Monday Morning Local and National Politics; Politics, Progress & Purity; The History of the Ku Klux Klan

Coming up on today's show:

• Jennifer Rubin, opinion writer for The Washington Post, discusses the latest news from over the weekend including what's happening in the Russia investigation and whether the GOP tax bill (or something else) will lead to a government shutdown, plus previews the special election for Jeff Sessions' old Senate seat in Alabama, as the state's senior senator announced that he couldn't -- and didn't -- vote for Republican candidate Roy Moore.
  
  
• Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University and the author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University, Press 2013), and Ben Max, executive editor of Gotham Gazette, talk about the latest news in New York City and state politics.
  
  
• Dahlia Lithwick, who covers courts and the law for Slate and hosts the podcast Amicus, examines the two political parties' responses to sexual misconduct allegations and asks who wins and who loses.
  
  
• Linda Gordon, Bancroft Prize-winning historian at NYU and the author at The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (Liveright, 2017), talks about her book.