details on that story, as well. you are watching fox and friends first, i m carley shimkus. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for todd piro. those stories and more coming up over the next hour. breaking news overnight. two firefighters are dead after battling a fire on a cargo ship in newark, new jersey. coming from wnyw. the fire started just before 9:30 last night, engulfing several vehicles on the ship. calls ringing out when responding crew members reported missing in the active scene. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. carley: and another alert, claiming u.s. service members were among those killed in a bomb attack in somalia. kenya delayed reopening of the nation s shared border, following wave of attacks blamed on al qaeda-linked militants. we ll bring you updates throughout the morning. and look at the white house, as republicans call for a secret service update on the cocaine found in the west wing. doug luzader joins us. doug: a mystery the wh
censuring? dr. fauci and white house and seeds were against schools being opened sxoo we learned this week a top dr. fauci advisor at nih, who is government employee, basically his hatchet man, criticizing media when they talked about, for example, the wuhan lab leak. there are direct quotes from him saying move this conversation to gmail. dr. fauci does not want his fingerprints on this for propaganda pieces. he criticized journalists. it ended up being clearly from the lab. it is not the job of the government, it is the job of the government to do their job. ashley: this was against
china. they fear officials will have even more levers to censor their critics. it took elon musk buying twitter for the new york times to get a light bulb over how repressive this regime is? chinese influence operations in the u.s. go back 40 years, they include the pages of the new york times and other major publications. they pay them by the page, they freely placed propaganda pieces and have four years. the times real concern is not twitter censoring content critical of china s human rights abuse, that happens in the past, the real concern as twitter will no longer protect the failed biden administration and the progressive policies in general by censoring an deplatform and its critics, that s what they are concerned about. what s going to happen? the chinese communist party tried to ban all twitter users from china back in 2011.
what s wrong with that? because someone in this white house needs to answer questions from the press corpse. someone needs to be accountable what the president is doing on a daily basis, whether it s her, a deputy of hers, but someone needs to do that. it s enough for chopper talks where the president pontificates for a mew minutes and gets on his chopper to the next rally. they need to answer questions whether they want to or not. that is the functional role of a democratic government with a small d, that we need to have somebody who addresses these issues and speaks to the press. the fact you have a tire press corpse sitting in a white house to a briefing that has not come in six months putting out propaganda pieces on twitter saying the washington post never covered the fact tat the president was the first american president to set foot in north korea. of course google search shows