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The scales for tudor dixon. >> a fantastic, brilliant candidate, tudor dixon. >> reporter: throwing his support behind the conservative commentator in a bitter fight to take on democratic governor gretchen whitmer this fall glt last few years have been tough but we're tougher and getting things done right now. >> reporter: dixon established as the establishment pick. she went from embracing falsehoods about the 2020 election early in the campaign -- >> do you believe donald trump legitimately won the 2020 election in michigan? >> yes. >> reporter: to dodging recent questions about who she beli...

He tries to be the king maker. with trump he's just trying to keep his head above water. >> usually he is dispensing a lot of money and endorsements and putting money behind what he thinks is the establishment pick, and seemingly he is afraid of trump and not wanting to go after an endorsement. >> i don't think he's afraid to trump, and if he thought it was -- >> don't forget how unpopular mcconnell is in the republican electorate, and put it this way, i don't think pat mccory would want mitch mcconnell's endorsement. >> mcconnell has a lot of money in his super pac. >> and yeah, he has dragge...

Establishment pick. >> just yesterday we heard the president once again publicly express doubts. i'll play the clip. watch this. >> mr. president, robert mueller said russia is interfering in u.s. elections right now. >> you don't really believe this, do you? >> reporter: he said that last week. >> we didn't talk about that. >> what are you thinking? >> it fits into the pattern where the president has repeatedly cast out on the notion that russia interfered in the u.s. election despite the widespread conclusion by the intelligence community that's what happened. it was just a week ago that rob...

Whatever hour a day. it was a rose garden kind of strategy for someone who had not been in the rose garden for eight years. it was an interesting choice. he wanted to present himself as the closest thing to the establishment pick and do it that way. now there is a recognition among his team and among him that that is not working. he needs to be more aggressive. the question is whether he starts going after people by name. does he hit back hard in the debate? there's a risk to that. there is a risk of losing the sense that he is the front-runner in the race. although i don't know how you have a...

Doj is led by a boob so everyone looks at barr and it's like the scene in "american president" when you're so hungry for leadership, you're going to crawl through the sand and you realize it's a mirage, you're going to drink the sand. is there drinking of sand going on with barr? >> i spoke with a senior administration official in george h.w. bush's administration who served alongside barr in that administration and the source said immediately when this happened, wow, i got to give donald trump points for this nomination. in the aftermath of the glow of george h.w. bush's funeral and the posit...