Marcos refuses to comment on ex-Pres. Duterte's drug war remarks

President Ferdinand ''Bongbong'' Marcos Jr. on Monday refused to talk about former President Rodrigo Duterte and his recent admissions about the drug war during a Senate inquiry. 

Palace reporters were supposed to ask Marcos for his reaction about Duterte's revelations about his bloody campaign against illegal drugs and if the Department of Justice should reinvestigate the matter.

But the President immediately cut them off and said he does not want to talk about it as he intends to discuss the situation in Batangas following the onslaught of Severe Tropical Storm Kristine. Marcos was in the province to distribute aid to Kristine-affected communities. 

''I don't want to talk about--- I need to talk about what's happened here,'' Marcos told reporters. 

During the Senate hearing, Duterte admitted that he had a death squad made up not of police officers but of individuals he called "gangsters." He indicated that he wanted to spare the police from liability in relation to the drug war. 

The former president has also taken ''full, legal responsibility'' of his drug war. 

He even bared that he tasked cops to encourage drug suspects to fight back so that law enforcers have reason to kill them.—AOL, GMA Integrated News