alix: joining me now is a man who also might have an answer, peter fisher, dartmouth college tuck schoolness senior fellow. pleasure. peter: nice to be here. alix: what do you think that means? peter: i think it is important to recognize the curve, i don't think it is a predictor of a recession. i think it causes recessions by squeezing the marginal lender. we know monetary policy works with a long and variable lag. what happens is when the yield curve gets flat, the incentive to lend decreases and people want to stop lending and that slowly dries up the source of -- for the economy and it is hard to predict when that happens. what is more difficult this time is the fed is doing something to both ends of the yield curve. their gentle telegraphed is nott-rate increases having much impact on the long end. the traders all take comfort. it is tapering its balance sheet by running things off of the short end which puts pressure in the treasury market but the treasury refinances that. the fed is squeezing the yield curve itself, partially and without thinking about it very carefully. alix: the

later in the day will speak to peter fisher. for now, let's get the first world news. in the u.s., several top republicans criticize president's comments after his meeting with vladimir putin. house speaker paul ryan said mash-up -- russia must be out accountable for meddling and john mccain called the helsinki summer tragic mistake. from question whether russia interfered in the 2016 election and suggested he trusts putin as much as his own national intelligence area -- intelligence. >> i think were doing really well with russia today. i think we were doing horrible before today. i think it was great today but it was a really bad fire is ago -- really bad five hours ago. we had a potential problem. minister's brexit strategy is under pressure. her majority was cut to just anee votes after she adopted amendment to a key piece of customs legislation. member for government is reported to have quit in order to vote against her and she needed the backing of three rebels from the opposition labor party. has donated a huge amount of money to five charities as he makes good o

fisher investments. clearly better money management. david: lisa page, peterk are due on capitol hill to answer questions in the beginning of the russia probe and anti-trump bias at fbi but could they be a no-show? the president tweeting i am on air force one flying to that's to that hear report that the fbi lovers, lisa page and david strzok are getting cold feet. total disgrace. here now is republican congressman louie gohmert from texas. member of the house judiciary committee. congressman, what happens if they're no-shows? >> if they're no-shows, we need to keep doing digging. we need answers and you know, it makes sense, if you have not been truthful when you have testified, you may have cold feet about testifying again. not compound any lies you might have told because those are crimes. but they -- david: would they be committing a crime if they were no-shows despite a subpoena? >> that's not necessarily a crime but we would have to go to court and get a court to force the issue normally the way i understand it. same way with finding someone in contempt

to identify threats and remove them from its platforms and fisher al-jazeera washington. well for more on this peter jukes joins me in the studio he's the c.e.o. of byline media which campaigns for high end media founded and crowdsourcing journalism thanks from fish coming in to al-jazeera first of all coming can we just get some context on this and the sort of size of it thirty two pages to the person saying i'm probably doesn't sound very much but how much of an influence could this have had on the u.s. and in terms well we've got a member of this they've already had three hundred thousand followers two hundred ninety thousand followers this account and people misunderstand how these influence operations it's called hybrid warfare russia works you don't have to influence the population this is you have to influence opinion formers and politicians classic instances jury one of the ira internet search agency accounts would be exposed by last year had four hundred thousand followers tennessee g.o.p. tend to be of a public group in tennessee were treated by donald trump jr tweeted quoted in the press

fisher investments. clearly better money management. liz: more bad news coming in for peterho claims his bias texted were misinterpreted. and congressman radcliffe saying that page's behind closed doorsesome testimony, it contradicts that of peter strzok. >> she admits that the text-messages mean what they say, as opposed to agent strzok when thinks we have misinterpreted his open onizuka word -- his own words. liz: we have our panel ford o'connel and rog goyl . strzok texted that we're going to stop him. then he testifies what he meant by we, that we was the we that stood for america. given what lisa pain saying do you belief strzok? >> page's alleged testimonies calls into question vor as tie of which strzok said to congress, one thing to have a strong dislike of donald trump, another thing for a political preference, hard to believe deep hate expressed in these texts did not affect his investigation, in e-mail probe and trump-russia investigation, but we'll never know because of bureaucratic fbi be on vehicle . liz: fbn reached out to lisa page's team, and thigh the theyg

happening today, former fisher lawyer lisa page is scheduled to meet with dwreshl members behind closed doors about the anti-trump text messages she exchanged with her husband peter strzok. >> happening while they were part of the russia investigations. strzok's hearing was held yesterday in front of cameras. at time eyes is got a little testy. >> the inability of a witness to always to issue. >> shame on. >> you mr. chairman, please. >> have you know shame? >> this is intolerable harassment of the witness. >> you need your medication? >> icons. fbi agent strzok was removed from special counsel robert mueller's team shortly after finding out about the nfrpgt text messages strzok sent about then candidate trump. president trump and his support he is say the texts between he and his wife shared that the mueller probe is biased against mr. trump. >>> there is a fight brewing over a popular beach in santa cruz county and the focus of the argument, public access to a excluded beach popular with surfers called private's beach. a neighborhood group rejected a plan by california regulators to open up access to the gated beach. the opal cliff recreation district regulated

quote and fisher are here to what to expect from the kremlin, kevin had digging in about what happened behind closed doors with lisa paid today after the chaotic hearing with her ex-lover petertzrok and details from congressman matt gates. the jeff cavanagh confirmation controversy democrats claim the supreme court nominee will turn back the clock on women. women who say they were mentored by him are fighting back and speaking out. we will hear from one of his former clerks who joins us live. welcome to fox news at night. after riling up nato allies, donald trump is spending the weekend at one of his private golf courses in scotland, preparing for his monday summit with leonard putin in helsinki, finland, john roberts joins us live from london where it will soon be gone on saturday. >> 12 russian intelligence agents by rod rosenstein and robert mueller add a new level of uncertainty to what will happen in that summit in helsinki on monday, leonard was not happy about the indictment, 16 other russians in this investigation. he was bound not to be happy about this one as well. there are reports the president was informed of these indictments which would indicate when he had hi

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quote and fisher are here to what to expect from the kremlin, kevin had digging in about what happened behind closed doors with lisa paid today after the chaotic hearing with her ex-lover petertzrok and details