[cheering] [applause] [applause] now, something we have all been waiting for. It is my great b honor to introduce her excellency governor of the commonwealth to deliver the state of the commonwealth address. [applause] [applause] good evening massachusetts. [cheering] good evening massachusetts. President , speaker, leader tara, leader jones, members of the senate and the house, secretary galvin, attorney general campbell, treasurer goldberg, chief justice and members of the judiciary and the governors counsel. Governor dukakis, governor swift. [applause] [applause] [applause] good to see you here. It is also good to see governor swift. [cheering] [applause] [applause] mayor and local officials,. [laughter] [cheering] it is a rowdy bunch. Leaders from business and labor, clergy and guests, thank you for being herenk tonight. Thank you as well to myy partner in the commonwealths first, first partner. [applause]pp thank you. Thank you for all of your love and support. And thank you to my
Of a tiktok ban added to an important foreign aid bill. Well dive in on that. But first a check of the markets. They are slightly higher today, coming off a rough previous week. But we are heading into a key few days now for earnings. Big tech reporting results. Meta, youve got meta, alphabet, microsoft all on deck. For that lets go to steve kovach with a look at what to expect. Steve . Reporter hey there, tyler. It will start this week with meta on wednesday, and then we get microsoft earnings and alphabet on thursday. Amazon and apple are coming next week. Take a look at each one of these names through the lens of ai. Not big business yet for any of these names, but some are progressing more than others. Lets call this your ai gut check. Lets start with meta partnering with google last week to power a new version of its meta ai chatbot. The most important thing here for meta is engagement, proving this keeps people using meta apps like whatsapp and instagram and facebook. It debuted
According to a new report in the New York Times, this seems more and more unlikely. Two senior officials telling the paper, President Trump plans to let the testimony go on. Meaning in less than a week, we could know all the details surrounding comeys dramatic firing. Cnn White House Correspondent athena jones is outside the white house this afternoon. Athena, what are the risks that the president chooses to use executive privilege . Reporter theres a political risk, of course, that if the president tries to invoke executive privilege to block comey from testifying, it might look bad. It sends a message that the white house had something to hide about these conversations. The other risk, of course, is that he could try to invoke executive privilege, and fail at it. Legal experts have been debating whether he be likely to be successful because the president himself has already talked about and tweeted about some of his conversations with the former fbi director. Remember, on twitter, he