From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

AIG, political outrage and financial stability.

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues, Americans care about most.

President Obama said today he shares public outrage over bonuses paid to failed executives with public money.

Meant meantime, the head of the failed insurance giant AIG told Congress he would never have approved the contracts that required those bonuses to be paid.

Is there a way to get the money back?

Why are executives given incentives

for assuming so much risk that it threatens the world's financial stability? What's AIG doing to

bring back at least some of its $200 billion government bailout? We'll ask those and other questions

today. On reporters' notebooks, some Senate Democrats declare their independence.

First, here's the news.

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To the Point. On Capitol Hill today, it was all about AIG. We'll hear about millions in executive

bonuses, billions in bad debt, and proposals for new regulatory authority. On reporters' notebook, moderate Democrats and the Senate are getting organized to restrain

what they call liberals in Congress and the Obama White House.

First, this news update, President Obama spoke to the public outrage over Wall Street excesses

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