A senior western executive at Rosneft told us the same thing.

The executives tell the rest of the staff, putting everyone on alert.

But the executive simply told him the decision had been made and nothing would change it.

"Apple is a technology company," an executive who took part in some of those meetings told me.

"It was sort of embarrassing," the former executive told him.

But the 42-year-old executive has told close friends that he would not leave his lucrative job at Disney except to actually own a company.

But if that happens, the chief executive told me, he will have failed.

An hour later, the executives and union leaders told the members of Congress they were ready to negotiate among themselves.

"As one executive told me, the movie cost less than Batman's suit."

But both companies insisted that their executives had told the truth.