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Are profitable to a record-breaking degree, one quarter of whom pay no taxes at all. their effective corporate tax rate is the lowest in many, many years. so what we have got to say is no, mr. president, you're not going to cut social security. you're not going to cut medicaid, you're not going to cut medicare. by the way, ed, as chairman of the veterans committee, let me also point out that the so-called chained cpi will make devastating cuts for disabled veterans, for widows who lost their husbands in iraq and afghanistan. no, that is not the way we are going to do deficit reduction. >> are ...

Nothing else. >> i agree, bill it is pure racism. let's bring in ed takei here on "the ed show" tonight. mr. takei, great to have you with us. >> good to be here. >> you have an unbelievable following in the social media. people pay attention and look to you for your opinions and your response to things. is bill o'reilly being racist? >> bill o'reilly is absolutely clueless, but he pontificates. and on this thing about asian-americans being industrious and hardworking, well, we're like all americans, you know. yeah, we're industrious and hardworking, but to characterize that as a republican tr...

Tonight, lizz. >> thanks, ed. >> what do you make of all of this? >> living here, and also when the -- when the tornadoes hit in minneapolis, i was there helping those folks too with a fantastic mayor r.t. rybak. so watching this hit my neighborhood and going to redhook and seeing how people couldn't access a lot of these people. it was really hard. and helping people clean out their homes after that and talking to strangers, because you would go in groups. you were assigned by these fabulous people who were coordinating in redhook because there wasn't enough money, and people just needed to g...

His book, in the debates, and in some stump speeches and interviews about where he stands on being open to change. how can he go back and negotiate on debt ceiling when the republicans are sitting there looking at chipping away at the big three, and not move on that? >> well, i mean, it's disheartening to hear it. but i think the president got to keep his eye on the ball here. social security is not the problem for this particular issue that we're talking about. if he wants to deal with that on a sidebar issue in another way, and there are other solutions there that aren't what the president o...

Quarter of whom pay no taxes at all. their effective corporate tax rate is the lowest in many, many years. so what we have got to say is no, mr. president, you're not going to cut social security, you're not going to cut medicaid, you're not going to cut medicare. by the way, ed, as chairman of the veterans committee, let me also point out that the so-called chained cpi will make devastating cuts for disabled veterans, for widows who lost their husbands in iraq and afghanistan. no, that is not the way we are going to do deficit reduction. >> are you confident that the president will protect so...