possibility of launching impeachment proceedings, something 134 house democrats now say they support. jerry nadler said the impeachment process is already underway, despite the lack of a formal vote but has nancy pelosi softened on the idea of opening an official inquiry and is the window closing on making such a move. we re back with dan and kim and columnist bill mcgern. did the summer recess help or hurt the cause of impeachment? i think it s inching along. what we know now from the majority, i think there s 137 members of the democratic caucus that support impeachment, nancy pelosi is a minority in her own caucus and the problem that they have is impeachment is very popular with democrats but it s not popular in, say, the 30 seats that were won by trump that gave her a victory. i mean, the two that i paul: gave her the majority in the house. the two i look at are conor
possibility of launching impeachment proceedings, something 134 house democrats now say they support. jerry nadler said the impeachment process is already underway, despite the lack of a formal vote but has nancy pelosi softened on the idea of opening an official inquiry and is the window closing on making such a move. we re back with dan and kim and columnist bill mcgern. did the summer recess help or hurt the cause of impeachment? i think it s inching along. what we know now from the majority, i think there s 137 members of the democratic caucus that support impeachment, nancy pelosi is a minority in her own caucus and the problem that they have is impeachment is very popular with democrats but it s not popular in, say, the 30 seats that were won by trump that gave her a victory. i mean, the two that i paul: gave her the majority in the house. the two i look at are conor
military spending and the democrats promoting a boost in domestic spending, is the real loser the american taxpayer? and why did president trump agree to this deal? we re back with kim strassel, jason riley and bill mcgern. jason, my rule of thumb is when you get a budget deal that both sides are happy about, check your wallet. exactly. who says republicans and democrats can t agree on anything? they can always come together when it comes to increasing spending and spending more money. that s what they did more. particularly disappointing here is president trump because two years ago or not quite two years ago, back in 2018, he signed another bipartisan spending bill, increasing spending by about $130 billion over two years. he said it was the worst deal in the world and he would never do it again and here we are with him about to do the exact same thing again in name of course of getting more money for defense
try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. paul: facebook vowing to rebuild its trust with users after agreeing to pay the federal trade commission a record $5 billion fine over the company s privacy violations and its failure to inform users of a data leak. this comes on the heels of a justice department announcing that it will open an anti-trust review of the major big tech companies. so what does this all mean for apple, amazon, facebook, google and the rest of silicon valley? we re back with kim strassel, jason riley and bill mcgern. bill, let s take the facebook agreement first. what do you make of it? well, it s being made to be a bigger thing than it is. the ftc i think narrowly dealt with facebook s failure to comply with restrictions about telling not misrepresenting
military spending and the democrats promoting a boost in domestic spending, is the real loser the american taxpayer? and why did president trump agree to this deal? we re back with kim strassel, jason riley and bill mcgern. jason, my rule of thumb is when you get a budget deal that both sides are happy about, check your wallet. exactly. who says republicans and democrats can t agree on anything? they can always come together when it comes to increasing spending and spending more money. that s what they did more. particularly disappointing here is president trump because two years ago or not quite two years ago, back in 2018, he signed another bipartisan spending bill, increasing spending by about $130 billion over two years. he said it was the worst deal in the world and he would never do it again and here we are with him about to do the exact same thing again in name of course of getting more money for defense