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00:00The security of President Bongbong Marcos has been doubled
00:04following the arrest of Vice President Sara Duterte.
00:07The President left for the United Arab Emirates for a working visit.
00:12Duterte's so-called political persecution
00:15is what the government is doing to him.
00:17Ivan Mayrena has a report.
00:19That kind of criminalization should not be allowed to pass.
00:28That is my promise.
00:31That is the answer of President Bongbong Marcos
00:33during the arrest of Vice President Sara Duterte
00:36in her life this weekend.
00:38I was talking to someone.
00:40I told him, if you kill me,
00:43kill BBM, Lisa Araneta, and Martin Romales.
00:48The President said, if that's how easy it is for the President to kill,
00:52how about ordinary citizens?
00:55If only VP Sara had answered the questions
00:58about the use of confidential funds,
01:00this kind of drama would not have happened to her.
01:03The truth should not be talked about.
01:06Instead of giving a straightforward answer,
01:08they are trying to make it sound like a joke.
01:11The joke that the President is talking about
01:13probably has something to do with the suspicious name
01:16Mary Grace Piatos,
01:17who signed the acknowledgment receipt for the OVP fund.
01:21According to VP Sara's statement,
01:24she was called by the DOJ as a self-confessed mastermind
01:27of the assassination plot against the President.
01:30They will give her a chance to explain herself.
01:34She is ready to answer.
01:36I would gladly answer,
01:39but they should also answer my questions to them.
01:44We will talk about it once the subpoena is there.
01:47She first said that she will kill the President
01:50if someone kills her, but for the DOJ.
01:53If such an event happens, who will benefit?
01:56She is the beneficiary of the death of the President.
01:59So her words have to be taken in the proper context.
02:04Many can file criminal cases against the Vice President.
02:09She can also discipline Ombudsman
02:12and be disbarred as a lawyer.
02:15This is clear political harassment.
02:18This is clear political persecution.
02:20If someone threatens you, it doesn't matter.
02:22If someone threatens them, national security.
02:25Where are you?
02:26In the first statement, VP Sara said that
02:28her statements about the President were maliciously taken out of context,
02:33which is considered a national security concern of the National Security Council.
02:38The NSC said that the threat to the President is a national security concern.
02:48But apparently, they really do not consider the threat to the Vice President as anything of a concern.
02:56Ivan Meirena reporting for GMA Integrated News.
03:01House Speaker Martin Romualdez denied the accusation of Vice President Sara Duterte
03:06that he has a plan to kill the Vice President.
03:09In Duterte's response to the hearing in the House of Representatives,
03:12he questioned the extension of the contempt order to his Chief of Staff.
03:16Reporting to Jonathan Anda.
03:21How can you ask a resource person without giving him copies?
03:25Without giving him copies.
03:27Mr. Chair, point of order.
03:28In the hearing of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability,
03:32Vice President Sara Duterte and ACT Teachers Party List Representative Franz Castro responded.
03:37Why is it that the Vice President is batting?
03:41Yes, ma'am.
03:42The point of order is proper.
03:44But there should be no point of order.
03:47Well, point of order.
03:48The hearing was suspended, but VP Sara approached the congressmen leading the committee.
03:55The VP questioned the removal of Antipolo Representative Romeo Acop
04:00to Deped Special Disbursement Officer Edward Fajarda
04:03who did not give him a copy of the document he was asking for.
04:07VP Sara also violated the contempt order for five days
04:11against his Chief of Staff, Atty. Zulaika Lopez.
04:14It was not enough in the hearing of Lopez
04:16because according to the certificate of confinement and excuse letter he was given,
04:20he has an acute stress disorder.
04:23His doctors are not saying here that he is not physically incapable of attending today's hearing.
04:34We saw in the history of his evasive attitude, behavior,
04:42and his creation that he is lying.
04:47If VP Sara knows this, why would she blame Lopez for this?
04:51Of the four DepEd officials,
04:53now the President is the one who is receiving resignations from Assistant Secretaries and Undersecretaries
04:58as this is also the appointing authority.
05:00I asked you earlier, who is the appointing authority?
05:04Yusef of ASEC, what is your answer?
05:06Secretary.
05:07You don't know.
05:08I haven't answered yet.
05:10I saw you answering.
05:12Camera.
05:13I saw you answering.
05:14You said Secretary.
05:15You don't know everything.
05:17The one who is appointing is the President.
05:20One minute suspension is declared by the Chair.
05:22You need to reconsider that extension of your detention.
05:25It was illegal in the first place.
05:27You asked the President why he accepted the resignation.
05:32Do not ask due process.
05:35I will go to court.
