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today on "inside politics" a plea deal for the presidents son. the justice department says hunter biden will admit he broke federal tax and gun laws. a development already kicking up a hornets nest of house republicans. plus, we have brand new cnn poll numbers this hour. they confirm donald trumps big early lead, but not as big as it was. and the former president walks into a trap of his own making. he goes on fox news and talks a lot about the legal case against him. did he accidental...

And is she still doing that? >> i asked her about it, and it is interesting. i said when did you stop being an election denier, because she was questioning the fairness of the 2020 election, and we had quite a go around. and she said, biden is in the oval office, and i said, is it legitimate, and she would not go that far, and she said, he won, but i wont say that there were no problems with the selection, and that it was a fair election. part of the problem is that, look, donald trump, the big ...

Eric: more than half of the 2020 democratic contenders are in san francisco right now. theyre attending the california democratic convention. its considered the biggest event in the early primary season. but the big frontrunner in the race, well, hes a no-show. claudia cowen live in san francisco with the latest and why joe biden isnt there. hi, claudia. >> reporter: hi, eric. thats right, the former vice president, joe biden, sitting this one out. he is campaigning instead in columbus, ohio and...

The british politician, neil kinnick. people of a certain age can still recite it, why am i the first biden and generation of bidens. and a lot of the times when it came to a crux moment for him, there was a faltering. >> i think thats definitely part of the pattern. i mean, we say it, in 1987 when he dropped out of the presidential race, he was just about to become the front-runner on the democratic side. and really one of the reasons he was the front-runner was taking the lines from neil kinni...

Garden. >> and lawrence, as you look at the near future in the democratic party, you think the glass is half empty or half full? >> the democratic party, if you look at the polling has been in a very strong position all the way through this, as much as people want to talk about the big donald trump poll numbers, the hillary clinton poll numbers in the democratic party have always been double the trump poll numbers. you have much stronger support for the frontrunner on the democratic side than yo...

>> should hillary clinton play defense or go on offense if they go after her? >> there is not a lot of martin for her in getting going after these people. she is still the big frontrunner. you want to mix it up with lincoln chafee, most who dont know exist. th they have nothing to lose. so held double up on her. >> you helped mitt romney get ready for these debates. what advice would you have for hillary clinton? >> i think she needs to be aggressive, but she doesnt have to go after the candidat...

Right, and it will be driven by events. >> a quick sample of the democratic candidates and their take on baltimore. >> its time to change our approach. its time to end the era of mass incarceration. >> differently than secretary clinton, i actually had experience on the ground making police departments more transparent and more open. >> secretary clinton gave a speech on criminal justice reform and i have been talking about this for nine years. >> we have to make sure the police officers have ca...