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00:00Did you certify to the correctness of the liquidation reports on the use of the debt
00:09and confidential funds?
00:11Mr. Chair, we don't have a partner here, we don't have a point of order for us.
00:16How can you ask a resource person without giving him copies?
00:20Without giving him copies?
00:21Mr. Chair, point of order, Mr. Chair.
00:22Madam Vice President, please wait to be recognized.
00:26Give him copies.
00:28Vice President Sara Duterte was shocked when congressmen asked her former special disbursing
00:34officer in DepEd, Edward Fajarda, gate of the vice president, why didn't he immediately
00:38give a copy of the document to the staff of the office of the vice president?
00:42At this point, Vice President Duterte and Congresswoman Franz Castro also answered.
00:48Representative Ako is asking our resource person, why is it that the vice president
00:54is batting?
00:55Yes, Madam.
00:56But it's not appropriate!
00:57There's no point of order.
00:58One minute is just declared by the chair.
00:59Well, point of order.
01:00When the hearing was suspended, the vice president was allowed to stand, and the congressmen
01:01were allowed to go.
01:02The four OVP staff were present at the hearing, who were first contempted and the committee
01:03arrested because they did not attend the hearings several times.
01:04But the chief of staff of the vice president, Attorney Zulaica Lopez, was not present, who
01:05was still at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center.
01:06In Lopez's excuse letter, he wrote there, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be at the
01:07hearing.
01:08I'm not going to attend the hearing.
01:09I'm here to sue you.
01:10I'm warning you.
01:11I'm warning you.
01:12I'm warning you, I'm warning you.
01:13I'm warning you.
01:14contempt and was arrested by the committee because he did not attend the hearing several times.
01:19But the chief of staff of BC, Atty. Zulaica Lopez, who is still at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center,
01:25did not go to Lopez's excuse letter because of acute stress disorder.
01:29What his doctors are not saying here is that he is not physically incapable of attending today's hearing.
01:40I just find it a little bit odd, Mr. Chair, that it is not mentioned here that because of his condition, he will not be able to attend.
01:53Because Lopez did not attend and because of what happened this weekend,
01:57the committee decided to add another five days for the contempt order against Lopez.
02:02I move, Mr. Chair, that the period of detention of Atty. Lopez be ten days instead of five days.
02:32The barge, his room, is already included. So all of the events, Mr. Chair.
02:39The extension of the contempt order was requested by the congressmen who are allies of the Duterte, as well as the BC.
02:45The point of the BC, why is it that Lopez will be punished for his incitement to the four DepEd officials
02:51when the President is receiving resignations from the Assistant Secretary and Undersecretary,
02:56as well as the appointing authority?
02:59I'm sorry, sir. I asked you, who is the appointing authority?
03:03Yousef of ASEC. What is your answer? Secretary. You don't know.
03:08I haven't answered yet.
03:10I saw you. Answer.
03:12Camera.
03:14I saw you. Answer.
03:16You said Secretary.
03:18You don't know everything.
03:20The one appointing is the President.
03:22One minute suspension is declared by the Chair.
03:24The tension escalated and the BC asked to reconsider the extension of the contempt order to Lopez.
03:30You need to reconsider that extension of your detention. It was illegal in the first place.
03:35You asked the President why he accepted the resignation. Do not ask due process.
03:43If you have any question insofar as the actions of this committee are concerned,
03:49I think the proper remedy is for you to go to the court.
03:53Sir, I will go to court.
03:55But every day, you are depriving a person of her liberty, while I await.
04:04That is precisely the point, ma'am.
04:06If our action of detaining your Chief of Staff is against the law,
04:12I think the proper remedy, and I think you're a lawyer, the proper remedy is to go to the court.
04:19Sir, do you really want to show the Filipino people what you know about the law?
04:25That is the decision of the committee as a whole.
04:27I'm just helping you, sir.
04:29Because the Filipinas are ashamed.
04:31Is this how the House of Representatives is?