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Im Leland Vittert in for shepard smith. Brett kavanaugh is ready for hours of tough questions. President trump nominated cavanaugh to fill Anthony Kennedys seat in july. Kennedy was a crucial swing vote on major issues including abortion and gay rights. Right now the court is split four liberals, four conservatives. So cavanaugh could get the chance to give the conservatives a solid majority. But the president s pick has to get through the Senate Republican as they hold a razor thin majority and cannot afford to lose a single vote if democrats hold ranks and all vote no. That is a big if. Republican senator Lindsey Graham says he thinks a handful of democrats will defect and vote to confirm cavanaugh. Garrett tenney picking up the top story live in washington. Lets talk about the questions first that judge kavanaugh might face first in the coming days. Senate sources say that democrats will ask Brett Kavanaugh about his views from the separation of powers of the government to abortion, voting rights, workers rights and Campaign Finance reform. With the on going investigation by Robert Mueller into President Trump and his campaign, both of the questions will revolve around president ial power since the high court could decide any challenges of that investigation. The goal of democrats is to try to derail the judges confirmation either by forcing him to make a mistake or exposing something in his past. On the sunday shows, several Top Democrats said their smoking gun could be in the 100,000 pages of work related to the Bush Administration, which the white house is now claiming executive privilege over. Theyre suppressing these documents. If were lucky, well see 6 of all of the documents that have been produced or could be produced to reflect on kavanaughs true position on issues. I think that you could have some very interesting questions about these documents that im unable to say because im not able to make them public. Lawmakers have received 500,000 pages related to the judges record, more than any other Supreme Court nominee in history and another half million pages that senate staff have been pouring through. Leland . Things to be discussed, of course. What is judge kavanaugh doing to prepare the last couple weeks and the last weekend leading up to the hearings . A lot riding on this confirmation for judge kavanaugh and the white house. So over the last week, the 53yearold judge has been going through intense mock hearings known as murder boards to prepare him for this week spending hours getting peppered with every question his team may face to make sure theres no slipups and to make sure lawmakers have no reason to vote against him. Lindsey graham said hes expecting at least a few democrats will come around to judge kavanaugh. He will get my my belief is 55 or higher. He would be on the top of anyones list. Hes the one person that every republican president would see the most qualified of their generation. Judge kavanaugh went through a brutal confirmation hearing when he went through the d. C. Court of appeals. Based on his performance then, Administration Officials say theyre confident going into this week, leland. They call the prep sessions murder boards. Garrett tenney in d. C. Thank you. With that, we bring in david hawking, former Senior Editor for roll call. Nice to see you. A foregone conclusion that kavanaugh is confirmed . Pretty close to a foregone conclusion. There can be surprises in washington. This one is about as staged managed and orchestrated as it gets. Unless the big surprise, the thing that would change that would have to be if at least one or two republicans changed their minds and went against kavanaugh. What Lindsey Graham was talking about is interesting. How Many Democrats will vote for him. There were three democrats that broke ranks and voted for neil cavuto a year ago. Theres three of the democrats that are up for reelection this fall in overwhelmingly trump states. Manchin of west virginia, donnelly of indiana and heitkamp of north dakota that will be interesting to watch. The only drama would be is if a Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski went against him and theres no indication that will happen. Especially with murkowski and collins, it comes down to roe v. Wade. The general talking point from republicans is kavanaugh believes roe v. Wade is settled law. There forethat murkowski and collins go with it. But many say kavanaugh is tough, the hardnosed individualized one that we believe in. Can we have it both ways . Can both things be true . They can for the purposes of this confirmation hearing. And then Brett Kavanaughs 53 years old. That means hes going to be on the Supreme Court his health willing and interest in the job long after you and i have probably retired. A lot can happen in those years. The thing about settled law, legal scholars say thats a bit of a trick answer. Sort of settled law is saying its done until its not done. Its settled unless they want to revisit. The real answer that theyre looking for and the democrats will try to get him to say is was that a was it correctly decided . Thats a different question than is it settled law. Right now its settled law. That doesnt mean that Brett Kavanaugh when he gets on the court could resettle it a different way. Imagine a lawyer giving