and barack obama slam china. >> day one. president romney stands up to china. demands a level playing field for our businesses and workers. >> just today, to kick off his bus tour, the president played the china card too. >> just this morning, my administration took a new action to hold china accountable for unfair trade practices that harm american automakers. and let me tell you something. americans aren't afraid to compete. we believe in competition. >> the president is referring to chinese tariffs on american-made cars and raised costs between 10% and 22%. what is amazing when you look at the numbers the claim doesn't really add up. look at gm sales in china. in the month of may, they were up 21% from last year. so far this year gm sold a record 1.2 million cars in china, more than the united states. the real untold story here isn't really about chinese tariffs on u.s. cars. it's how much china is helping america's economy. so let's start with ohio, where the president was today. exports from ohio to china worth $2.7 billion and makes china, ohio's big third biggest export market and the top is machinery. this is according to the u.s. china business council. ohio is, obviously, a crucial swing state but it's not the only one with the story. look at pennsylvania. the next stop on president obama's tour, china is pennsylvania's second biggest export market. 3.5 billion dollars a cheer come from china to pennsylvania. chemicals and machinery and minerals are the reason. virginia, another swing state. china is number two in exports. colorado, another swing, it's third. those states export hundreds of millions of dollars worth of machinery and computers to china. you get the point. so our question tonight is -- should we be biting a hand that feeds us? outfront tonight, stephanie cutter, president obama's campaign manager, i talked to her a few moments ago and i started by asking her why the president is going after china. >> well, erin, your comment on biting the hand that feeds you, you know, we do trade a lot with china and we want to continue trading with china but we want a level playing field and we want a level playing field for u.s. companies and u.s. workers and that is what today was about. china has been imposing unfair tariffs being impose odd china and the president said no and he is holding them accountable. we want to trade with china and increase our trade with china and sell more autos over there, but need to assure there is a continued level playing field. >> what about china selling more cars in china than in the united states this year. it's a record for them. and even the detroit news reports that any chinese person who can afford a gm car is already a very wealthy person but the tariffs may not make the decision between buying or not buying the car. does that really mean this is politics? >> that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it, you know? if another country is imposing unfair tariffs on american products, that's an unlevel playing field for our goods and services, then the president is going to take action. the united states is going to take action. it doesn't mean just because our products are doing well in that country that we shouldn't take action. imagine if we didn't have those tariffs on those automobiles. i'm sure gm would like to keep some of that money. the american people would like to keep some of that money. this is about creating a level playing field. >> stephanie, let me ask you about the money here. obviously, a lot of talk about that phone call the president made from air force one to donors earlier this week. the romney campaign and republican national committee said we have raised a hundred million dollars in june. are you guys going to be anywhere close? >> well, we will put out our figures when we are ready, when we are done adding up the numbers, but no secret why the romney campaign put their money out today. they are trying to change a very bad story line on themselves. and that story line is that governor romney and his campaign have flip-flopped on his own health care policies, his position on the president's health care law, but also his position on his own health care law in massachusetts. >> the issue of tax? >> they are claiming to change the bad story line, i don't blame them if i were on their side, i probably would do the same thing. >> but, again, i know you won't give me an exact number but i know you've been frustrated in saying they are raising more than money than you all are. they are raising more money than you in june, right? >> i won't forecast what our money is. it's not uncommon for the challenger to outraise the incumbent after they become the nominee. i worked for john kerry in 2004. we outraised george bush. we will continue building our grassroots support and that as many people as possible are contributing to this campaign. one thing to keep in mind about that hundred million dollars, we'll never know who raised that money. we will never know who mitt romney's bundlers are. we know one of them, mr. dimond who resigned from barclays last week but don't know how many more are out there and where this money came from. that's one thing to keep in mind when he puts his hundred million dollars out there. >> that's true. although i guess you have your -- they have their diamonds. >> we release our bundlers and completely transparent on it, as most candidates have done. mitt romney plays by a different set of rules and keeps his bundlers secret like a lot of other things that he keeps secret. >> that was stephanie cutter, deputy campaign manager for the president's campaign. john avlon is here with me now both romney and the president bashing china is a bad thing to do. >> it doesn't add up. look. bashing china is a very effective ad campaign technique especially in ohio. the 2010 cycle we saw a surprising number of ads using china shorthanded for marc's place in the world and feeling that american manufacturing sent what it once was and we had a miniresurgent in manufacturing in this country until the last month. but so it is an effective boogie man politically but it doesn't add up if you look at the bottom line numbers. i spoke to the mayor of toledo tonight where air force one sat down today. i asked him what do you make of this and how does china play? he said i've been to china three times. he said, you know, china -- >> he wasn't a vacation? it wasn't a beach trip or a vacation. it was a pure economic outreach and he said members of my administration have been there more. despite the fact that toledo has a success story in economic resurgents because of automaticive manufacturing. he says china is a key to economic growth which helps his city turn deficits into surpluses. >> a policyup on the money raising. i think it was pretty clear from what stephanie cutter said they won't come close. interesting in the point when john kerry was running he outraised george w. bush at the time. >> she did work for kerry but there are gripes but the party is uniting around mitt romney and especially on the back of the supreme court nomination where they raised a huge amount of money in 24 hours and he has a big boost and sounds like she is adjusting expectations downward and it sounds like romney a hundred million dollar month with rnc money and not including superpacs. we know this is a billion dollar election. this is going to be big money. >> big money on both sides. >> big money on both sides. >> i thought her comment was important. it's easy to say, oh, you know, some guy who is in trouble running a bank is bundling for the other guy. the problem you had a guy on your side too. the bundlers tend to be very wealthy and very connected. often wall street people. >> exactly. as you pointed out neither party has a monopoly on virtue or vice. for every time there is a corzne. >> a verdict in the case of a man who beat up the priest that he says abused him nearly three decades ago. do claims of an assassination using pulonium add up? 