meadows has bolstered the press staff in other areas including bringing on alyssa farrah, a highly regarded press operative over at the pentagon to come to the west wing and deal in a more behind the scenes role. but this is all about image, and that's first and foremost the president's priority, especially in an election year, to have defenders on tv, to have people pushing his messages and his defenses to the public as often as possible. >> doctor, let's talk about a problem that came up at the briefing room today. dr. fauci spoke emotionally on the topic of the disproportionate death toll among black and brown americans. in some population centers -- chicago, louisiana -- you see a coordinate of the american population, 30%, 20% of the local population but accounting for 60% to 70% of the losses. dr. fauci just remedially mentioned heart disease, hypertension, diabetes as problems we need as a society to go after long after this is done. >> yeah. so this is something that we've seen in african-american communities, that there are more co-morbid conditions, diabetes, obesity, hypertension