lee here now with more on this historic day on capitol hill. reporter: you talk about mitt romney, he is already feeling the heat from this vote. another example of the partisan divide. senate democrats called it an injustice. the three week trial ending the way many expected. orders and adjudged that donald j. trump be and is hereby acquitted in the charges. reporter: the senate voted to acquit president trump on both articles of impeachment, ending a historic process that began in september. this is a political loser for them. they initiated it. they thought this is a great idea, and at least for the short term, it has been a colossal political mistake. the asterisk says he was acquitted without facts. he was acquitted without a fair trial. and it means that his acquittal is virtually valueless. 48 senators have announced donald j. trump guilty as charged. reporter: it would 67 votes president. a near impossible feat in the gop-controlled senate. mr. romney,
good wednesday morning. welcome to squawk alley. i m carl kint nia with brett and morgan at the stock exchange rallies are not far from the fresh all-time highs let s talk about what s going on pay, bob. we re in a round trip situation. remember when we were martin luther king weekend? we re essentially back to where we were, 3,220, back down about 3%, home trip there and 3% or so and all the way back up to where we were prior to that. that s an important move here, round trip what s moving things let s call it faith, folks fanl in the markets. faith in the coronavirus containment is the most important thing. but there s also faith in the fed out there that they re going to save us faith in global stimulus, that that will save us as well. perhaps even more importantly faith that the global slowdown is only temporary. and what we are seeing with concern to some of these companies will essentially reverse. we have been highlighting what companies have been saying the last
Good morning and welcome to squawk alley. Carl and jocn have the week off. They will be back though joining us this morning as well, walter isaacson. Nice to have him this morning. And a lot to talk about. More red flags for facebook, twitter and other social flat forms. For example this time for former president barack obama in an interview with prince harry, obama warned against the irresponsible use of social media. Take a listen. The dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases the truth is that on the internet, everything is simplified and when you meet people facetoface, it turns out they are complicated. People are comply it ca llic apparently thats what we hear. Twitter and social media and facebook and Everything Else, the question is about regulatory in particular sort of come to mind, not to mention of course the meddling by the rush shacsin the election in 2016 and
Lifetime event. Well take you to the town that will have the best view. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The wind and the waves are really starting to pick up. Already the wind is whipping up white caps. The gulf coast prepares for Tropical Storm cindy. This isoing to be a serious event. The storm is coming, so hunker down, everybody. The story continues the heat in the southwest. Another very uncomfortable day. The state department is weighing Response Options on north korea after the death of Otto Warmbier. Frankly if he were brought home sooner, i think the result would have been a lot different. The status quo is simply unsustainable. Mitch mcconnell says the senate could vote on the Health Care Reform next week. I always like to move forward with legislation that ive never seen. Thats one of the practices ive enjoyed around here. This is not the outcome any of us were hoping for. A big victory for republicans in georgia. Karen h
Todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. The wind and the waves are really starting to pick up. Already the wind is whipping up white caps. The gulf coast prepares for Tropical Storm cindy. This is going to be a serious event. The storm is coming so hupger down, everybody. The heat in the southwest. Another very uncomfortable day. The state department is weighing Response Options on north korea after the death of Otto Warmbier. Frankly, if he were brought home sooner i think the result would have been a lot different. The status quo is simply unsustainable. Mitch mcconnell says theyll vote on the Health Care Reform next week. I like to move forward with legislation that i havent seen. Thats one of the practices ive enjoyed around here. This is not the outcome any of us were hoping for. The big victory for republicans in georgia, karen handel defeating jon ossoff. Passengers recovering after a United Airlines jet hit severe turbulence. It happened as the boeing 737 was en route to h