Pink lipstick and there were howls in this room. I thought you look like a 1950 superstar. Look at the time. My goodness. Happy International Womens day. To my favorite woman on msnbc. Wow, she did not say it right back to me. I like nobody in my life better than stephanie ruhle, not just here on msnbc. It is 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. In the east. Remember this. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. And what is the president always saying about our Election Security . When i look at what happened as you know it was just a case where they found a million fraudulent votes. There are a lot of people, a lot of people my opinion and based on proof that trying to get in illegally and actually vote ill legally. We have so many people voted illegally, it is a disgrace. The president or his fellow republicans debate or consider any plan to drain the swamp and strengthen our election. The republicans passed a landmark bill, hr 1. The bill would enact a number of dramatic reforms designed to increase participation in the democratic process and reducing corruption on capitol hill, everything from making it easier to vote and slowing the revol revolving door between congress and lobbying firm. Sweeping reform is designed to make politics work for everyone. Yes, it is a democrats plan but the president ran and won a campaign to drain the swamp. You would think they would find some redeeming qualities in the spill. Something they could discuss debate, barter, pareapparently. Why is the Green New Deal getting in the senate when h. R. 1 is not . Because i get to decide what we vote on. Brings us to todays big question, when did Ethics Reform becomes a partisan issue . Joining me, garret haake and our msnbc contributor, e. J. Dionne and the Civil Rights Division at the doj, miss gupta. Garret, first off, whats in this bill . How much time do we have katy . This is a comprehensive Election Integrity and ethics bill that democrats have been putting together for some time. There are a million different pieces of this. Some of the big headlines include making election day a federal holiday and requiring tax return disclosures for president ial and Vice President ial candidates. Voter registration done through the dmv and make it compulsive. There is measures including the value of grass roots donations, limiting the strengths of big donations to our election process. This is a complete over haul of how we find our system. Why were republicans oppose to it and why wont it be brought up in the senate . Mitch mcconnell does not want it to be. Mitch mcconnell has been and hell not dispute the sentence, the most aggressive foe of Campaign Finance reform in the United States government during his career. He was the plaintiff against mccain feingold. This is an issue that created his political career. He has always been in the front line fighting against any changes. If you want to give 50,000 to the candidate of your choice, that ought to be your right because it is your 50,000, it is your voice. Republicans dont like some of the changes in this bill that would increase the strength of small donors and dont like some of the changes of this. House super pact candace close their donors or how much soupup pac pacs can do. As you said this will die a very quick death in the senate. Why is Mitch Mcconnell against voting against International Voting day. This bill is bundle up in so many different pieces with it. Mcconnell dismissed it out right. He did say there is one piece of election changes in this. It is not in many bill thats interesting. The issue of ballot harvesting. This is the issue that cost. He said if that had been in this bill, thats something he can discuss. It is not that all changes are off the table, all of these changes are off. For democrats this was such a huge priority, thats why they got the h. R. 1 designation. It was not just ballot harvesting in north carolincaro. It was the allegation also that those ballots were filled in, the blank ballots were filled in down the line for the republicans and then sentence. It was a number of things. There is two big buckets for this bill, there is the voting right component of this bill and the corruption component of this bill. Lets stick on voting for a second. This bill aims to make it easier for people to vote. Fundamentally, i think a lot of people would say listen, i like for it to be easier to vote and national holiday, i can take off work and go vote or know that i am going to be automatically registered in my stay, i dont have to go out and make an effort to register. Why is there such push back in congress on this idea, making it easer for all americans to get to the ballot box. We have dismal turn out in our elections. We have to reckon with the fact that our nation has had a long history around fighting for the right to vote. We are a couple of days after celebrating and commemorating the events, you had congressman john lewis giving us an impassion voting speech of h. R. 1. It was 50 plus years ago he was brutally beaten in selma. We have this long history contested access to the vote. This is not something thats historic that we can remember in black and white photos. We know that there is active voters suppression and there are people in this country and senator mcconnell did talk about National Election day and say it was a Democratic Party power grab. He and others feel very much that increasing and expanding the franchise somehow is a threat to their power base and instead it is based on really fundamentally a slunk electorate power base. H. R. 1 opens the franchise. There should be no member of congress that understands the rule of accountability and ethics in our government as being so crucial for the government to have legitimacy among voters who should feel threaten by this bill. Thats where we