has had to deal with these cases, i was thinking that nothing could be further from the truth. reporter: republican ted cruz highlighted several cases where jackson s sentences were shorter than what prosecutors recommended. do you believe the voice of the children is heard when 100% of the time your sentencing for those with child pornography is less than what the prosecutors were asking for. yes, senator, i do, judges don t just take the guidelines and stop, they have to take into account the circumstances of the defendant because that s a requirement of congress. reporter: most federal judges in these cases sentenced below the guidelines because they consider them out of date, jackson also pressed for views on court packing, the idea promoted by some democrats to unbalance the supreme court adding more justices, ginsberg and stephen breyer she will
reporter: that s right, lester and nothing really happened today that appears likely to knock judge jackson off her path for confirmation, the white house pleased with her performance so far lester peter alexander, thank you, tomorrow, president biden heads overseas for emergency nato summit in brussels, the president expected to press for harder sanctions against russia which still sells its oil and gas to many european countries this comes as ukraine steps up its campaign to keep russian forces out of its capitol. richard engel is in kyiv tonight. reporter: with kyiv under a total curfew, ukrainian troops today went on the offensive, using hit and run tactics to drive back russian troops from the capitol. ukraine s main objective now is to prevent russian forces from encircling kyiv. like they did to mariupol. this new drone video released by ukraine appears to show russian