"So what I keep hearing about that he would have rather had Trump, I think 'probably not,' because when I want a strong military, when I want tremendous energy - we're opening up coal, we're opening up natural gas, we're opening up fracking, all the things that he would hate - but nobody ever mentions that," Trump said. One person who hasn't mentioned those things is Putin himself. And that may be because it appears to directly conflict his truth. Donald Trump, left, and Vladimir Putin prepare to leave following a news conference in Helsinki. Credit:Bloomberg At Monday's summit, with Trump by his side, the Russian President admitted to the world that he wanted Trump to be the victor in the 2016 election. Here's the exchange, from the transcript: Reporter: "Did you want President Trump to win the election? And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?"

Putin: "Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the US Russia relationship back to normal." Putin didn't respond to the second part of the reporter's question, and Trump did not respond to Putin's admission that he did in fact want Trump to win. It is not clear whether the US President believes Putin. Donald Trump listens to Vladimir Putin during their press conference in Helsinki. Credit:AP But what is clear is that Trump wants to believe Putin when he says that Russians did not interfere in the 2016 presidential election, an act the US intelligence community argues did happen, and happened in part because of Russia's desire to see Trump win. Loading

"My people came to me [Director of National Intelligence] Dan Coats came to me and some others, they said they think it's Russia," Trump said. "I have President Putin; he just said it's not Russia. I will say this: I don't see any reason why it would be. "... I really believe that this will probably go on for a while, but I don’t think it can go on without finding out what happened to the server. What happened to the servers of the Pakistani gentleman that worked on the DNC?," Trump asked of the hacking into the Democratic National Commitee system and emails. "Where are those servers? They’re missing. Where are they? What happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails? 33,000 emails gone, just gone. I think in Russia they wouldn’t be gone so easily." Loading Replay Replay video Play video Play video Putin later interjected offering this: "I’d like to add something to this. After all, I was an intelligence officer myself and I do know how dossiers are made up. Just a second. That’s the first thing. Now the second thing.