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Against you. >> exactly. >> you were being paid thousands of dollars less every year than your male colleagues doing the exact same job. can you -- you write about this beautifully in the book, can you explain how you found out 19 years into it you were being paid less? >> someone left me an anonymous note, tipping me off that me and my counterparts, the four of us had the same job, we had been paid drastically different. mine was 40% less than theirs, just the base pay, and that meant my overti...

Supreme court undid with the ruling against you. >> exactly. >> you were working a good year for 19 years when you found out you were being paid thousands of dollars less every year than male colleagues doing the job. you write afwhobout this in the book. how did you find out 19 years into it you were being paid less? >> someone left me an anonymous note tipping me off that me and my counterparts, the four of us had the same job, been paid drastically different. mine was 40%, just the base pay, ...

were killed when gunmen fired on a check point. representatives from around the world are meeting right now in london to discuss somalia. the country has been mired in war and famine for more than 20 years. british prime minister david cameron is hosting the meeting to promote a global resolution to the situation. im max foster, "world business today" starts right now. good morning from cnn london, im charles hodson. >> and good evening from cnn hong kong. im pauline choiu. this ...

tans movement. an indonesian man accused in making the bombs in the 2002 bali attacks is set to make a plea this monday. he could be handed a death sentence if convicted. 2002 people were killed in the bali bombings. at least 44 min mates are dead after a prison riot in new mexico. rival gangs were fighting in the prison and at one point inmates took a guard hostage. australian prime minister julia laggard says she will survive the office. australian media report the former prime...

Sensenbrenner, a multimillionaire when he hit the lottery three times. congress is pretty much evenly divided between red and blue. but there is one color that is very much bipartisan, and that is green. take the united states senate for example, where there are 67 millionaires including 37 of the democrats and 30 of the republicans. the estimated median net worth of a u.s. senator is $2.63 million. for a member of the house more than $750,000. for the average american family, $96,000. >> i thin...

Something ugly. comedian ricky gervais returning to the podium to host the 2012 golden globes. association voted for him to come back for the third year as the host despite his controversial performance this year. golden globes will be held on january 15th. thats all about ratings, folks. he made fun of the people sitting in front of him that a lot of people got a kick out of and continued to watch. >> i thought he was too angry to do this. i guess he decided differently. how angry would you hav...

Barney frank voting against it, the house financial services committee suspended the compensation packages for executives we told you, they wanted $6, $7 million more. the ceos of those organizations, fannie and freddie will be on capitol hill today. their base pay starts at $900,000. they can make as much as $6 million in the coming year. and apparently -- you know, one of the things the lawmakers are saying, look, you know, the average cabinet secretary makes $200,000 a year. these guys are ma...

Emerging at the military bases all over the world about what will happen to families, and many of these people dont earn a lot of money. you know, they live paycheck to paycheck, and look at it this way, a young army private first class on the job for less than two years earns about $20,000 a year in base pay. if the that private first class is married and has children, they need every paycheck. they cant afford the lose any. and the pentagon is really putting it out there in public about what w...

Right thing. >> governor walker later responded to president obama saying im sure the president knows that most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits, while our plan allows it for base pay. joining me now, howard fineman of the huffington post and msnbc analyst. thanks for joining me, howard. >> hi, lawrence. >> howard, how did the presidents speech change the dynamic of the situation today, if at all? >> i dont think it did very much. i spoke to some labor o...

>> i dont think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated orvil villified infringed upon. were not going to convince the bravest americans to put their lives on the line as police officers or firefighters if we dont properly reward that bravery. >> even if it means going into deficit. at some point, you run out of money. the president decides to do that in front of the governors and governor christie shaking his head saying here we go again. governor walker said this in respo...