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SMNI suspension more personal than legal,’ says lawyer | Business and Politics  SMNI lawyer and former congressman Rolex Suplico doubts the integrity of Congresswoman Migs Nograles after filling House Resolution 1499, which urges the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to suspend SMNI’s operations. He implies the move was more personal than legal.   Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe   Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net   Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #SMNIBusinessandPolitics

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00:00 before i leave this legal discussion

00:02 uh...

00:03 behind you know uh...

00:06 do you see any hope i mean from a legal perspective i mean uh...

00:10 is there any hope you think that uh...

00:12 you know that that the network to be back on air or

00:15 uh...

00:17 all of this happened

00:19 that you know that i would be a nice place for the damage done

00:23 disorder

00:24 contains

00:25 the least of

00:26 stations

00:27 of the v_m_ radio stations here

00:30 okay you know how many

00:32 uh...

00:32 dvd still on the radio stations

00:34 as a man i have

00:36 what it does thirty operating

00:39 uh... radio and tv station white twenty nine

00:41 non-operating for a total of

00:43 fifty nine stations ok nationwide ok that's a lot of stations

00:48 it's a network

00:49 it's a big network

00:53 people are out of work

00:54 uh... we are not operating on another platform

00:58 let me be not on

00:59 three not for the area

01:02 what what is happening here

01:04 the n_p_c_ supposed to protect us right government is also supposed to protect

01:08 uh... as a man i am

01:10 that that uh... freedom of information

01:12 the press freedom is there yet we are not protected were left our own devices

01:17 what's in store for us

01:19 we can only get justice

01:21 from the supreme court

01:23 uh... a lot of people would say

01:25 or point out the obvious that

01:27 this is really not about elite legality or what is legal right but this is

01:31 really about

01:32 something political i for for for this series i want to

01:36 you know i want to ask you to put your your congressman's hat on and give me

01:40 your your political analysis right because

01:43 it you know

01:44 it's obvious at least to me that you know that we're not talking about

01:48 legal arguments here

01:50 but really the you know it seems like it's more political

01:53 that's encroaching now

01:54 and all no matter how

01:56 but look at it is

01:58 into something you got right you know what's your take there what's your

02:01 political analysis here

02:03 two years ago i think we're all friends

02:06 remember

02:07 and the president went to our event that the debate was a debate uh...

02:12 deep probe

02:14 uh... i think

02:15 all the uh...

02:17 uh... officials of the

02:18 present government are

02:20 were there

02:21 were there listening to uh... the boss yes uh... answer questions from us sure

02:25 okay

02:26 now what happened

02:27 who is afraid of the same night okay she no bond

02:30 quotes as a midnight

02:32 what

02:33 we don't see

02:34 a polarization in politics okay so you have

02:37 uh...

02:38 sara dot f_d_ okay and

02:40 on the other hand you also have

02:42 uh... speaker

02:43 martin rumaldez okay

02:45 they'd be still are clashing

02:46 sure the first open water was the uh...

02:49 uh... budget

02:50 of the department of education

02:52 became a big dot the intelligence was that it is fine so now uh...

02:56 webcast

02:58 as a man i stand there

02:59 okay as a man i is identified to be

03:01 in double-based

03:03 uh... network

03:04 and therefore allied with the defense okay

03:08 as a man i out of the equation and maybe

03:11 uh... the other side will feel that they have a fighting chance

03:15 you know i've asked this from you know uh... jason sa and i think that you know

03:20 as you said who's afraid of as a man i because you know uh...

03:23 a lot of uh...

03:25 journalists are saying that you know as a man i is is is french

03:28 right that it's

03:29 not part of uh... established media but you know the grudgingly

03:34 press freedom as well you know and maybe somehow sympathize

03:37 with estimate the point is that

03:39 it seems like it's a very small network i mean that

03:42 how much damage

03:44 do you think it can be again you know i'm asking you

03:46 for a political analysis here

03:48 because uh...

03:50 you know it it seems like uh...

03:53 you know in even the people from here at least from the people i i've talked to

03:57 they're not against the government

03:58 in fact they want the president to succeed

04:01 and so where's the threat

04:03 that's the point i'm trying to make right

04:05 and as you said

04:06 there were friendly with the network

04:09 before the elections

04:10 and now things have seemingly changed

04:13 uh... well you know

04:14 it's only now that i realize the rich

04:18 estimate nine okay fifty nine

04:20 stations operating nationwide okay that's a lot

04:24 for a network

04:27 the the

04:28 fifty nine

04:29 and we were still operating on the other platform

04:32 okay you too

04:33 uh... what else

04:35 all the rest of the other social media free to air but in the last year

04:39 they were trying to

04:40 silence us

04:41 in those

04:42 uh... platforms as well

04:44 what were they saying

04:45 they were saying that they should uh... government should stop us from operating

04:48 on youtube

04:49 on the other platforms as well on what legal basis

04:52 they were trying to prove

04:53 they were trying to ask mtrcb and tc to stop us

04:57 so can you imagine

04:58 why stop us on

05:00 uh...

05:01 uh... outside of the free to air uh... system

05:05 outside of the tv and radio stations

05:08 maybe they still feel

05:09 the the the power of the smni

05:11 but you know

05:12 you've been

05:13 you know associated with this network longer than i have i think you have a

05:16 radio program yes long before you ask panjero

05:20 i'm trying to recall was there anything you know before this

05:25 confrontation with as you said the speaker and the vice president

05:28 was there anything that that that you heard that may be threatening to

05:32 the speaker or the administration because i can't recall any i mean to me

05:36 to be honest with you maybe they cannot imagine that smni will be free of

05:40 the ball okay which double connections okay in fact

05:44 uh... in the prayer rally in the ball okay and the feastivities that

05:48 you know preceded it

05:49 okay that afternoon okay uh...

