00:00The prosecution team in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte drops her alleged bagman and her two security
00:07officers from its witness lineup.
00:09Prosecution spokesperson Ace Barbers confirms the prosecution will no longer present Cols Raymond Blachica and Dennis Nolasco and former counterintelligence
00:18agent Ramil Madriaga.
00:20Duterte's special disbursing officers in the OVP and the DepEd Gina Acosta and Edward Fajarda said they turned over hundreds
00:27of millions of pesos in confidential funds to Lachica and Nolasco, this in an apparent violation of the joint circular
00:33governing confidential spending.
00:35The prosecution seeks to expedite the trial and finish presenting its confidential fund misuse case against Duterte by September 9.