joining us now is john stanton, a reporter for "roll call." john, thanks very much for joining us tonight. nice to have you here. >> good to be here. >> did we, in fact, affirm that our national motto is in god we trust today? has that congressional business been accomplished? >> it is, in fact, safe. the motto has not changed. they did vote by an overwhelming majority. in fact, they actually had 90-some-odd per sent of the democrats vote with them and say, in god we trust is the national motto. yes. >> voting no on this is amazing -- voting on an affirmation that it is our national motto, you'd be denying that that is the truth. yeah. >> there actually were nine members that voted against it, ç including, i believe pete stark who's the only acknowledged atheist in the house. >> wasn't there one republican who voted against it as well? >> i believe so. i believe so. there's always the outlier. they got through without too much of a problem. >> this is an embarrassing thing. for the house republicans to be caught spending congressional time do

joining us now is john stanton, a reporter for "roll call." john, thanks very much for joining us tonight. nice to have you here. >> good to be here. >> did we, in fact, ?@#firm tha our national motto is in god we trust today? has that congressional business been accomplished? >> it is, in fact, safe. the motto has not changed. they did vote by an overwhelming majority. in fact, they actually had 90-some-odd hper sent of the democrats vote with them and say, in god we trust is the national motto. yes. >> voting no on this is amazing -- voting on an affirmation that it is our national motto, you'd be denying that that is the truth. yeah. >> there actually were nine members that voted against it, including, i believe pete stark who's the only acknowledged atheist in the house. >> wasn't there one republican who voted against it as well? >> i believe so. i believe so. there's always the outlier. they got through without too much of a problem. >> this is an embarrassing thing. for the house republicans to be caught spending congressional time doin

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. >> john stanton, reporter for "roll call." thanks again for your time tonight, john. always nice to have you here. >> any time. >> i will say that looking into this empirical question of whether or not the 2010 election, the republicans were elected in the 2010 election, have changed the republican party at all, there's two bits of data out there recently. politico looked at their votes on substantive issues in the house and found that republicans in general were willing to dissent from the party line. dissent from the party leadership 12.34% of the time. house freshmen, the class of 2010, was willing to dissent from the party leadership 12.5% of the time. no difference whatsoever. john's newspaper, though, "roll call," today, did find there was one really big difference about the 2010 class. in congress. between the 2008 congress and the 2010 congress, the net worth of congress increased by nearly 25%. so the one thing that i can empirically tell you is that electing lots and lots of tea party republicans in this last election meant that congress got a hell of a lot

megyn: do you find her credible, john? >> actually, she didn't seem to have a care in the world one way or the other. i believe her when she told me that's what she heard, but obviously, without having interviewed that individual myself, i can't, you know, attest to his credibility. megyn: do you know whether she has alerted or have you alerted the police to that alleged conversation? >> yes. we have. we've been in constant contact almost on a daily basis particularly with the fbi on all of the new leads that we get via texts, via e-mails and sometimes phone calls. so the fbi specifically we've been working closely with. megyn: i mean, because if this conversation really took place and right now i think you and i both agree that's a big if, but if it took place between jersey and another member that's being refer today as, like, a flophouse, but this sort of shared home, then that would be significant because that would be potentially a person who knew jersey and was in a position to report on what jersey was saying. >> ab

megyn: do you find her credible, john? >> actually, she didn't seem to have a care in the world one way or the other. i believe her when she told me that's what she heard, but obviously, without having interviewed that individual myself, i can't, you know, attest to his credibility. megyn: do you know whether she has alerted or have you alerted the police to that alleged conversation? >> yes. we have. we've been in constant contact almost on a daily basis particularly with the fbi on all of the new leads that we get via texts, via e-mails and sometimes phone calls. so the fbi specifically we've been working closely with. megyn: mean, because if this conversation really took place and right now i think you and i both agree that's a big if, but if it took place between jersey and another member that's being refer today as, like, a flophouse, but this sort of shared home, then that would be significant because that would be potentially a person who knew jersey and was in a position to report on what jersey was saying. >> abso