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The way they have been filibustering and changes the rule? what does that do to debt ceiling negotiations, if anything? >> well, i think it probably exacerbates the tensions and the bad feelings in the senate, and where the feelings are not that bad right now. i don't know that he will try to push forward on that. >> what than, howard? >> i think he might try it. i think he is being pushed to try it by liberal constituencies who might see that as a payback for a time in which they're having to concede on medicare and medicaid and so forth. he may try it. he may try it. >> eugene robinson, howa...

>> well, i think it probably exacerbates the tensions and the bad feelings in the senate, and where the feelings are not that bad right now. i don't know that he will try to push forward on that. >> what than, howard? >> i think he might try it. i think he is being pushed to try it by liberal constituencies who might see that as a payback for a time in which they're having to concede on medicare and medicaid and so forth. he may try it. he may try it. >> eugene robinson, howard fine man, great to have you with us tonight. thanks. >> thanks a lot, ed. there is a lot more. stay with us. >> the...

Republican colleagues, wall street, and the big money interests know absolutely that if the united states for the first time in its history defaults, does not pay its debt, it could lead to an international financial crisis, which will be bad for wall street, which will be bad for big business. and i think they are telling the republicans not to go down that path. >> speaking of wall street, are you willing -- i keep hearing that you're going to offer up a transaction tax that will generate several billion to shore up this social security fund. do you think you would get support on that? >> i ...

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...

Train"? now that is pure racist. 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 cha...