are. There is no reason why the senate should not have a hearing on the bill. They are refusing to have a hearing and to hold it. We saw voters in november come out to the ballot box, voting across the country voting for democracy reform. We ended up with the most record. I thought it is most symbolic on International Womens day today. To me this says a lot of weaponization of Voting Rights. It is an american issue. It is an issue about freeing up our democracy. There is a ton of support around the country for it. Thats why we need to see h. R. 1 become law. Why would more voting be a Democratic Power grab . Why would say making voting a national holiday, why would that be a Democratic Power grab, e. J. . Republicans tend to get more support from older voters and affluent voters. They tend to vote in larger numbers and a lot of them have more flexibility in their schedules. Democrats tend to do better. Younger voters with lower income and minority voters. I think back in the day where republicans used to be major supporters of Voting Rights, we would not have gotten a Voting Rights act without republicans. They have switched sides on this because they see where their support comes from. What you said at the out set was so important which is donald trump talked a lot about draining the swamp. But, in fact washington seems to have gotten swampier, the last couple of years. I think this bill responds to general threats to democracy both from Voter Suppression and gerrymandering but also from fears of corruption and the dominate of money in politics so thats why they put it all together in one bill. When you ask regular americans about how they feel about washington, a lot of people will tell you that they feel washington is corrupt. It is corrupt because there is so much money involved. Part of that because you cant track whos donating to whom. If it comes from the super pac, you can tell who donates to that super pac. They donate to super pacs. It is called dark money. This idea of making dark money more transparent of saying who exactly, where exactly is this money coming from, garret, i was on the hill the other day. We were asking a number of lawmakers whether theyll support Something Like the disclose act or make it so that dark money needed to be more transparent and there were a number of republican senators who were totally behind it. Lindsey graham was one of them. Why was this portion of the bill not being considered and if it is not, are there another bill thats out there that republicans would want to get behind. Theyre supposed to be anticorruption and the president ran on it. It is interesting katy, there is something coming to washington that change people spifs perspective on this. It is much easier to raise money for reelection than getting elected. You have access and donations. Once you are here, there are sources of money that are available to you that are not available to you. So you see politicians coming up here all the time talking about draining the swamp and the swamp starts to look appealing after a while. Yes. The specifics of whats in this bill because it is all packaged together, you are not going to see individual elements like the disclose act broken out of this and brought to the floor. Again, there is this sort of hypocrisy of incumbency that comes with this. Once you got here on the rules as they existed, you are not going to be the first people to the front line to change those rules. Thats why it is so important that you did have this young new diverse class freshmen and the democratic control house in particular who ran on this reform and got this passed in the house. Nbc garret haake and e. E. J. Dionne. Miss gupta. Congressman, thank you for being here. Whats the point of bringing it up if it it does not have a chance to see it live another day, katie hill. This is what happens when democrats are in power that enables us to ensure regular people have a voice and we are able to get big money out of politics and ensure the power is going to the people rather than big corporations and special interests. We have to hold the senate speed to the fire, every republican in the house their feet to the fire. It is their president who started this phrase of drain the swamp he was run on the phrase of draining the swamp. We had so many people voted for him because of that idea. I believer our political system was broken and for far too long, too many politicians were accountable of those special interests. That led us to this place where we are now where democracy are undermined at so many different levels. This is an important package for us to show the time is changing. We are standing up for whats right and ensure real regular people have a voice. The only way that it happens that we have politicians who are brave enough to say this is going to make my job harder and this means i have to go and talk to voters and i cant get tens of thousands of dollars from big donors or corporations. We cant stand for this. You see republicans control senate afraid to give people the right to vote, afraid to expand the electric shows it should be really telling to us. Any time you are suppressing the vote that means you are trying to hold onto your power and take it away from other people. Is this an effort more than anything else because it was not going to go anywhere in the senate, was this an effort to get the message out to voters for the 2020 election where democrats stand and not just for the presidency but down the ballot . To be honest with you, i was hoping it would not be a Party Line Vote and as controversial as it was. I thought running on this issue it was not a bipartisan issue. A lot of my voters who were republicans and especially independent were supportive of the idea. So i am shocked that the message worked buy the republicans and it shows you how powerful those