megan chen i understand you and george got together and just said well
we need to be part of this we are blessed to be in america blessed be americans and we need to
be a blessing to ukraine right now we need to do something for those people in ukraine to suffer
mark pilot from the american muscle car museum has brought this beautiful corvette he's surrounded
uh by his family i saw what was going on i said i want to really do something to
help the people of ukraine you know i've been a bidder of barrett-jackson since 2008
and i've been a senator since 2018 and i'm the luckiest senator on this
earth because my boss is ron desantis how about that and so here he is ron desantis
thank you so much isn't it great to be in these united states
and when freedom is what these people are fighting for in ukraine
we are the luckiest people in the world to be a part of the united states of america
and that flag represents inspiration
my beautiful wife is actually from ukraine and the two ukrainian flag bearers are actually a
couple of her family members that have actually just fled ladies and gentlemen
you know why that was happening to tell you how great this man is standing to my left and
of course we know how great this guy to my right is he said steve this is amazing i want to throw
in another hundred thousand dollars katya and i are also going to donate another hundred thousand
dollars for the great cause thank you i'm going to donate personally a hundred thousand dollars and i
thank mr so much carolyn and i steve and janey that's 400 000. john wants to put in a hundred
thousand dollars up on the top there and we've got another one here's what we should michelle mousey
just whispered in my ear with her representative she wants to throw in another fifty thousand
dollars john rizzotti another hundred thousand dollars thank you very much thanks john i think
we're at least at 1.65 million dollars and that doesn't count what's being picked up in the room
these people are fighting for their lives thank you
barrett-jackson is known for extraordinary moments and especially when it comes to a charity moment
i've been here for a few years now craig i don't think i've seen a moment
more touching than that that was amber absolutely unbelievable the generosity of both the sheen
pilot families is extraordinary in this very very difficult time and it's so urgent for you to step
up and do this is just wonderful the generosity that we see today from both your families
thank you for my father thank you from the ministry but know that this is going to go to
the field right away we got teams on the ground working hard to help those that are hurting
and struggling but we do this in the name of jesus christ and here comes the man himself that wrote
the big check rick come on in we raised a lot of money for samaritan's purse with the nascar group
and george was good enough to put this car up and we met this family from ukraine and
when you see the children and the suffering there we just we all need to pitch in so i'm
i'm honored to help samaritan's purse because they are they're the best and they've got a
underground hospital and and that's just hurt for those folks so we're praying for you guys and uh
hopefully this will help feed some people and and bring some people out of there so and mrs pilot
this is obviously particularly personal for you this must be very meaningful moment that was huge
yeah just you know speechless the amount of money they raised is just unbelievable
and of course it's going to be a lot of help yeah everything that we can do to help and um you're
making us all emotional this is unbelievable and craig for you quite an emotional moment oh i was
you know steve and i after seeing the interview both talk backstage we go we gotta kick in 100
each it's the least we can do plus trying to help hopefully a lot of people at home donate it also
that'll help a lot too so and we don't know what the rest of our bidders did so
hopefully we can hit a couple million dollars out of this well we know in the room there was
1.65 million dollars and it could be up to 2 million thank you to the generosity the parlor
family the shins and mr hendrick of course and i think now we will take it up to the block