our reporters, john schwartz of sought, and "fortune's" mikayla graham this week on "press here." >> good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. far more women than men use twitter, but there's only one woman in the twitter boardroom. the company only hired her after extreme pressure to diversify its all-male board. throughout technology there are board with one woman, maybe two, apple one woman, amazon, one woman, facebook has two. google, a staggering three, bringing it up to 30% of the board. senior vice president at morgan stanley sits on the national board of women entrepreneurs and is co-chair of the san francisco women corporate directors. thank you for being here this morning, joined with john schwartz of "usa today," mikayla graham of "fortune." this doesn't economically make sense to me. it's been proven a good diverse board makes good decisions, can lead to higher profits. if that is the case, economically we should see more women on boards. it just makes sense. >> it makes complete sense. >> what went wrong? >> it's an ongoing what went wrong. talking about women in the pip

our reporters, john schwartz of sought, and "fortune's" mikayla graham this week on "press here." >>'m scott mcgrew. far more women than men use twitter, but there's only one woman in the twitter boardroom. the company only hired her after extreme pressure to diversify its all-male board. throughout technology there are board with one woman, maybe two, apple one wom,

christina wong, john hudson, felicia schwartz and tristan bloom. christina? >> thank you. on syria -- [inaudible] do the moderate syrian rebels have enough time? their facing advances by isis, very rapid advances. so is there time, you know -- [inaudible] we should be doing more, and then also on afghanistan are you worried that the longer the election drags on, it will be less likely that we might get a bsa signed? >> right. well, first on this issue of syria, i give eliot engel of new york enormous credit here. three years ago i remember him explaining to the administration at that point there were no foreign fighters, there was no isis, there were no foreign fighters in syria, and his suggestion was you have the free syrian army, it's representative of, you know, not just diverse religious and ethnic groups, but, you know, it's attempting to hold the country together. so get in and support this. and, of course, we had the french ambassador here arguing the same thing. and meeting after meeting we conveyed this. i personally spoke to the president about it once, and -- b

. >> if john boehner hears what is the economic impact the rand paul becomes easier to play to. >> thomas schwartzw has the role of congress affected presidents in moments in the past at moments like 24 and take us to the present. >> this is unusual. at moments of crisis congress is not as prepared to challenge the president. crisis works towards the president's favor. this type of crisis in past circumstances like the downing of the korean airliner in 1983. or other circumstances where there is a shock to the system, something like this "the stream" is a shock to the american will yopublic, the president has more ability to lead than he's showing. there is more opportunity in moments of crisis for the president to stake ute an agenda and have congress follow. >> where do you see the lack right now? what would you do differently? >> i think the president could order up -- or at least make it clear that the united states insists think not simply putting it in terms of if president putin makes a decision, the united states insist on his an open investigation. that the united states insists that the