a trick answer to a question. Never happened before. You put this in the political context though. How important is this for republicans in the run up to the midterm . Oh, its the whole ball game, really. This is going to be the most consequential thing this Republican Congress does this election year. As you said at the top of the hour, and you said a minute ago, Brett Kavanaugh really appeals to the base. One of the reasons that the republican conservative base stuck with donald trump in 2016 when donald trump was not all that consistently conservative in his views was that he made very clear that he would appoint conservative judges. If they get this guy on the court, donald trump will have fulfilled his promise not once but twice. He will have done his bidding on this twice and be a huge win. We should note that its very different than when donald trump was running for president. Back then, the democrats had filibuster powers over these things. Now they dont have filibuster power anymore over these judges. So it can be a party line muscular allrepublican move that they can boast about. Certainly the armtwisting has been going on all summer over murkowski, collins and we know senator rand paul got a little hard sell on this one. All right. Appreciate your time, sir. Thank you as always, especially on a labor day. Thank you, leland. We have seen these confirmation hearings before with lawmakers grilling the Supreme Court nominee. Our senior capitol hill producer chad pergram explains the hearings themselves are relatively new to their democracy. You wont find the words confirmation hearing anywhere in the u. S. Constitution. The constitution gives the president the right to nominate whoever he wants and up to provide the Senate Advice and consent. Theres nothing in the constitution about forking over reams of paperwork about the nominee. Nothing about paying courtesy calls with senators. A requirement for an up or down vote. The senate never held any hearings until 1916. Louis brandice was the nominee. The Supreme Court had a nominee in 1925 with judge stone. Frankfurter showed up to listen but refused to speak. The first modern confirmation hearing was in 1955 for judge harland. Every Supreme Court nominee since then has fielded questions. Television honored in a new model. It culminated in october 1991 with dramatic walltowall televised hearings for clarence thomas. Anita hill accused him of sexual harassment. Cbs debated whether or not to show the baseball games or the hearings. Cbs showed the hearings and the ratings soared. Chad pergram, fox news. The president is going on a tweeting spree. In just the last few minutes, hes going after republicans whom he picked for his own cabinet. President trumps latest shot at Jeff Sessions next. These digestive issues can start in the colon and may be signs of an imbalance of good bacteria. Phillips colon health caps have this unique combination of probiotics to help replenish good bacteria. Get fourinone symptom defense. Also try our delicious new probiotic gummies. Leland President Trump at the white house this labor day. Minutes ago launching new att k attacks on Jeff Sessions. He says that Jeff Sessions is to blame for a couple republican lawmakers running into legal trouble. Peter doocy live at the white house. Hi, peter. The president is lashing out at Jeff Sessions because of recent cases brought against two members of congress. Chris collins from new york and Duncan Hunter of california. The president writes this about the potential political impact. He says two longrunning obama era investigations of two popular congressmen were brought to a wellpublicized charge ahead of the midterms by the Jeff Sessions justice department. Two easy wins now in doubt because theres not enough time. Good job, jeff. The president has said that sessions will stay at the doj until after the midterm. Something else on the president s mind, hes pushing back at the head of the aflcia, Richard Trumpka after he said that the president s plan to cut canada out of nafta work head workers. The president said that Richard Trumpka represented his union poorly on television. Some of the things he said were so against the working men and women of our country and the success of the u. S. Itself that its easy to see why unions are doing so poorly. A dem. It appears the president caught a clip of this trumpka interview. Our economies are integrated. Its hard to see how that would work without having canada in the deal. But trumpka does seem to agree with the president that nafta can be improved upon. Leland . Leland so what is the latest on the trade talks with canada . President trump wants the u. S. Congress the stay out of those talks. We got a warning where he says theres no political necessity to keep canada in the deal. Canada will be out after abuse. Congress shouldnt interfere with the negotiations or i will terminate nafta entirely and we will be far better off. The president has already struck a new trade deal with mexico. As for the canadians, they arent tipping their hand as to whether or not comments like that are bringing the u. S. Closer or pushing them further apart. Im not going to negotiate in public. What i will say is the negotiations with canada are not complete. We continue to negotiate with the united states. So that is why were coming back next wednesday. Were