at sotheby s auction house in new york, this gainfully clad woman sold for 68 million dollars. this was a record for this art? yes, a record. the brief record for the artist was 32 million dollars. so this shocked the art world that this sold for this much? yes, they were shocked and we were completely blown away. but the romaine was not only the big ticket art item sold this week. sold. christy s auction house saw this colorful painting sell for 28 million. you re a bidder at 25 million 5. and the matese statue of the woman s back over 48 million. 48,500,000. both items easily set records for the artists. all in all, christy s and sotheby s say they saw oz dozens of lots sell for over 1 million dollars and many lots sell for over 10 billion
23 minutes after the hour. 9 million dollarsanhe pay package for daniel akerson, theeo new ceo of general motors. he ll receive it in money and stck. 15 million dollars how much the ring containing a rare 10.9 carat blue diamond could fetch at christy s auction next month if dave and clay don t buy it for me first. and aren t evil, had at the box office. finally nine feet tall, alisyn looks this in a within foot box. says o. i m not on a box. so much taller, thanks, aly. do you remember when hillary clinton said this. the rich are not paying their fair share in any nation. president obama now refung to extend tax cuts for wealthy americans.
and first to develop new energy sources that are clean, green, and, yes, inexpensive. sam waterston joins us now. he is also an oceana board member committed to protecting your oceans. great to see you. thank you very much for joining us. nice to see you. let s talk about what you re trying to achieve the documentary and the rest of your activism and talk about the auction at christy s tonight. the whole focus of clean energy has been so hard legislatively and politically in our country. every time you talk about a gasoline tax, people go crazy. how do you move it forward? what can your activism accomplish? well, i think that every person who advances the notion that we re ignoring the obvious is being helpful. obviously, we can t go on as we are going on for all kinds of reasons that don t even have anything to do with the environment, that have to do with security and cost.