New York City and rats: What's going on

"This is not Ratatouille. Rats are not our friends."  New York City has a rat problem. Here's what these politicians have to say about it...

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00:00Everyone that knows me, they know one thing. I hate rats.

00:03This is not Ratatouille. Rats are not our friends.

00:07The rats don't run this city. We do.

00:14When we started killing them in Borough Hall, you know, some of the same folks

00:18that are criticizing us now called me a murderer because I was killing rats.

00:22Well, you know what? We're going to kill rats.

00:24Fighting crime, fighting inequality, fighting rats is something that we are focused on

00:31as we continue to make this city a livable city.

00:34There are many rivers that are feeding the sea of rodents in this city,

00:38and today we're damming one of them.

00:54I want to be clear. The rats are absolutely going to hate this announcement.

01:11The biggest swing that you can take at cleaning up our streets

01:15is to shut down the all-night, all-you-can-eat rat buffet.

01:19Like the fax machine, typewriter, and BlackBerry,

01:23our current collection schedule will be seen by future generations as comically archaic.