going to continue to talk until we reach a good deal. Today the president emerged from the white house residence in golf clothes. He walked towards the motorcade. Before he got in, he turned around and he never left. We asked the white house about it. They said it was so the president could concentrate on calls related to trade and other issues. Leland . Leland you have to look at all of this in terms of how the midterms shape up and the president makes his closing arguments. Any ideas on what the next two months for the president looks like for midterm travel and for trying to stump for republicans . Yeah, he plans to travel a lot. Multiple day as week, particularly in states that he won where there are democrats currently representing that state in the u. S. Senate. So expect more trips to west virginia, indiana, north dakota and montana as the president tries to get his base excited about things that he has going on that are not focused on so much here in the beltway. Leland . Leland yeah. The president wants to talk about the economy. Perhaps michigan and missouri to that list as well. More with the political panel, peter. More on this, too. Just two months to go before Voters Decide whether Political Party will control congress. Democrats are already putting out a playbook for next year. So will it sway anybody either way . Well take a look at their sales pitchandrun it by our political panel. With uncontrolled moderatetosevere eczema, or atopic dermatitis, you never know how your skin will look. And it can feel like no matter what you do, youre itching all the time. 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Theyre letting those local candidates run in a way that really fit and speaks to and listens to the voters. Its not a top down we know what is right kind of approach. Its a binding kind of harmonic legislative vision, but still leaving room for local candidates to run local races. Alana, you think about how republicans can spin this as we look at the bullet points. Any time you want to talk about healthcare, republicans will say that is medicare for all, socialized medicine. 1 trillion in infrastructure spending. O. G. , another way to pour money into shovelready programs that dont exist. And pointing to the fact that you have nancy pelosi, steny hoyer and john cornyn, their combined ages of that of the republic. So is this sort of a dream for republicans . I think it is a Good Opportunity for republicans because it shows that this plan is no different than what theyve done in the past. Theyre talking about cutting costs in healthcare and reforming healthcare. They had eight years to do that and it was disastrous. Look at the problems we have from when they were in power. They dont have any new ideas to help us. They talk about getting rid of lobbying and corruption. Theyre just as guilty of it as they have ever been. So i dont think either one of these ideas is that effective. Leland correction there. Nancy pelosi, steny hoyer and joe crowley. Is this a risk for democrats to be painted so progressively as these talking points allow . No, its not. You can look at the obama cabinet that was involved in for both administrations. There was nothing near the corruption that weve seen from the pruitts and the zenkes, the people in this cabinet. Nothing within 1,000 miles of it. Frankly, anyone that had the issues of these cabinet members have had, for example, secretary devos never would have passed the intern vetting so the compare the obama cabinet and the trump cabinet are apples and oranges. Leland well get alana in on that. What is the defense when you start seeing the ads about pruitt and his private jets, price and his private jets, zenke and his professional behavior what is the promise to drain the swamp . We are draining the swamp in a lot of ways. You see a lot of this behavior in both parties. You look at not necessarily the cabinet of obama, but you look at other democrat leadership, senate leadership. They do the same things and theyve been called out on it. Look at Claire Mccaskill and the terrible things shes done with her own travel. You might not have that directly or have not been exposed in obamas particular administration, but i think this happens on both sides. Leland certainly though there are republicans from conceivably dark red places that are at least perhaps in trouble. Ted cruz, which won texas by 16 points in 2012, now the president is promising to campaign for him, this is the a. P. Quote from the profile on beto orourke. Roger, you think about his platform positions. Gun control. He supports players that took a knee. That dont go over well in texas. Medicare for all. Is he running on a National Platform for 2020 or is he running in texas . I think its very clear that hes running in texas. He spent the last 35 days doing 100 events around texas. Whereas his opponent, senator cruz, hasnt had even a fraction of that number of events. Neither has he made them open to the public or the press. So hes very much running as a texan. I think he has a great case to be made. Hes optimistic, hes forwardlooking. Hes being very transparent about what his agenda is. Hes not trying to play it cute as if hes trying to sneak an agenda by a red state. Hes very transparent. Leland alana, something for republicans to exploit . Absolutely. It does appeal more to a national