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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/9/16/trillanes-cayetano-091616.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Junny Roy, ABS-CBN News</div></figcaption></figure></div>MANILA – The camp of former Vice President Jejomar Binay on Friday expressed amusement over the tiff between erstwhile allies Senators Alan Cayetano and Antonio Trillanes IV.WATCH: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/09/15/16/watch-cayetano-trillanes-clash-in-senate-hearing">Cayetano, Trillanes clash in Senate hearing</a>Trillanes and Cayetano had a showdown on Thursday at a Senate hearing where a man claiming to be a former hitman for President Rodrigo Duterte surfaced.Cayetano was displeased with the allegations of Edgar Matobato, who claimed that he killed scores of people on orders of Duterte, the long-time mayor of Davao City.READ: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/15/16/cayetano-dds-hitman-may-be-part-of-lp-plot-to-oust-duterte">Cayetano: &#x27;DDS&#x27; hitman may be part of LP plot to oust Duterte</a>The staunch ally of the president grilled Matobato, irking Trillanes.Trillanes accused Cayetano of going beyond his allotted time to ask questions to Matobato. He asked the Senate panel to declare Cayetano “out of order” and at one point turned off the latter’s microphone.Binay’s spokesperson Joey Salgado, said the vice-president’s camp “cannot help but be amused by the acts of senators Trillanes and Cayetano.”Cayetano and Trillanes once led a series of hearings that looked into the alleged corrupt practices of the former vice president when he was still the mayor of Makati.“Cayetano&#x27;s conversion into a born-again advocate of due process and the rule of law is hilarious, considering that he lawyered for the accusers of VP Binay during the Blue Ribbon Sub-committee hearings. At least, Trillanes was true to form as the Session Hall bully, this time intimidating his ertswhile BFF. These two deserve each other,” Salgado said.Binay’s camp, meanwhile, slammed the hearing on extrajudicial killings led by Senator Leila de Lima, which took a dramatic turn after Matobato surfaced.Salgado said the hearing was “a replay of the demolition telenovela against former Vice President Jejomar Binay.”“Once again, a so-called investigation is being conducted in aid of demolition, not legislation. Once again, a political personality - this time no less than the President himself - has been declared guilty even before the start of the hearing,” Salgado said.Motabato, a former militiaman, told the Senate that Duterte had given orders to kill a number of people, ranging from petty criminals to even the dance instructor-lover of his sister.Motabato is the first person to surface in public and give supposed details to the long-running rumor that the Duterte had employed a death squad.The Palace has denounced Motabato’s testimony, saying Duterte is not capable of giving orders to kill people.For the Binay camp, “no family should go through the harrowing experience of [Binay’s] family at the hands of Senate inquisitors.”“No less than President Duterte and his family have been pilloried on live television by senators with patently political motives. At mukhang warm up pa lang ito (It seems this is just a warm-up.)” Salgado said.“The Senate does not have the competence or the authority to determine criminal liability. Only the courts can determine guilt or innocence, not the Senate, and specially not senators with political motives.”

MANILA – The camp of former Vice-President Jejomar Binay on Friday expressed amusement over the tiff between erstwhile allies Senators Alan Cayetano and Antonio Trillanes IV.

MANILA – The camp of former Vice-President Jejomar Binay on Friday expressed amusement over the tiff between erstwhile allies Senators Alan Cayetano and Antonio Trillanes IV.