The Conversation: Executive Compensation

Diane Sawyer chats with David Muir about bonuses bailed-out companies gave out.

ByABC News
December 24, 2009, 8:58 AM

Dec. 24, 2009 — -- Diane Sawyer chats with David Muir about bonuses for companies that received government money. Do these companies owe taxpayers answers about why they are giving their executives such big bonuses when it was the taxpayers who bailed them out?

David talks to Diane about the bonuses that the AIG executives failed to return after promising they would. And why is the government approving a $4 million pay package for an AIG executive? David talks about his phone call with the Obama administration's pay czar. This and more on today's "Conversation."