good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 635 of the trump administration. and while the president had no public events on his schedule today, he certainly launched a few on social media. and then for good measure this evening sat down for an interview with the associated press on a range of topics. zeke miller, one of those three reporters who conducted the interview there in the oval office, standing by to join us live. trump s comments about the missing journalist, jamal khashoggi, are perhaps the most striking. khashoggi disappeared two weeks ago at the saudi consulate in turkey. trump told the a.p. on this i think we have to find out what happened first. here we go again with, you know, you re guilty until proven innocent. i don t like that. we just went through that with justice kavanaugh, and he was innocent all the way as far as i m concerned. and here s what he said in yet another interview today taped earlier to air tonight on fox busines
oval office and we quote. trump did not back down from dericively nicknaming daniels horseface. asked by the a.p. if it was appropriate to insult a woman s appearance trump responded you can take it any way you want. in addition to that trump also weighed in on the investigation into his former personal lawyer michael cohen, who testified under oath that trump was involved in planting the hush money payments to stormy damages. trump told the a.p. cohen lied under oath and called his allegation totally false. and in regular news we also learned who will be replacing the departing white house counsel don mcgahn. trump told the ap that he has selected pat sipilone, a veteran of the bush 41 justice department, to be his white house counsel. with that, let s bring in the lead-off panel on a monday night. one of the reporters who interviewed the president today there in the oval office, the aforementioned zeke miller, white house reporter for the associated press. phil rucker, pulitzer p