The Conversation: Does AIG Deserve $100 Million in Bonuses?

Feb. 3, 2010— -- Insurance giant AIG is set to distribute another $100 million in employee bonuses today, causing a new round public outrage. The company still owes the US government $124 billion dollars of tax payer bailout funds.

In today's Conversation Diane Sawyer chats with ABC's David Muir about why these bonuses are being paid and what the Obama Administration is doing about the public's anger. Many of the AIG employees who helped bring the company to financial ruin in 2008 are not on the company's payroll anymore, but the outrage remains.

Why can a company that took a $180 billion bailout money still be allowed to pay out such big bonuses? How long will it take AIG to pay back their bailout cash? Will AIG at least pay this bonus money back to taxpayers? All this and more in today's Conversation.