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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

All right. Today is Thursday. It's February 6th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. President Donald Trump won impeachment acquittal Wednesday in the United States Senate, bringing to a close only the third presidential trial in American history with votes that split the country, tested civic norms, and fed the tumultuous. Am I saying that right?

Am I'm not too? 20-20 race for the White House. A majority. It's like one of those words. I know. Sometimes you look at it.

Am I saying that right? Yeah. They're still. Manipulit. I can't say manipulative, ever.

And I'm withdrawal. Withdrawal. Withdrawal. There's some tough words. Whatever.

That's a topic for some person. That's a topic at some point. Words that you know you can say,

but you have to work to say them.

A majority of senators expressed unease with Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine that resulted in the two articles of impeachment.

But the final tallies, 52 to 48 favoring acquittal of abuse of power, 53 to 47 of obstruction of Congress investigation fell far short.

I mean, there's a really funny scene in a family guy where, you know, Peter's at the doctor,

and the doctor's like, I don't know how to say this.

Bassinger?

Basinger?

He thinks she's getting a bad diagnosis.

And but he does it over and over again. I'm going to have a hard time saying this. I'm going to have a hard diagnosis. Yeah. That's great. But he doesn't...

Over and over again.

I'm going to have a hard time saying this.

Two-thirds guilty votes would have been needed to reach the Constitution's bar of high crimes and misdemeanors to convict and remove Trump from office.

The outcome Wednesday followed months of remarkable impeachment proceedings from Speaker Nancy Pelosi's

House to Mitchell McConnell's Senate reflecting the nation's unrelenting partisan divide three years into

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