Transcript of AP interview with Trump A transcript of an Oval Office interview Friday with President Donald Trump by AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace. Where the audio recording of the interview is unclear, ellipses or a notation that the recording was unintelligible are used. Did you see Aya (Hijazi, an Egyptian-American charity worker who had been detained in the country for nearly three years) ... Can you tell me a little bit about how that came about? No, just — you know, I asked the government to let her out.