for the president, it's like the voldemort of realities. john berman in for anderson. and there is breaking news on just that front. a major new sign on how soon a vaccine might be available. but given the president's track record on the virus, there is also reason to wonder if the timing of a vaccine rollout might have more to do with electoral politics, than sound, public health. late, new details on that, in just a moment. >>> first, though, the president's effort, as in kenosha, to talk about anything but the matter, at hand. more than 185,000 lives, lost, to the pandemic. the one that shall not be named. the case count is, at best, plateauing at a shockingly high level. and at worst, it is spiking in yet another, new region. this time, the midwest. here is the governor of iowa, one of the president's staunchest supporters, by the way, doing what the president, apparently, could not. >> as you may have seen, in the news headlines in recent days, iowa had the highest rate of increase in covid-19 cases, nationally, last week. and the fifth highest positivity rate inc