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Jamela Alindogan: Mr. President, thank you for talking to Aljazeera. Its been a tumultuous presidency for you, full of controversy, particularly about the war on drugs. But first, let’s start with your background. You were raised in a politically-inclined family, your father was a governor, your mother was a freedom fighter during the reign of former president Ferdinand Marcos. How was that affected your outlook?

Mr. Presidente, salamat sa pagsturya sa Al Jazeera. Grabe ni nga presidensyia para sa imo, puno ug kontrobersya, samot na ang gyera kuntra sa drugas. Pero sa una, magsugod tas imong gigikanan. Gipadako ka sa isa ka political nga pamolya, imong amahan, gobernor, imong inahan kay isa ka freedom fighter sa panahon sa niatong Presidente Ferdinand Marcos. Giunsa ani ug apoekto imong pagtan-aw?
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte: Profoundly, I would say. I grew up in an environment of politics, and uh, as politicians, we tend to go by the issues of the day. The big ones that would affect the, uh, economies and all, especially the political issues. My father was a governor for ten years or more. But when he died, uh, I was, I was then a prosecutor. And when the revolution came, my mother was one of the star wards of the opposition against Marcos.
Grabe jud, kung ako pangutan-on. Nagdako kos palibot nga pulitika, ug uh, isip politico, agian jud namo ang mga isyu sa adlaw. Ang mga dagko nga muapekto sa, uhh, ekonomiya ug unsa pa,  samot na ang mga political nga isyu. AKong amahan kay na gobernor sa napulo ka tuig o masdaghan pa. Pero pagkamatay niya, uh, prosecutor ko ato panahona. Ug pag rebolusyon, akong inahan ang usa sa mga dakong ward sa oposisyon kuntra ni Marcos.
Wayne Hay: You also had some difficult times when you were younger as a child. You have revealed that you were sexually abused by a priest. Has that shaped your beliefs? Has that shaped, helped shaped who you are now?
Naa pud kay mga panahong galisod ka pagka bata. Imong gisulti nga giabuso ka sa usa ka pari. Nakahulma na sa imong pagtoo? Naka hulma na, o tabang sa paghulma kung kinsa ka karon?
PRRD: Yes, uh, to a large extent, actually. It’s what you get along the way that shapes your character, especially. And even you know, at that time, even your politics and uh, how you look at the world and how you assess them by the standards that you have used in school and in growing up. The things that you pick up along the way, you said, uh, it sorts of blend into a collation, it blends into something which is, uh, can be said forming your own values in life.
O, dako jug epekto. Ang mga naagian nimo ang muhulma sa imong karakter. Ug bisag ikaw kabaw, sa ana panahona, bisag imong politico ug uh, unsa imong pagtanaw sa kalibutan ug unsa imong paghunahuna sa ila sa imong standard nga imong gigamit sa skwelahan ug pagdako. Ang mga maagian nimo, ingon ka, ug, kay musagol ran na, musagol sa usa ka, ugg, pwede insulting imong values sa kinabuhi.
WH: Let’s talk about the war on drugs now. Three and a half thousand have been killed so far. It seems like the whole world is talking about it at the moment. The Philippines seems to have so many problems. So why launch what is a brutal war on drugs?
Sturyaan nato run ang gyera sa drugas. Tulo ug tunga na ka libo ang napatay. Murag mao juy gisturyaan sa kalibutan aron panahona. Ang Pilipinas kay murag daghag problema. Nganong sugdan man ning brutal nga gyera sa drugas?
PRRD: Because the sheer number of people contaminated will pull my country down. It would destroy the next generation of Filipinos. You know, this lives lost, some of them were lost during legitimate encounters with the police.
Tungod sa grabe kadaghan sa mga tao nga gusto mubira sa akong nasod. Maguba ang sunod nga generasyon sa Pilipino. Kabaw ka, ang mga nalabayng kinabuhi, ang uban nila kay namatay jud sa tarong nga engkwentro sa pulis.
WH: But the fact at the moment, we have three and a half thousand people killed and you yourself eluded to, just then, some of them weren’t legitimate targets.
