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00:00We will now call on Manila 3rd District Representative Jowel Chua, Chairman of the House Committee on Government and Public Accountability.
00:09Good morning, Congressman Chua.
00:11Good morning, Igan, and to all your listeners.
00:14Did you attend the fellowship in Malacanang last night?
00:17Yes, we were there.
00:19What time did the fellowship end?
00:23Maybe around 8 or 8 o'clock. It was short.
00:29Has the fellowship been planned for a long time?
00:32As far as I know, it's been a long time.
00:36It's like a way for our President to greet Christmas.
00:43At the same time, last night, party leaders submitted a resolution expressing support to the President.
00:54Is this a human being or whose initiative is this?
00:59Well, I just joined the Partido ng Lakas. That's why I experienced this kind of fellowship last night.
01:11Did you talk about Christmas or impeachment?
01:16I didn't talk about impeachment.
01:19I just went there with other congressmen and party leaders.
01:24I just gave the President the resolution submitted by the House expressing full support to the President.
01:31After that, the President said thank you to the members and encouraged them to work.
01:40After that, there was a little picture-taking.
01:44There was a dinner and the congressmen left one by one.
01:49Did he not repeat his text message that impeachment by Vice President Sara Duterte is not a priority and that the other problems of the country should be prioritized?
01:59First of all, we didn't talk about impeachment.
02:03There's no message about that.
02:06We just greeted each other with Merry Christmas and the House just expressed full support.
02:13How many congressmen were in the fellowship, Congressman Chua?
02:17I can't count, but I think more than 200.
02:21More or less.
02:23Did you see Vice President Sara Duterte's brother, Congressman Paulo Duterte?
02:31I didn't notice.
02:33Did you notice former President Pampanga, Second District Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo?
02:38I didn't notice him because he was with other congressmen.
02:43We were just on the same side.
02:46Okay. Let's talk about impeachment.
02:49We didn't talk about it last night.
02:52There were two impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara in the House.
02:56What is the leadership's opinion on this, Congressman Chua?
02:59Especially you who are investigating the issue of funding of confidential funds of OBPF DepEd.
03:08As of now, the leadership is not telling us anything.
03:13As for us in the committee, we haven't talked about it yet.
03:19We are just discussing what will be included in our committee report.
03:28Hopefully, by next week, we will convene and finalize what will be included in our committee report.
03:35Is there a follow-up schedule of public hearing in your committee or it's already done?
03:41There's another one, but it's only for the members of the committee to tackle what will be included in our committee report.
03:54So you're not calling for the security aid of Vice President Sara that was mentioned as receiving confidential funds?
04:01Based on what we know, we were informed that there's an internal investigation being done on that.
04:09So we decided not to include it because it's an internal matter of the AFP.
04:19Is the evidence you found sufficient to address the complaint against Vice President Sara?
04:28Arnold, our primary purpose is in aid of legislation.
04:35Basically, what we are discussing are the laws that we will pass based on...
04:44Or amended.
04:45Or amended. There are suggestions.
04:49In fact, we have draft bills that were circulated to the members yesterday.
04:55Hopefully, by next week, we can pass and submit them to the Congress.
05:03According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, there's no Mary Grace Piatos in the Philippines.
05:10You're right. That came out of our certificate issued by the PSA.
05:23Check the receipts. Maybe there's a Maris Racal.
05:29Now you're going to cover other big news. Thank you very much Congressman Joel Chu.
05:37Merry Christmas. Be careful.
05:39Thank you very much Igan. Merry Christmas to all of you.
05:58For more information, visit www.fema.gov