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Were following mandates and mask mandates. pete williams is our justice correspondent. kara lee is at the white house. dr. david michaels served as the head of osha under president obama. pete, let me start with you. there were about three hours and 40 minutes of arguments today in front of the supreme court. there were a couple of interesting moments. i want to play one for you now. >> i would think that workplace risk is about the greatest, least controllable risk with respect to covid that an...

Day. injurious owners are very costly in the workplace and it doesnt do any good to have an agency like osha that is weakened to a shell because it cant conduct the inspections the law says its supposed to conduct. >> what an interesting conversation. jordan, thank you for joining us. the deputy assistant secretary of osha under president obama. the point hes making is very important, which if you look at the irs which is also under underfunded, if you dont have a threat to take action with your...

Has receded. well wait and watch as they continue to burn, send up fumes and whether or not that affects anybody in a significant way. >> right. and real questions there, jacob. thank you for that. the head of the plant there was saying people should go seek medical advice, talk to a doctor if they breathe in what they described as noxious smoke. questions about the layers of protection. they had generators and backup generators and backups to the backup but unable to definitively say its not to...

Secretary of osha under president obama. jordan, thank you for joining us on the phone. appreciate t sheriff ed gonzalez is on the phone, who you saw speaking at that news conference a couple of minutes ago. he is joining us here. thank you for being with us. i need to talk to you a little bit about the toxicity of the smoke or whatever is happening in this area of texas. you or one of your colleagues said that it is like breathing in a campfire. we did not hear that from the president of arkema...

Thats sound superficially plausible. dont want steel heads on your beams, couldnt care less, but the long and short of it is, if we were to introduce american safety standards into bangladesh right now, would that turn bangladesh into utopia or-- say the unions. >> no one would be working, sitting in their huts doing nothing. it shows there is a limit to workplace safety and that limit is the wealth of the society. and as the society becomes wealthier, as we invest in more capital equipment. as ...