President Donald Trump speaks with CBN Founder Pat Robertson at the White House on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. (Screen grab from CBN)

(CNSNews.com) – President Donald Trump says he got along “very well” with Russian President Vladimir Putin when the met at the G20 in Hamburg last week.

“He wants what’s good for Russia, and I want what’s good for the United States,” Trump said in an interview with CBN, the Christian Broadcasting Network, on Wednesday.

Trump said it would have been better for Russia if Hillary Clinton were president because she would have “decimated” the U.S. military and raised U.S. energy prices by building windmills.

“Yeah, I think we got along very well,” Trump said of his meeting with Putin. “And I think that’s a good thing. That’s not a bad thing.

"You know, people said oh they shouldn’t get along. Well, who are the people that are saying that? I think we got along very, very well. We’re a tremendously powerful nuclear power. And so are they. It doesn’t make sense not to have some kind of relationship.”

Trump said the U.S. is getting more and more powerful, “because I’m a big military person.”