Duterte told the CNN affiliate his opponents’ criticisms were “stupid remarks coming out of an empty head” and added that every country is tackling a drug problem.
“It is a neverending war … (When I came to power) I expected everybody was working well,” he said. “I did not know when I arrived, when I got to look into the records of drug cases, then I realized that I was fighting against my own government, because of the police, the customs, and everyone else were dipping their dirty fingers into it.”
Robredo, Duterte said, was sacked for “talking to so many nations,” after she publicly expressed plans to meet with representatives from the United Nations and Washington. “I fired her in my mind … first day” after she said she would go to the US Embassy.
Following her firing, Robredo said she aims to publicize a report on her findings on the administration’s drug war.
When the interviewer suggested that he was constitutionally obligated to tell the public if he had any other serious health conditions, Duterte disagreed.
“The constitution does not require me. Look at me, do I look like I’m in pain?” he said. “Actually for the purposes of performing my functions are President, I’m alright.”
The Philippines leader questioned why the Chinese government would cut off the power when both countries were trying to do business together.
“Look China, we’re friends, we’re doing business, you want money, we want money, it produces money for both of us, now do you intend to cut it and for what reason?” he said.
Duterte warned that if the Chinese government moved to interfere with the Philippines’ power supply, there would be a “quarrel,” adding that “I may not overcome you but you will receive from me a mouthful.”
Source : Nbcnewyork