Philip Bump

Ron Insana, MSNOW business analyst and publisher of The Message of the Markets on Substack.

And Philip Bump, senior data editor and columnist for the CT Insider.

Also with us, Mallory McMorrow, Democratic Michigan state senator.

I just want to turn to Mark McKinnon first.

But it shows you how the machine works.

When you saw the Phil Bump interview in which he got completely demolished for being a fake news guy, you could see all of this finally being exposed.

It was obvious he wasn't a genuine writer with real opinions.

You could tell that it came from somewhere, that he was supporting some kind of a machine.

You can see the entire Hunter Biden money-making scheme, right? It's all laid out.

You can see every part of it.

Now, the Phil bumps of the world, the illegitimate people are going to say, but, but, but you haven't made the case that there's a direct payment from Hunter Biden for any favors that went to Joe Biden.

but we know he paid his expenses and that's the way it works.

Vance did ultimately offer some kind of answer to the affordability question, blaming immigrants in part for the high cost of housing.

I want to bring in MS now is Maya Eaglin and Philip Bump, senior data editor and columnist at CT Insider.

Former Congressman Carlos Carbello is back with us here.

Why? Here is why I think that moment was so remarkable.

And the stakes for that race could not be higher.

Their winner will be in charge of certifying Arizona's vote during the 2028 presidential election.

Angela Caruso and Philip Bump are back with me.

Angela, help me understand why this was Turning Point's big investment.

And we're going to get to a clip of that in a moment, but I want to put this into perspective because sometimes with these massive numbers, it's hard to grasp.

And Philip Bump did an analysis on this.

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Philip Bump, senior national editor and columnist for the CT Insiders here.

He's got a new piece out this week on that viral exchange with Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Carol Leonnig is here, MS Now senior investigative reporter, and David Rohde, MS Now senior national security reporter.

Katie Benner, New York Times correspondent and MSNOW contributor.

And Philip Bump, senior data editor and columnist at CT Insider.

Philip, is the president's strategy right now on the campaign trail? Is it helping or is it hurting after taking a look at all of that? Yeah.

After looking at that particular clip, I'm not sure I would say it's helping too much.

It's like maybe we just want people who are who they say they are.

A radical, radical concept.

Katie Benner, Paula Ramos, Tim O'Brien, Philip Bump.

So good to have all of you here at the assignment desk with me today.

Between three and four hundred billion dollars, three and four hundred million dollars he has spent over the last six months in support of Republicans.

By the way, like I saw the data journalist Philip Bump did this analysis and said, like, compared to Elon Musk's total fortune, that would be like the median American spending like $12.

Wow.

It's something like that.

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Philip Bump is here, senior data editor and columnist for the CT Insider.

Ron Insana, publisher of the message of the markets on Substack and an MSNOW contributor.

Molly John Fast, host of the Fast Politics podcast and contributing writer for the New York Times.

But yeah, I think that this is, look, the baby boomers are all age, coming of age.

And it's going to be, you know, Philip Bump, a friend of ours, had written a book.

you know, on this issue and just talks about the numbers and what the demands are going to be for senior citizen centers, Medicare, Social Security, changing of the health care system, care for the elderly.

I mean, we're talking about that bubble, the baby boom bubble just moving through And now it becomes this.