special interests are and how much they control the pursestrings of the Republican Party right now because they did not want a single reform to pass. In the broader public, this is not partisan. In the halls of congress, it is and that should tell us a lot. Speaking of another vote that could potentially be a Party Line Vote. The mueller resolution, do you expect thatll be democrats voting for that or do you expect there will be republican support . I think there is a chance that we may get a few republicans, i hope that we do again. This is something that should not be partisan. We should want transparency and the American People to make sure they have the information that they need thats about the highest level of government and whos in charge and how we can trust the people we elected on important institutions that each of us depend on in our daytoday life. We are seeing of this tendency to protect the president , there is so much control and power ex hearthed exerted at the top. Until that starts to change then it is going to be really, really hard to pull them off. We may pass the resolutio Resolution Resolution resolution again, i dont know whats going to happen with it. If we were elected and got control in congress and put a check and balance on this president. I think if we pass this resolution, probably wont gos anywhere in the senate because as Mitch Mcconnell says so smugly that he decides what comes to the floor then we have to use whatever other means we have to make sure the American People get the information that comes from that report. Congresswoman katie hill. Thank you very much. Thank you, katy. Coming up, Paul Manafort, has incredible luck or our Justice System is incredibly flawed. Another director bites the dust at the white house. I know what it means to have reliable support. I found a company who believes in me. They look out for me. And they help me grow my career. At comcast its my job to constantly monitor our network, prevent problems, and to help provide the most Reliable Service possible. My name is tanya, i work at the Network Operations center for comcast. Were working to make things simple, easy and awesome. Spin the wheel again, just nine months assuming the role of White House Communications director, bill shine, has resigned. Shine wont be gone entirely. Hes going to begin to work in trumps 2020 reelection campaign. His exit comes just days after an exclusive new yorker magazine story exposed the very deep ties between fox news and the Trump Administration. Joining me, msnbc chief, halie jackson and our Associated Press reporter, jonathan lemire. How did this go out . I dont know, slowly and suddenly is the way to answer the question. Bill shine went to the trip to vietnam that the president went on. The president kind of got tired of shine. There was a sense that he was going to do more to shake up the white houses Communications Team which he led at the time. As of today, he no longer does. There would be more shine could do. The one that the president cares about the most. There is nothing he focuses on so much as his image when it relates on how hes portrayed on television or the media. This thing just came to an end here, to a close. It does not seem like there is a ton of bad blood and shine is moving on to be a Senior Adviser to the campaign would reflect it. He lasted 22 scarramuccis, eight months. The president , i read that he was excited for shine because shine promised he would get better coverage, better news and the fox who certainly got good news. Coverage did not change anywhere else. You are not going to suddenly give favorable coverage to the president. Are his expectations out of whack . Yes, it is a nowin job. I made it first, thank you. Okay. So basically, yes, this is a tough position which is nothing more than the president cares about than his media coverage. He fantasize himself his own communications director. This job is a revolving door. We had jason miller to doug keith and scarramucci and hope hicks and now bill shine. Shine came in with more expectations because he does have ten years at fox news and the president very fond of that coverage and that network and believed that shine is going to come in and change how this white house is perceived in a non fox media as well. That did not take place. Certainly some of that is of course as you skrus sajust said house reporters are going to cover whats happening. There are things that a director can do, to shape coverage or this way or that way. There was a sense that shine was not doing that. He also was to commit after over haul press shop. He did not bring in new hires that can help him. How much did the new yorker article contributed to this. The article does talk about bill shine and the connections he had before he went into the white house and what he was supposed to do there and there is a lot of connection between him and sean hannity. Did the exposing of that which we all knew to a degree, did that contribute to shines disaster . The report is out now, my sense it is in the works prior of the publication of that article. But, it certainly shows a bright light on the relationship between fox news and the white house and it was no, maam complementary towards shine and highlighted the expectations as he came into the door that the president felt that he did not fulfill. It was not just one moment but over the last six weeks or two mo months or so. This guy is not doing what i wanted him to do. The campaign represents a soft plain income. Will mulvaney become the acting director as well . Thats donald trump and thats never going to change as long as hes in the west wing. What you will see return to what we saw, remember back when sean spicer acted as the communication director, Kellyanne Conway is not directly involved in coms but shes often on television. I imagine thats some