how people talk about fauci on the internet. democrat-leaning sites, the stories mostly focus on how he is contradicting the president or warning dire outcomes from this pandemic. you go to republican-leaning sites, a lot of the stories are about how fauci is praising president trump. even in this moment of national crisis, our partisan-leaning shines through on the internet. >> i'll bet when watching the coronavirus briefings, a lot of americans are tuned solely to what dr. fauci is saying with regards to the developments of this thing. >> his approval rating is off the charts. 77%. >> wow. nicholas, thank you. great seeing you. we're be reading axios am in a little bit. you can sign up at signup.axios.com. that does it for me on this friday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. it's the individual acts of tens of millions of californians that allow me to say the following. the numbers in the state of california are growing. the number of positives, certainly, are growing and, tragically, yes, the number of deaths, 203, have grown.