Pero ang tinuod kay, naa tay tulo ug tunga ka libong tao ang patay ug ikaw jud kay  nilikay nga , karon lang, ang uban nila kay di man diay tarong nga target.
PRRD: You know, there is no crime at all when you threaten criminals with death. In my country at least, there is no law which say I cannot threaten criminals. And that was the favorite, uh, well of course the cliché that the youth, it became a cliché over time, when I was President I said, we have three million according to PDEA. Three million drug addicts. Not counting mine, because it is still going on. So I said, if we do not interdict this problem, the next generation will be having a serious problem. And uh, as I was…again the same. You destroy my country, I’ll kill you. And it’s illegitimate to uh…If you destroy our young children, I will kill you. That is a very correct statement. There is nothing wrong in trying to preserve the interest of the next generation. That three million addicts, it’s not, they are not, uh, residents of one compact area or contiguous place. They spread all over the country, and by the sheer number. Because if you are a user, you must push. Unless you are the son of a billionaire or, because you have to sustain your addiction by getting another financer for you. And then the next financer would have to get a new victim to finance. That’s how it became. That is how drugs is spread. But it was not until I became President, that the widespread and the magnitude of the problem became really a serious issue.
Kabaw ka, di man krimen nga hadlukon ang mga criminal sa kamatayon. Sa akong nasod, bisag diri lang, walay balaod nga gasulting di ko pwede manghadlok ug kriminal. Ug mao na ang paborito, ug, kay cliché na sa kabaaan, nahimo nang cluche, nga pag president nako, ingon ko, naa tay 3 ka milyon ingon ang PDEA. Tulo ka milyones ka drug adik. Way labot sa akoa, kay nagpadayon pa ni. Mao nang ana ko, kung di ni nato aksyunan, ang sunod nga generasyon ang naay seryosong problema. Ug uhh, ako pud. . . napud, pareho ra. Imong gub-on akong nasod, patyon taka.Sakto kaayo na nga sulti. Wala may sayop sa pag preserba sa interes sa sunod na generasyon. Kanang tulo ka milyones nga adik, din a sila residente sa usa ka gamay nga lugar. Nakakatag na sila, ug sa kadaghan. Kay kung user ka, dapat ka mudulot. Unless anak kag dato, o kung mapadayon ra imong adiksyon sa lahi nga tighatag kwarta. U gang sunod financer may ang mangita ug bagong giktima. Giingana na. Mao na ang pagkatag sa drugas. Pero dili man na ana hantod sa pagkaPresidente nako, nga ang pagkatag ug kagrabe sa problema kay na grabe nga isyu.
WH: So what about the children and the innocent people that have been killed?
Unsaon na man ang mga anak ug mga inosenteng tao nga namatay?
PRRD: Well, that is bad.
Aw, kana, bati jud.
WH: So will those cases be investigated? Do you, do you promise that?
So imbestigahan na na mga kaso? Gipasaad na nimo
PRRD: Yes, of course. Of course. But let me tell you. This is the law of my land. Here is a police, here is a gangster. He’s armed with M16, the gangster only a pistol. But when they meet, they exchange fire. With the police with the M16, its one burst, prrrt, and hits one thousand people there and they died. There’s no criminal liability. It could not be negligence because you have to save a life. It could not be recklessness because you have to defend yourself. Just like when the United States and the rest of the country, when you bomb a village, you intend to kill the militants but you kill in the process the children there. It’s only how it is explained and we are, you know, people judge best when they condemn. So they will always place you in the bad light. But the situation does not go for that. And that explains the reason why until now, I have yet to hear an apology for those who have, in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, never mind about the militants, kill them! We don’t, but then, in the process, two families, hospital, oh its collateral damage. Then why is it, is it a collateral damage to the west and to us, it is murder.