05:52 only as a man i

05:54 the program there i see uh...

05:56 and what is the effect

05:58 no it it was uh... i think that the program was held together with

06:01 uh... boggle

06:03 uh... bob bob bob

06:04 bob lip in a couple of the finance yet the program in double

06:07 overshadowed by one thing to do that

06:11 i think that's

06:13 i think that's uh... the domain of as a man i don't know what the point of time

06:17 to make was that

06:18 you know to put it in philippine and even a lot of money

06:21 but i don't know what point you know i mean at least before the you know the

06:25 these exchanges that you mentioned with uh... with

06:29 the budget of the all the p

06:31 and the house

06:33 do you recall any incident where you know it's not because i think that for

06:37 the from what i hear from

06:39 uh... the circuit below a statement that may be even from the former president

06:42 that they're there

06:43 they weren't against the marcus and i know that they wanted to

06:47 uh... the president to succeed in the back

06:49 i would say

06:51 as a man i is more government than government

06:55 it's more focus than the pope

06:57 well it's uh... people do it as a government states all that help us

07:00 understand the hero what what

07:03 what are the political undercurrents here what why is this happening here

07:08 click i think that they cannot be much of a situation where

07:11 as a man i would support

07:12 okay they can be the c_o_o_

07:14 speaker martin romaldez i see president

07:18 president

07:18 bobo marcos

07:20 just because of that yes i i don't think that's that situation is

07:23 uh... cannot be imagined

07:25 whenever happen

07:27 help us understand also

07:28 what's going on in in in in in the house right because

07:32 as i understand that the first uh... resolution or or bill filed

07:37 was by attorney uh... congresswoman uh... makes the greatest right of course

07:41 is also from from that what

07:43 well how do you read that

07:45 political development there with

07:47 well i was looking to share publicly i i i don't want to know if i think there

07:50 are two

07:51 resolutions filed by the mccabe black

07:53 okay but then i'm

07:54 luncheon

07:55 okay then uh... after the allegation

07:58 of the speaker

08:00 a traveling expenses okay well

08:02 congressman j_j_ as well as delivered a privilege speech okay

08:06 after that

08:07 uh... congresswoman no grunt is

08:09 uh... find this recent

08:10 find her resolution

08:12 okay calling for the suspension of the seminar right for alleged franchise

08:15 violations

08:17 now after that

08:18 congressman uh... uh... which areas of one writer parties

08:21 filed his house bill

08:23 for the occasion of the front sides of the assembly night

08:26 okay

08:26 let's talk about the notices okay

08:29 before

08:30 the idea became president

08:31 they're already fighting

08:32 over in the world

08:33 i see

08:34 that the latest be kept

08:36 uh... no grunt is

08:37 was uh... at one time i understand was a candidate against

08:40 uh... then uh... myriad the candidate uh...

08:43 uh...

08:44 uh... really good to get there

08:46 but of course

08:47 he lost to the death of it

08:48 okay not what you read that the president's seat

08:51 they were together

08:52 okay uh...

08:54 uh... call congressman then congressman carlon of goddess

08:57 was the

08:58 uh... cabinet secretary right

09:00 that just before the term ended

09:02 the appointed him

09:04 the had his own a little bit of a pointed

09:06 civil service chairman of civil service commission which is actually one of the

09:09 constitutional

09:11 commissions right

09:12 and with that term

09:13 yeah with a fixed on my dick i think seven years yeah okay

09:16 remember when

09:17 the uh... a franchise of uh... as a man i was up for a new one

09:21 the sponsors for that

09:23 no grouse brothers

09:25 carlo and uh... i i i think that the name of the other

09:27 jojo

09:28 okay they were dot the sponsors all

09:30 uh... house bill

09:32 calling for the renewal

09:34 on the front side so as a man so what happened

09:37 they understand

09:38 that in the brunt of the elections

09:40 there was a big fight over in the ball

09:41 okay and they were able to uh...

09:44 inside double cd

09:45 okay so the stage set for the

09:48 the thirty no grouse uh...

09:50 fight again

09:50 okay once again in twenty

09:53 twenty five point twenty five okay but that's different

09:55 what about speaker and the ground up speaker of the modest yeah

09:59 i think that's a different uh... peaceful together

10:01 okay but i think that is the uh...

10:04 fight for that

10:05 success or

10:06 to president

10:07 bobo marcos

10:09 in fact i would buy that up to that

10:11 people's initiative

10:13 but you know a lot of people would point out that they are they were

10:16 part of the same

10:20 i mean

10:21 political you know

10:23 uh... personality as well

10:25 does that surprise you that you know i'm

10:27 this is the way how it is unfolding because you know

10:30 you know from from an outsider

10:32 right i mean

10:33 my my assumption would be if you have higher political ambition

10:37 then then your your move should be to bring people together add people to your

10:42 side right

10:43 but this seems to be dividing uh...

10:46 what is already a unified movement right what is your take on that

10:50 they say politics is a vision

10:52 right yeah i see some structure right

10:55 we see division

10:56 i think it's up to the president

10:58 to place card

10:59 a very well

11:00 he has a card to play

11:02 uh... it's up to him to call the uh... the the what

11:05 wiring parties together

11:07 until then to uh... you know

11:09 smoke the peace pipe

11:11 but we're waiting for that

11:12 only a word from the president will stop this

11:15 interviews

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11:23 x

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