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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. that's 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 have to be to take a job that didn't have i abonus structure that could ee potentially give you $6 mil...

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 ceo's 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 making four times more than that? >> because the argument -- >> head of a government agency. >> you c...

Emerging at the military bases all over the world about what will happen to families, and many of these people don't 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 can't afford the lose any. and the pentagon is really putting it out there in public about what will happen. they're playing a little bit of, of the situation themselves in the public arena to ma...

Right thing. >> governor walker later responded to president obama saying i'm 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 president's speech change the dynamic of the situation today, if at all? >> i don't think it did very much. i spoke to some labor officials late in the afternoon. once again, they wished he said more. they would have liked to he...

>> i don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated orvil villified infringed upon. we're not going to convince the bravest americans to put their lives on the line as police officers or firefighters if we don't 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 response, i'm sure the president knows most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for wa...