And into the fryer good thursday morning welcome to squawk alley. Were at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Dow is down 91 currently the worst drop of the year so far. The big news today though, amazon announcing the finalist for the hq2. We have details. Good morning, carl. And lets go straight to a map of the 20 contenders youll see that most of the locations, they fall in the midwest, south, and east coast of the country away from amazons current home of seattle and the west coast in general where most of the Biggest Tech Companies are. The only city from this coast, the west coast on that list is los angeles. And the only city outside the u. S. Is toronto, canada. It has tons of engineering talent close by. An interesting candidate given the current political environment. Now other contenders include cities that already have ties to amazon or jeff bezos like austin and washington, d. C. , and where he himself bought a home last year the other cities on the list like boston,
From Angela Merkel and the German Foreign minister. It took two rounds of voting in a secret ballot among members to choose their new boss. He is the first former olympic champion to head the ioc. The ninth president of the International Olympic committee is thomas bach. [applause] the outgoing ioc president has passed on the olympic baton, making thomas bach the new lord of the rings. His first speech as the most powerful man in International Sports was emotional. I want to leave the ioc according to my motto unity and diversity. I want to be a president for all. [applause] the 59yearold german lawyer is also an olympic fencing old medalist. His team won the foil event at the summer olympics. One year later, he was crowned World Champion fencing in when osiris. He has also proved himself a force to be reckoned with at the ioc. A former president took him under his wing in the early 1980s, pegging him for greatness. Thomas bach i will say only one word. Thomas bach is the future. With
Love him. So well get that message out. I love the president. I obviously love the country and sean decided he thought it would be better to go. His attitude is anthony is coming in, let me clear the slate for anthony and i appreciate that about sean and i love him for it. I love the president. Im very, very loyal to the president. And i love the mission that the president has. If theres one thing we know about this president , he loves to be loved. Anthony scaramucci said the word love 14 times in his first appearance. Scaramucci was offered the position at 10 00 a. M. Today and spicer announced his resignation almost immediately. Spicer will stay on through august. Hes served as the face of the Trump White House since day one, a tenure difficult for those of us who have known him for years to watch. Trump often undermined spicer and stories came out about the president s displeasure about his performance. With us is glenn thrush who broke the news about spicers resignation. Jonathan