The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Sunday confirmed the authenticity of a video in which Vice President Sara Duterte said she tasked someone to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. if she were to be killed.

The widening rift between the two most powerful political families in the Philippines became public after the Southeast Asian nation's Vice President Sara Duterte said that she would have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assassinated.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said on Saturday she would have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assassinated if she herself were killed, prompting Marcos’ office to vow “immediate proper action.”