Britain joins brief checklist of nations the place voting age is 16

Britain will decrease its voting age to 16 by the subsequent nationwide election. Qasim Hussain, vice chairman of Further Education on the National Union of Students UK, joins CBS News 24/7 to debate the influence of the change.

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