we appreciate what america taxpayers did for us. paid you back with interest. what happened? where did we go wrong? thank you to we may sue you. they re considering joining a lawsuit filed by their former ceo claiming the rescue of aig cheated shareholders out of tens of billions of dollars. in what way? how can we cheat you if you re fledgling or having major trouble? basically arguing that the government had any sort of number of options to come in and rescue aig and the way they did it taking 80% of the company and they had really high interest rate on the loans, all basically deprived shareholders and argues that the government violated shareholders 5th amendment rights taking their property. aig has confirmed that the board will meet tomorrow as you pointed out. former ceo is the person leading this idea of joining the lawsuit and hearing if anything from the board members?
this is a huge contrast to the thank you and the sacrifice, if you will, some might say that was made to save this banking giant to where we are again now. sure. well, all the indication that is we have are that the board recognizes this is putting it mildly, a bit of a pickle that they have this ad campaign out there, they have loudly proclaimed we owe survival to taxpayers and they want to listen to greenberg. this is awful pr. yes. very, very bad pr. they didn t anticipate this happening when it did. let me quickly play jay carney asked about it in the past hour at the white house briefing. he wouldn t comment on the lawsuit but here s what he said about the bailout of aig. because of the successful management of taxpayer dollars by the government and the company s restructuring efforts, the company recently fully repaid taxpayers with a profit. the overall positive return on
about brennan s nomination, wants to postpone it until a benghazi hearing. do you agree with that? every senator has the right to get the information they need in regards to benghazi. we have had numerous open and closed briefings. i have participated in many of them. gotten a lot of material. i think the white house is very forthcoming in giving us the information in regards to benghazi. i don t know how much more information we could get before we should act on that particular issue. as it relates to the confirmation hearing, every senator will have the opportunity to ask the questions or get the information they need. thank you so much. a great pleasure having you on. thank you. thank you. coming up thank you, america. just weeks after releasing an ad thanking americans for the bailout, aig now considering suing the government. details ahead. [ woman ] if you have the audacity to believe