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the leader's widow is asking for his body to be exhumed and autopsied after an investigation it's happened if, indeed, it it's happened if, indeed, it just did just happen to yasser arafat. bob is writing a book on assassinations and outfront from irvine, california tonight. polonium 210 the same poison used to kill the russian spy two years ago after yasser arafat died. at this point is the case this strong that arafat could have been to blame? >> it was a swiss laboratory that found it on the toothbrush and it's not found in nature like this. it's fairly good evidence that we have to dig arafat up for true to find that out and they will find it in his bones or his flesh. >> because of the radioactivity? would still be -- you'd be able to figure it out, right? >> my understanding is that doesn't go away. it will be in the corpse if, in fact, he were assassinated. if he was assassinated this is a momentous event. the west bank and gaza are on the surge of a second antifatha. >> to your point, bob, given that his illness in 2004 he died in a paris hospital his illness was mysterious and decline was very swift. why didn't people think to ask those questions at that time? the russian spy who died right away, everyone knew there was something amiss. >> i think the british interrogators are very good. so i think once they discovered this method of killing people, it was an obvious clue that you could look into arafat's death. so, i mean, the palestinians wouldn't have necessarily looked for this when he died, nor would the french. but, you know, they are catching up with this. >> so polonium 210 how common is this? how easy is it to get? i mean, how shocked are you to hear that it could be used in assassinations like this? is it, i guess, more common than we would all think? >> it's much more common. this can be obtained, it can be extracted from common materials, photographic materials, for instance. >> wow. >> normally, i think the russians got this out of a laboratory in russia but it's not impossible that someone local in either israel or palestine came up with this method and poisoned arafat. >> you bring up israel. that would be the assumption that israel would have done this. you know, with your cia hat on is that more likely an alternative that someone planted it now at a later date to cause a problem with the peace process maybe on the other side, not the israel side? >> you know, i think that's too macuvalian. this is sheer speculation at this point. if, in fact, he was assassinated, the assassins probably didn't count on getting caught. this stuff is very hard to detect polonium and if it hasn't been for the russian spy case, no one would have suspected this. like i said we have to really have to wait. i mean, the culprit could have been israel, it could have been other palestinians. we just don't know and frankly, i don't know that we will know. >> thank you, bob. not guilty is what casey anthony heard a year ago. so where is she now? fired for saving a life. the lifeguard and his boss together outfront. this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west, the greatest empires. then, some said, we lost our edge. well today, there's a new new york state. one that's working to attract businesses and create jobs. a place where innovation meets determination... and businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. nno matter what you do. when you're living with moderate to severe crohn's disease, there are times it feels like your life... revolves around your symptoms. if you're tired of going around in circles, it may be time to ask your gastroenterologist about humira. because with humira, remission is possible. humira has been proven to work for adults who have tried other medications... but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief. and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer, have happened. blood, liver and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure have occurred. before starting humira, your doctor should test you for tb. ask your doctor if you live in or have been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. tell your doctor if you have had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have symptoms such as fever, fatigue, cough, or sores. you should not start humira if you have any kind of infection. if you're tired of going around in circles, get headed in a new direction. ask your gastroenterologist about humira today. remission is possible. our third story outfront. exactly one year after casey anthony was acquitted in the murder of her daughter caylee. he said she insisted nothing to her daughter's death. a year later, a look at the trial that made casey anthony a household name. >> we, the jury, find the defendant not guilty so say we all. not guilty. not guilty. >> reporter: with those words, the person once described as the most hated woman in america was let loose and declared not guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter caylee. many people did not agree with the verdict. so casey disappeared. the newspapers magazines reveals her hideout. a two bedroom home in west palm beach where she waits out the remainder of her probation and lives looking over her shoulder says a friend. she blifs a dog and roommate and reconnected with her mom cindy anthony. they wear necklaces wearing ashes of caylee. >> we're extremely excited that i'll be able to skype and obviously keep a video log. >> she surfaced briefly in a series of video diaries. she reportedly trolls twitter for any mention of her name and obsessed about celebs like kim kardashian and friends say casey considers herself a celebrity. she cut ties with jose baez, the florida lawyer who masterminded her defense and he thinks casey isn't well. regardless of whether you think casey did anything wrong baez tells "people" magazine, she needs professional help. but "people" says casey quit her grief counseling only after a few months and now focused on building a new life. she's learning spanish online and plans to travel abroad and may hope to planned a book deal worth millions. she relishing the fact she's a villainous, a friend tells the magazine and although casey can convince the world she's innocent, so far, publishers aren't biting. >> george zimmerman was granted bond but his attorney says he won't be walking free any time soon because he needs the public's help to raise the money. the dollars and cents and chaos in the romney campaign. one of his biggest defenders turns on him. at gas stations through september. it pays to discover. mine was earned off vietnam in 1968. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. male spirit present.trong it's the priceline negotiator. >>what? 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