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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...

Indoor space having to deal with each other for eight, ten hours, however many hours a day, i would think the workplace risk is about the greatest least controllable risk with respect to covid any person has. arthel: what you think about supreme court justice take on this? >> she's a tough question are and that is fair but i would also say justice barrett who responds, she said the mandate is limited to those workplaces, coast workplace where people are crowded together in close quarters, the mandate applies probably to thousands in our nation including landscaping companies and other companie...

Say, but that's not the risk they say they're regulating. 61,411 of the federal register say the risk is you'll come into contact with individuals and the risk of encountering an individual is an ever present risk you face at home, at work, and everywhere else. >> it seems to me he's arguing that it is too broad. there could be a federal government mandate, say, sounds like for meat packing plants or for a certain amount of people that work in the same room. what do you make of that argument? >> well, this disease is airborne. there's a risk any time you're in a room rather than outside, and s...