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Hey, this is Trey. Thank you for joining us for another Thursday's with Trey, which of course is the time when we get your questions and the interest of full disclosure

I was out of the country for a couple of days and quite a bit happened while I was out of the country. So depending on your perspective, I should either leave the country more often or I should never leave it again, but quite a bit happened, which I am certain will be reflected in the questions to come in the weeks to come. So got any questions about what happened, whether it's the dobs decision, January 6th hearing,

there was a second amendment case that came out. Those are three things I remember that happened while I was overseas, but there may be more. So you got questions, I mean, I have the answers, but you're welcome to fire away, but that's in the future for now. Mary Langston, hopefully there were some questions that came in. Well, it's gone.

So we have plenty of questions so we can get started quickly, but thank you for having me, Trey, have you had a good week. So far so good, how about you?

Great week. Lots to look forward to, but we'll go ahead and get started if that's okay with you since we have a lot of good questions from our listeners.

That sounds great.

Okay, wonderful. Well, our first question comes from Eddie actually in South Carolina, and he writes, how can Congress, the legislative branch, create committees and hold court? Isn't the judicial branch's job to investigate whether a crime has been committed?

Eddie from the great state of South Carolina, great question. I will answer it a couple of different ways. I'm going to amend your second question. It is definitely not the judicial branch's job to investigate whether a crime has been committed. That is done by the executive branch.

So I'm going to in my head kind of amend that isn't it the executive branch's job. If if you'll remember, but the main thing we ask the president to do in the Constitution and the president is the head of the executive branch is to faithfully execute the law.

So can Congress, the legislative branch, create committees and hold court or is it the job of the executive branch to investigate whether a crime has been committed? All right, for Congress, yeah, they can definitely create committees because they control their own branch government as you recall from civics along long time ago, we have three branches.

The legislative branch is the author and definer of of their branch and how they can do what they're supposed to do. So where do committees and investigations help? They help a portion resources. They help as you want to draft legislation to investigate whether certain laws need to be amended, improved, enhanced or deleted.

And you know, the little short time I was up the road, I was on committees that did all four of those things. That's the law need to be amended. Does it need to be written because there's a void? Does it need to be deleted?

Congress cannot and does not hold court. And the number one question I got at public grocery store on Saturday mornings when I was in my old job was why is X not in jail? Why has Congress not put X in jail? And you can fill in the X with whoever they were mad at at that point.

And my answer was always as that. That was my old job. Prosecutors and cops, injuries and judges put people in jail. Congress does not Congress cannot and does not put anyone in jail. They don't have the power to do it.

So Congress cannot and does not hold court to use the word that Eddie inquired about specifically Congress cannot and does not hold court. These hearings are not court congressional hearings do not result in charges or indictments or sentences.

They need not to put you know to find a point on it, but your local rotary club is welcome to form a committee to quote investigate crime.

Your local colonist club or garden club or bridge club or sunny school class is welcome to form a committee to figure out who kidnapped Charles Limberg's child or who committed this crime or that crime.

You can do it all day long if you want to it has absolutely no impact on anything because you have no power and no authority, but you can do it. Congress can look at what they want to look at and they can make it seem like a trial and they can use legal words, but it does not matter one Iota it is the executive branch's job to decide whether to initiate a criminal investigation.

In Congress does not get to decide that I had a really hard time convincing a couple of my GOP colleagues of that while I was there and now some Democrats are having a really hard time grasping that to the Congress and members of Congress do not and cannot and will never be able to put a single solitary person in jail for a single solitary thing.

So I guess if they want it to seem like court. But if you watch the January 6 hearings and then compare that to actually being in a court order the differences well number one there's no judge and a congressional committee hearing.

There's no judge up there calling balls and strikes are saying that question is out of order or applying the rules are here say me we have rules in court.

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