race. I dont think this is texas at all. I lived in texas for many years. Texans are patriotic for their country. They see a person that is not relating to them as a texan. I think leland conceivably beto orourke is coming up fast enough that President Trump has to go for a rally. Im sorry. Leland conceivably beto orourke is gaining enough that President Trump has to go down there for a rally. You know, cruz is smarting in doing that. These races are competitive and you shouldnt take any of them for grants. Its still a good idea trump is going down there. Someone is getting an interesting bit of support from President Trump. A tweet in the president just in the past couple minutes. I see that john kerry, the father of the now terminated iran deal, is thinking of running for president. I should only be so lucky. The field currently assembling looks really good, capital letters, for me. My 20s and 30s were spent working for john kerry. Im proud of that. And then i worked with barack obama. John kerry has a lot to offer. Hes been part of public life for a long time. He was chair of the Senate Foreign relations committee. He has personal relationships with world leaders. Hes led on many domestic issues. He deserves to be part of that conversation just as anyone else does. Alana, do republicans wish that they just kept bringing back more of the old democratic nominees, biden, hillary and kerry . That would be par for the course. They brought those candidates back before. Didnt work. The country is even more to the right, more to the left than it used to be. Were even more divided. You bring somebody in like kerry who has been in the media, been in the spotlight. Its not going to work for them. They need a candidate like barack obama to come around. I dont think that is john kerry. Leland now people are comparing beto orourke to barack obama. So history seems to rhyme, not repeat itself in the words of mark twain. We bring the conversation to a close. Thanks. Coming up ahead, a u. S. Service member dead in afghanistan. The pentagon now calling it an insider attack. 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A look at some of the storms, warnings and watches out right now. Forecasters telling people to watch out for flooding, strong winds and with so many storms possible tornadoes. Cops in california said a man pulled out a gun outside an ice cube concert was angry he couldnt get tickets to the performance. This happened in delmar outside of san diego. Deputies returned fire and injured the suspect. Jeff paul is live with more. This is a popular concert, i guess . Yeah, with it being the holiday weekend, the delmar fair grounds were packed. Some people captured video of the gun fire. All of this happening when there was a race going on as the nearby horse race track. Theres gun fire at the track now, this is video of the suspect. 22yearold daniel herrera. After he was told there were no more tickets for the ice cube show, he started an argument. The Sheriffs Department responded at some point they say the suspect raced a silver plated semiautomatic handgun. Deputies returned fire and ending the situation before anybody got hurt. We hear one shot go off and everyone is talking. Right there, dead in its tracks, the conversation stops. The next thing you know, pow, pow, pow six or seven shots back to back. It was terrifying. Everybody was hiding behind stuff. The ice cube show went on as planned. Investigators say the suspect is expected to survive. The last day of the race is at delmar today and will go on as scheduled. Leland . Leland jeff paul in los angeles. Thank you. A u. S. Service member killed in afghanistan in what is described as an insider attack. Lucas tomlinson has more. Its the second time in two months a u. S. Service member has been killed likely by the same Afghan Forces he was supposed to protect. This time in eastern afghanistan. U. S. Officials say the Wounded Service member is in stable condition with nonlife threatening injuries. Six u. S. Troops have been killed in afghanistan this year. In a statement announcing the latest casualty, the new u. S. Head of forces in afghanistan says the Service Member that volunteered his service has suffered a tragic loss. The mission is now stretched for two decades. Yesterday general scott miller is the former head of special Operations Command responsible for leading elite commando units, delta force, seal team six. The alleged insider attacks comes one day after miller took command. The world recognizes that afghanistan cannot be a safe haven for terrorism. The world recognizes we cannot fail. I know this has been a long fight and it has been generational. Today 15,000 american troops remain. Down from a high of over 100,000 during the Obama Administration. So far from the first half of this year, over 3,500 bombs have been dropped across afghanistan against the taliban and an isis affiliate. More than double the number from the same period a year ago and more than five times from the same period in 2016. Leland americas longest war continues. Thanks. Former defense secretary leon panetta says hes concerned about north korea months after the president s historic meeting with dictator kim jongun. Im very worried about the situation. Frankly, i think we have a failed summit on our hands right now. Theres a long list of failed efforts throughout