00:00We may all make those mistakes. Even I may make that mistake.
00:03And I'm telling you, please call me out if I make a mistake and ask the kind of question
00:06that should not properly be asked by a judge.
00:09Manifest my support for the statement and observation of the presiding officer.
00:14That was like a closing statement, Mr. President.
00:17So I don't think this is fair because, you know, some parts are exciting, some parts are dragging.
00:24We're trying our best to be paying attention and what evidence, you know, we have to affect the evidence.
00:30Before us, what is admissible, what is not. The official objections will come later.
00:34But when we allow this to happen, then we shortcut the process.
00:41So, if I may, with all due respect, Mr. President, admonish us.
00:47Call us out if the question natin is also not proper at the proper time.
00:54We may all make those mistakes. Even I may make that mistake.
00:57And I'm telling you, please call me out if I make a mistake and ask the kind of question
01:01that should not properly be asked by a judge at that particular time.
01:06Because it is not right.
01:08We must follow the rules.
01:09And I know you are being courteous to all of us.
01:12But that was a closing statement.
01:16And I also ask the parties involved.
01:19You have an oath as lawyers.
01:23Don't take advantage of the generosity of this impeachment court.
01:28I don't want to see this happen again.
01:31Thank you, Mr. President.
01:32Julie noted and well taken.
01:34The chair, as I said, or as the presiding officer said earlier, reminded our colleagues with respect to similar questions
01:44to be asked in the future.
01:46Your Honor, may I...
01:49We are going to make a ruling that the counsel for the respondent will be given, I think that was
01:55approximately 8 minutes or 10 minutes.
01:58We will get the exact time to answer after the cross-examination of this witness so that we would be
02:05fair in listening and hearing the views of both parties in regard to the query raised earlier.
02:13Senator Judge Pia Cayetano?
02:15Yeah, sorry, Mr. President.
02:16I don't mean to interrupt.
02:19I want to give the defense to your time.
02:21I respectfully move that the statements of the prosecution be stricken off the record.
02:27It is not proper for those statements that have been made.
02:31Ms. Rizan De Veros is recognized.
02:35What is your pleasure, ma'am?
02:36Salamat po, Mr. Presiding Officer.
02:39Just a point of clarity.
02:41Briefly, if I may, Mr. Presiding Officer.
02:44Salamat po, Mr. Presiding Officer.
02:45And of course, I will submit to any ruling or statement of the presiding officer to this Senator Judge.
02:54But for clarity, Mr. Presiding Officer, my question po had to do with how the evidence is material to the
03:02allegations in the Articles of Impeachment.
03:05Kasi nga po, hindi naman napapatunayan na the Vice President actually sought an assassin.
03:11I wanted to appreciate the evidence before me in light of the Articles of Impeachment.
03:17If you wish to strike out the response of the prosecutor, then so be it, Mr. Presiding Officer.
03:23But for clarity again, my intention was not to provoke a closing statement.
03:29Salamat po, Mr. Presiding Officer.
03:30We will review the transcript again.
03:42You
