The steering committee is engaged in a dispute over "intervention in the nomination"..."False explanation". "Lee Jaemyung's offensive".

[Anchor]
While the disclosure of the currency development between President Yoon Suk Yeol and Myung Tae-kyun caused considerable repercussions, the ruling and opposition parties clashed over suspicions of "intervention in the nomination" during the parliamentary audit of the National Assembly Steering Committee today.

The opposition party pressured the president's office that it had distanced itself from Myung for false explanations, but the ruling party protested, calling it a bulletproof offensive against Lee Jae-myung, who is about to face the first trial.

I'm connecting with the National Assembly reporter, reporter Son Hyo-jung!

The steering committee's parliamentary audit has been held so far, and above all, the recordings released yesterday and the suspicion of the president's involvement in the nomination are being focused on, right?

[Reporter]
The National Assembly Steering Committee's parliamentary audit of the presidential office and others resumed at 5 p.m. a while ago after several adjournments amid clashes between the ruling and opposition parties.

The opposition party questioned witnesses in the presidential office about suspicions related to the recording of the conversation between President Yoon Suk Yeol and Myung Tae-kyun.

The recording in question was made on May 9, 2022, a day before the inauguration of the president and the announcement of nominations for by-elections two years ago,
When President Yoon
said to the effect that he asked the Public Official Commission to nominate Kim Young-sun, Myung replied, "I will not forget grace for the rest of my life."

The opposition party accused the president's explanation that he had cut off contact with Myung after the presidential election was false, but
Chief of Staff Jeong Jin-seok
countered that the explanation was not a lie because it relied on memory, and that the suspicion of intervention in the nomination was only a one-sided claim by the Democratic Party.

[Yoon Jong-gun / Democratic Party member: After the primary, we didn't text the president, we didn't talk on the phone, you said. That's a lie, isn't it?]

[Jeong Jin-seok / Presidential Chief of Staff: The presidential office's notification is that he has not interacted with or contacted Myung Tae-kyun during the presidential election since the primary.]

[Yoon Jong-gun / Minjoo Party member: So you want to argue that it's not a lie?]]

[Jeong Jin-seok / Presidential Chief of Staff: I think it's too much to make it equal just because it's a lie]

The president's office also stressed that the recording had no legal or political problems, saying that the president cut off contact with Myung when he tried to intervene in the primary rules, but he received a phone call the day before he took office.

The ruling party also said that the recording released by the Democratic Party of Korea was not compiled, and that it was a planned revelation to protect Lee Jae-myung, who is about to be sentenced in the first trial.

[Kang Myung-koo / People's Power: It's not enough to unilaterally call witnesses to the National Assembly to protect Lee Jae-myung's father and shame him and talk nonsense, so it doesn't work anymore, so it seems like he's been revealing things like crazy since yesterday, but the Democratic Party-style political maneuver kills people and this is violence.]

The ruling and opposition parties also shouted over the attendance of Kim Gun-hee, who was adopted as a witness for the parliamentary audit, and general witnesses in the presidential office.When the issue of issuing an order to accompany the non-present witnesses, including

Kim, was proposed, the ruling party protested, saying it was a riot in the parliament, but it was decided by the opposition party.

[BAE JUN YOUNG / Deputy floor leader of People's Power: We didn't call a single 30 witnesses we requested, but can we force them recklessly and indiscriminately just because they didn't bring these witnesses that only you called? Is this the National Assembly? Are you a prosecutor? Are you a police officer? Is it a judicial body?]

[Park Sung-joon/ Deputy floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea: What do the people want in this parliamentary audit? Isn't it the voice of the people to call the witnesses and clarify them in the parliamentary audit about stock price manipulation, nomination intervention, and manipulation of state affairs? No one could resist it because it was called on behalf of the people....]

Democratic Party lawmakers from the steering committee visited the presidential office in Yongsan to deliver a letter of order to accompany witnesses who did not attend, including Kim, but the execution failed.

So far, I'm Son Hyo-jung of YTN in the National Assembly.