Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Thursday, July 8th. We're following a number of developing stories this morning, including two weeks after the collapse of the surfside condo, came the difficult decision to transition from rescue to recovery. And the deepening crisis in Haiti

after the assassination of the country's president, immensely poor, unstable, and increasingly

violent. What's next for that already troubled nation? We're also following the latest with Rudy Giuliani.

His law license suspended in the District of Columbia, just as it was in New York, for making,

quote, demonstrably false and misleading statements.

And we will continue to cover that story. We've got a lot to dive into this

morning, and we'll start with some politics. President Biden in Illinois yesterday to make the

case for his two-track American Families Plan, the president pitching the infrastructure package

as a new era in America. And during that

trip, President Biden called out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for touting the American

Rescue Plan during a recent trip to Kentucky. The $1.9 trillion dollar COVID relief bill passed

earlier this year without a single Republican vote.

Here's what the president said, along with McConnell's comments on the bill earlier this week.

Mitch McConnell loves our programs.

You see what Ms. McConnell said?

So you're going to get a lot more money.

I didn't vote for it,

but you're going to get a lot more money. He told me he wasn't going to get a single vote in order to allow me to get, with the help of everybody here, that $1.9 trillion tax cut, I mean, excuse me,

program to, to, for, I mean, for economic growth. Look it up, man.

He's bragging about in Kentucky.

In Kentucky, it'll get close to $700 or $800 million. It's a great thing for Kentucky. It's

getting $4 billion to help for it. That's amazing. If you add up the total amount that will

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