O gud. Pero ingnan taka. Mao ni ang balaod sa akong yuta. Naay pulis, naay gangster. Ang pulis naay M16, and gangster naay pistola. Pero inig kita nila, magpusil. Kung ang pulis mutirag usa ka burst, prrt, ug makaigo ug makapatay ug usa ka libong tao. Walay criminal liability. Dili man negligence kay kailangan ka muluwas ug kinabuhi. DIli man recklessness kay kailangan man nimo protektaan imong kaugalingon. Pareho ra sa ang Estados Unidos u gang uban nga nasod, inig bomba nimog usa ka lugar, militante ra imong patyun unta, pero makapatay kag mga bata na naa didto. Mao ra na ang pagsulti, ug kita, kabaw na ka, maayo muhusga kung gacondemn. Mao na ilugar jud ka nila sa bati. Pero ang sitwasyon dili jud muana. Ug mao na ang rason, nga hantod karon, wa pa ko nakadungog ug apology para sa Vietnam, Afghanistan, nga way pakialam sa miliante, patya ra sila! Naa man ta sa proseso, duha ka pamilya, ospital, o, collateral damage. Unya nganong collateral damage man sa west, pero kung sa amoa kay murder.
JA: You went to law school. You worked hard to be part of the legal system. You are a lawyer by profession. And you were a prosecutor for many years. Do you still believe in the country’s judicial system?
Niadto man kag law school. Nagtrabaho ka pag-ayo para ma parte sa legal system. Lawyer ka. Daghang tuig ka na prosecutor. Mutuo pa ka sa judicial system?
PRRD: Correct. Yes. Right now, I still believe in the system because I will guarantee this time that the law is obeyed. There are judges here in Manila, more than 1000 cases, no conviction at all of a drug case. That is where banned if closed, uh uh, maybe savagery, threatening people on both sides. That is how it is played here, that is why we are this miserable thing about the drug problem now.
Sakto. O. Karon, mutuo pa ko sa sistema kay isigurado nako  karon kay gisunod ang balaod. Naay mga judge diri sa manila, lapas 1000 ka kase, walay conviction ug bisag unsa sa mga kasong drugas. Diha na ban, kung sarado, uh uh, basig savagery, hadlukon ang mga tao sa duha ka dako. Mao na ang pamaagi diri, mao na naa tay grabeng problema sa drugas karon.
WH: Do you agree, do you acknowledge that you have encouraged vigilante killings?
Magkasinabot ta, mudawat ka nga imong gi-awhag ang vigilanteng pagpatay?
PRRD: No, I said I will kill you. If I encourage, fine.
Wala, ana ko patyon taka. Pero kung i-awhag, sige.
WH: Yes, but the point is that people can get away with murder right now and you know that some of the killings are not legitimate. So, do you think there might be cases of people settling old scores out there and disguising them as the war on drugs?
O, pero ang punt okay makatakas ra ang mga tao sa murder karon, unya kabaw pagyud ka nga ang ubang pagpatay kay di tarong. Mao na para nimo, naa may mga kasong naay mga tao nga mupatay sa mga daang gubot unya ipagawas ra nga gyera sa drugas?
PRRD: I do not play by conjectures. I do not make assumptions. I just say what I should be saying as the President and as a mayor. My, if the criminals there are killed by the thousands, it’s not my problem. My problem is how to take care of the law-abiding, God-fearing, young persons of this Republic because they are our resources. Strictly speaking, you do, cannot find any redeeming factor in being, you know, the criminal there. They are therefore what? Just like the cartel in Mexico, uh, if you have read the Ioan Grillo, how the cookie crumbles. Exactly. So when I put, I will kill you, because I’m the mayor, I’m the President. It vigilante would take over, you know, I cannot control it. I cannot be God and control everything. Okay, you just kill these guys or you wait for the courts do that.
Di ko magduwa sa conjectures. Di ko tighimog assumptions. Sulti ra ko unsa akong mga sulti isip Presidente ug isip mayor. Kung mangamatay ang mga criminal sa libolibo, din a nako problema. Akong problema kay kung unsaon ug amping sa mga gatarong nga mga batang tao sa Republika kay sila atong resources. Wa man kay makitang nindot sa mga kriminal. Unya unsa man kuno sila? Mao na, pagsulti nakog patyon taka, tugod mayor ko, Presidente ko. Kung mu-takeover ang vigilante, di man na nako makontrol. Di man ko Ginoong ma control tanan. Okay, patya lang na sila o huwaton nimo ang mga korte.