history. This may be another one of those. Panetta said the summit was doomed failure because it was all about show and the proper prep work wasnt done. Last week the president said he cancelled mike pompeos trip to north korea because pyongyang had not made enough progress towards getting rid of their nuclear weapons. In july, you might remember, President Trump said that great progress was being made. Gordon chang here, author of nuclear show down, north korea takes on the world. Almost feels like deja vu all over again. Great fanfare by the clinton administration, the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration of progress with north korea. And now boom. Yeah, goes back to the administration of george h. W. Bush that talked about basically trying to get rid of the nukes and safe guards agreement with the International Atomic energy agency. This goes back a number of administrations, which have made mistakes. President trump is making new mistakes. The one thing that you can say is, hes been the first president in a very long time to put north korea at the top of the list of priorities. He gets credit for that. You have to remember, weve had eight years with the strategic patience where they tried to forget about north korea because they were more concerned about iran. Actually, should have been the other way around. They should have been more concerned about north korea rather than the ayatollahs. You listen to the administration and President Trump, yeah, theres not been enough progress but theres no new tests or any missile tests for a while. Is that a success . It is somewhat of a success. We have to remember that back in the bach administration and the Bush Administration before that, there were longperiods of no new tests, no missile tests. What needs to be seen is dismantlement of the nuclear program. Kim jongun has to make a decision to give up his weapons. What President Trump tried to do is create this friendly atmosphere so kim would feel secure enough to give up his weapons. This was the one shot opportunity that President Trump said he would give kim. Hes given him that. Now he needs to go back to maximum pressure. Leland you say to go back to maximum pressure. Listen to the administration. They say it never ended. Were still doing it. We havent lost anything. At the end of may, they let off on the north koreans. Thats when we didnt sanction 36 Front Companies of russian and chinese and other origins. Kim changes his Front Companies all the time, leland. If you dont go after the new ones, youre giving them complete sanctions relief. Also, we allowed the chinese and russians to violate sanctions. It got so bad, the south koreans got in on the act, too. It was open season on the u. S. Sanction. Open season, open season for the north koreas to have the boot off of their neck and get more fends. Correct. Leland take a look at the main players. You have putin and abe of japan and the president of south korea. Were at the beginning of september now. U. N. General assembly is a couple weeks away. How important are all of those leaders coming together in one room . I think its important, but weve got to make sure that President Trump puts the pressure on them. Its not just our adversarieadv. Its president moon. He wants to get more money in the hands of the north koreans. His most recent initiative is a sanctions violation. Its to open up a liaison in the dmz. The Trump Administration has been leaning on him but we have to do more. It seems as if the chinese are using this as an opportunity. Stick it to up. Leland thanks, gorden. Tens of thousands of military personnel are getting sick because the military burned trash close to where they slept. We sat down with retired general petraeus oneonone with one of the people that was in charge while all of this was happening. Interview next. What does help for Heart Failure look like . The beat goes on. It looks like emily cooking dinner for ten. The beat goes on. It looks like jonathan on a date with his wife. Ladiladi. Entresto is a Heart Failure medicine that helps your heart. So you can keep on doing what you love. In the largest Heart Failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. It helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. 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Take a listen. In 2007, general David Petraeus took hold of the Coalition Forces in iraq. To defeat the enemy, he launched robust Counter Insurgency campaign. There was another threat. Exposure to burn pits. At that time we werent worried about burn pits. We were worried about getting enough water for the troops in the hot summer. We were looking forward to the time where we might get real food. The general recalls how burn pits were used on military bases to crudely incinerate everything from trash to medical waste. Early in the war, even human waste. As you and i know, burn puts were used to dispose of chemical solvents, medical waste, human waste. All of this was thrown into these. Sounds like you were aware of this while you were in command and something that had to be done. It was something that had to be done for a long period of time. A certain point, it set in that perhaps theres a better way of doing it. A number of us surfaced the issues. Incinerators were brought in. There were problems that getting them to work. I know youre