public has the right to know. he s not going to expose cia agents. he s not an irresponsible guy. you may disagree with what he s doing on some level but he s not putting it out there willie nilly. i don t claim to be his best friend, but i think he s doing his job. and every journalist has a different approach and he can t be kiboshed. sun light is the best disinfectant until you get burned in a case like this. i think that this could go any direction at this point. let s take a move to the irs scandalle. because in your piece, joshg josh, on congressman darrell issa and the irs investigation you write in part, quote, after a burst of attention his investigation appears to have stalled even though he turned up embarrassing official. dressed up as spock? oh, was that him? issas hasn t made the all-important connection to the white house. and he may not be able to.
american base last week. the u.s. says the holy booked were burned by mistake and has apologize. with russia s presidential election less than a week away, russian state media says a plot against the number one candidate s been foiled. prime minister vladimir putin s about id to return to the presidency has stirred widespread protests. and now russian tv says two suspects in an alleged plot to as nature him have been arrested in the ukraine. they attempted a number of attacks in moscow, plus one on mr. putin right after the march 4th presidential poll. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news business leader. i m zain vergee and world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. you ve watch be world business today. our top stories this monday, february 27th. the world bank issues a stark warning to china, free up the markets or face some dire economic
life separate, and hollywood life and governorship and personal life. we know there is an admission of a source close to schwarzenegger that he is providing financial support for this child since it was born, but how a visible person like this managed to keep it secret for so long is a great mystery. and we know you have been working long hours since this broke. thank you, casey wian. and we want to turn to the other scandalle that we have been looking at for the last few days. this hour, the maid who claims that the head of the imfs a sauled her and tried to rape her inside of a $3,000 a night hotel in new york. from the first time, we are hearing from the lawyer who represents this woman. our deborah feyerick talked to that attorney, and what are we getting, deb? well, t.j., we can tell you that the woman is a west african immigrant from new guinea, and
her husband, of course, we are talking about is arnold schwarzenegger, the newly former governor of the state of california. here is now maria shriver s brief statement, and she says quote. this is a painful and heartbreaking time. as a mother, my concern is for the children. i ask for compassion, respect and privacy as my children and i try to rebuild our lives and heal. i will have no further comment. end quote. very short statement making it clear there that she would like some time away, and would not like to be bothered and not expected to hear much more from her any time soon. and no denying that you can sense the grief in those short words from maria shriverer, and let me bring in casey wian who has been on this story since it broke overnight. a lot of people thought, casey, or just wondered what was going on when they first heard of the separation in the first place. a lot of people shocked by that, and then you throw this shock on top of that one. yeah, absolutely.