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We're 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 any person has. >> of course, the risk arises at the workplace, but it's important to focus on the ri...

Day. injurious owners are very costly in the workplace and it doesn't do any good to have an agency like osha that is weakened to a shell because it can't conduct the inspections the law says it's supposed to conduct. >> what an interesting conversation. jordan, thank you for joining us. the deputy assistant secretary of osha under president obama. the point he's making is very important, which if you look at the irs which is also under underfunded, if you don't have a threat to take action with you're more likely to take risks. companies aren't doing things to kill their workers because that'...

Has receded. we'll 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 it's not toxic to breathe in this smoke. it's going to bother you, hurt your lungs and irritate you, just as ...

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. >> he has been in meetings with them based on his discussions, his research, he basically has told...

That's sound superficially plausible. don't want steel heads on your beams, couldn't 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 the workers become more productive and their wages increase, they can begin to opt for taking som...