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+ February 08, 2021 OVER the years, the Philippines have stood up for its rights in the West Philippine Sea, adopting a rule-based approach its own strategy in dealing with the issue. The fact that the Philippines is calm does not mean that we have given up our rights to our shoals and islands. The Philippines remains calm, as it does not want trouble and violence, still hoping to solve the problem through legal options and the government has been prudent in handling the disputes.
The Philippines brought China to court to settle the dispute with an Arbitral Tribunal under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) and won the case against China. The government filed a number of diplomatic protests against harassment by military and civilian Chinese vessels. Even in the midst of the pandemic, our government did not ignore the issue.
american president in history to get impeached. after that, it would go to the senate led by republicans and that senate trial could take two weeks, four weeks, right now, both sides agree on this. republicans are unlikely to commit and remove the president from office. all of this at the end of the day will be ultimately up to the voters on whether or not president trump should stay in office. well, the public testimony of 12 witnesses were fairly consistent in asserting the president s july 25th phone call with ukraine s leader amounted to, we all that term now, a quid pro quo. for more on this, here s cnn s jim acosta. reporter: still stinging from a week full of damaging testimony in the impeachment inquiry, president trump has dug in, refusing to answer some of the looming questions hanging over his administration. one top white house official tried to stop us from asking the question. any response to fiona hill?
in a may 29, 2019 interview, ms. kellyanne conway, counselor to the president reportedly scoffed at her responsibilities under the hatch act and ridiculed its enforcement by asserting let me know when the jail sentence starts. her defiant attitude is inimical to the law and her continued pattern of misconduct is unacceptable. the u.s. office of special counsel calls on presidentialer to remove her from her position immediately. the response was ms. conway s comment was taken out of context. okay, here s what happened after a reporter asked kellyanne conway in the white house driveway about violating the hatch act. first she did what she does to most questions. she ignored it and did a full three-minute rant against joe biden ending this way. joe biden all an of that is part of his record.
first sentence in the special counsel s report. in a may 29, 2019 interview, ms. kellyanne conway, counselor to the president reportedly scoffed at her responsibilities under the hatch act and ridiculed its enforcement by asserting let me know when the jail sentence starts. her defiant attitude is inimical to the law and her continued pattern of misconduct is unacceptable. the u.s. office of special counsel calls on presidentialer to remove her from her position immediately. the response was ms. conway s comment was taken out of context. okay, here s what happened after a reporter asked kellyanne conway in the white house driveway about violating the hatch act. first she did what she does to most questions. she ignored it and did a full three-minute rant against joe
i do note think what executive privilege is intended to do. it s to protect national security information, but not behind the scenes conversations about, hey, make sure these guys don t hurt me. and how it works actually comes from the president it seems in this day and age it seems like a formality. what s the most important thing you were listening to? we ve had some answers, but it seeks it raises more questions. well, first just the level of fireworks, as you put it. you might have thought that nadler and others were going to be sort of tame, at least off the bad, and on the contrary they came right after him. second i think it s important and what he really said is he took a baby step from asserting, and said i would assert it if you asked me about conversations with the president, but then he, as you say, would have to be the