Ken Lovett, Albany bureau chief for The Daily News, and Josh Nathan-Kazis, staff writer for The Forward, talk about the news that the group of breakaway Democrats who caucus with the Republicans in Albany, known as the Independent Democratic Conference, looks like it will disband -- reunifying the Democrats in the senate.

Plus: The reporters and Shulem Deen, the author of All Who Go Do Not Return, a memoir about growing up in and then leaving one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the U.S., discuss State Senator Simcha Felder's efforts to ease requirements in New York state law that the education at private religious schools be "substantially equivalent" to that offered at public schools -- and how he almost held up the New York State budget over this.