Tom Steyer: No, I Had Nothing To Do with Obama’s Keystone Pipeline Decision

Tom Steyer: No, I Had Nothing To Do with Obama's Keystone Pipeline Decision (RealClearPolitics)

BILL MAHER: Well, I am glad your checkbook is open. Because this week the Obama administration -- this is kind of a big story this week -- they said they are postponing indefinitely the decision on the Keystone Pipeline, which I know you oppose, I oppose. James Hansen said if we put all that carbon -- that we're going to dig out of the earth for that -- into the atmosphere, he said, 'game over' for the planet.

That's a good thing, right, postponing that indefinitely? Did you have something to do with that?

TOM STEYER: No. I think the president made a decision that he wanted to get all the information before he made a decision. There is no route right now through Nebraska because the way that they defined the route has been ruled by a judge to be illegal. So it's being appealed to the Nebraska Supreme Court.

And so realistically the president said, 'I can't approve a route that doesn't exist. I'm going to wait until it exists, when all of the information is in and then I'll make a considered opinion when the time comes.' I thought it was a very natural thing for the president to do.