the vice president is sara duterte, the daughter of the former philippine president, rodrigo duterte.ng of former presidents. and problematic ones at best. rodrigo duterte was infamous for his autocratic tendencies, crude remarks about women and a murderous war on drugs that killed 7,000 people in the first year. duterte has even confirmed a death squad existed under his watch. to control crime when he was city mayor. during a foul-mouthed campaign, he pledged to kill tens of thousands of criminals and joked about raping an australian missionary. it's partly why he is known as the trump of the east. he's one of the many autocrats trump admires and the feeling is mutual. in 2017, duterte crooned a song for trump at a ceremony in manila. his bloody legacy transformed the country's politics and should serve as a warning for what can happen to democratic institutions when right-wing populists win power. democracy is at a tipping point, there and here, and around the world. something journalist maria ressa continues to warn. her work has exposed the abuse of power, the use of violence and

but i joke that from duterte to marcos it was a great introduction.ved from hell to purgatory. >> wow. >> and, again, you go back, right? this is power and money and the consolidation of both power and money crushes institutions and checks and balances. the question really for how quickly a country, a democracy can erode depends on the people and the people who have power within those institutions to actually give up that power, to abdicate responsibility. >> yes, and in that sort of environment is there some advice you can give us? because we're now at the beginning of our duterte era, of what we should be doing in order to survive it and in order to resist it? >> i think first is don't voluntarily give up your rights. do not. walk in now in these next -- in the next month, right, understand what is at stake, build alliances. this is a time to collaborate, collaborate, collaborate. define the values. what are the lines that you won't cross? what does american democracy stand for, and know when those lines are crossed because you can rationalize every

you have now said that duterte under, i'm paraphrasing, under duterte, life was like hell. and now under marcos, you've moved to purgatory. is that a silver lining? what happened? - we now have a president, and this is the irony, the only son and namesake of our former dictator, ferdinand marcos, who was ousted in a people power revolt in 1986, right? he's now president. he became president in 2022 in may. he cares what the rest of the world thinks. he's educated in the west. he has to face china, as does the rest of the world, right? but look, here's the, it can get better. but here's what i saw happen in my country. history changed in front of our eyes to elect president marcos. those information operations to change the name marcos from the kleptocrat, who stole $10 billion in 1986. in 2014, the meta narrative that was seeded for marcos was the greatest leader the philippines has ever known. you know, milan kundera said, the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting - mm-hmm. - social media is not about one post alone, it's not about cont

american airlines and frontier duterte family seating without an extra fee. mr. carter, you said delta charges no fee for family seating. my understanding is that your ca the presiding officer: no. mr. thune: the past four years have been marked by increasing instability on the world stage. over the course of the biden administration, we've seen an unprovoked invasion by russia. china flexing its power in the indo-pacific and beyond and increasingly threatening the philippines and taiwan. iran continuing to foment terror in the miltdz east. the worst terror attack in israel's history. and itself list goes on. while the biden administration cannot be held responsible for all of these events, the lack of clear american leadership under president biden has undoubtedly contributed to the unrest we've seen internationally. the president often seems incapable of staking out a firm policy position. again and again, he seems to want to have things both ways, whether he's ordering attacks on iran-backed terrorists while simultaneously declaring his unwillingness to escala