ashish, briefly respond to that.ish: i personally feel that much hullabaloo is being done on this issue in the sense that, who is being hurt here? who controls the fake media? who controls the news which could cause lives to be lost, families to be destroyed? the body is seeking advice only. it is not the newspapers which are the center of the attack. nick: you have made this point before, so let's move it on now. you mentioned newspapers. you would agree that an independent and free press is the hallmark of any modern democracy, right? ashish: yep. nick: has india got one right now? ashish: i think india has been a phenomenal free press. i personally feel -- i have been in england recently. i was in england last month and i could not access a lot of websites, and nobody raised her cry about the freedom of press or no press being muzzled. nick: india has a good free press. that is the answer i wanted. i wanted to bring in rana to respond to that because she is keen to jump in. what do you make of that? rana: is it po

ashish jha, the white house coordinator. it is good to see you.that concerned you? >> first of all, this is a new emerging subvariant and it has revenue very quickly across the country. it is gone from being almost nonexistent a month ago to making up a large portion of the all of the infections xd and that increase is very, very fast. now, of course, what we really care about is what is happening to people. are people getting sick more often and getting into the hospital or dying more frequently. so far that data suggests that if you've been vaccinated and gotten that booster, you're still have a good amount of protection. but we're just tracking this variant very closely because it is rising quickly, . >> and of course one of the questions still out there and top of the mind as you are alluding to, is at the end of the day, is this one more dangerous? do you have a sense of that yet? >> we don't have much data on that yet. it takes us a while to nail that down, the very preliminary look. how do you assess that. you look to see if it is causing a

ashish jha says the subvariant could likely be more contagious than other strains but still it is unclearous. >>> amazon announced yesterday that it will be cutting about 18,000 positions it's the largest set of layoffs in the company's history the cuts will mainly hit the company's corporate workforce and brick and mortar stores, and will not affect those hourly warehouse workers. amazon's ceo says the layoffs were set off by the uncertain economy and the company's rapid hiring over the last several years. >>> let's turn now to breaking news overnight, in a case that has been closely watched, the accused killer of the four college students in idaho is now back in that state to face charges. >> and this morning, new details are emerging about the evidence police have gathered in this case nbc's gadi schwartz is in moscow, idaho, with more gadi, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, hoda. the next few hours, we expect to see the charging documents against bryan kohberger, the suspect in this case, finally unsealed, and they should shed light on exactly why police think he is the killer