• The scene in Helsinki.

There were delays (the Russian plane was late), but President Trump and President Vladimir Putin held their one-on-one talks in Helsinki.

We don’t know everything the two men spoke about — only translators were present — but their 45-minute news conference afterward was a remarkable spectacle. They raised the possibility that their intelligence agencies might work together, and both pushed back at the notion that Moscow interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, directly contradicting the conclusion of U.S. investigations.

“They said they think it’s Russia; I have President Putin, he just said it’s not Russia,” Mr. Trump said. Here’s the latest news on the Trump-Putin meeting.