Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Friday, July 11th. It is Friday, and we have a lot to get to this morning, including President Trump and the First Lady traveling today to Central Texas, a week after the devastating flooding across six counties as the search continues

for more than 160 people who are still missing right now.

Also ahead, we'll go through yesterday's meeting between Secretary of State Marco Rubio

and his Russian counterpart and whether those talks made any progress toward a peace deal with Ukraine.

Plus, the president is escalating tensions with a major trading partner and teasing more across

the board taxes on imports.

And there was a major upset at the All-England Club yesterday.

Yeah. Yeah. your upset at the All England club yesterday.

Yeah.

That's it.

Amanda Edison. She has done it.

Her sweetest win.

Second phase of her career.

She's bound for the Wibble and final.

Wow.

American Amanda Anisimova knocked off the world's number one women's player, Arena Sabalanka,

to advance to tomorrow's championship match. What a game. What a story.

Well, what a story indeed. You know, last year she was, this time last year, she was getting over

the fact she didn't even qualify for the main event, but her story goes much deeper than that.

It does. This woman took off time back in 2019.

It was a week before her 18th birthday, and I believe she was about to enter the U.S. Open to have a match

days before her father, who was also her coach, passed away. She withdrew from the U.S.

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