Philippine vice president makes public assassination threat against country's president

We consider this a matter of national security and shall take all necessary measures to ensure the President’s safety,

the command said

We call for calm and resolve,

Brawner said

I've given my order, 'If I die, don't stop until you've killed them.' And he said, 'yes,

the vice president said

Acting on the vice president’s clear and unequivocal statement that she had contracted an assassin to kill the president if an alleged plot against her succeeds, the executive secretary has referred this active threat to the Presidential Security Command for immediate proper action,

it said in a statement

I have talked to a person. I said, if I get killed, go kill BBM (Marcos), (first lady) Liza Araneta, and (Speaker) Martin Romualdez. No joke. No joke,

Duterte said in the profanity-laden briefing

This country is going to hell because we are led by a person who doesn't know how to be a president and who is a liar,

she said in the briefing

Any threat to the life of the President must always be taken seriously, more so that this threat has been publicly revealed in clear and certain terms,

it said