region. could be that saudi arabia is trying to play all sides. more energy, joint ventures with china could keep another eager and growing supplier to beijing russia in check. a global chess board. bret? bret: greg palkot in london. greg, thank you. there are new questions tonight about who should be protecting justices on the u.s. supreme court. attorney general merrick garland is being criticized for his reaction to threats against the justices after the leak of a draft version of the roe v. wade challenge. there are also continuing concerns over some of his other policies as well. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department tonight. attorney general merrick garland in the hot seat two days in a row. for the first time publicly, he acknowledged the fbi initiated an investigation into threats against school officials. he did not say whether the probe is still open and the fbi declined comment. garland again defended his 2021
justices last summer following the release of a draft version of the opinion that overturned roe v. wade. we sent more than 70 u.s. marshals for this purpose. those marshals priority is protection of the lives of the justices and their families. also following that supreme court leak an increase in attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers. the doj has charged more than 20 people with attacking abortion clinics but only two for attacking pro-life centers. we will prosecute every case against a pregnancy resource center that we can make. garland again defending his 2021 school board memo critics say is aimed at treating parents as domestic terrorists. the one page memo does not use the word terrorist or even parent. didn t you understand the chilling effect that it would have to parents the memorandum was aimed at violence and threats of violence against a whole host of school personnel. it was not aimed at parents making complaints to their
probable presidential candidate glenn youngkin has made it his mission to claw back four years of progress made under his predecessor, ralph northam. now youngkin s political appointees to the virginia department of education have released new standards of learning. and their first major move, the board rejected a draft version created under nor them in consultation with museums, historians, professors, political scientists, economists, geographers, teachers, parents, and students, that would shape what kids are taught in school. how bad? can youngkin s plan b? well, it s suggests not teaching students about reverend dr. martin luther king junior or rosa parks until they re in sixth grade. juneteenth and says our chavez? yeah, well if you could go to school in virginia they may never hear about them at all. because youngkin s board doesn t recommend teaching your kids about them. you may also never hear about
the occasion that the g20 5, bit like a chess game, is this the uk, as well as other countries trying to encourage china to develop more of an interest in pulling away slightly from russia, its support for russia? i think the russian comments were not unexpected, and downing street put out a photograph of rishi sunak glowering at the russian foreign minister across that g20 meeting and in his comments to that opening session this morning on bally, mr sunak said it was very notable russia wasn t here and said if they were here, they could be held to account and what they have said, not the back of these international summits we often get a communique that sets out with all the countries think and we have a draft version of that communique at the financial times that says it will condemn war across the piece, it will be interesting to see if that happens because china and russia don t have the same views as many of the other 620 the same views as many of the other g20 members on the ukra