shooting taxpayers in the wallet. my next guest says when the corporate bosses cut deals with america's ceo, you know who he is, you get special treatment. that's when we all have to worry. with me now washington examiner political analyst michael boralt. thank you for joining us at "your world." i think we have the largest with the most money that lobbyists have received since we started keeping records; is that right? >> well, that's right. barack obama campaigned heavily against lobbyists, saying he was going to get them out of washington. we heard the same thing from john mccain. but lobbyists raked in $347 million in washington in the past year. that's an all-time record. it's up from previous years. the fact is that when the government is sending huge amounts of money to favored firms, labelling out money from the treasury and spending vast new sums of money when it's regulating