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What a great thing for women's sports that we care.

We're talking about it tonight on CNN because people are caring, and ultimately that is good.

We care.

The fact that we're talking about women's basketball and any you know, women's sports in general.

I mean, this is really great.

A freaking love of one.

It's really great.

I've done this for thirty two years.

I've never once spent five minutes.

Of any show I've ever done anywhere talking about a great women's game last night at any level.

Okay, I might say more about you, but we'll take the win. We'll take it.

That's right.

People are excited about women's basketball right now. They're discovering it like it's the first time your mom tried sushi. Oh my god, have you heard about this? Spread the word? But everyone is raving everyone. Even Shaquille O'Neal said, women's basketball this year is a better game than men's basketball. Yeah. Yeah, he's like the most famous men's basketball player. That's like chef boy Ard telling you he only eats spaghettios. Now

In the women's tournament, controversy is brewing after four games were playing on a court in Portland, Oregon, where the three point line was about six inches closer to the hoop on one side. The error was discovered before North Carolina played Texas in the Elite eight. Both teams coaches decided to go ahead with the game to not delay the tournament.

Okay, I really relate to this as a woman. It is so classic for someone else to fuck up and we're like, oh, the line is messed up. It's fine, We'll just go ahead and play four games. You can fix it later or not whatever. I'm sorry, but what exactly happened with the three point line? To get more on this, we go live to Josh Johnson at the arena. Josh, what happened down there? The line was several inches too short. That's a that's a huge error.

Well does he?

I talked to the director of court maintenance who made the mistake, as well as several other men who were just around, and we all we all agreed that your link being a few inches shorter than everyone was expecting is no big deal, no story here back to you.

That's not true. Having the line be that short makes an enormous difference.

Enormous is a little mean. Plus, it's not about the length of the line, It's about how you play the game. Okay, And I think we can all agree it was a pretty good game. You know.

It's good for me.

I enjoyed it and as far as the difference, the women didn't even notice, all.

Right, Josh. Even if the women said they didn't notice, trust me, they always notice.

Okay.

But let's get this line guy a break, because when I talked to him, he swore this had never happened before.

Okay.

And we don't even know why it was too short. Maybe it was his first time, okay. Maybe it had been drinking, all right, Maybe the arena was cold.

How does being cold make a difference?

It just does.

Okay, Wow, you seem pretty worked up about this. Why don't we move past the length of the line, thank you. Let's talk about the curve, because the curve was weird.

All right, I'm out.

This is why on we played basketball by myself, okay, Josh, Josh.

Say, John Johnson, everybody.

That we'll discovery that.

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Last week, New York City introduced the first congestion pricing plan in the country, and there's one local who's set on making sure New Yorkers pay their fines our own. Michael Costa caught up with him in another installment of Thank.

Me Later, Hi, I'm Michael.

Costa license plates they help track traffic violators, But what happens when shifty citizens purposely cover them up? Sir tonight on thank me later, we'll meet one man who's dedicated his life to ensure that New Yorkers are being held accountable for traffic violations. I want to bike along with this snitchelante to investigate, and you can thank me later.

Communities cheated out of improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure because of people covering up their license plates.

When it goes through the camera system, we can't pick it up.

Official say. These scofflaws cost the city more than one hundred million dollars every year.

That's right.

Some New York drivers have started obscuring their plates by partially covering them. These are called ghost plates, and one man is taking it upon himself to bust these ghosts plates.

I think it's kirsh Konstan still on the criminal mischief beed. I'm going to dedicate today to illegal covered license plates. We've got a guy with the DA placard, I'll tell you that at the minute, and a cover.

So what even incentivized this genuine New York freak to make this his life's mission. I caught him in one of the hottest zones for ghost plates, Lower Manhattan.

The issue is, if you're driving around and your speeding and you're doing it with a covered plate, you're never going to get the ticket, and you're never even going to realize how badly you're driving. I want to make sure the person gets all the tickets to which he's entitled.

What do you say to your critics who say he's a snitch, he's a loser, he doesn't have a life, a hobby, a family, a job, he doesn't have friends or a social life.

What do you say to those people.

I'm not trying to get people tickets. What I'm trying to do is show the people who are trying to get people tickets that their system is broken.