05:36Yes, but that is your...
05:39Yes, but that is your...
05:40But every day, you are depriving a person of her liberty while I await...
05:47The special disbursing officer of the Office of the Vice President, Gina Acosta, is also in front of the camera.
05:52Acosta is the one who is assigned to sign the disbursement voucher
05:55and get the check for the P125 million pesos of December 2022.
06:01But while he is being asked in front of the camera,
06:03he became weak and was sent to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center.
06:06According to VP Sara, Acosta's penalty is P150 over P100.
06:10The DepEd Special Disbursement Officer, Edward Fajarda, was also in front of the camera.
06:15He withdrew P37.5 million pesos three times in February 2023.
06:21In total, that amounted to P112 million pesos of confidential funds.
06:26Fajarda said that the security officer, Colonel Dennis Nolasco,
06:30is the one who is giving money to those who are accepting confidential funds.
06:33The instruction came from...
06:35VP Sara.
06:36This is the reason why we don't want to discuss confidential funds.
06:40That's why there is a law that prohibits the discussion of confidential funds.
06:46We will wait for Colonel Nolasco.
06:48VP Sara said that she doesn't know who Nolasco gave the money to.
06:52Based on the liquidation report of DepEd,
06:54DepEd gave confidential funds to seven places including Makati, Davao, Negros Oriental, and Negros Occidental.
07:01Nolasco did not deny it.
07:03House Speaker Martin Romualdez challenged VP Sara to answer the questions related to confidential funds.
07:09The issues surrounding confidential and intelligence funds,
07:13the questionable disbursements, and the lack of transparency demand answers.
07:19If you are not hiding anything, why don't you answer the questions?
07:24He denied the accusation of VP Sara that he has a plan to kill her.
07:28VP Sara should also be held accountable for confessing that she hired a VC to kill Romualdez,
07:34President Marcos, and First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos.
07:37If someone wants to kill VP Sara.
07:40This is no longer a joke.
07:41This is no longer a normal conversation.
07:44This is a direct threat to our democracy.
07:48Jonathan Andal reporting for GMA Integrated News.
07:52Former President Rodrigo Duterte spoke about the charges of his son, Vice President Sara Duterte,
07:58against President Marcos.
08:00Former President Duterte said,
08:02VP Sara's head just got hot.
08:04He even challenged him to sue his son.
08:11That's nothing for Inday.
08:13Inday can do that.
08:15It's too insignificant.
08:19If they will sue Inday, they will sue her.
08:23She can't be jailed.
08:32A passenger bus in Batuan, Iloilo, was set on fire.
08:36According to the firefighters, the fire started under the bus.
08:39The problem is the electrical wiring of the sunheat.
08:43No one was hurt because the driver, conductor, and 20 passengers were able to get out of the bus.
08:56More than 40 families lost their homes in Maypajo, Caloocan.
09:00Because of the boundary, some houses in Balut, Tondo, Manila were burned.
09:04Responding to the fire was difficult because the entrance is narrow.
09:08In the big fire that happened yesterday in Isla Puting Bato,
09:11more than 2,000 families lost their homes.
09:16Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Pastor Apolo Quibuloy
09:19went under for a new medical examination.
09:22According to the PNP, the court approved the motion of Campo Ni Quibuloy for this.
09:26Quibuloy will also be in the Philippine Heart Center this Saturday
09:29and is expected to return to the PNP Custodial Center on Wednesday.
09:34Darlene Cai reporting for GMA Integrated News.
09:39It's already 30 days since Christmas.
09:41In addition to the Christmas trees you can see,
09:43there are more than 200 Christmas trees in Tagum City, Davao del Norte.
09:49It took more than two months to make the Christmas tree
09:52with the design of Noah's Ark.
09:55This is higher than the one they made last year, which is 197 feet.
10:03In Paris,
10:04the length of Champs-Elysees Avenue is amazing.
10:08They put LED lights in 400 trees
10:12to make it look like a wine glass.
10:18Close your eyes.
10:21That is from her.
10:25Birthday girl Zia Dandez is excited about the special package from her idol,
10:30Olivia Rodrigo.
10:32Thank you!
10:35Zia's parents, Dandez and Rivera,
10:39are looking forward to the celebration of their 10 years of marriage next month.
10:44My husband is the one who planned it.
10:46I don't want to celebrate this because we've been blessed by God for 10 years.
10:53Very simple with family.
10:57Another TikTok entry of Dennis Trillo.
10:59Dennis Trillo is looking forward to it.
11:00Before the money of millions of views escapes him.
11:06Aubrey Carampel reporting for GMA Integrated News.
11:29you