making for years tomorrow could. removing china s presidential term limits will have major consequences, what will be the ramificatio ramifications. matt rivers has been covering this story for us, it happening just about an hour ago. a historic change. reporter: absolutely. this is something that xi jinping has been working on for several years, although we didn t know that he was planning on constitutional amendments, but this rubber stamp parliament did exactly what he and the upper leadership of the communist party wanted it to, they voted overwhelmingly in favor of these changes. what this effectively means that xi jinping can stay on as president for so long as he wants. this is just the latest in a series of power grabbing moves that he has engaged in over the last six to eight months. you saw it in late october of last year when the most important power grabbing move took place, that was when the
families. they will return to washington after the new year. back to hardball. most people might think that this is a partisan power grab. but it is really more ominous. if i believe that laws passed by the legislature hurt working families and are unconstitutional, they will see me in court. and they don t have a very good track record there. welcome back to hardball. that was north carolina governor-elect democrat roy cooper, threatening legal action against his state s republican-controlled state legislature, which in the past 24 hours, took power grabbing to a whole new low. north carolina republicans passed legislation to strip the power of the newly elected
chanting in the background. how do you respond to that, reverend barber? it sounds like segregationist talk when they used to have said they had the majority. but a majority does not give you the right to run roughshod over the constitution. this this republican extremist have a special kind of low and a thirst for power. so let me clear up the record. first of all, this legislature is unconstitutionally constituted. the courts have ruled, they only have a super majority because of racist gerrymander in which now the courts have demanded have to be redrawn and we have to have a special election next year. number two, 13 times this legislature has passed unconstitutional laws that the courts have overturned. that s why we in the movement fight them, because they have a propensity to do this. next, this was a harret special for hurricane victims, about power grabbing. it was done in secret. there was no inside. there were all white people in the secret meetings that planned
you have biden and warren waiting in the wings to rescue things. you still think it s a biden/warren ticket? because there is a recent poll of voters asking what s the first thing that comes to mind? as you know, when you think of hillary clinton. dishonest. yes. untrustworthy, liar. there is this you see it on the republican side, too. in a sense it s almost there is a certain carryover effect from hillary clinton s bad image toward the republicans so-called professional politicians as well. which is why you see donald trump, ben carson and carly fiorina gaining such popularity. she represents this cynical, manipulative, power-grabbing that s a very intense, negative, cynical view of secretary clinton. the e-mail controversy supports that. okay. but these numbers, do they encourage or discourage vice
simplification like a flat tax. people are fed up they don t like this complexity and power grabbing by politicians. bruce, two seconds. would you like it party if illinois had no taxes? i would. okay. that s all we have time for. coming up catch a ride on the market highs with the stocks really rd to smash their own records. se asked people a simple question: can you keep your lifestyle in retirement? i don t want to think about the alternative. i don t even know how to answer that. i mean, no one knows how long their money is going to last. i try not to worry, but you worry. what happens when your paychecks stop? because everyone has retirement questions. ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. to get the real answers you need. start building your confident retirement today.