We're in New York City, there's cops everywhere.

Why aren't the police officers cracking down on these ghost plates.

The vast majority of the people I've caught to facing or covering their it's our cops or firefighters or court officers. And then about one hundred and twenty of these videos in the past three months, and I'd say about seventy of them were law enforcement officials. The very people who shouldn't be breaking the law are finding a way to break the law by defacing their plate and then break the law by then speeding.

We're getting more cops tickets for speeding.

Give me some. That's awesome. I mean it's not.

The goal is not to be an asshole.

The goal is to be a little bit of an asshole.

When does it end?

And does that mean you're in a ditch somewhere with a couple of NYPD bullets in your chest?

Not that I want that, I mean it would pick a great story.

I actually see two heroes here.

Yeah, I see you, thank you, who is putting your life on the line more or less enforcing law enforcement. And then I see another hero here, and that's me because I've found you and I'm sharing your story with others.

It's exactly right.

So thank you for that.

You can thank me later. Oh well, thank you right now.

That's not what the Segond's called gersh took me on a bike along through Lower Manhattan to catch some ghost plates in action. After only a minute of biking, we hit our first defender.

This is a great one.

Is this normal wear? And tear and the answer is obviously no.

Right.

So in a situation like this, regardless of where we are, I mean, we're literally within inches of a.

Police so, I mean I'm nervous right now, you're nervous. What We're in a private cop lot? Yeah, and he's okay, okay, good, here's Gris Kuntsman. This one is just so defaced. I couldn't resist.

I want him to get all the tickets he deserves. So I got my paint pen and we're just gonna fill this in for him. And just as a courtesy to the officer, because we are in police parking, I'll also do the New York the plate cover is illegal.

You can see it.

But if you're a speed camera which shoots at like this angle at night, these covers are illegal. For that reason. I'll probably just pull out my screwdriver and do what I do best. Okay, I'll just take the illegal cover and I'll just leave that on the front.

Of the car to show that you're not stealing it.

Yeah, and I don't steal anything, and then we more or less get out of here.

Let's get out of here. Bye.

This is now the third time I've caught this guy, Are you serious?

Yeah, same cop. You've been here before. Oh yeah, actually twice.

But the fact that he's scraped it off again means I got to do some more work.

There's such a important part of being a pest yeah, and actual and ways to actually get shit done and to get people to respond to you, you have to be an annoying.

A bit of an asshole.

Yeah, and this is the third time you've got this car, third time and you're being annoying to it.

After a grueling day of catching ghost plates and meeting fans.

All right, ladies, we'll see you later. Look me up. I'm Ronnie Chang.

I had to recognize all the great work Gersh was doing for the New York community.

Has anybody ever given you a thank you card, a trophy, a plaque, a certificate for the public service you're doing.

I'd be ridiculous.

No one's done that. Well that's going to change today, what because on behalf of the Daily Show?

Oh my god, we got you your own ghost clipt ray as for your girshader, So my favorite ghost plate killer when it comes.

To Boston ghost plates, who are you gonna call?

Gersh? Counts men? Wow? Thank you Gersh for being the annoying snitch. New York City needs to keep its streets safe.

And you can thank me later. Thank you, Michael.

When we come back.

Representative Colin all right, we'll be joining me on the Girl, my guest and I represented Texas's thirty second district and is running for the Senate against America's sweethearts Head Cruise. Weare welcome, Representative Colin allready.

How you doing doing well? How are you?

I'm doing great. Welcome to the show.

Yeah, this is great, different I usually do so.

Yeah, they're fun right now, you guys.

Are It's a little better than the house right now.

It's just slightly. That's I mean, that's not saying a lot. That's keeping the bar. It's pretty low. You have such an interesting resume. You're a former NFL player, civil rights yeah, civil rights attorney, congressman, and now currently running against.

Head Cruz for the.

Yeah in Texas as a Democrat, which is a bit of an uphill battle. Right right now, you're currently pulling at six points behind. Does it make it worse that you're lagging behind Ted Cruz?