WH: You can encourage good policing and you can encourage justice and trust in the judicial system.
Pwede nimo I-encourage ang maayong pamulis ug hustisya ug salig sa judicial system.
PRRD: Correct, but when I was campaigning as the President, the drug problem was already reaching by the millions. I said, 3 million is 3 million. No, during my time, we have studied to count, we are nearing now the 800 mark, 800 thousand. By the year ends, I would have the bottom sold to 500 million. So I have 4 million drug addicts. Do you think that’s an easy number?
Sakto, pero katong nangampanya ko, niabot nag milyones ang problema sa druga. Ana ko ang 3 milyon kay 3 milyon. Di, sa akong panahon, gitun-an na namo  niabot na sa 800 nga marka, 800 ka libo. Paghuman sa tuig,  maabot tag 500 milyon. Naa koy 4 million ka drug adik. Abi nimog sayon na kadaghana?
WH: No. So why not put all the energy into rehabilitation? Healthcare?
Dili, edi nganong di man nimo ibutang sa rehabilitasyon imong enerhiya? Sa Healthcare?
PRRD: So what do you find there? Can we cut this for a while, I just have to…Pakihanap yung newspaper kahapon.
Unsa may Makita nimo diha? Pwede ta muputol kajut, naa ra koy kailangan . . . pangitaa ra gud ang newspaper gahapon.
JA: He wants to show you the newspaper.
Ganahan sya ipakita ang newspaper.z566
WH: Oh sure sure. No problem.
Ah, sige sige. Way Problema.
JA: So you were saying about these facilities sir, what is this about?
Mao naa kay gisulti sama ani nga mga pasilidad, sir, sa unsa man  ni dapit?
PRRD: This is a rehab facibility built by somebody. This is what they cried, “you know Duterte, he should have built rehab houses instead of killing the criminals, the drug lords. You know, this would cost millions. I entered the presidency of the Republic of the Philippines midterm. There is nothing at all left in that budget for this year which was prepared by my predecessor, which was also prepared the other year to be implemented this year. The implementation does not contain any money. Because nobody, until I became President of this country, nobody realize how widespread, how dimensional it was for us.
Usa ni ka rehab facility nga gihimo ug usa ka tao. Mao ni ilang giinging “kabaw ka Duterte, maypag gahimo siyag balay nga pang rehab kaysa patyon ang mga criminal, mga drug lord. Kabaw ka, muabot nig milyones ang gasto ani. Nisulod kos presidensya sa Republika sa Pilipinas sa tungatunga. Wala nay nabilin sa budget karon tuiga nga giandam sa nauna nako,  nga giandam pud atong niaging tuig pa para karon nga tuig. Ang pagpatupad kay way kwarta. Kay walay tao, hantod naPresidente ko ani nga nasod, walay nakabantay unsa kalawak, unsa gadako ni para nato.
JA: Sir, in the past, during the campaign and weeks into your presidency, you have repeatedly said that you have no regard for human rights, but human rights is actually part of the constitution and as a head of state it is also part, your duty to uphold the constitution. How does that connect?
Sir, sa mga niaging panahon, sa pagkampanya ug mga simana sa imong presidensya, gibalikbalik nimog sulti nga wala kay pakialam sa human rights, pero ang human rights kay parte man sa konstitusyon unsa isip ulo sa nasod, parte pud nimo, imong obligasyon nga tumanon ang konstitusyon. Unsay konek ana?
PRRD: I would rather intimidate and strike fear in the hearts of the criminals just like what happened in Davao, when finally you can walk the streets, walk about in the streets at night, and you can eat anywhere at any time and nobody but nobody would bother you. It’s happening in Davao, Davao City is in the midst of Mindanao, it a troubled land. But I can assure you, as plenty of people have been there, it’s a destination for conventions and conferences international. Its always—its booming. It is a little bit rich than the others. Why? Because we can live our lives normally. And of course business can thrive. So when I said I do not care about what the human rights guys say, I have a duty to preserve the generation, if it involves human rights, I don’t give a s***. I have to strike fear because I have I said, the enemies of the States are out there to destroy the children.
