steyer: i have.nd i am. ♪ betty: billionaire tom steyer has donated $65 million to establish renewable energy centers at yale and stanford and entered into the political arena, spending more than $10 million to support various initiatives and candidates opposed to keystone. you've been effective in many of the initiatives that you've targeted and you've called some of those initiatives you've put money into some of the best investments you've ever made. steyer: they were. [laughter] betty: is that something you're going to continue to do? steyer: i don't know if that's what i'll do forever but i think that i definitely will do that in 2014. betty: in fact, tom is not the only outspoken liberal in the steyer family. his brother jim teaches civil rights courses at stanford and founded commonsense media, a nonprofit organization. the steyer brothers have been compared to another set of siblings, the koch brothers, who have spent hundreds of millions backing tea party candidates and conservative products

tom steyer: good morning. betty: tonight on "titans at the table" -- this place is gorgeous, it really is. i will be chatting with billionaire businessman turned environmental activist tom steyer. tom steyer was born and raised in the financial capital of the u.s., new york city, but chose to open his investment firm farallon capital management in san francisco. he founded the company in 1986 with $8 million, and by the time he stepped down in 2012, he turned the initial investment into $30 billion, making farallon the fourth-largest hedge fund in the world. his personal fortune is an estimated $2.6 billion. not satisfied with retiring on the golf course, steyer reinvented himself as an environmental activist, even funding and starring in a series of public service announcements. tom: i am tom steyer. each week, we are taking a look at the keystone xl pipeline proposal. betty: steyer believes building the pipeline will escalate the production of the controversial canadian oil sands. tom: so the question here i

steyer: good morning. betty: tonight on "titans at the table."ace is gorgeous, it really is. i'll be chatting with businessman turned environmental activist tom steyer. tom steyer was born and raised in the financial capital of the u.s., new york city, but chose to open his company, farallon, in san francisco. he founded the company in 1986 with $8 million, and by the time he stepped down in 2012, he turned the initial investment into $30 billion, making it the fourth-largest hedge fund in the world. his personal fortune is an estimated $2.6 bil.

tom steyer: good morning. "titans at the table" -- this place is gorgeous, it really is. i will be chatting with billionaire businessman turned environmental activist tom steyer. tom steyer was born and raised in the financial capital of the u.s., new york city, but chose to open his investment firm farallon capital management in san francisco. he founded the company in 1986 with $8 million, and by the time he stepped down in 2012 he turned the initial investment into $30 billion, making farallon the fourth-large

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tom steyer is a liberal hedge fund activist had put out a series of ads. some say pairing you as representing the old days of fossil fuel and that this was just a shift in the administration's part toward cleaner air standards. you say it's not the case. >> definitely not the case neil. we need all forms of electric power generation in this country. we need coal we need natural gas, nuclear wind and solar. there needs to be a base loaded grip. the wind and solar only provides 1%, and it's five times more expensive than coal-fired electricity. we needed base loaded power. neil: what's going on? if you think about it, robert oil stocks have taken it on the chin as well. oil prices have come down, gas prices have tumbled. what if it isn't the administration's fault and say this is a worldwide phenomena that has nothing to do with our clean air push. >> i say that's more garbage. look obama is playing and the democrats support him to the people that got him elected. the liberal elitist of this country such as mayor bloomberg of new york who's given 80 million

and tom steyer also donated plenty of money.y part of the story. >>> he's spent $74 million in mid terms to convince americans to pay higher energy taxes to no effect at all. that got almost no coverage. i don't think the average person has any idea who tom steyer is. he's the single biggest contributor to american politics and he's basically unknown. why is that? >> exactly. again, liberal progress sieves, many of them are eliteistselitists they believe the rule don't alie to them. tom steyer has made a bulk of his money on dirty fossil fuels and now he wants to dictate policy to energy companies after he's made a ton of money, of course. i mean we see this all the time. al gore sold his media company to al jazeera which is owned by qater, which is the biggest fossil fuel producer in the world, so again the rules don't apply to them. >> michael bloomberg, three-term mayor of new york city and gun control advocate. no one is disarming his body guards and he doesn't get credit for the partisan player he is. tens of millions of do