Of all people, now listen, I'm confident that on November fifth, that Texan's are going to come out and show who we really are. I think we've had enough of twelve years of having an embarrassment. One of the most divisive centers in the country is somebody who I think fundamentally doesn't appreciate who we really are as Texans. I'm a four generation Texan. He was raised by a single mom

You have said before that you don't Texas doesn't have to be embarrassed by their senator. What is the most embarrassing thing about Ted Cruz? Is it that he fled to Cancun while Texas were in the dark and cold, or that time that he didn't feel the booger on his lip for so long burned in my memory?

You know, I think there's the antics, right, There's like the you know, reading green eggs and ham on the Senate floor while you're trying to take health care away from forty million people and stuff like that. There's the fact that he podcasts three times a week, which is.

A lot hard.

Yeah, that's a lot when I.

Say, senator, But you know when you had that little ROLLI bag when he's coming back from kankun Oh, yes, you know. It's frustrating going through those little rope lines at any time. When you're going through it alone to explain why you abandoned your stake during a statewide crisis, that was really embarrassing.

That's the topper. That was his hopper. You're a father of two, and you were one of the first members of Congress to take paternity leave. First of all, thank you for your service. And secondly, why is that so rare among your colleagues.

Yeah, yeah, Well I didn't know that I was going to be the first one I did it. I thought that it was just a normal thing to do, you know. I grew up and not knowing my father, and so for me, I knew that when we had kids that I was going to do it right. And that starts at the beginning. And there's so much.

We've learned a lot.

There are so many benefits for when men take leave in those early days, it's better for the men themselves, for their spouses for their kids. And you know this is not available to every American and I want to make sure that it is. And that's one of the things I've been working.

Because you.

And I both know that those early days are tough. Oh yeah, and when you're welcoming, you know your bundle of joy is also coming with a whole lot of other things that are changing your life. And you know, I don't think it's right that we're the only major developed country in the world that doesn't have a national paine policy.

But not agree more. Texas was one of the first states to criminalize abortion. What would be your plans to protect and restore women's reproductive rights?

As you mentioned, my wife and I we've had two boys in Dallas in the last five years, and I went to every ultrasound appointment, every genetic testing. And you know those rooms when you're having those conversations with your doctor, they're too small to have somebody like Ted Cruz in there with you. What's happening in Texas is really it's a tragedy. We've had twenty six thousand women who had to get birth to their rapist child since these laws

Wade.

And I'm not saying a little.

Yeah.

Voter turnout is going to be critical for you to flip the seat. It's been estimated that nine point five million registered voters didn't vote in the last election. How will you encourage Texans to get out and vote and does it rhyme with moorshin well?

As you mentioned as a civil rights lawyer, but I was a voting rights lawyer, specifically before I ran for Congress. To me, there's nothing more important than getting you know, Texans and our fellow Americans engaged in our democracy. And in Texas, we make it way too difficult to vote. But I want folks to know there's a reason why they're trying to make it harder for you to vote. Why are they trying to take your voice away? Why are they trying so hard to make it difficult for

I don't want to.

Pick your centermer right, you know, so?

You know so?

I mean, I think it's also true that we have to talk about what's at steak, you know. To me, in Texas, what's at steak is our fundamental freedoms. If taken away a woman's right to choose, the ability to make your own decisions about your body. They're banning books, They're kicking kids out of school because of their hairstyle. I mean, to me, this is fundamentally about who we are as Texans and as Americans, and we have to

You serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee. We just recently found out that seven aid workers were killed in Gaza due to Israel air strikes. Does that give you any hesitation to providing Israel with bombs?

Listen, this is a horrible tragedy, and these folks were there to feed folks who are suffering from famine, extreme conditions. They've done it around the world, and to me, it's an incredibly noble venture that they're engaged in to try and make sure that we can combat these conditions. And as I see it, October seventh was a tragedy and the response in many ways has been incredibly difficult to

And that has to be all then go.

And we've had a difference, you know, this has been our policy for some time, but in some ways I think it had drifted away in a strange way. I think this is a highlight of the need that we come back to this, that we make sure that we have a peaceful and independent Palacitian state next to a stable, democratic and Jewish Israeli state and these folks co exist because we, honestly we cannot continue down this road.

I so appreciate the work that you do, and I so appreciate you being on the show tonight. I wish you the best of luck. Representative Colin Allred. You pick rank and we'll be right back up today.

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