Masgusto pa ko manghadlok sa mga criminal, murag sa nahitabo sa Dava, nga pwede na ka maka lakaw lakaw sa kadalanan, lakaw lakaw sa kadalanan inig gabii, ug maka kaon bisag asa, bisag kanusa ug walay manghilabot nimo. Nahitabo ni sa Davao. Ang Davao kay naa sa tunga sa Mindanao, gubot nga lugar. Pero makasigurado mo, uban sa daghang tao didto, adtoanan to para mga convention ug conferences nga international. Pirme ni booming. Masdato gamay, kumpara sa uban. Ngano man?  Kay makapadayon mis among kinabuhi  nga normal. Ug mulambo gyud ang negosyo. Mao na pag ingon nako nako nga wa koy paki unsay sulti sa mga tao sa human rights, naa koy obligasyon nga preserbaon an g sunod nga generasyon, kung maamong ang human rights, wa koy pakialam. Kailangan ko manghadlok kay, ingon lagi ko, ang mga kuntra sa estado kay gusto gub-on ang atong mga anak.
JA: Are you not worried about possible ramifications in the future for you, possible impeachment, or being tried in the international court
Wa ba ka nabalaka sa mga mahitabo sa kaugmaon  tungod sa imong gipangbuhat, basig impeachment o i-adto ka sa international nga korte.
PRRD: Good question. Before you can begin, you must determine that I have committed a crime in my country. That I have committed mass murders in my country and then charge me there. There can be no ramifications when I say that I will kill you if you destroy my land. It’s a legitimate, it’s a legitimate statement of any general, of any wartime president, of any tribal leader, to say those things. Of course you said that there can be consequences, but I am not worried about this thing, I do not make any projections. How many vigilante killings, well if you compare the 4 million to the 3 thousand, minus the legitimate encounters between the law enforcers and the criminals, give or take even a half of it. So what is it to the lives already lost. I have 4 million addicts to take care of and I have been criticized and would say why don’t just say, you know, Duterte build a rehab centers and just place them there? Why do, why do you have to kill them? Look, I am a midterm president. In the sense that I entered this year the Presidency only this year, the budget for this year was prepared by my predecessor. So Aquino. And it binds me because it would last until December. Nowhere in this budget provides enough money to build even 2 buildings of rehab structures. Its all, what is left of my government now after the election is just enough for the MOE… MOOE maintenance and all.
Maayong pangutana. Bag-o ta magsugod, dapat nato hibaw-on nga nakasala jud ko sa nasod. Ngan nagbuhat kog mass nga pagpatay sa akong nasod, nya kasohi ko. Wa man kay makuha  inig sulti nakog patyon taka kung gub-on nimo akong nasod. Tarong man na, tagong man na nga sulti na bisag kisnang genera, o presidenteng naa sa gyera, o lider sa tribo nga musulti ana. O niingon kang naa nay mahitabo, pero wa koa nabalaka ana, wa ko gabuhat ug projections. Pila ka vigilanteng pagpataay, kung apilon ni mo ang 4million sa 3 thousand, wa pay labot ang mga tarong jud nga engkwentro sa kapulisan ug sa criminal, basig mga tunga ana. Mao na, unsay naa sa mga patay na. Naa koy 4million ka adik nga trabahuon, unya icriticize ko ug ingna ra kog, kabaw ka Duterte, humo lang ug rehab center ug ibutang sila diha? Nganong, nganong kailangan sila patyon? Tan-awa, tungatunga na ko na Presidente. Pasabot, nisulod kos Presidensya karon ra tuiga, unya ang budget kay gikan pa sa nauna nako, si Aquino. Unya, gipit ko ana hantod Desembre. Wala sa budget ang sakto panghimo bisag duha ka regab structure. Mao ra y nabilin sa akong gobyerno paghuman sa eleksyon, sakto ra para MOE. . .MOOE sa maintenance ug unsa pa.
