Why is Senator Shuck Grassley lying to his constituents about the GOP's plan to privatize Social Security? In my Daily Take - I'll tell you about the drastic measures Republicans are resorting to to keep their constituents in the dark about their radical agenda.

Matt Wood, FreePress.net joins Thom Hartmann. Justice is served for AT&T and T- Moblie customers! A pending merger which would have skyrocketed millions of cell phone bills is shot down by the Department of Justice! So will this big win for consumers stand - or will AT&T keep up the fight to take over the wireless market?

Yesterday - the website Gawker broke the news that Fox so-called News talking head Bill O'Reilly allegedly tried to pay off the Nassau County Police Department with a charitable contribution in exchange for an investigation into whether or not his wife was having an affair with one of the Department's police officers. As the Gawker article reads: "Last summer, Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly came to believe that his wife was romantically involved with another man. Not just any man, but a police detective in the Long Island community they call home. So O'Reilly did what any concerned husband would do: He pulled strings to get the police department's internal affairs unit to investigate one of their own for messing with the wrong man's lady."

Lucy Kafanov fills in for Thom Hartmann and discusses how Augusts' death toll of American troops is the highest in the war's nearly decade long history. Follow Lucy on Twitter at twitter.com