joining me now for a preview of the hearing and if you could just, first, speak to the significance of judge jackson's nomination beyond the obvious, diversity she brings to the bench, black woman. a lot more diversity to the bench. >> in her experience too, poppy and it's great to see you on this day. welcome back here. she obviously offers the first ever black woman nominated to the court but she has very f distinctive as a judge but represented criminal defendants in assistant federal public defender. you have to go back to the '60s with thurgood marshall to have someone with that kind of background and, you know, she's got the credentials of harvard, she's got the kre den credentia being a judge but the u.s. sentencing commission which sets the punishments for all sorts of federal defenders whose cases