aware of the huge number of veterans that believe that after being exposed to burn pits, they became sick. Many of their claims have been denied by the v. A. A lot of them said the same thing. They dont regret the service their did for the country but now they feel like theyre being abandoned by the government. What should be done to address the concerns now . We should meet our obligation to our veterans, this and many other cases as well. Its an issue of trying to determine with some degree of scientific rigor was there an effect because of the exposure to the smoke from the burn pits. If so, again what are the symptoms of that. What can we do to mitigate the risk of what could transpire from this. General petraeus has thrown his support behind the campaign to improve assistance to veterans. He backed the burn pit accountability act. In the letter he writes i know that you share the sense of obligation that virtually all americans have to those that have stepped forward pat a time of war. Leland, i worked with our investigative unit, one of our producers and i have an article on foxnews. Com that goes in depth to the issue. Weve heard from the veterans and the issue is ongoing and theyre still being exposed to burn pits. Leah, thanks so much. Great reporting. Ahead, Scientists Say theres been more shark sightings this year. Its true. Be afraid in some parts of the northeast. But this shark boom isnt bad for business. Well explain that next. Come here, babe. Ok. Nasty nighttime heartburn . Try new alkaseltzer pm gummies. The only fast, powerful heartburn relief plus melatonin so you can fall asleep quickly. Oh, what a relief it is but allstate helps you. With drivewise. Feedback that helps you drive safer. And that can lower your cost now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . Leland a Labor Day Weekend and were glad youre watching tv with us rather than say in the ocean. Especially here in the northeast. Last month massachusetts had its first unprovoked shark attack since 2012. That happening off of cape cod. Shark sightings in that area on the rise. Scientists say one reason is the growing seal population. Laura ingle here to explain. First things first. What is the latest on the man that was attacked and somehow survived . This was a brutal attack. Its a miracle that this man is alive. Hes still in the hospital in massachusetts. Good news. Hes rehabbing right now and able to talk about the frightening ordeal. Listen. This shark is actually trying to turn me over. So a lot of whitewater thrashing. As a resulting the whole head of the shark is above water. My arm was above water. I was able to get a good smash on the gil. Yeah, remember this advice from the old days. Bob them in the nose, get them in the gills. A 61yearold was bitten in his arm and torso in massachusetts. He was airlifted to a boston hospital. Hes gone through eight surgeries and has more expected. So far in 2018 according to tracking shark. Com, theres been three shark attacks. In 2017, there was one shark white in the region. Shark attacks are very rare. Youre 47 times more likely to die of a Lightning Strike than a shark attack. This is the first shark attack in massachusetts since 2012. Still, it happened and makes us all leery about going in the water. Leland sharks are more fun to talk about. In cape cod, how are they handling this . People want to be on the beach . Yeah, but it affects in a way you might not expect. Businesses are embracing what has happened in massachusetts. Businesses are selling things like shark tshirts, souvenirs, sharkthemed ice cream. I spoke to one hotel where guests can charter a private vote and they can watch the sharks get tagged in the water. You can pay to do this and follow along from the safety of a bait. Leland youd have to pay me for that. Thanks very much, laura. Appreciate it. Coming ahead from the shoreline to outer space. Nasa scientists waiting for one of their veteran rovers to phone home. To most people, i look like. Most people. But on the inside, i feel chronic, widespread pain. Fibromyalgia may be invisible to others, but my pain is real. Fibromyalgia is thought to be caused by overactive nerves. Lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. Im glad my doctor prescribed lyrica. For some, lyrica delivers effective relief from fibromyalgia pain. And improves function. Lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions. Tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worse depression, unusual changes in mood or behavior, swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling or blurry vision. 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Once the dust clears, the rover will have 45 days to respond to pings, otherwise nasa will stop trying to make contact with the rover. Meantime, you can try to help the rover wake up by sending it a postcard at mars. Nasa. Gov. Im Leland Vittert in for shepard smith. Your world with charles payne. Two months through the midterms and as the battle over capitollism is heating up, is your money at risk . The economy is going gang busters. Growth up to 4. 2 . But with more democrats pushing socialist ideas, are we looking at bigger taxes . Bernie sanders calling for a 40 hike in the Corporate Tax rate. He will face ron desantis who supports tax cuts. All of this as the fox news poll shows 46 of registere