang nangyayari sa kasaysayan ang pagsalang sa paglilitis ng isang bisepresidente ng Pilipinas.
00:39Si Senador Ronald de la Rosa na nagtatago at mga nakakulong na sina Senador Jingoy Estrada at Rodante Marcoleta.
00:48Agad naging mainit ang talakayan ng tutulan ng ilang minority senators ang binuksang proseso para sa pagboto ng bagong presiding
00:57officer.
00:58Argumenta ni Senador Alan Peter Cayetano, Senate President, ang dapat tumayong presiding officer.
01:04Pagkaman hindi daw ito nakasulat sa saligang batas, ito naman daw ang intensyon ng framers ng 1987 Constitution, base sa
01:13transcript ng kanilang deliberasyon noon.
01:16Institutional integrity. We need to protect the legitimacy of these proceedings.
01:22Even with the substitute presiding officer acts fairly, a conviction or acquittal reached under constitutionally defective process would invite judicial
01:32challenge and cast doubt on the validity of the entire trial.
01:36Punto ni Cayetano, nagugat ang issue sa kinokwestiyon niyang sasyon noong Hunyo kunsan inamiandahan ng impeachment rules para payagan ang
01:46eleksyon ng presiding officer ng impeachment.
01:49Sagot ni Gatchalian, dumaan ito sa tamang proseso?
01:52No one objected to that resolution and it was duly approved by the body.
01:57So any discussion regarding this resolution should be discussed in plenary when the Senate convenes as a legislative body.
02:13Si Rigundan si Cayetano ng kanyang kapatid.
02:16We looked at what the constitutional framers said. What did they say? This is the foundation of this trial na
02:23tama yung nakaupong presiding officer.
02:26Si Sen. Kiko Pangilinan, nagpuntong dinala na ni Cayetano ang usapin sa Supreme Court sa pawamagitan ng petisyong ipawalang visa
02:35ang June 3 session.
02:36The matter is pending before the Supreme Court. There is no temporary restraining order.
02:42There was a request for a status quo anti-order. It was not granted.
02:47The point of order is improper. In fact, the debate on this matter here in the impeachment court is out
03:00of order.
03:00Sa huli, nagkaroon ng butohan.
03:02Pursuant to rule two of the rules of procedures on impeachment trials as amended.
03:08Instead, I move to elect Sen. Judge Francis Joseph Guevara Escudero as the presiding officer of this impeachment court.
03:20Objection, Mr. President, and may allow to...
03:22We proceed, we proceed to...
03:23Objection, Mr. President, I'm allowed to object and I'm allowed to explain my objection.
03:27You're allowed to object but we will proceed with the division of the House.
03:3111 senador ang bumoto kay Escudero, 8 ang tumutol, hindi bumoto si Escudero.
03:38Sa pagpupaliwanag ng kanyang pagtutol, may patama si Cayetano kay Escudero.
03:43I have information that the 20 years AMLA records of Senator Escudero and his credit cards and bank accounts were
03:53all opened up in the office of the Senate President
03:56where members of the Blue Ribbon Committee was here.
03:59Then we're going to ask him to preside.
04:02So there's a problem with...
04:04This is my explanation.
04:05My...
04:05This is my explanation.
04:07This is my explanation.
04:08To the gentleman from the game.
04:09This is factual error.
04:10With all due respect, your statement's already out of order.
04:14It has nothing to do with the topic on hand.
04:17No, Mr. President.
04:18The presiding officer will strike off...
04:20It has all to do with this...
04:22Will strike off...
04:23It has all to do...
04:24The statements...
04:25Mr. President.
04:26... pertaining to Senator Escudero.
04:29Dahil umiinit na ang usapan, sandaling si Rusped ang trial.
04:33Dito na umakyat sa podium si Escudero sa tabi ni Quechallan para pamunuan ang impeachment court.
04:39Sa kanyang opening statement, may paalala si Escudero.
04:43This is why the trial must be guided with prudence.
04:46Tempered by caution and marked with unquestionable impartiality.
04:51We must avoid even the appearance of impropriety and observe the cold neutrality of an impartial judge at all times.
04:59May I therefore caution my fellow Senator Judges, the Prosecutors, the Respondent, and their respective Councils and Witnesses
05:06to refrain from making any comments and disclosures to the public pertaining to the merits of this trial as mandated
05:13by the impeachment rules itself.
05:15Tinalaki rin ni Escudero ang issue kung ilang boto ang kailangan para ma-convict ang respondent.
05:23The Constitution provides that no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members of
05:31the Senate.
05:32With 24 members of the Senate, a literal interpretation of this means that conviction requires the affirmative vote of at
05:40least 16 Senator Judges.
05:42G.T. Escudero, sakaling maglabas ng pasya ang Korte Suprema na iba sa kanyang sinabi, masusunod ang pasya ng Korte
05:51Suprema.
05:51I think you saw after si Sen. Cayetano tried to put it on record na it's the decision of the
05:57court na 16.
05:58I don't think legally that is the case right now in the sense that it can be brought up again.
06:04It still depends na how yung trial will go on and are there additional arrests that will be made? Are
06:10there Senators who cannot participate?
06:11Ang minority Senators naman, hindi pa rin isinusuko ang dapat-anilang pagsali ni na Sen. Estrada at Marculeta sa impeachment
06:20court.
06:21Baka raw pwede itong hingin sa sadigang bayan.
06:24Walang nag-object sa mga Sen. Judge mula sa mayurya.
06:29Pero para kay Sen. Rafi Tulfo, pwede kung manonood lang naman sa TV.
06:34Ang hinihingi po namin ay makapunta po sila dito bilang observer, hindi lang po basta monitor.
06:43Ipinag-utos naman ni presiding officer Escudero sa sekretaryat na i-upload online lahat ng dokumento, memo at ebidensya sa
06:52kaso para sa transparency.
06:55If a evidence presented is a fruit of the poisonous tree, will we upload that?
07:02In so far as documentary evidence is concerned, it will only be admitted and if at all admitted by the
07:10court and published once formal offer has been made.
07:14Until such time, we will not publish any documentary evidence even after being identified by a witness because it is
07:23the formal offer that will determine its admission by the court.
07:26Sandra Aguinaldo nagbabalita para sa GMA News.
07:32Sandra Aguinaldo.
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