Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170429:10:42:00
February 2003 vladimir putin had been president for about three years. he was nearing the end of his first term. he decided to summon a bunch of russia's biggest men. the oligarchs. decided to summon them all for a big, big meeting. the meeting, surprisingly, was open to the media. the wealthiest man in russia at the time was this man. he was the head of russia's largest oil company. and he was planning for kind of a showdown with putin at that meeting. he went to that meeting with a powerpoint presentation in hand to talk about corruption in russia and how it cost the russian economy more tha...