JA: So you’re saying sir—
So, imong buot pasabot sir--
PRRD: No capital outlay
Walay capital
JA: The budget of President Aquino for this year, the last 6 month does not include any rehabilitation
Ang budget ni Presdente Aquino karon tuiga, sa ulahing unom ka buwan, walay labot ang rehabilitasyon.
PRRD: No it does not. Nobody is going to give up the—judgment that it is in our favor. You cannot, I cannot give it up, nobody can give it up, nobody in the constitution allows anybody to give it up. Even the president cannot give it up. Those are our entitlements. This is an island, everybody, every country in this world is given its own fishpond. That’s your fishpond where you get the fish, the shells and everything. You cannot give it up. You can only negotiate to prevent war. Remember that we were… Okay, I’ll push your logic to the—Logical conclusion. We have this judgment right? Two things, I can go into a rage because it is being occupied, but remember it is not a sovereign that is there, it is the entitlement attached to it is the sovereignty, okay, the other is to go into a rage and fight and the other is to talk. What do you think will happen to my country? If I choose to go to war? A fight alone? Or I would call upon the other countries to help me, who? Who would die for my country except us? So we can only talk. And that is why they invited me for talks, I will go. But I will go with this paper. (points at a white sheet)
PRRD: Dili. Wala may mohatag sa—hukom nga pabor to sa atoa. Dili ta, dili ko mo-undang, walay mo-undang, wala sa konstitusyon ang nitugot sa bisan kinsa nga mo-undang. Bisan ang presidente dili kaundang. Atoa man ni. Isla man ni, tanang nasud aning kalibutanan gihatagan ug kaugalingon nga fishpond. Inyoha man na nga fishpond kung asa mokuha ug isda, mga baog ug bisan unsa pa. Ang mabuhat ra nimo kay makigsturya para malikayan ang giyera. Hinumdumi nga kuan ta… Sige hunahunaon nato ang—Logical conclusion. Pwede man ta mohukom diba? Duha ka butang, pwede ko maglagot kay naay niangkon, pero hinumdumi nga dili soberanya ang naa didto, atoang panag-iya nga nakakonekta sa atong soberanya, sige ug ang lain kay pwede makigsyurya. Tan-aw nimo unsa ang mahitabo sa atong nasud? Kung akong pilion na makiggiyera? Wala tay kauban inig away? O pwede sad ko magpatabang sa uban nga nasud pero kinsa? Kinsa may andam mamatay para sa atong nasud kundi kita ra man? Mao nang sturya ra atong mabuhat. Ug mao nang nangimbitar sila nako ug sturya, moadto ko. Idayon ni nako nga papel. (nagtudlo ug puti nga papel).
WH: A blank sheet of paper
WH: Blanko nga papel.
PRRD : Yeah, this is the award. I cannot go out beyond the boundaries of this paper. Talk. Lets talk. Lets begin here.
PRRD: Oo, mao ni ang award. Dili ko makaadto gawas sa utlanan ani nga papel. Sturya. Magsturya ta. Sugod ta diri.
JA: The Philippines won a landmark case against China unprecedented in recent history, a smaller country standing up to a super power, it declared the 9-dash claim of China invalid. Now you’re going to China and you’ve mentioned previously you said that you will not insist on the position of the Philippines Scarborough shoal. Now your critics are questioning why it seems you’re going to China and negotiating from a position of weakness rather than of strength.
JA: Nakadaog ang Pilipinas ug landmark nga kaso batok sa China nga dili madahom karon nga panahona, gamay nga nasud batok sa kusog nga nasud, gibaliwala ang 9-dash claim sa China. Karon nga moadto kasa China ug nahisgotan na nimo nga dili ka mamugos sa posisyon sa Pilipinas sa Scarborough Shoal. Karon imong mga kritiko kay nangutana nganong murag niadto kasa China ug nakigsabot gikan sa posisyon kung asa huyang ka ug dili kusog.
