it's friday, september 21st. we begin with president trump, who held a rally last night in las vegas where he taunted the media and defended supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh as a great gentleman amid an allegation that he assaulted a woman as a teenager. now, the president's mention of the judge received boisterous cheers from the crowd and trump assured the crowd that kavanaugh has tremendous support. >> judges a, oh, look at our judges. oh, what's going on? brett kavanaugh -- and i'm not saying anything about anybody else, but i want to tell you that brett kavanaugh is one of the finest human beings you will ever have the privilege of knowing or meeting.