nonprofit organization dedicated to helping wounded warriors and veterans unite with their loved ones. here with me sergeant james pierce has been a recipient of the great support of luke s wings. fletcher gil is the founder and ceo of luke s wings. thanks to both of you for being here. thank you for having us. sergeant pierce, i want to start with you first. what does this organization mean to you considering you were very much helped by it? yes. so the organization has helped me out for the last four years. they have flown me home several times, but also recently they helped me find the love of my life. i just got engaged about a month ago. yay! congratulations. that s wonderful. should i get into details? how did that introduction happen? sure, just ask away. no, that s lovely. i mean it sound like all together, fletcher, you have started an amazing thing. i mean you took a major i guess you could call it risk doing so because to found this thing, january 2008 until
the state of california and tennessee combined. the land we re talking about. not just related to beijing but much more expansive of a region. we have warmer air aloft. cooler, more dense air sits at the surface. we have the pollutants trapped at the surface where millions of people reside. again, this kind of shows you what we re talking about with two-thirds of the energy consumption coming in from coal and highest particulates. fascinating st fascinating cities ticks. only 2% of all days in beijing had been considered fit to breathe. bottom of the screen, unhealthy to hazardous, more than 70% of the days across beijing since the first of january 2008 have been considered unhealthy. we did the math. there s been 2,099, only 2% were considered unhealthy.
can be bush 41. according to the unidentified sources, obama said, quote, much in the same way the reagan revolution required both bush senior, we ve got to make sure that we re laying the foundation for the next democratic president. while it s unconventional for a democrat to invoke the name of reagan, it is not the first time obama has praised the 40th president s success. in the heat of his primary campaign against hillary clinton in january 2008, obama told the editorial board of the reason over gazette that reagan transformed america. i think ronald reagan changed the trajectory of america in a way that, you know, richard nixon did not. and in a way that bill clinton did not. he put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. later in that same campaign when clinton accused obama of
democrat to invoke the name of reagan, it is not the first time obama has praised the 40th president s success. in the heat of his primary campaign against hillary clinton in january 2008 obama told the editorial board of the reason over gazette that reagan transformed america. i think ronald reagan changed the trajectory of america in a way that you know richard nixon did not. and in a way that bill clinton did not. he put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. later in that same campaign when clinton accused obama of agreeing with the policies, which he didn t do. you just said that i complimented the republican ideas. that is not true. what i said had nothing to do with their policies. i spent a lifetime fighting against ronald reagan s
us. what exactly did he say back in 2008? remember the context which is that south carolina is a key early voting state, it also has the african-american vote being very critical in the democratic primary. bill clinton seemed to be playing the race card in january 2008 when he seemed to be trying to diminish what barack obama then senator was doing, by comparing him to jesse jackson. listen. they say barack obama that it takes two of you to beat him. jesse jackson won south carolina twice. he ran a good campaign. senator obama is running a good campaign. he said it was a myth and mugging he played the race card. he said democratic congressman charlie rangel said that no one