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 john sang i am the eggman i am the walrus goo goo g'joob, he meant tort reform? (applause) so lennon was a conservative unless he comes on to my show and debates me otherwise. if he doesn't, he is a coward. next, a wag of my finger to bbadu.com which is to the a social network for fans of erykah badu t say european social networking site with 120

>>> next, was john lennon a reagan democrat? the claim made by the beatles personal assistants saying the one-time radical, john basically made it very clear if he were an american he would vote for reigh's because he was really sour on jimmy carter. back in 1980. a lot of people went that way. i voted for carter. hell, i was writing speechs for the day. >>> remember yesterday when obama talked about work ethic, republicans, or lack thereof. >> in one week, they're out one week and then they're saying obama's got to step in? i've been here. i've been doing afghanistan and bin laden and -- the greek crisis. >> he has a point, if you go by the number of bills passed. through the first hall of this year, 2011, how many bills become law? 18. 15 of those laws named a building after somebody, extended an expiring law or appointed an official to the smithsonian institute. counting all them, 18 laws, this year's not so big number. >>> up next, kansas is inching closer to an all-out ban on abortion. the state approve as new set of regula

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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

. >>> 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

. >> 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

we have the bare naked ladies. >> we've got in john lennon and yoko ohno's bed.spent in. it was in montreal. >> we crawled in that bed. a lot of local stations do interviews and all interviewed us in that bed. >> and we have a gift for you guys. >> we always like that. have fun. already looks like you are. that's the fourth hour of the today show this morning live from montreal. >> very nice. >>> meanwhile, let's get a check of the weather. al's in los angeles this morning. al? >> maybe the mownties can put them under house arrest. anyway, let's see what's happening for your weekend. looking terrific. beautiful blue skies, warm conditions. a little on the wet side through the coast sizzling from texas into the plains. a few showers in extreme northwest. then on sunday, sunday, we are looking at more beautiful weather in the east and southeast where they could use it. hot through the ohio and mississippi river >>> good morning to you. well, we've got a mostly cloudy start over the city of san francisco. take it to your future cast and show you what you can expect

the drug war is zero or no i don't mean that in a john lennon war's over if you want it kind of way i mean it in the if only we had a consistent principles government legal technicality kind of way so basically not all white people native american search is p.o.d. and accidentally on a study hall come together in that story and i got a feeding frenzy our ozzie pal rupert murdoch and his news of the world is on carts of americans for tax reform on the budget talks and why is the job cost less than the simulate jobs ron paul for gotten by m.s.m. d.c. charlie beats on his nine eleven flip and our special guest is health ranger night adams of natural news dot com if you're not enraged you're not paying attention to adam vs the. news of the world is no more because news corp overlord rupert murdoch has pulled the plug on the british tabloid paper in reaction to the fast spreading cell phone hacking scandal controversy exploded yesterday when allegations were made that the paper had illegally eavesdropped on the phone messages of murder victims celebrities terror victims politicians and eve

another one of john lennon on the guitar sequence here that is a great shot, as well. >> that is one favorites. only recently assembled that way. and the 18-year-old kid wanted to do a great portrait of the great person and i think this fulfills his dreams. >> ringo starr on the drums. his hair flopping. this is a great, great picture. >> thank you. >> cathy, as we continue to look at these. another one here of a police officer that, this guy got bullets in his ear here to keep the sound out. when you saw these pictures for the first time, did you realize their intrinsic value? >> i realized i hit the jackpot on this. at first blush, they're just incredible photos. great composition and great use of light and memorable portraits. but what i was amazed at is that mike was 18 at the time. incredible photographer at a very early age. >> some technology had to come to bear to make these in a way that you could print them for auction, correct? >> we used a digital resource for the picture, digital files, but they were converted back to silver prints, the old way that photography used to b

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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

. >> it took investigators a couple days, but when she was claiming her witnesses were john lennon and. it started to raise suspicion. it took them a week or two to do it quick. >> it's amazing it took this long for prosecutors to find this stuff. it's not just coming from the defense attorney smearing her. this is the d.a.s office. they have the hearing today. he could be put on house arrest and free to go about the country. he'll have his passport revoked. >> wow. what do you think of that, mika? >> it's disturbing and raises issues about cases like this because obviously you can't accuse someone of something like this and destroy them. it cannot be true. how do you deal with that? have we seen her, heard from her? know her name? totally protected. it's a great controversy. it's a problem. don't know enough at this point. it will be interesting to see what happens today. >>> president obama paid tributte to departing defense secretary robert gates. he surprised him with a medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor. gates said he was humbled by the award, calling his service to the