paul lennon is this white businessman. the other was letters he wrote to his siblings saying that paul lennon would vouch for him to get parole. so manning from this says, and it says plainly, based on circumstantial but he believes strong evidence. so it's circumsubstantial. you don't have to believe it, and he goes on to say very clearly there is no other evidence of any same-sex encounter that malcolm had with anyone after this point. so i think it's really important to say that. manning never says malcolm was gay because gay is an identity that is, has evolved over the last half of the last century. at the time, you know, some people have a one-drop rule of gayness. [laughter] like, if you, if you look at another person of the same gender, um, automatically you're put in this box. and that's not what manning did. so i think it's important to say. and i think it's transparent. you can challenge it, and i think that's fair to raise those questions, but i think to understand how manning reasoned his conclusions is also im

. >>> on this fateful day in 1957 iconic musical partners paul mccartney and john lennon of the beatlesr the first time. all day long you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. tonight be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news." finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. an alternate juror in the casey anthony trial defends the not guilty verdict. plus, an exclusive interview with the case's lead prosecutor. >>> and the road trip continues. the latest on prince william and catherine's tour of canada. now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. the day today on your nbc station. have a good one. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com [ male announcer ] you don't makeby pressing a button.cken it takes a cook. we're kfc and we've got a certified cook in every restaurant freshly making the colonel's original recipe, today and every day

we're talking about john lennon and paul mccartney. they met at a liverpool church hall in 1957 where lennon's band the quarrymen was playing. >> mccartney played a few rock 'n' roll classics for the band and showed the boys how to tune their own guitars. mccartney was invited to join the quarrymen. >> and the rock 'n' roll world has never been the same since, for the better. >> we'll be right back with more "world news now." [ male announcer ] if it's true that sharks can sense even a drop of blood from a quarter of a mile away, which razor would you use? ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> this week we are taking you behind the scenes in washington, sort of a sneak peek there. yesterday we showed you the best buy store inside the pentagon. >> that's right. seems appropriate to have these stories the week of independence day, july fourth. today we're going to take you inside the west wing. it sounds pretty swanky. wait until you see where the reporters work. let's take a tour with angst's john hendren. >> reporter: there is no job in journalism more glamorous t

paul: thanks, joe. colin. >> yeah, i want to give a hit to john lennon, former assistant, who basically confirmed the beatleslliance this week when he revealed that he was a fan of ronald reagan later in life and apparently having met the gipper in the '70s and thought he would be a better choice for earthquake m -- america than jimmy carter and thought he'd been a little naive earlier in his life. >> paul: you're not supposed to appropriate the beatles, that's my generation. if you have an e-mail jer.com and jer@foxnews.com. and thanks to my panel and for all of you watching, i'm paul gigot, we hope to see

course everybody had their favorite there was paul the cute one, george the quiet one, ringo the ringo one, and john, the conservative one. jim. >> john lennon, the voice of conservatives? it could have happened a long time friend says lennon's politics were right-leaning later in life. saying lennon was a ronald reagan fan and loved arguing with his friends. his politics fell left of centre. >> aha!. we got a beatle. >> that's why i'm giving a tip of my lat to closet republican john lennon. >> (cheers and applause) >> folks, this claim is rock solid. after all it comes from a guy who works for lennon for over a year based on a single conversation with lennon 31 years ago where lennon said he might vote for reagan instead of carter. folks, i cannot wait to rub this in the face of all those peaknik hippies who have been singing lennon songs in their anarchist pan sexual pot smoking drum circle. because conservative values run throughout lennon's song. lucy in the sky with diamonds was just a coded message secretly endorsing supply-side economics because sooner or later lucy's sky diamonds would trickle down. (laughter) >> and obviously when j

england's the "sun" reports paul mccartney and ringo starr have been approached by olympic organizers to perform together at the london games, along with family members of john lennon and george harrison. >> and mila kunis has accepted sergeant scott moore's invitation to attend the marine corpse ball in greenville, north carolina, on november 18th. moore was stationed in afghanistan and posted a clip on youtube, asking kunis to go with him. >> encouraged by recent co-star justin timberlake via twitter, kunis replied, i'll do it, agreeing to be the sergeant's date. >> you watched the youtube clip, right? >> i did, it's great. >> he's not being serious? >> he's being a little over the top. but it's so cute, that he did that and she agreed to go. >> we'll have to hear from her afterwar afterwards. >>> this comes to us from massachusetts where drivers of one new car can take off in more ways than one. the federal government has given the green light for the transition. america's first flying car to hit the roads and runways. it's a two-seat prop plane that can fly the friendly skies and transform to hit the highway as a four-wheel roadster. they're expected to roll ou