Monday Morning National Politics; Albany Update; The Best Performances of 2018; The Chief Justice

Coming up on today's show:

• Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent, reports on the latest national political news from Washington, D.C.
• Ken Lovett, Albany bureau chief for The Daily News, and Vivian Wang, reporter for the Metro Desk at The New York Times, talk about the salary increase approved for state legislators (with strings attached?) and other news from the state capital.
• A.O. Scott, film critic for The New York Times, and contributor to The Performance Issue of the Times Magazine, talks about which actors and performances rose above the rest this year, and takes your calls.
• Richard Brookhiser, senior editor of National Review, a National Review Institute Fellow, and the author of John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court (Basic Books, 2018), talks about John Marshall, appointed to the Supreme Court in 1801, who is credited with establishing the Court's power through judicial review.