PRRD: It would be arrogant of me to go there and say “Im going there to fight for this and that!” you know, there is much to be learned in history. And even in the books and the way the Orientals places the words in his mouth, specially the Chinese. You have to go there with a little bit of courtesy. But when we are already infront of each other, then I said, this is it. We do not go (points at an imaginary empty sheet). What would be— I go, what would be the purpose in going there without discussion. For what?
PRRD: Arrogante kaayo ko kung moadto ko ug moingon nga “Im going there to fight for this and that!” (Moadto ko para makig-away para ani!) kabalo ka, daghan kaayo tag pwede makat-onan sa kasaysayan. Bisag sa mga libro ug sa pahimutang sa mga Oriental sa ilang ba-ba, labaw na ang mga Chinese. Kinahanglan ka moadto didto nga naay gamay nga pagkamatinahuron. Pero inig atubangay na namo, pag-ingon nako, mao na ni. Dili nako moadto (tudlo sa imaginary sheet nga walay suwat). Unsa man ni, moadto ko, unsa may hinungdan kung moadto ko nga dili magsturya? Para unsa?
WH: But you can guarantee to the Filipino People that you are not going to sign away or give up hope of, give fighting for the Spratly’s Scarborough shoal. Philippine Territory
WH: Pero makasigurado ka sa mga Pilipino nga dili nimo undangon ang pangisog para sa Spratly’s Scarborough shoal. Philippines Territory
PRRD: Nobody but nobody, not even the president of this country can give up the claim. You are not allowed to do that. That is a sure way of going to impeachment.
PRRD: Walay bisan kinsa, bisan ang presidente dili makaundang sa pangangkon. Dili ka pwede mobuhat ana. Sigurado nga impeachment ang padulngan ana.
WH: But can you guarantee that you will fight to maintain those.
WH: Pero makasigurado ba ka nga makig-away ka para ani?

PRRD: Yeah, nobody is going to give up anything there. I said that if the constitution does not allow you then who can? Not even your mouth that’s how it is.
PRRD: Yeah, wala may moundang diri. Niingon ko nga kung ang konstitusyon wala nisugot, mao nang kinsa man pwede? Bisag imong ba-ba ing-ana man gyud na?
WH: What do see are you hoping to do when you go to China?
WH: Unsa man imong makita nga buhaton nimo para sa China?
PRRD: Well. Maybe we would about—I wouldn’t know the wherewithal’s of where we’d start. Then the judgmental thing would come into fall, then some other things about trade and commerce, and if there is any arrangement that would come into a happy compromise, then we can talk about entitlements of the China sea. But really I cannot predict on any solid thing to talk about until I’m there. So I am not there until I’m there.
PRRD: Basin pwede nga—wala ko kabalo sa wherewithal’s ug asa magsugod. Dayun ang judgemental nga butang kay mahulog, dayun ang uban sa trade ug commerce, ug kung naay laing butang nga masabutan, pwede na ta makigsturya sa pagpangangkon sa China sea. Pero dili gyud ko makabana-bana sa bisan unsa hangtod maabot ko didto.
WH: Will you discuss the war on drugs? Because records show that a lot of the drugs coming into the Philippines are coming from China.
WH: Imong sturyaan ang giyera batok sa droga? Kay ang mga record nagpakita nga daghan nga drugs moabot sa Pilipinas ang gikan sa China.
PRRD: Yes, they understand it that is why they’d like to help. But you know China now is a democracy. I mean, a communist is just a thing to go by to keep control, but everything there is free enterprise.
PRRD: Oo kasabot sila nga, ug mao ni ang rason nga ganahan sila motabang. Pero kabalo ka ang China karon demokrasya. Komunista pero ila ranang gibuhat para makontrol, pero tanang butang didto free enterprise.
JA: Having said that Mr. President, you have clearly moved away from the United States. Why do you think it is necessary for the country to distance itself from its long standing ally in Asia.
JA: Karon nga nasulti na nimo Mr. President, klaro na kaayo nga nilayo ka sa United States. Nganong kinahanglan man gyud molayo ta sa atong dugay na nga kauban sa Asia?

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