chris pallone has the latest. >> reporter: just nine days before president trump's historic sit-downith the leader of north korea, secretary of defense says the administration's goal hasn't changed. >> we still stand for the verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the peninsula. and diplomats are in engaged right now in new york advanced teams are here in singapore and i think the hopes of all of us lie with them. >> following a friday meeting with north korea's second in command, the president is here to lower expectation of what might happen at the there could. and i told him today, take your time. go fast, we can go slowly. but i think they'd like to see something happen. >> north korea has promised to get rid of its nuclear program many times. is kim jong-un serious now? >> i know they want to do that. >> democrats are criticizing the president's strategy, saying by agreeing to meet with kim without preconditions, the north korean leader has already won. >> he got a major victory by havihe president even agreeing to the summit and who knows what will happen. maybe there w

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nbc's chris pallone explains. >>> nine days before the historic sit down with the leader of north korea, jim mattis said the administration's goal for the summit hasn't changed. >> so we still stand for the veri verify able and ir reverse able denuclearization of the peninsula and diplomats are engaged in new yo the advance teams are engaged here in singapore. and i think the hopes of all of us lie with them. >> following a friday meeting with north korea's seconds in command, the president appeared to lower expectations of what might happen at the summit, adding there could be more meetings to come. >> we're going to start a process and i told them today, take your time, go fast, we can go slowly. but i think they would like to see something happen. >> north korea has promised to get rid of its nuclear programs many time. is kim jong-un serious about it now? >> i think they want to do that. i know they want to do it. >> reporter: but some democrats are krcriticizing the the strategy, agreeing to meet without conditions the north korean leader already won. >> he got a major victory by h

chris pallone, nbc news. will have more on immigrn bate coming up at 8:00 this morning on "meet the press," plus an exclusive interview with counselor to the president, kelley yan conway. >> truth and consequences. president trump's many claims this week were not so true about the justice department and inspector general's report. the president claimed it totally exxon rates him. no, it didn't. about the fbi he claims they were plotting against my election. no, they weren't. about separating children from parents at the border he said this was a democratic bill. it's not a supposed to belie president who are yroutinely sa things that are leadingt congressman adam schiff. what's happening to the children separated from their parents. whoever wins this immigration battle it's those kids who appear to be the losers. we'll have the later. republicans who criticize the president, my conversation with conservative congressman mark sanford who lost his republican primary race for one reason and run an only. he said

chris pallone shows us local leaders are asking for patience and demonstrators demand >> reporter: an silent protest outside the allegheny county district attorney's office fremay. they'reding answers in the shooting death of a 17-year-old. >> how many kids do we have to lose before we get justice? >> reporter: cell phoneideo captured the moment tuesday night when the police officer sh h rhodes ase ran from a traffic stop. itatched the description of a car involved inot a sg moments before and they say they found two guns in that car, but ran. was unarmed as >> it's difficult to imagine any circumstance or set of facts that would justify t o use deadly force in that situation. >> reporter: word of the shooti set off protests around pittsburgh. overnight more than 100bleople ocked a local park way for olseveral hours beforee moved in. the east w pittsburgh officer sworn in just hours before the shooting. he is now on leave. antoine rhoads funeral is monday. chris pallone, nbc news. >>> right now at 5:00, i'm tracking rain in par of the area as well as some flooding. i'm meteorologist

chris pallone, nbc news. >> in addition to immigr pion, thsident also touched on economy during that speech a theevada state republican convention. he downplayed concerns with the recent trade rift with china, mexico, canada and the european union. the administration is making headway, he says, to fix what he calls unfair tradere ements. >> we're the piggy bank that everybody likes to rob from, they like to steal from. in so many ways our country is taken advantage of. gd we're settlt up, and we're going to all be friends. we're going to all be happy. but we have to do these things. >> the president also touched pn thegress made in north korea, saying that he is optimistic the summit earlier this month will lead to a new future for the korean peninsula. >>> press sretary sarah sanders says she was asked to leave the r virginia last night. the fallout lighting up social media with both positive and negative reactions. aimee cho is live in the news >>om with the latest on the story. eporter: press secretary sanders and her family just started easingt the red hen restaurant in lexington

i want to thank representatives chris collins and frank pallone, senators menendez and senator murkowski to get this bipartisan bill to protect the health and well-being of our nation's firefighters across the finish line. this bill has the strong support of the firefighter community will finally be on its way to the president's desk. i look forward to working with the stakeholders to create a firefighter cancer registry with this bill. i yield back. and i congratulate all the sponsors. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman withdraw his reservation? mr. pascrell: withdraw my reservation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. >> i yield back, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the senate amendment is agreed to and the motion to reconsider s laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to take from the speaker's table the bill h.r. 2229 with the senate amendment thereto and concur in the senate amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.

pallone, for yielding and for his leadership on this issue. i also want to thank congressman latta, as well as chairman greg walden and my colleagues, chris collins, tray gowdy, and g.k. butterfield who all were sponsors of this legislation. mr. speaker, i rise today in support of h.r. 449, the synthetic drug awareness act. h.r. 449 address as critical and sometimes overlooked threat, the use of synthetic drugs by teenagers. it requires the surgeon general to prepare a report on the public health effects of synthetic drug use by individuals aged 12 to 18 rought america. with the information the study will provide, congress can work to prevent substance abuse by younger americans through an enhanced and enlightened lens. the opioid crisis has ravaged families across the country without regard to zip code, income, race, religion, or gender. unfortunately, this public is now taking ways of our ious nation's young people. throughout the country, the drug overdose death rate has more than doubled during the past decade amongst younger americans. this troubling phenomenon in part results from the rise and availabilit of potent and dangerous substances