Okay, we're gonna take you back to 2009 for a minute, to a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and a bunch of wealthy Russian factory owners.

Why did people here not have the right to take the decision?

Why did they run away like the ones in my company?

Now, just imagine the scene.

Putin, whose voice we're hearing, is sitting at the head of a long rectangular conference table.

He's got on jeans and a windbreaker, and guys in suits are sitting around that table, hanging on his every word.

And the Russian press is there to capture it all.

Putin is asking the group, why haven't you fixed this labor dispute yet?

You were running around and I quote like cockroaches before I came.

And it's no accident that he's dragging them through the mud in front of the Russian press.

This is a publicity stunt.

So after scolding them like children,

Putin makes them all sign a contract, ordering them to reopen their factories.

And he picks out one particular factory owner, who, again, no accident, is a prominent Russian billionaire,

whose name, by the way, has come up several times in the Mueller investigation.

Oleg Derepowska.

Did everyone sign this?

Did everyone sign this?

Derepowska, have you signed?

Yes, I have signed.

Still, Putin makes Derepowska get up out of his seat, walk all the way around the table,

and sign the contract, again.

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